Long Gathers Poems
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I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 1(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...
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Categories:
gathers, angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About FlowersLady’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:
gathers, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
gathers, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
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:
gathers, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
gathers, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xvii-XxivSonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
gathers, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
gathers, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
gathers, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Oncle Albert - Part 1Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
gathers, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
gathers, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
gathers, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
TozzathPellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
gathers, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
gathers, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Mystical Song of TreesPRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...
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Categories:
gathers, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems ILOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
gathers, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 153-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: HONEYMOON!!!Date: April 2051
The celebration ended. The room
Empty all relatives was preparing
For their final time in Hawaii. Dolly
And Damian lay in bed conversing.
Her hand was on his chest, "I love
When the Hakim...
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Categories:
gathers, africa, allusion, anger, beach,
Form:
Free verse
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is -- is over, in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
gathers, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Lusting Abyss, his Darkness.
.
Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness...
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Categories:
gathers, love, peace, people, places, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands, desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin, pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness will show
Long haired...
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Categories:
gathers, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
gathers, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part ThreeAgain the alarm is set.
Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.
The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.
She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...
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Categories:
gathers, satire,
Form:
Free verse
The Accomplice - Both Audio and TextThis is a very sad tale, indeed. Does anything hurt more than a shattered heart?
You asked me for a story from the days of long ago, of unrequited love…of broken hearts…and love betrayed.
This brings...
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Categories:
gathers, anger, gothic, hurt, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 3They say the one you think of last before sleep,
Is the one you care for the most— the one you wish to hold, admire, love…
The two of us…beings of bravery,
Had labored all the night,
In...
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Categories:
gathers, adventure, allegory, anxiety, art, friendship, sympathy, time,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday Night SmokeSaturday Night Smoke
It is Saturday night, and I have to put up a terrible fight,
It is Saturday night, and the people are walking around with much delight, the days are creeping up slowly...
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Categories:
gathers, anxiety, appreciation, art, business, community, growth, hope,
Form:
Narrative
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:
gathers, angel, beautiful, beauty, england, princess, rose, woman,
Form:
Epitaph