Long Elms Poems
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Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
elms, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Roses and Lilacs
Winter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
elms, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Chinese Translations Ii
Chinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
elms, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
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:
elms, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
elms, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
elms, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iv
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
elms, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets I
MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
elms, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Children V
Poems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
elms, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lii-Lx
Sonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
elms, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Heat Lightening
Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
elms, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Love Poems V
LOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
elms, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
elms, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
Starlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
elms, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Mystical Song of Trees
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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Categories:
elms, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems Iv
LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
elms, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 41
Several days passed as DynDoeth awaited a response from Seileach concerning his request for a private audience. He checked and re-checked the argument that he would make to have the throne replaced back into...
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Categories:
elms, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,
A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,
(and cries out long day's journey into night,
no...not for Eugene O'Neill),
but rather being distributed
in their respective bins at Wegmans
Under the Elms
Dressed up in our Sunday finery,
(which attire frankly looks no...
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Categories:
elms, adventure, america, anger, appreciation, car, environment, husband,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xcviii-C
Sonnets XCVIII-CII
Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
elms, bible, christian, god, heaven, judgement, lost, sin,
Form:
Sonnet
Belief
In your eyes, reflected to me
are memories of beautiful,
trembling pieces of laughing hope
still colors of grace and belief
feelings pouring from the shadows
never just make believe
always like the wonder of quiet faith
the struggle between knowing
and just...
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Categories:
elms, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, god, hope, inspirational
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 3
Night one on the new river, the campfire is spirited
and the future appears hospitable,
everyone has their rations, everybody is resting their pride
for on an expedition epic to each man and for a republic as well
souls...
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Categories:
elms, adventure,
Form:
Epic
What happened to my sex drive?
What happened to my sex drive?
(sung – in a round pussy willow warble - to the tune of --
Oh Where Oh Where has my little dog gone).
Once pronounced libido of mine
took kamikaze nose...
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Categories:
elms, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets I-Iv
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the...
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Categories:
elms, desire, first love, for her, love, lust,
Form:
Sonnet
Robin Wears No Hood: Not For Any Contest
There's an archer dressed in Lincoln green, a friend to those in need.
No thief is he who offers encouragement to people with kind deeds.
A jealous sheriff, dressed in black, wants to rule Ole Nottingham,
a township...
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Categories:
elms, hero,
Form:
Couplet
U-Turn
FROM THE ur POEMS
u-turn: another way to look at religion
by Michael R. Burch
... u were borne orphaned from Ecstasy
into this lower realm: just one of the inching worms
dreaming of Beatification; u
would love to...
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Categories:
elms, angel, atheist, baptism, christian, culture, religion, religious,
Form:
Free verse