Long Dullest Poems

These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade. 

as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch

yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...

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PRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...

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"Free Falling"



You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You

If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line 

bleeding to the right creative, 
without left margin

for logical analysis,
you’re fixed...

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"Symposium"



where do you go 
when you try to 
dream your place

in my life 

gone now 
from your 
quicksand shores

once I rolled over 
placed my mouth 
against your throat

what used to be

as if you 
could transfer
some...

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Let me tell you a story on a midnight journey,
To a crematorium, through an undergrowth ferny; 
At my age between sixteen to seventeen,
In nineteen seventy eight; with a dusky scene; 
A time, when, young and...

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Peter Pan? He is nothing but a tale drawn out,
a hero of half-truths, drowned in fairy dust,
the dullest side of a double-edged sword.
 
Before my time lost its salt, 
before the boards of this ship...

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Hi, how are you, my name is blank to your sight just another passer-bye,
Nice to meet you, others of your gentle gender call me Mr. Blank,
Since to you all my name matters not nor the...

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A little tale about the real me
twisted all inside as can be
the visions of the end
is all i see
F.T.W. setting my self free

waking up with the thought 
i survived.
"SURVIVED!"  another dream
holding my head under...

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sing a long now la la la la la
A thermometer dash through an eighteenth century painting is said to be as exciting as a needle sewing on a fifty foot blanket. But wearing shoes on...

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It was no longer a vague errand, 
She was determined to accost him 
She had overcome at last the dread 
Of having to face her painful dilemma 
With a vigorous jerk of her head 
She...

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The urge to real-ease empties and dulls
Lights in a ram-parted brain flicker on and off
Water flows down a familiar trail down the face
As the shades of gray under the eyes darken
Those sad, tired bags…ridiculed by...

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I ran away from love in distrust
and decided not to live in guilt,
but without the felt desire
the days weren't lived to the fullest;
and the unsolved fears stayed with me
leaving the doubts
and uncertainties
a lover could deeply...

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The Dullest Days

The darkest days consume my heart
A thousand laden clouds within my chest
Burst forth within to flood my being
And life is now just one big jest.

The sun shall scorch my Summer joys
While piercing winds...

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All the noisy critters, warblers and the morning, young horse rider
have taken with them spring's harmony;
no longer can galloping beats and songbirds make this black, forest
echo with their delightful sounds of felicity; 
winter has indeed...

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 Darkness is like my mirror
Shattered like blackened glass
Reflecting broken bits of me
As hours, days and years go past
Darkness is like a fiery mess
Endless, cold and without mercy
Coals and ashes, shriveled up
Tomorrow remains unseen
Light seems...

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Although I was born and raised among German aristocracy,
I feel I have blended rather well with Russian nobility.
My name changed when I converted to Russian Orthodoxy.
I am now called Catherine. I was once known as...

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I believe that long ago, the universe’s most artistic landscaper mixed woodlands with tropics, mountains with heaths, and streams with waterfalls that were next blended with an ocean.  Man named this place, Hawaii. ...

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Any day hardship  
comes my way,
It turns it into a  
moody day.
I can only give a  
painful laughter
to be my comfort  
rafter.
It then reminds me 
of my mom's saying
"the dry bone...

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The moon shines black before dawn
Birds won't sing their morning song
Clouds darken against an eerie sky
Instinct tells you something’s awry

A mist rolls in on oceans tide
There is no place safe to hide
Tower bells sound an...

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One rainy season of my life
I took a trip to Hawaii where
The Maui Isle awaited me
For two long weeks, without a care.

The beach called to me with its sand
So clean and white and warm as...

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This secret power
which was entrusted to me,
transformed the dullest days
into magnificent brilliance;
I can't let life's promising dreams
be wasted or be ignored by me...
because they will glow and then shine
at a time when all seems
to be...

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Now children let us try again
Certain we are the canvas of earth's joys and pain
We and not I, let us try
And the find that universal voice
Outside the personal boundary 
To tell the common things of...

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What's that flirts in the distant horizon?
Up from the hottest lands of frozen.
Is the clouds of Grey?
Or is it the darkest of rays?
Is it the canopy that covers hope/
Or is it the breath with which...

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Flowers how they do delight
The senses both of smell and sight
And to the touch the softest petal
Upon which butterflies do settle

The rose with its most subtle bloom
That brightens up the dullest room
And daffodils and tulips...

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If wishes were horses,
And I was a stallion,
Would you ride me home?
Would you ride me to the comfort of your heart?
Would you keep me in the finest confines of your soul's house?
Would you caress my...

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