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Poems For Poets X
POEMS FOR POETS X

US Verse, after Auden
by Michael R. Burch

“Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.”

Verse has small value in our Unisphere,
nor is it fit for windy revelation.
It cannot legislate less...

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Categories: erratics, poems, poetry, poets, rose,
Form: Rhyme



Poems About Poets Vii
Poems for Poets VII



Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch

(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)

Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be glad the stone-tongued apes are stricken dumb
by anything like music;...

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Categories: erratics, love, music, night, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Rhyme
Stones I Have Known
Stones I Have Known

I know that stone - scoured smooth beneath the tread
Of workers' feet too early out of bed.
It sparkled finely to my childish sight,
A treasure rare, lit up by morning light. 
Its drooping...

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Categories: erratics, childhood, england, extended metaphor, grave, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Erratics
(Wind River erratic, 2015)

Erratics

I used to think I was erratic,
like it wasn’t a good thing,
probably from what family and teachers said.
Then I moved out West 
where the spaces are large, and erratics are common,
not just...

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Categories: erratics, introspection, metaphor, nature,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things