Long Garlands Poems
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Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
garlands, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About ChildrenPoems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
garlands, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
garlands, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
garlands, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
garlands, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Sonnets Lxxi-LxxxSonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.
Because you...
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Categories:
garlands, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
Embrace the LinesEmbrace The Lines
Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water
marks engraved...
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Categories:
garlands, life,
Form:
Free verse
Dandylion
"Dandylion"
The guy was a
Dandylion
there was
no denying it
full of promises
and making wishes
residing over
this new world
poetically
speaking, he
shone like
the Sun
he sat on his throne
for all to see
the mane man
roaring non-garrulous
declaring
to...
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Categories:
garlands, dream, humor, muse, word play,
Form:
Narrative
Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of John Keats's ''On the Sonnet''“On the Sonnet”
by John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrained,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To...
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Categories:
garlands, england, fate, literature, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Prose
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal SleepGloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...
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Categories:
garlands, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Princess Diana PoemsPRINCESS DIANA POEMS
Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch
Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so solemn, so lovely?
an orchid ablaze in a crevice...
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Categories:
garlands, angel, beautiful, beauty, england, princess, rose, woman,
Form:
Epitaph
Children's PoemsPicturebook Princess
for Keira
We had a special visitor.
Our world became suddenly brighter.
She was such a charmer!
Such a delighter!
With her sparkly diamond slippers
and the way her whole being glows,
Keira’s a picturebook princess
from the points of her...
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Categories:
garlands, children,
Form:
Verse
The Will To Survive
"The Will to Survive"
It was a peaceful time
back then in the dreams
that were once
our prepossessing future.
sands of time
dragged under our bare feet
while the crystal clean warm ocean
of life that once was,...
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Categories:
garlands, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Love BurialThe burial ground, groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they come to mourn
the Poet who perished for the passion of...
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Categories:
garlands, cute love, endurance, love, universe,
Form:
Epic
no heroes - WWI -
heroes?
there are none here, now ... ever ...
don’t feign to look, for your eyes will
beg their smiles,...
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Categories:
garlands, appreciation, introspection, life, soldier, war, world war
Form:
Free verse
Smoking Cigarettes and Sipping CoffeeMany-colored and candle-lights; high beyond the soft trees a fresh country leans heavily toward the night, far beyond the sea’s shady shore.
Beams, o’er wide fields like a white star, \till from the earth’s crown drops...
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Categories:
garlands, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
In the embrace of the unseen moment, love bloomed humblyIn the embrace of the unseen moment, love bloomed humbly,
The cosmos writhes in ecstasy, beneath the unconstructed gaze of mastery.
Gathered around it are emissions of time, transmissions of ancestral eternities,
Reveries in water strokes, heavenly reflections,...
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Categories:
garlands, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
A Glimpse of HeritageA GLIMPSE OF HERITAGE
To Visit the past, is to understand your future.
The storm was moving away, the noise no longer pounding,
Sky turned blue from dark, thunder abating, hail disappearing,
I took refuge under a bridge during...
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Categories:
garlands, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Space Suited Shells Are Cute Arent TheyA fat flat packed duck billed platypus was not on a platter. In fact it had escaped under a robe. With a robin. The robin was to be stuffed into a pigeon which was stuffed...
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Categories:
garlands, animal, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Children's Poems VChildren's Poems III
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Picturebook Princess
by Michael R. Burch
for Keira
We had a special visitor.
Our world became suddenly brighter.
She was...
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Categories:
garlands, child, childhood, children, mother, mother son, mothers
Form:
Rhyme
The Typing Teddy BearsTyping teddies talk. Their furry hands have great speeds over keys. Perfectly adjusted to any form of typewriter, word processor, laptop and keyboards, or the modern computer touch screens. They work so well that Mr...
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Categories:
garlands, beach, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
I do not know?
Sappho's RoseOur English Rose
by Michael R. Burch
for Christine Ena Burch
The rose is—
the ornament of the earth,
the glory of nature,
the archetype of the flowers,
the blush of the meadows,
a lightning flash of beauty.
This is my translation of ancient...
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Categories:
garlands, beautiful, beauty, earth, flower, light, nature, rose,
Form:
Epigram
Meleager TranslationsIf I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch
Love, how can I call on you;
does...
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Categories:
garlands, desire, drink, feelings, for her, girl, girlfriend,
Form:
Epigram
Christmas, Made of AwesomeEvery year someone is always expressing
that Christmas is imperialist, and oppressing
people not of the Christian faith,
That it’s unfairly taken Soltice’s place,
that the historical Jesus was not born
in the last months per Holiday norms,
say ‘Merry Christmas,’...
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Categories:
garlands, celebration, christmas, family, holiday, joy, seasons, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rites of SpringExcitedly we travelled to the fair.
As fragrant scents of flowers filled the air.
Dawns gift of light showing sights enthralling.
Dewdrops mirror, broken pearlstrings falling.
Sunshine...
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Categories:
garlands, spring, daffodils,
Form:
Rhyme