Long Foliage Poems
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Free Verse I
Lozenge
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:
foliage, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Beary Tales Episodes 25-33, Poet's Notes
Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved footnotes...
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Categories:
foliage, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Forever Forgive Me
Forever forgive me
For my one and only iniquity
Please forgive me
With forbearance eternally
Lots of anger and lust
Got a hold of me…
So, I must...oh, I must…
Set my soul free
Forever forgive me
Determine my footsteps to the light
Emotionally unhappy
Intervene...
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Categories:
foliage, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, longing, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
A Parallel Earth
It was the weekend, and I was sleeping late that day,
Alone with the morning, while savoring marvels of May.
As I drowsed luxuriantly, at the outskirts of dreams,
I heard a strange sound, while soaking in gay...
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Categories:
foliage, adventure, earth, fantasy, love, nature, peace, world,
Form:
Couplet
With you, the twilight changes, wandering through the silent dreams
With you, the twilight changes, wandering through the silent dreams,
With you, destiny wanders, hopes and promised goals.
With trembling boats at the shores, love urges us to be
Hostages to the droplets of waves and kings over...
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Categories:
foliage, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A World Without Pity
After wishing me a good morning, he said that it was all set,
It was time to raze the house, even though I wasn't in debt!
But they wanted to build a big highway, exactly in this...
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Categories:
foliage, adventure, fantasy, home, lost, time, world,
Form:
Couplet
The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition
"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"
Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently...
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Categories:
foliage, america, appreciation, art, bird, books, dream, history,
Form:
Blank verse
In the Islands Far, Far Away
Mission Control, this is Flight Z924693744, do you read?
We're having some technical trouble. How should we proceed?
We have spotted a planet, that appears to be suitable to abort;
But, to return to earth, we will need...
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Categories:
foliage, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, planet, space, stars,
Form:
Couplet
A Murder Most Foul
I am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
...
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Categories:
foliage, autumn, beautiful, best friend, betrayal, heart, lost
Form:
Narrative
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part One
Our Year Of Months (January - July)
1. Intro
Divided into months is our Earth year;
fixed firm in space to meet with climate change,
relation with our Sun makes it so clear
we will be blessed with seasons that...
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Categories:
foliage, daffodils, earth, seasons,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along
Old Man Winter now flagging, and slip sliding along...
as his stronghold diminishes.
Signals, triggers, and ushers kickstarting debut
of demure "Flora" who slowly but surely attempts
to reveal her true colors in fits and starts,
nevertheless, she displays skittishness,
when...
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Categories:
foliage, america, animal, birth, celebration, earth, humorous, spring,
Form:
Free verse
A Statue Speaks
A Statue Speaks
The morning takes it's first breath of daylight
Exhaling the sunrise that fills the sky with colored
brilliance. ...
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Categories:
foliage, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
On the Seas of Night Potd
I loved sailing upon the blue sea, and I was never too far from it,
As one who knows sweet cravings, is seldom far from chocolates.
In my previous much loved vessel, I had sailed a thousand...
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Categories:
foliage, adventure, fantasy, nature, night, planet, space,
Form:
Couplet
The Pied Piperess
Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet
Once upon a time, there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all the villagers...
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Categories:
foliage, evil, parody,
Form:
Prose
Categories:
foliage, 1st grade, bird, humanity, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue,
Will always remain in a dead language for degenerate times;
And we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line,
Conjecturing a broader...
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Categories:
foliage, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Dirge of the Last Lap
I
The loud, cruel laughter of dirge
besieges us so greatly in the face of
wanton humiliation.
It comes mightily, crashing our aged
city walls, unearthing the foundations of
churches,
tolling bells in pulsated grief . . .
Dirge comes with thunder,
like the...
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Categories:
foliage, dark, death, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
The Difference In the Stories We Want To Tell
Ohh I could have sat with my heart
--elevated with dribbled echoes--
ahhhhhh until it yet exhaled the tarnished seams
capturing only the quiet current lapping
and soaking dirty steel embankment
along the river’s edge beneath the...
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Categories:
foliage, death of a friend, music, nostalgia, river,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Easter Bird
The Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which hid the...
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Categories:
foliage, bird, easter, nature,
Form:
Prose
Autumnal
Clean clear cerulean sky calls Autumn after rainy season.
Curtains of rain showers...
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Categories:
foliage, autumn,
Form:
Verse
Spring
Spring has come; Spring is here,
‘Tis the season, the time of year,
When all across the northern Earth
There’s life renewed, as well new birth.
No season can compare nor can one bring
The splendor of life, like the...
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Categories:
foliage, beauty, birth, earth, easter, god, life, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream Awareness - Quiet Reflection
Written: April, 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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From a deep weariness of the soul
to the discomfort embedded in our bones. ...
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Categories:
foliage, appreciation, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
A Meadow For Autumn
A meadow for Autumn
Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me
lichen kenning myself
as Rip Van Winkle
except being repurposed
as oldest living species.
With an estimated...
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Categories:
foliage, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Very
I was a busy and active person, who loved to savor life.
I was also amiable and friendly, avoiding excess strife.
Like the glad golden sun, ever beaming blissful radiance,
Indeed drawing all others, with its cheerful brilliance.
My...
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Categories:
foliage, art, beautiful, color, dream, fantasy, nature, summer,
Form:
Couplet
Prince of Time
A fierce wind howls as dark clouds race across the horizon,
and beneath the hood draped over his face the man whispers;
Of a vast land with wild clear waters, of streaking...
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Categories:
foliage, fantasy, love, mystery,
Form:
Epic