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Poems About the Coronavirus I
Poems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
gargantuan, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
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:
gargantuan, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
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:
gargantuan, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Snapshots
Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
gargantuan, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
gargantuan, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems Ii
Medieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
gargantuan, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Heat Lightening
Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
gargantuan, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Prose Poems Ii
Prose Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
gargantuan, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Halloween Poems Ii
Completing the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
gargantuan, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Perhat Turson: Elegy Translation
Perhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
gargantuan, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For War
The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
gargantuan, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Thirty-Two
from island corner, big Antrim lad
to Belfast city, a tiny pad
shattered windows, tilted clocks
Goliath had lost his socks
gargantuan giant going mad
Armagh apple girl, any topic
...
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Categories:
gargantuan, ireland, nonsense,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Eros and Cupid
POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
gargantuan, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Iii
My most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
gargantuan, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Has a Southern Flavor
Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
gargantuan, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Imu Ground Oven
Preparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'mu' (E'-moo), which...
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Categories:
gargantuan, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, happiness, religion, together,
Form:
Narrative
Covid Walk
thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
gargantuan, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
Translation: Ech Day Me Cometh Tydinges Thre
Ech day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Each day I’m plagued by three doles,
These gargantuan weights on my...
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Categories:
gargantuan, angst, anxiety, death, depression, england, fear, sorrow,
Form:
Couplet
Soul Stance River - 22
The Great Falls of the northern Plains is actually a chain of five seperate waterfalls
varying in height and majesty extending over 12 miles,
they also confirm that the right river was chosen,
we had hoped that the...
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Categories:
gargantuan, adventure,
Form:
Epic
A Tale of Cosmos - Part 2
the Universe, a self-defining everything
but then, what of the Cosmos wherein we all dwell?
that big bang blast, forever on a far-flung fling
from beyond and within which, lurks heaven and...
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Categories:
gargantuan, philosophy, science, universe,
Form:
Verse
I Dived Into The Cauldron Of Magic Potion And
Catapulted into seething temperatures beyond the imagination
risking excitement in escapades that may seem inane,
potential hazard weighted against predicament predestined,
at some future stage I might peer backwards and reassess,
initial impetuousness under caustic supernatant thumbnail,
maybe I...
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Categories:
gargantuan, adventure, character, courage, endurance, environment, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get
rocketing toward my sixty fifth birthday
January thirteenth...
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Categories:
gargantuan, age, america, creation, environment, fate, history, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Whoami Within Following Figurative Nutshell
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get.
A garden variety (generic) agrarian wannabe
antiauthoritarian, bookish...
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Categories:
gargantuan, age, break up, confusion, dark, environment, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
Animal Poems 2
Animal Poems II
These are poems about animals, limericks and other forms of doggerel.
Ballade of the Bicameral Camel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a camel who loved to hump.
Please get your lewd minds out of their...
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Categories:
gargantuan, animal, earth, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poets Iii
Poems about Poets
Long Division
by Michael R. Burch
for Laura Riding Jackson
All things become one
Through death’s long division
And perfect precision.
Nod to the Master
by Michael R. Burch
If every witty thing that’s said were true,
Oscar Wilde, the world would...
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Categories:
gargantuan, earth, inspiration, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme