Long Formless Poems
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Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: 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:
formless, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Rilke Translations Ii
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
formless, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
formless, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
formless, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Literary Feud Among - Pt 2
Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman
What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?
On a stage of scrutiny,
titans c l a s h— ...
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Categories:
formless, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
formless, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Quest of the Heart: Chapter Four
Grey 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:
formless, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Holier With Thou
My continuing impatience problem
with smug fundamentalists
self-asserting holier than thou moral positions,
is that Christ's main point is not
Holier Than Others, like Chosen People
but Holier With Thou,
as one interdependent EarthBound BodyMind.
British King James monotheistic readers
digest at AntiLiteraturist...
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Categories:
formless, culture, god, imagination, integrity, love, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part One
For old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for « some » other giants - Part One
...
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Categories:
formless, philosophy, tribute,
Form:
Quatrain
The direct path
In the void soul takes a consciousness leap
but to get there we must leave mind behind,
whence in staid stillness thus, we go in deep,
becoming over time, divine aligned.
Love the litmus test for thought, word and...
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Categories:
formless, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Light of the World
There is an author, a creator, a maker of the LIGHT ...
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Categories:
formless, god, jesus, light,
Form:
Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:7
15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”
The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a...
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Categories:
formless, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the Sea
This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantage of the...
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Categories:
formless, death, french, grave, obituary, ocean, paris, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Adieu Dental Floss and Toothbrush
(21st century pearly white prosthetics,
restored jaw bar wah key)
Aye noel hunger bristle,
and when false teeth soak at night
in tandem with stubby facial gristle
har reckon noah kisses
...
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Categories:
formless, 11th grade, 12th grade, farewell, grief, hyperbole,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Symphony of Shadows in the Moonlight
Symphony of Shadows in the Moonlight
In the calming hours of the night, when shadows dance upon the walls of consciousness,
As twilight intertwines with the remnants of bygone dreams,
My soul wanders through echoes of the sublime,
Attempting...
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Categories:
formless, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Silence
Silence,
We define it as the complete absence of sound but this definition fails to capture the profundity of the subject.
As humans, our earliest existence is shrouded in obscurity and silence.
Sperm penetrates ovum and...
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Categories:
formless, religious, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Flying Home
This unhappy man, that was me, was always sad and lonely like a dry log in green forest. I woke up one morning, more dejected than the morning before, threw away the flower-embossed curtains off...
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Categories:
formless, animal, inspirational, life,
Form:
Haibun
The Longest Journey
Heart, tempestuous and wild
Delights in the dance of contrast
Although knowing it will not last
Frolics about like a playful child
Mother and Father join the play
Name of the game is separation
Hide and seek, before their union
Foiled...
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Categories:
formless, spiritual,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Who am I
mind that thinks
heart that feels
senses five
reflect
thoughts vary
emotions differ
senses too can ebb
yet
we are alive
in the waking state
but what of dreamless sleep
where are we then
we recall it not
yet awake from it nevertheless
so
are we not the screen...
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Categories:
formless, i am, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11:6
“I am not the body, nor is the body my possession—
I am Awareness itself.”
One who realizes this for certain
has no memory of things done or left undone.
There is only the Absolute.”
We now enter still...
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Categories:
formless, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
See Below For Title
Insomniac attack is back or Animalistical (I'm not even sure that is a real word but F.I.(that is an anachronism that means fudge it( unless you’re an adult then you know which word fudge is...
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Categories:
formless, absence,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
50 Words For Poe: Sibylline
"50 Words for Poe: Sibylline"
Hush your mind
In ancient Persia
Her sands
drift through your divination hands
Through Her dark mirrors,dethroned now
Xerxes,you stand before Her naked
Clairsentient seeps Her ancient wisdom
Her opium gift to you
Elusive, Her...
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Categories:
formless, birth, dark, death, desire, gothic, psychological, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Siva - the God of Gods
Hundreds quizzed and all perplexed
Not even one understood
for my answer to their only question
who is your source?
Nonetheless iam not afraid and
dared to think beyond the surreal truth
But to tell the truth of truth; when
my positron...
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Categories:
formless, life, mystery, words, life, truth, , atheist,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems about Science 2: Computers
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE: COMPUTERS
The AI Poets
by Michael R. Burch
The computer-poets stand hushed
except for the faint hum
of their efficient fans,
waiting for inspiration.
It is years now
since they were first ground
out of refurbished silicon
into rack-mounted encoders of sound.
They...
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Categories:
formless, computer, earth, environment, science, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Paying For Lies With Lives
"Sing to me, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles." - Iliad, Line 1
Western dreams were born in wrath,
Overmastering all the noble aims of reason.
The bloom of youth, cut from its proper path,
Fallen wasted in full...
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Categories:
formless, angst, death, fear, history, introspection, loss, men,
Form:
Chant Royal