Long Fragrant Poems
Long Fragrant Poems. Below are the most popular long Fragrant by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Fragrant poems by poem length and keyword.
Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
fragrant, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Vacuum
Vacuum
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:
fragrant, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
State of the Art Iv
State of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
fragrant, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
fragrant, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
fragrant, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Fahr An' Ice
Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
fragrant, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
Instruction
Instruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
fragrant, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
It's Halloween
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
fragrant, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Poems I
Poems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
fragrant, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
fragrant, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Iv
the Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
fragrant, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace Prayer
These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
fragrant, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
fragrant, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
fragrant, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Community Health Assurance
Transparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and cooperative tree and plant and children and elderly nursing
preserved through winter kitchens
and solar-fueled composting centers.
Health insurance assurance,
transubstantiating health/wealth reassurance,
investing in cooperatively-owned and eco-managing
therapeutic non-violent...
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Categories:
fragrant, community, conflict, corruption, courage, freedom, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Yosa Buson Translations
Yosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
fragrant, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Mathgeek Passions
Healthy nutrition research
starts with wealth producing past searches,
individual through community co-investments
in good and fragrant meals,
or even harmonic and graceful music with dance performances.
Ingesting healthy passions
consumes PositivEnergy wealth
for future co-productive system projections.
My evidence for future...
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Categories:
fragrant, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Sonnets Lii-Lx
Sonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
fragrant, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Love Poems V
LOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
fragrant, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
fragrant, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More 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 many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
fragrant, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire Poem
Vampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
fragrant, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
Vampires Are Such Fragile Creatures
Vampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.
Centuries...
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Categories:
fragrant, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form:
Verse
Laundering Her Accounts
New 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:
fragrant, analogy, destiny, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
What Daddy Demands
EarthMama Invites
Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and fearful feelings
about LoseLose
ZeroZone,
ego and Earth
matriarchal-line
extinguished.
Because all RightBrain feeling voices
and chemistries
are outside Sacred NatureSpirit
experientially
regeneratively
cooperative
Patriarchal/Matriarchal Voices
secular and sacred...
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Categories:
fragrant, bullying, caregiving, gender, health, integrity, love, violence,
Form:
Political Verse