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The Battle Hymn of Covid19I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warnings. I hope...
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Categories:
far off, america, death, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations IiChinese 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:
far off, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: 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:
far off, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I RememberedFor 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:
far off, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Medieval Poems IiiMedieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
far off, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1The young lady's car slowed to a stop ...
As she pulled as far off the highway, (onto the shoulder), as she could
(Allowing for any snow plow that might come along).
She had chosen poorly this time
Believing...
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Categories:
far off, angel, appreciation, christmas, snow, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
far off, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Is a New Day - the Linked Style~ Is A New Day ~
( Linked )
~O~
Is a new day
I
Day to thank God
S
God praise for all
A
All...
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Categories:
far off, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Thirty-Twofrom island corner, big Antrim lad
to Belfast city, a tiny pad
shattered windows, tilted clocks
Goliath had lost his socks
gargantuan giant going mad
Armagh apple girl, any topic
...
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Categories:
far off, ireland, nonsense,
Form:
Verse
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To RomeTea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.
"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...
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Categories:
far off, marriage,
Form:
Prose
The OutlanderI 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:
far off, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Doppler Radar Killed Our Classic Car - 1st Half As Text Plus Full AudioHere's the scoop, friends...
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way...
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Categories:
far off, car,
Form:
Narrative
Territory TrampleHeadlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
far off, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
The Mulberry Tree and Its Birds Part Two
A GIFT FOR EVERYONE
ESPECIALLY
FOR CHILDREN
The Mulberry Tree & its Birds
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Now watch a short Video film made by me (placed on my Music Channel on You Tube) based on this Poetic...
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Categories:
far off, bird, tree,
Form:
Epitaph
Mattson, a Place UnforgottenIn these United States of America, there is a little town not very far off the beaten path. Neither gold nor silver has ever been mined in or near this town of fertile delta soil....
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Categories:
far off, home,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
far off, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
far off, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
A Moment of Hope the Invisible Man 30Sometimes I have the courage to think of the things that made me what I am today,
My memory takes me back to terrible things far away far off into my bitter past,
My mind like a...
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Categories:
far off, depression, happy, beautiful, me, world, old, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Coma Conversation: I Am In Your ComputerC:
I journeyed long upon the way, e-mailed through your router
hello "Henry", good to greet, I am in your computer
I am between him and her, so I am gender neuter
...
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Categories:
far off, computer, creation, hello, imagination, philosophy, science, universe,
Form:
Narrative
What Is a Life To YouWhat is a life to you?
Do you wake up to love
imagine a future with someone?
A wife or a husband,
a child or ten?
An exaggeration,
but love is different to everyone.
Do you have a cat or a dog,
that...
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Categories:
far off, america, anger, emotions, grief, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
In the Arms of Peace-Abiding AngelsI don’t know what I know
I fly like an eagle – just go with the flow!
I don’t know what I know
I don’t know what you’re thinking about
But I can tell you’re puzzled in your...
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Categories:
far off, adventure, angel, courage, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Gallon of Gas On Earth - At AuctionGiven the astronomical amount of gasoline consumed world-wide every single day…could this scenario not be all that far off?
...
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Categories:
far off, cry,
Form:
Narrative
The JourneyI
It all began so many years ago,
his journey down the narrow winding path,
and where it was to lead just fate could know
as it would take him through life’s aftermath.
The journey long and hard that he...
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Categories:
far off, destiny, journey, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Words the Ship Melanie Dear Melanie Troubled Times LosstouchWords
The ship
Words come to me like spring.
They set free, they shed the shroud,
open with all their glory, beauty and sing.
They stand tall, they ring out loud,
from a life that blossoms with...
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Categories:
far off, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Mobile In AlabamaThose were such happy days, for I had lately been deeded a farm,
My aunt and uncle were retiring, so tillage had lost its charm.
Since they were childless, and to a retirement community bound,
It seemed I...
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Categories:
far off, beauty, dream, home, imagery, night, sleep, travel,
Form:
Couplet