Long Flitting Poems
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Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
flitting, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
flitting, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Reyinning YangImagine,
said Yin to distraught Yang,
never able to get quite enough of himself,
never enough time to fully become his ego-potentiality,
imagine this day opens a new rhetorical event,
a new day of conversation between you,
as Ego,
and those you...
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Categories:
flitting, creation, health, nature, political, relationship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Increase In Head SizeIncrease In Head Size
impossible mission to encapsulate notion
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male
blessed,...
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Categories:
flitting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Justice In the Quest For LoveI saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...
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Categories:
flitting, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form:
Narrative
I'Ve Got To GoI’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...
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Categories:
flitting, cute, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and BoundIn It, I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound
I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye"
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's, "War and Peace"
I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die"
Remember...
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Categories:
flitting, art, imagination, inspiration, literature, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
More Iffy Coronavirus Haikuyet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
flitting, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho New Haiku TranslationsMatsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dusk-gliding...
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Categories:
flitting, animal, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal SleepGloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...
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Categories:
flitting, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
My Winter's WishesIn the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled in the purity of security
for what seemed like eternity...
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Categories:
flitting, age, god, hope, introspection, life, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In a ricochet of emotion I just cannot speak
Our time...
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Categories:
flitting, lost love, lust, romance, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Inextricably Rooted With Hair FixationInextricably rooted with hair fixation
As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid,
whose voice exhibited
a severe nasal twang)
felt envious at other boys,
especially those young bucks
who sported budding antlers
plus thick...
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Categories:
flitting, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - DeuxInevitable death defines afterlife - deux
Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly
ricocheting axon to neuron
inducing inxs of chaos
wreaking entropy beheld
by beauty and the beast
enveloping...
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Categories:
flitting, absence, allah, angel, atheist, creation, death, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme
When It Comes To MeI often sit for long periods of time
hoping the perfect beginning will come to me.
To write a poem that starts with a pristine Capital
leaving readers with great expectations.
But after much torment, with not a fleck...
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Categories:
flitting, adventure, celebration, change, identity, passion, poetry, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Like Rabbit In a Headlight CaughtPTSD
Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked
From sweat in which my body’s cloaked
My eyes...
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Categories:
flitting, anxiety, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Rum N Raisin 6 - Dances With WaspsThose kittens bounded through the flap and started to play
Raisin said the flowers look so pretty today
She went to sniff a daisy but an insect flew out
And so she hollered, “Watch out, Rum, there’s waspies...
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Categories:
flitting, cat,
Form:
Narrative
My Little KingsI met you on the road of Longing,
As you took me hand in hand,
My heart burst with love wide open,
And so our journey began.-
My Kings, my life is yours,
I have lived to this moment for...
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Categories:
flitting, children, dedication, future, grandchild, innocence, joy, mother
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970'sOhiopyle, Pennsylvania circa early 1970'S
(just in time for end of summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)
intended food for thought indulgence.
A boys' life aborted
miscarried golden opportunity
for adolescent romance to be courted.
Amidst a raft of fellow...
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Categories:
flitting, 7th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
flitting, england, garden, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Argh Fresh Out of Reading MaterialArgh...fresh out of reading material!
Hence... what better opportunity, I aver with zeal
presented to one local everyman token schlemiel
keystone state (Pennsylvania) three score lifelong
trumpeting resident in United States commonweal
experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms I feel
plenti linkedin with...
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Categories:
flitting, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, angel, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Sleepless In Whereis Part 2 Continued from Part 1
The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
– mock my lonely echoed steps...
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Categories:
flitting, fantasy, lonely, me,
Form:
Rhyme
The 42 Inch HallwayThe 42 Inch Hallway
We’re stepping along the musty hallway now.
I am taking us on a fast-moving memory ride;
A mind-bending groovy slide to 1965,
When Dylan music was seeping loudly like a germ,
Down the green-carpeted hallway of...
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Categories:
flitting, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Faces In the CrowdI was a vibrant, portrait painter, bringing cherished profiles to eternal life,
Like undying life of balmy springtime, recurring in shades of green so rife.
I had long been fascinated with new faces, for it is seldom,...
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Categories:
flitting, art, celebrity, dream, fantasy, imagery, mystery, people,
Form:
Couplet
Vasava - An Untold Story 12/ManyVasava –
An untold story ...
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Categories:
flitting, life, love, musicchildhood, childhood, , cute,
Form:
Free verse