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Poems About Poems Vi
Poems about Poems VI

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.

The...

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Categories: falter, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great. 

Lament to the...

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Categories: falter, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
If I Falter
If I Falter
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

If I regret
fire in the sunset
exploding on the horizon,
then let me regret loving you.

If I forget
even for a moment
that you are the only one,
then let me forget that the...

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Categories: falter, desire, engagement, fire, for her, friendship love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member No Matter What - the Trinet Style
~  No  Matter  What  ~
( Trinet )



~O~


Embrace Life
No matter
What start with heart full of
Love Faith  Hope never let anything
Steal your 
Dreams  tomorrow
New day

~0~

The best
For you 
May still come embrace...

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Categories: falter, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VII

These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.

The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch

The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.

The weak implore Fate;
bold men...

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Categories: falter, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Dream of a Rainbow Coloured Family
A dream of a Rainbow coloured family

In the ocean there is a raging storm 
And a lot of boats 
With rudders that are shattered,
Compasses lost, sails that are torn.
And dreams that are faded or tattered
With...

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Categories: falter, anger, conflict, humanity, inspiration, love, motivation, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
Steven
He has the biggest heart.

He enjoys doing things for other people

Just because it’s the right thing to do, and

Knowing he made someone happy makes him happy too.

He’ll do whatever he can to satisfy

Everyone around him.

But...

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Categories: falter, addiction, anxiety, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When You Call the Lord - the Pirouette Style
~  When You Call The  Lord ~
(The  Pirouette )


~O~


 In Lord find Love, Hope, Peace
 In trouble call His name
 He'll respond Your call
 Come in heart, live in you
 When you...

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Categories: falter, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Quest of the Heart: Chapter Two
Brave Shadow Mane


Falling free at a tremendous velocity
Cursing my decision for acting in haste
Through clouds and frozen rain I could not see the ground
Losing consciousness, in my mouth blood I could taste

Now this was indeed...

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Categories: falter, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Ali's Song
Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...

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Categories: falter, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form: Verse
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You hack down everything you see, War God!

Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...

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Categories: falter, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment

Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...

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Categories: falter, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member PART OF ME: A FALLEN CHILD
Part of my soul severed by their ruthless oppression, demoralization and exploitation of a frightened and abandoned child.

Part of me drowning in detrimental sorrow as a 10 yr. old coerced by the evilness on the...

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Categories: falter, abuse, anti bullying, child abuse, childhood, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I CANNOT DIE TONIGHT
I cannot die tonight
I dog-eared a book
Of pages I haven't perused
You know how long that took?
Scent of pages
Frayed and yellowed
Always get me
Calm and mellowed
The spine cracked and worn
Each page a promise, a tale untold
In the...

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© Rowe Weiss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: falter, death, farewell, introspection, repetition, sad, sorrow, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Celena, Brave Celena- Part 2
Their rending cries, when all is still, reecho in the moonlight;
They lie about in fitful slumber on the ground at noonlight,
Their virgin hair spread in the dust; for nothing really matters:
Who then will see their...

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Categories: falter, assonance, bible, courage, daughter, farewell,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member God With Us
In the Last days of January 2016 father Antony was wondering where he could find a person or persons who would be able to clear the badly overgrown Church garden He had inherited just two...

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Categories: falter, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Insecurity Part Three
I thought to please a man/boy you were to give and never take, that you use your body to make them happy, to put that smile on their face
It’s sick I know and twisted that...

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Categories: falter, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W Eden
SCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN

Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that Serpent knew of the...

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Categories: falter, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible, nostalgia, symbolism, trust,
Form: Verse
The Mountain People
Daylight breaks through the gate and a bright light shine intensely on my face from a distance. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I fold one arm and held on tightly to the...

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Categories: falter, best friend, books, business, change, childhood, community,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Flight
......Flight......

Enter into the mind of madness, as it sets itself free
This is the only way that I see..
Take a trip through the universe,, called the mind..
Set yourself free leave all behind. .
Thoughts are currents of...

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Categories: falter, body, dream, emotions, endurance, environment, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Workshop Poem - Winds Forgive
Turning my back on typhoon skies, 
a pestilent past, I pitch my mistakes 
into a forgiving wind. Standing barefoot 
at the edge of apologies, 
coastal tides carry hope, tomorrows stir
on a mariner’s horizon. I search...

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Categories: falter, change, faith, forgiveness, memory, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Manchester United 1958-Part 1 of 3
Manchester United 1958-Part 1 of 3
by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015

I remember the 6th February, in 1958, 
the day before my 16 birthday, everything was great
I was working at the CIS, an Insurance mob in...

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Categories: falter, death, funeral,
Form: Dramatic Verse
His Sorrow
We presume to know of a far better way
But our devices will falter somewhere, someday
Surely there will come a time, a time to pay
We don't care, our chosen course we shall stay
In light of His...

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Categories: falter, christian, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blessed Through Faith
Around five years ago, I was hit with the news I had breast cancer. I kept waiting for news of this and that, and everytime I turned around, I would get more negative news. First,...

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Categories: falter, faith,
Form: Haibun
Letter To My Son
I know you're sick of the cussing and fussing, idle discussion, and running from Hell's suction.

Spending all day doing nothing but stressing.

Just know, every question turns into a lesson, manifested into a blessing.

And even though...

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© Polar Funk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: falter, black african american, blessing, conflict, father son,
Form: Rhyme

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