Long Foretell Poems
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Where Does the Butterfly GoWhere Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
foretell, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
foretell, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Laundering Her AccountsNew England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.
She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...
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Categories:
foretell, analogy, destiny, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Jane Eyre CrownThis is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was only 11 had a small role, Joan Fontaine and Orson...
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Categories:
foretell, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
You MatterThe last time you felt good, you played along with them, and they were fooled
The feeling inside was blue and you always considered the suicide rendezvous
It’s when you can’t laugh or cry, and feel it’s...
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Categories:
foretell, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
The Forgotten GodThe forgotten god
Whose rage should burn hotter
than mine; melt the noon day sun,
dry up all thy rivers, scorch the earth, that
thy crops may burn to ashes before
thine eyes, and the heat from the
very earth...
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Categories:
foretell, africa, anger, change, culture, emotions, grief, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Remembered In Thy Full Bloom,Collaboration By Robert J Lindley, Teppo Gren and Michael P ClarkRemembered In Thy Full Bloom
A Collaboration By,
Robert Lindley, Teppo Gren
and Michael P Clarke.
Thou art remembered in thy full bloom,
a rose grown within my garden of life.
Thou art lost to me and this my...
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Categories:
foretell, art, creation, deep, devotion, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Similar If Not Identical To Last YearSimilar if not identical to last year...
umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer...
sizzles Delaware Valley today August 26th, 2022
Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore of...
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Categories:
foretell, 11th grade, 12th grade, bereavement, betrayal, environment,
Form:
Free verse
The Light of Nativity
Placed 8th in :
No. 1264 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
The Light Of Nativity
...
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Categories:
foretell, anniversary, appreciation, christian, christmas, god, heaven, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
Umpteenth Heat Wave Since Onset of SummerUmpteenth heat wave since onset of summer...
sizzles Delaware Valley today August 25th, 2021
Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Sweltering temperatures
figuratively grip human zoo
bipedal hominids (yours truly,
an olive...
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Categories:
foretell, america, august, confusion, death, earth, future, health,
Form:
Free verse
Struggle To WriteStruggle to write
Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.
This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...
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Categories:
foretell, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
How Broken Men Begin AgainThere's a time to chase the world,
and a time for the world to chase you...
the distinction between destiny and damnation
can become ambiguous as a dream
on the edge of twilight
when the world is watching you ruthlessly,
hungering...
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Categories:
foretell, adventure, america, art, courage, god,
Form:
Epic
Choreography In a Scene
The stage is set
The audience fixed their eyes
fitted to the scene, to feed
Sun lit the early morning clouds
And It disappeared, gold appears
Spraying warmth fragrance
On dews of still sleeping leaves
To paint them dry awakening the greens
Yet...
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Categories:
foretell, beauty, film, independence day, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
This Soothsayer's Warning July 24th 2021This SoothSayer's Warning – July 24th, 2021
Dire prognostications
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,
sans total mortal kombat annihilation
when human (and many) other innocent species
(stalwart cockroach adept to survive)
pitch headlong toward...
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Categories:
foretell, abortion, abuse, caregiving, conflict, environment, grave, health,
Form:
Free verse
When Does Phenomenal Moment of Existence OccurWhen does phenomenal moment of existence occur...?
Otherwise titled: Regaling eldest sibling
delineating her sixty third successful orbit
around the sun December first 2021.
About consciousness who can tell
After haploid gametes
able, eager, and ready
to yield eukaryotic (diploid) cell?
What triggers...
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Categories:
foretell, age, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, endurance, family,
Form:
Rhyme
The Devil Also PrayIn all your doings, acknowledge your weakness.
For all to count, subscribe to His power.
Forget the current situations' bleakness,
For favour shall outpour breakthrough's miraculous shower.
Prayer is the key,
To open spiritual doors,...
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Categories:
foretell, addiction, art, best friend, betrayal, bible, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Macbeth Makes His MoveMacbeth Makes His Move
By Elton Camp
Because I am called a Thane,
I let it come to make me vain.
King Duncan was not only my friend,
But to him I am also of very close kin
But on a...
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Categories:
foretell, introspectionme, woman, me,
Form:
Rhyme
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 5aTruth... Is It true?
From somewhere lost atween stolen time
Some things left forgotten was remembered
Darkness moaning for lights to shine
Indefinite yet enticing to have feelings desired
Once was love I see… ever once was love in reality
I...
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Categories:
foretell, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
This Soothsayer's Warning - 2018Dire prognostications
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,
sans total mortal kombat annihilation
when human (and many) other innocent species
(stalwart cockroach adept to survive)
pitch headlong toward critical limit stage.
That eleventh hour fast...
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Categories:
foretell, age, conflict, death, destiny, fear, horror,
Form:
I do not know?
Sun PoemSun Poem
by Michael R. Burch
I have suffused myself in poetry
as a lizard basks, soaking up sun,
scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light
he understands—when it comes, it comes.
A flood of light leaches down to his bones,
his feral...
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Categories:
foretell, poems, poetry, poets, summer, sun, sunset, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
Donald Trump Equals Pathological PsychopathDonald trump = pathological psychopath
Fred Trump taught his sole son Donald
how to steal the leading way into more ass,
though no hint given, nor prediction forecast
in his growing up years, that would foretell,...
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Categories:
foretell, abuse, america, anger, cancer, fate, hate, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
Fascination With Etymologythe roots – i.e. genealogy of words long held me
(no pun intended) held spell bound
e'en upon fertilization of ova and sperm viz – conception,
an acute sensory means...
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Categories:
foretell, addiction, age, appreciation, boy, creation, fantasy,
Form:
Bio
Spaces II am Späces
The poet's muse
And I bring something old
And something new
The spirit of the word am I
And I've existed in all places
And all times
Filling the gaps
The empty spaces in between
What we...
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Categories:
foretell, art, introspection, philosophy, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Didactic
Life's FateOld servile sleep descends on heavy wings
From laden summits wrapped in icy clouds
When, glassy-eyed, the owl cold midnight rings
And snowy mist the starry light enshrouds.
Atop the ancient firs, the birds lie still
And cling...
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Categories:
foretell, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, stars, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Man's Greatest EnemyWhy, the greatest enemy of man is man
for man has subdued everything else
Fear not the tiger, fear the murderer's plan
Just hearken well to what history yells!
At times twas jingoism, at times a rancorous desire to...
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Categories:
foretell, conflict, corruption, society, war,
Form:
Quatrain