Long Eddies Poems
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Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
eddies, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
eddies, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
eddies, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1: Matthew Macfadyen
I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen”.
Randomling 2: Birthday Wishes
For my birthday,...
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Categories:
eddies, cat, deep, depression, dog, emotions, funny, love,
Form:
Verse
Life's Fading Light-Part 1-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
Youth
When orchids bloom in beauty life's aglow
to hold emotions locked in deep repose
in young desire and love warm thoughts will show.
Affection holds its ardor as it grows
to burn inside young hearts in evening tide.
In darkest...
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Categories:
eddies, age, death, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Transmigration of the Wind
The strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
eddies, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
Parts Two and Three Honoring Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(4.)
As Midnight Hours Call In More Darkened Hosts
Slow flows a river of doubt and regret
foaming its swirling eddies and sad pits
cavernous echoes one can not forget
nor withstand jagged cuts and hardest hits!
As sun retreats and...
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Categories:
eddies, appreciation, art, creation, poetry, poets, tribute, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Angel Eyes
"Angel Eyes"
that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man
pass him by -
he has angel eyes
that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light
the entire transparent
padded room parade
dance cards lit
he’s biding...
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Categories:
eddies, art, muse, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Ashore
margins stimulate and juxtapose
edges greet with troubled, disturbing friction
faraway forces exert influence and combine relentlessly
how the Sun and Moon dance together about the planet Earth
their grasping hands...
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Categories:
eddies, beach, environment, humanity, ocean,
Form:
Verse
Barbarossa III
A new command would counter their attack
to stay the storm that harkens at your door.
‘Twould be a feat that stunned the iron pack
for nothing dared defy the wolves before.
And though his pack could see...
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Categories:
eddies, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Pointed Art
Pointed Art
Michael R. Burch
The point of art is that
there is no point.
A grinning, quick-dissolving cat
from Cheshire
must have told you that.
The point of art is this—
the hiss
of Cupid’s bright bolt, should it miss,
is bliss
compared to Truth’s...
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Categories:
eddies, art, death, life, nature, poetry, poets, time,
Form:
Verse
Anti Establishmentarian Hashtags Himself As Antithetical
Anti Establishmentarian - hashtags himself as antithetical
The following poem crafted
not quite thirty months ago,
when severe bad hair day
found yours truly self sequestered
toying with notion
to coif, primp, and tease, his limp locks,
(whose hirsute trademark...
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Categories:
eddies, absence, allusion, anger, betrayal, fate, feelings, hair,
Form:
Rhyme
To My Love Part 5 Tbc
As the odyssey in the skiff continued a more sentient being begun to appear,
At times feeling as a eunuch who was unable to change anything,
In zenith of toxicity as miasma on a cold misty morning.
What...
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Categories:
eddies, life,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 9b
Odyssey from Africa
Chapter 9b (continued)
And this pattern was repeated
On the following day's journey
As the day turned into evening
They again found rocky shoreline
So once more they hunted shellfish
This time...
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Categories:
eddies, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Embarkation Upon Meditation
Embarkation upon meditation...
Believe me you upon manifestation
regarding Das godaddy bing linkedin
with avast cosmic consciousness
self induced light hypnotic trance
I become enthralled
unless wife disrupts intent concentration
calling out "Matt...Matt...Matt"
bajillion times Googleplex
(slight hyperbole for literary effect),
subsequently courtesy
disembodied voices
deliver poetic...
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Categories:
eddies, 11th grade, 12th grade, atheist, health, husband,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Padraig's Fire
Padraig's Fire
Hurry!
Hurry through the night
With windstorms
Breathing at your back
Before the shadows know
You pass their doors -
Their darkened, dusty, empty hearths -
Before the dawn ascends -
Before the pipes awaken;
Carry close
Precious flint and tinder
Next to the wildly...
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Categories:
eddies, baptism, celebration, ireland, life, river,
Form:
Free verse
Anti Establishmentarian - Hashtags Himself As Antithetical
Anti Establishmentarian - hashtags himself as antithetical
I stand, (albeit figuratively) athwart
current mainstream popular opinions concluded
(i.e. swirling) within
metaphorical eddies storied Senate high court
case in point constituting acquittal regarding
good and plenti jinxed
high crimes and misdemeanors
purportedly linkedin...
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Categories:
eddies, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, betrayal,
Form:
Political Verse
She is a River
“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
“Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s...
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Categories:
eddies, allegory, america, freedom, humanity, leadership, life, world,
Form:
Verse
The Vatican Part Two
I shall slow down the dark secret of this forsaken church. write all that you can. At once the demons of the church recoiled and spoke badly to our lord, for this is what they...
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Categories:
eddies, religion,
Form:
Sonnet
Stalingrad
Stalingrad
During moments I yearned for forests grown for me alone,
Caressing them in a dream,
I could sense the throbbing of the heart
Hidden beneath my ribs to bless my journey.
Summoning me with a pulse that...
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Categories:
eddies, love,
Form:
I do not know?
If Shoelaces Sang Little Rich Town Blues
Not in tea leaves, in shoelaces tie existence--their harsh and meshing material
bound, tethered, undone with a gentle pull.
The bunny ears
and clumsy fingers bouncing along the faux-marble
hallways: the future politicians and CEO's and poets
wiping...
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Categories:
eddies, home, old, lost, lost, old,
Form:
Free verse
On Prodigal Bay
BBroken in half
the battered moon
hung dejected in the gloom
in the gloom of Prodigal Bay
the ending of a vital day.
The day I found my Father's son
the Golden Boy,the only one
to ever make my father smile
a child...
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Categories:
eddies, father, forgiveness, brother, brother, fishing, me,
Form:
Couplet
Premonition
Premonition
by Michael R. Burch
Now the evening has come to a close and the party is over ...
we stand in the doorway and watch as they go—
each stranger, each acquaintance, each unembraceable lover.
They walk to their...
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Categories:
eddies, eve, fate, moon, night, stars, visionary, wine,
Form:
Rhyme
A Night Bird Sings
When sleep deserted me
I crawled out of my bed unseen
To delve into the crevices of the dark
With the curiosity of an explorer
And the near comatose of a somnambulist
I walked up and down the steep slopes...
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Categories:
eddies, fantasy, night, poetess,
Form:
Free verse
Whispers Spilling From Their Lips
I wander down a cobbled street,
sodden from rain, heckled by whispers
revealing secrets on this blustery night.
They bewilder me in a surge of confusion
far beyond the juncture of cursory fright.
If this is collusion to drive...
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Categories:
eddies, fear, grief,
Form:
Elegy