Long Fountainhead Poems
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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
fountainhead, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
fountainhead, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
fountainhead, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
fountainhead, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
fountainhead, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography
qua zee mow toe natural formed...
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Categories:
fountainhead, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share
how one and only...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form:
Free verse
Paint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics
Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was rare...
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Categories:
fountainhead, art, conflict, death, flower, pain, self,
Form:
Lyric
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations
Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations
Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting,
paradigm of mortality.
Since January first
two...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 12th grade, 1st grade, age, america, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Upon a dark and stormy night
Upon a dark and stormy night...
as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thunder crackled
testing the threshold of tolerance
zombies of Sugar...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, america, animal, character, earth, january, parody,
Form:
Free verse
Asian Epicurean Quest
Asian Epicurean Quest
At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude t-shirts, and rubber sandles to put...
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Categories:
fountainhead, food,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Paint Me An Ugly Duck
Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was rare...
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Categories:
fountainhead, art, depression, horror, loneliness, lost love, sad,
Form:
I do not know?
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment...
analogous to where
the fountainhead of knowledge
gushes forth unstoppable
as a result after Atlas shrugged
his head and shoulders
loosing bits of esoteric material
(and hairs - i.e. fluff
as the spouse would say
caught up in...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Learning How To Live Courtesy
Learning How To Live...Courtesy,
Sans Priceless Paternal Experiences
Bequeathed To This Papa From Precious Progeny
The greatest gift cherished, garnered, lamented...,
yet simultaneously recognized as utmost prized
constitutes mine declaration, that both benevolent
daughters (now metaphorically inflight) took wing
to...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, age, angel, anger, cry, daughter, father
Form:
Ode
Lao Tzu: English Translations III
LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS III
The Valley Spirit
by Lao Tzu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The valley Spirit never runs dry,
the river to whom all waters run:
the Spirit of our Primal Mother.
Deeply rooting Heaven and Earth,
to...
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Categories:
fountainhead, earth, heaven, mother, water, wisdom, women, world,
Form:
Free verse
Lao Tzu: English Translations II
LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I
Be Like Water
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch
The highest virtue resembles water
because water unselfishly benefits all life,
then settles, without contention or needless strife,
in lowly cisterns.
Weep for the Dead
by Lao...
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Categories:
fountainhead, death, heaven, life, mother, mystery, time, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Somnambulant Schlemiel Schleps and Says Shalom
Somnambulant schlemiel schleps...and says Shalom...
to anonymous readers March 22nd, 2022
(blustery and chilly Tuesday)
reminiscing about mein kampf,
when precious irretrievable youth
frittered away within
emotional wilderness of mine.
Into lonely senescence -
more'n three plus decades
plus three extra orbitz
around...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, adventure, america, angst, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
In Times New Roman, I font
to hitch wagon to a star.
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimmered overhead,...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Schlerotic Schlemiel Schleps and Says Shalom
Schlerotic schlemiel schleps...and says Shalom...
to anonymous readers March 6th, 2021
(blustery and chilly Saturday)
reminiscing about mien kampf,
when precious irretrievable youth
frittered away within
emotional wilderness of mine.
Into lonely senescence -
three plus decades already elapsed
trepidation, hesitation, abdication... unbearably
tugging, shouldering,
remonstrating...
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Categories:
fountainhead, absence, books, boy, destiny, growing up, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Reading Out Loud Brings Exaltation
Yours truly whiles hours away
reading out loud... tis not hearsay
cuz ears of mine relish... neigh
feast hearing spoken words, I do say
plus eyes (mine) drink one
or more letter combination yea.
Aforesaid pastime doth rarely
if ever tire hungry...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Whispers of Unwritten Absence
Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the absence of ink—in a nexus of poetic dreams,
Anathematized by disconsolate...
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Categories:
fountainhead, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended metaphor, miracle, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows
Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis
shimmered overhead, while temporarily
embarking on long day's
journey into night
("yule Jean," I uttered
for...
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Categories:
fountainhead, adventure, allegory, friendship, humorous, meaningful, mystery, proposal,
Form:
Free verse
Helianthus Annuus Heliotropic Slow Son Dance
Helianthus annuus, heliotropic slow son dance
Stream of photons bathe
top heavy fountainhead of sunflower.
Analogous to Atlas
shrugging, hoisting, grappling...
with planet Earth, the heavyweight
discobolus buoyantly held aloft
upon robust stem
tracks the heavenly orientation
of said hypothetical nearest star.
This immense distance,
nonetheless...
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Categories:
fountainhead, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse