Long Foe Poems
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The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will II often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…
Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...
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Categories:
foe, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, faith, hope, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
foe, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
foe, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
foe, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
foe, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
foe, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto TranslationPremise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task.
I expect criticism.
When just the midway of my...
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Categories:
foe, dream, poems,
Form:
Terza Rima
Freezer Mice: RepostedThose primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...
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Categories:
foe, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
foe, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Freezer MiceThose primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...
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Categories:
foe, adventure, fantasy, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For WarThe Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
foe, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
foe, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Depths
"The Depths"
From the depths
silence.
Where
are the voices
of other
women?
In that other place,
the monsters violate,
they take and take
bloody all, what they want
the dreams of women
are torched, murdered,
next to them,
the sweet dreams of lives...
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Categories:
foe, children, humanity, women,
Form:
Narrative
The Willing Dogs of PeaceThere is no argument from myself here, friend,
If anything, that you can, and do appreciate; just as much as you are applying yourself towards these "seven" efforts' below, that is helpful to all parties...
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Categories:
foe, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 3rd
Form:
Bio
Light On the Devil's Chord - the ChallengeMy hair bristled in the crisp breeze
Excitement spreading throughout my body
Even the sudden cold amused my fingertips,
Tingles spreading through my hands and up my arms
Soon I would be there too. . .
In the murky shadows...
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Categories:
foe, adventure, change, cool, imagination, music, sick, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Time, Friend Or Foe"Time is the thief you cannot banish." ...
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Categories:
foe, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a museum
A thousand Terror Bugs were massed, in...
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Categories:
foe, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Day By Day - the Messenger Style~ Day By Day ~
( Messenger )
God uplifts spirit when under fire
Ask the Lord help He protects me
Guide soul heart mind forever
~O~
Enemy wants to...
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Categories:
foe, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Magic Bagpipes and the Five Jelly TykesA Bagpipe am I,
My drones point to the sky!
I am magic they say, since the wizard ‘spelled’ on me that day.
He gave me the gift of immortal time,
I could travel through centuries,
T’was a gift.
It was...
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Categories:
foe, 5th grade, children, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the DarknessMy Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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Categories:
foe, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...
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Categories:
foe, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
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:
foe, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
foe, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
Quest of the Heart: Chapter FourGrey Bane and the Dark Lord
Perched on a stalagmite jutting up from the floor
Hugo was staring at length across the cave
My eyes accustomed to the glow followed his gaze
Frozen in ice was my Love whom...
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Categories:
foe, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Michelangelo: Modern English TranslationsMICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
foe, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet