Long Footsteps Poems
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VacuumVacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
footsteps, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
footsteps, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
footsteps, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
footsteps, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
footsteps, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
footsteps, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
footsteps, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Dylan ThomasThese are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
footsteps, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
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 sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
footsteps, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
footsteps, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Dark HouseThe Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...
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Categories:
footsteps, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
- the Old Dark House -This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
footsteps, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Finally Saved Part 1 - Translation From Rabindranath TagoreThis is a translation from a Poem (Title - Niskriti) by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate philosopher poet (1861 - 1941) from India. The story successfully depicts the status of women in a patriarchal society of nineteenth...
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Categories:
footsteps, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Dark HouseThis tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
footsteps, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50'sThe excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
footsteps, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
LA SewersWhen I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.
I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...
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Categories:
footsteps, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
footsteps, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Forever Forgive MeForever 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:
footsteps, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, longing, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Canto Xvi Hell By DanteAlready I reached the place where heard the sound
Of falling water in the circle next
Suchlike the rumble done by hives around,
When three spirits together changed their treks,
Running, out of an horde just passing there
Under...
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Categories:
footsteps, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Hollywood Zombie Part 02Part 02
"...and it's not a horror movie?"
"Yeah. It's just a regular knock at my door."
"OK, I guess it is a horror movie."
"Yup."
"So are you telling me, I'm dreaming?"
"I'm telling you, it's just...
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Categories:
footsteps, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Social Privyjustice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
footsteps, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems IiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
footsteps, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Lament To the Spirit of WarLament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
footsteps, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
forest alone,
there we meet
strange creatures -
some say
they...
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Categories:
footsteps, dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiiJuvenilia: Early Poems XII
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly,...
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Categories:
footsteps, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
Form:
Rhyme