Long Flutters Poems
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Haiku 1The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
flutters, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
flutters, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
flutters, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems ViPoems 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:
flutters, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
flutters, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
flutters, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
flutters, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
flutters, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
The Whiskey Bottle WishThe Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
flutters, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
The Doghousewhen I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when I met you I was dying. I hadn’t eaten in...
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Categories:
flutters, for her, love hurts, miss you, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Drama KingI'm such a drama king
What kind of happiness can I bring
At the dinner table? Would they place a label on me?
I'm like a dysfunctional cable box...a beat-up TV
Pre-chorus: I promise I'll be okay
I just...
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Categories:
flutters, deep, depression, freedom,
Form:
Lyric
The Old House and the SpecterThe pale apparition swirls in on night mist.
It envelopes her body, then breathes out its kiss.
Cold to her cheek as the fog to the shore;
She utters a sigh then sleeps deeply once more.
She’s new...
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Categories:
flutters, dark, evil, fear, house, murder,
Form:
Narrative
With a Cat Lying On My Lapwith a cat lying on my lap
a sough whispers in the trees
as a summer day begins fading
the tiger lilies below bend as if trumpeting
a musical for ears yet to come into existence
evaporating the din...
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Categories:
flutters, introspection, pets, philosophy, science,
Form:
Free verse
Toe TagHere I lie in this cooler, this fridge where I would rather not be, but the truth of the matter is you’ve done it, you got the best of me
I lasted as long as I...
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Categories:
flutters, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Hush the Stars“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the universe our theater
Another night of showing me the constellations
Astronomy…your...
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Categories:
flutters, passion, universe,
Form:
Epic
SeasonsSpring — a life anew
Prodding rays of warming glow,
sunshine.
Crusted ice and snow
slowly melting into trickling drops.
First to bloom
a crocus blue, a tulip tries to rise.
How long the wait
and freezing rain
chilled the weary bones.
Heat up...
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Categories:
flutters, seasons,
Form:
Blank verse
Dear VictorDear Victor
The day you walked in I was just ten years old and for the first time I felt the gentle butterfly flutters of a young hearts innocent attraction.
I wasn't the only one. With...
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Categories:
flutters, childhood, first love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Weakness of ManIt’s unfortunate that I fall for your type
Because it always means there’s more than one
A decision to make, moments of weakness
Where my mind flutters like a butterfly in the sun.
I try...
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Categories:
flutters, life, love, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
Private ResidencePrivate Residence
Sign at the gate – no solicitors –
Beyond the rosewood door sanctuary in seclusion
Untouched by hands racing round
A face framed by chimes and alarms –
Measures of mincing minutes
Exiled with suitcases packed
To astral planes of...
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Categories:
flutters, home, house, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Green Spanish Eyes - Part 2Continued from Part 1
Ah Consuela! I’m watching the vertigo veiling her green Spanish eyes,
while the drumbeat pounds, droning, the rhythm sounds, moaning,
of jungles Jamaican entwined
in the valleys concealing the vineyards revealing
the vaults in...
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Categories:
flutters, green, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Animal Poems IiAnimal Poems II
These are poems about animals, limericks and other forms of doggerel.
Ballade of the Bicameral Camel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a camel who loved to hump.
Please get your lewd minds out of their...
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Categories:
flutters, animal, earth, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Pity ClarityPity Clarity
by Michael R. Burch
Pity Clarity,
and, if you should find her,
release her from the tangled webs
of dusty verse that bind her.
And as for Brevity,
once the soul of wit—
she feels the gravity
of ironic chains and massive...
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Categories:
flutters, life, love, poetry, poets, time, truth, words,
Form:
Verse
My Poet-TreeUnder the colorful leaves
Of my Poet-tree
The Autumn breeze
Blows one off and it spirals slowly
Down for me To read
I pick it up off the ground
And looking around
I hear no sound
On a big mushroom I sit...
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Categories:
flutters, allegory, allusion, god, poems, poetry, poets, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Fly Free and High: ButterflyFLY FREE AND HIGH: BUTTERFLY
The
BUTTERFLY
Flutters
By
A flying rainbow ...
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Categories:
flutters, animal, butterfly, imagery, insect, , Lullaby,
Form:
Lyric
Standing Upon Heavens Shores....And as I stood upon the shore in Pacifica
Gazing over the soothing Pacific Oceans Archean waters
With its cooling yet cleansing rhythems, washing over my baring feet
Feeling the suns warmth softly caressing my now bronzed flesh
Traveling...
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Categories:
flutters, faith, life, love, timekiss,
Form:
I do not know?