Long Fetches Poems

Currents
by Michael R. Burch

How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...

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Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...

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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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PERSONIFIED LIGHTED CANDLE:

Come on, I'm strong and edified.
No one can hold me in detention for getting them defied.
Compared to Cassius Clay; fiercely bonified.
A firmly personified lighted candle on a lampad. 
In the corners of every...

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Written: January 26, 2023
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Let it snow with pearlescent snowflakes
each flimsy frost fetches a feat of art

...

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Fattened and fattened,he became gigantic
His nails so sharp,like the rodents
The belly you may think,a full pregnancy
And the coughing,my father’s son difficult

Years haven’t gone much
Before marrying selfish woman
Who walks shaking clumsily
Like she got another job,yet my...

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North Richland Hills grew a rainbow I wanted to hold in my hand
Wand for wishing I don’t know what to reach-ask for?
Plethora is sunshine below the bow along your Texas land
Donned a different approach—your rainbow...

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A nurse has washed six patients; it's a busy day,
And now she has just watched a lovely lady die,
Next she’s going to bed-bath the woman next door,
No time for her own needs, can’t let herself...

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Summer day; Chittagong, Bangladesh
Though there is no difficulty for the holy Fasting
The sun in its usual service
From our concrete life, global warming kidnaps jovial motion of the wind
Winter is far away from the spring
The hotness...

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Please bring back paper bags,
I cry in genuine pain.
Those tight wrapped plastic covers
are driving me insane.

With scissors, knives and razor blades,
I hack and cut and snip,
trying to get the product out
from its clinging, shroud like...

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I just wrote this off the top of my head 

*proceed with caution* 

5-0:
Put your hands up and step away from the electronics. (In 5-0 voice)

*radio into dispatch*

We found him....Sir put your hands up and...

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The emotion that thrives between us both is an unpredictable weather welcoming two winds to strike against each other to fetch storm on some days , rains on the other .
With the warmth of the...

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The Psyche aye seeks an end to sling      
Its filaments wide across and all around ,     
To ensnare it's weird, stray prey with a fling ...

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Monday, our hearts were hefty with dread. 
Hoping postman fetches bucks for bread. 
It will cape with the psyche's desires well. 
Under a grasp, swirling, we felt the spell. 

Tuesday would alter prompts the shame. 
We may gaze at...

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Walking along the pebbled beaches of Devon,
Little Bertha and me were on a mission,
To find some fossil of unknown dinosaur, 
Washed to these shores by waves from afar! 

Husband and son jack were searching ...

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I'm of two pieces
one piece of mine is
an island
the other is the sea
in over all of me
has brought me in
the middle, is in my
everywhere
warm/tender, shining
bright, deep and
silent
every day, ever
moment I go beside
doesn't see, doesn't
hear, doesn't...

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 Dog In A Purse


  I have the very best pet, the absolute very, very best
    There is  no comparison he is better than the rest
    ...

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So many deaths, so many corpses,
so much havoc and so much ruins everywhere-
perhaps walking upon them,
we may reach the gate of our dream,
after which remains the green room of success-
and what after that?

Tell, after that,...

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Dear  Ronny

What a Divine being you are !
You gallop in all your fours
the moment I call thy name.
At times, even my very look
fetches fast your benign presence.

You wag your tail ?
Flap your fan-like ears...

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Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest

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Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air
quiddity remorse core...

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My home is but a pauper's-pot,
but I don't seek the kiss of fame.
My journey is a humble one,
lit by a tiny pillar's flame.

The moon is full again tonight;
another story I shall tell.
Here comes my noble...

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Where awareness walks wearing illusion, 
Nor head is held high, nor is knowledge free, 
Truth’s hardly whole and suffers division, 
In such a place one looks but can’t much see. 
Where illusion's a default alt...

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She wanders to a dream, a place
Where weeping willows brush her face
Beneath the branches bending low 
She's walking where a garden grows

Grass gently sways, as cool as glass
And timid blows the warming breeze,
That fetches shining...

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I take a deep breath amid a tempest
To call it a tempest seems belittling
As I go through the storms of thoughts
To catch a word a phrase or an idea
To write something for tonight
A fraction says...

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It’s always tea time in the little Gypsy tea room down the road.
The sign outside says "Come and have a cup of tea or two and rest your load"
It’s a sweet little tearoom, sun streaming...

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