Long Feints Poems
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Poems About FlowersLady’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:
feints, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
feints, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
feints, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
feints, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
feints, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the MissusWhen vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus
Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside from countless
(approximately seven) other
prescription medications kept
stashed in a plastic tray
until one or...
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Categories:
feints, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, color, creation, environment,
Form:
Free verse
A Bonanza of Opportunities Went Up In Gun SmokeAs if in a decades long
somnambulant trance
for majority of years
I finally awoke,
three score minus
one orbitz...
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Categories:
feints, 11th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
HumilityDoes an ‘act’ that gets praised by a stranger reveal an act’s worth
Or reflect more the generous heart that observes? To feel love’s
Sure a gift, a response I return, no receiver can earn.
All the...
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Categories:
feints, faith, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Prey For MeI searched for you through the endless expanse of night’s long blackness,
The shimmering light from a crescent moon offered little help in my quest for your elusive form. The pale light dimly lit inconspicuous...
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Categories:
feints, animal, desire, life, lust, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Distances 2: There Is a Small Cleanness About HerDistances (II)
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She has never...
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Categories:
feints, art, books, literature, love, poetry, relationship, writing,
Form:
Free verse
My Grief,My LoveHow can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me from his battered chair
Though I have money and no needs...
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Categories:
feints, africa, angst, death, grief,
Form:
Villanelle
His Absence HauntsHow can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me from his battered chair
Though I have money and no needs...
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Categories:
feints, death, god, grief,
Form:
Villanelle
Who? (For Rizzy of Sami)Who'd dare the exacerbation of the cloud
and cut the fire for the grave;
tell the Epaulette he's a bum;
break the choking silence
and burst the truth for the street?
Night, night oh barbaric night
pregnant with cordite...
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Categories:
feints, confusion, death, sadnight, night,
Form:
Free verse
VioletsViolets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to an indiscreet height
and you laughed,
abruptly demure,
outblushing shocked violets:
suddenly,
I knew:
everything had changed.
Later, as you braided your hair
into long bluish plaits
the...
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Categories:
feints, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Electioneering: Preliminary Trial, Postmortem VerdictGilded pols with verbal jousts disarm
With statistical ballasts constituents charm
On opponents deceptive feints, sound the alarm
Scout for votes in city, dale, and farm
Broker deals that bolster their position
Deceptive adds initiate their political inquisition
Bribe voters of...
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Categories:
feints, political
Form:
Rhyme