Long Furtive Poems
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State of the Art IvState 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:
furtive, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks Iii - Grab BagLimericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
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Categories:
furtive, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
furtive, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
furtive, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
furtive, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets 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:
furtive, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Love Poems VLOVE 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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furtive, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
furtive, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
furtive, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
furtive, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
My First Love ExperienceIt was in the early days of our lives
We met
She was so beautiful
My eyes could not stop admiring
My heart kept racing
Every time it sensed
her good-looking approaching
But we were too young
To give full...
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Categories:
furtive, lost love, memory, beautiful, me, heart, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near RealityHalf a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
furtive, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 24In the morning, he was tetchy, but gentle,
Sitting beside me till my eyelids opened
I sat up, yawning, and rubbed my eyes
His hand brushed a dry tear off my face
“You are alive and well, I see,...
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Categories:
furtive, courage, life, light, love hurts, pain, romance,
Form:
Epic
A View From a WindowAs dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...
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Categories:
furtive, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Conflicted LoveMy mind is burning, blazing, turning
With doubts and irrational drivels
My heart is livid and hardened
For it freezes in the potentials of disappointment
Of failure, downfall, and impending death
In ceasefires of never mind, and never more
My...
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Categories:
furtive, anxiety, conflict, confusion, crazy, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
I Crowned the Write Full Missus Champ Paean Practical JokerI crowned the write full missus "champ paean practical joker"
The following moniker “innocent prankster”
awarded, hashtagged, and qualified wife
as trickster de jure appended
to alluded spouse
(then of twenty five plus years),
when she pulled a...
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Categories:
furtive, abuse, adventure, april, confusion, food, fun, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part OneOne dark, dreary night while working on a poem of hellish, hideous and
Horrible fright, I became at once quite so fatigued and could barely keep
My eyelids open anymore, and then suddenly darkness came...
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Categories:
furtive, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween, horror, magic,
Form:
Narrative
Battle for the Atlantic IIWith lone intent, all freedom it will wrest
if obstinance you let these wolves deny.
As tonnage sinks beneath the torrid crest
your struggles for survival magnify.
Each flailing ship that ferries surety
is fodder for the fathoms of abyss.
Their...
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Categories:
furtive, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Poetry Commentary Exposure of Isis(So many were protesting about America's secret involvement with ISIS but I didn't believe it until I read this latest news, shocking and disgusting. Poor innocent Muslims are being blamed for Americas furtive atrocities)
Wolf...
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Categories:
furtive, allegory, political, power,
Form:
Acrostic
Happy 68th Birthday Maryann Sage Revisited January 12th 2021Happy 68th birthday MaryAnn Sage - revisited January 12th, 2021
Wherever you might be holed up
within this whirled wide web wassup?
Mein kampf still equals board
hardscrabble existence deplored
analogous to Norwegian bachelor,
whose Lake Wobegon nestled within fjord
forcing me...
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Categories:
furtive, birthday, devotion, endurance, heartbroken, husband, january, lost
Form:
Rhyme
Lessons from a Lotus FlowerWritten 20 December 2023
No. 1263 Unplaced Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
...
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Categories:
furtive, appreciation, courage, flower, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Completeness
Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.
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Phenotype-inherited flaw chimera
fantasy flurry...
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Categories:
furtive, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, betrayal, character, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
furtive, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
DragonsMystic sounds move slowly against the face of the cragged purple mountains. Towers of lost forgotten cities peek seductively through canopies of age old trees. Grey mists hide millennia of secrets behind...
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Categories:
furtive, fantasy,
Form:
Haibun
Too Much To DeclareI was your treasured secret
and as you wished, I never said a word.
Just listened faintly for the next echo
asking me again to dreaded dark,
where you yourself spoke often and I listened,
knowing soon...
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Categories:
furtive, abuse, betrayal, endurance, hurt, innocence, leaving, silence,
Form:
Free verse