Long Edged Poems
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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alternatively...
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Categories:
edged, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form:
Free verse
Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
edged, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace Prayer
These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
edged, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Butterflies and Bees
Poems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
edged, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Iv
Poems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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Categories:
edged, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse I
Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
edged, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems Iii
Poems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
edged, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
edged, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Dylan Thomas
These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
edged, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
edged, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx
Sonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.
Because you...
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Categories:
edged, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
edged, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia’s Instruments of Evil and Debauchery
Rosalia needed certain tools or instruments of evil and debauchery to successfully pursue her nefandous plans of bringing the people...
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Categories:
edged, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
The Outlander
I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
edged, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Marlino
Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees,
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.
Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but...
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Categories:
edged, fish, fishing, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Prologue
Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...
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Categories:
edged, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Bruce Walker, Elegy
My teacher died.
His lungs failed him.
He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.
His lungs are gone.
My grief has only just arrived.
He used his lungs...
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Categories:
edged, death of a friend, love, teacher,
Form:
Elegy
Legacy of Hiphop
And that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
edged, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
Future Self Among Others
Future selves recycle past dynamic imaginations,
Greek Gods as muscular Yang athlete images
evolve from older internal messianic bodhisattva Yin,
double-edged incarnations of power.
It is in this coincidentia oppositorum,
claims Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
that the peaks,
the Taoist Tipping Points
of wu wei...
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Categories:
edged, christian, culture, earth, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Diary Notes: Another Day Sets In Paris
DIARY NOTES : Mad-House Maths
March 30th., 2018 - Another day sets in Paris
The home-bound Octogenarian trundles from the Mall's town centre
Back laden with the day's shopping
His hands numb from clutching load-packed plastic bags during the...
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Categories:
edged, abuse, french, inspirational, judgement, life, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
edged, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
The Sandless Sand Castle
The Sandless Sand Castle
Let me tell you about my eldest brother.
I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...
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Categories:
edged, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Domestic Disturbances
This is dedicated
To that man who expresses love through hatred
I'm tryin' to make it clear that you leave scars everytime you say ""
If you love your woman, why do you beat her?
Why do you mistreat...
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Categories:
edged, courage, hip hop, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
A Light At the End of the Tunnel
"What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.
We would all go for a swim, and then have a fine lunch,
And would return...
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Categories:
edged, adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship love, home, light,
Form:
Couplet
Im Possible
Poetically impressive
Mentally progressive
Addicted to my writing
it’s becoming a bit obsessive
But this is the medicine
A therapy for my depression
Post traumatic disorder
Is the cause for my aggression
My heart gets heavy
My mind...
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Categories:
edged, beautiful, blessing, character, dedication, deep, devotion,
Form:
Free verse