Long Gleaming Poems
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Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
gleaming,
Form:
Abecedarian
Grand Priorities
What fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
gleaming, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Wonderland
Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
gleaming, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
gleaming, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
gleaming, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Adieu - Part 2
The tears flowed and I still smiled,
My body and spirit and mind,
Were still in that state of residual bliss,
Soaking in your sweet smile,
And savoring the moonlit skin before me,
But my soul was being torn asunder,
And...
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Categories:
gleaming, heartbreak, love, passion, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
gleaming, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Chapter 63 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xiii-- Vacation
11 o'clock at night. Everyone is
In bed. Molly was in the adjoining
Room with the seven and
Desharah. Damian was awake
and Planning. Dominant
Damian was deeply devious
in his domain. In bed with...
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Categories:
gleaming, adventure, atheist, beach, deep, divorce, good morning,
Form:
Alliteration
The Penetralia Ruby Queen
Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...
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Categories:
gleaming, allegory, beauty, creation, fantasy, god, inspiration, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
Echoes of the Angel's Fallen
Invocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
gleaming, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Who is this child?” he whispered to...
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Categories:
gleaming, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
I.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
gleaming, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
gleaming, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14
Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed. His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall. He had but one question for him that he...
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Categories:
gleaming, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Maya 2
Continued from Maya 1
At length, when the womens' screams had ceased
and the sound of the thunder had stopped,
he gathered his courage and withdrew himself
from his hiding place beneath the corn.
He left the hut and prostrated...
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Categories:
gleaming, allegory, conflict, courage, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My Memoir
Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad had joined...
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Categories:
gleaming, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 68 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damian Junior: the Teenage Barbecue Takeover
The festive furious festival of
Fifteen and fourteen year olds
Had functionally formed the
Teenage takeover brigade.
The boy and girl gladiators they
Were everywhere. And DJ had
His girlfriend there somewhere,
Ready to Introduce her to the
Family. Although...
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Categories:
gleaming, best friend, clothes, creation, home, mother daughter,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 138 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: New Triplet ADDITIONS
Date: May 2050
Damian returned home early morning
Back from another visit with Dolly. Still
Early misty May morning another
Dawning. 2050! The newborns triplets were
Sleeping. Damian was peeping. He would
Have to travel the...
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Categories:
gleaming, beach, child,
Form:
Alliteration
The Maid of Orleans
Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace her forehead like a crown;
Her thick and shining braids that...
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Categories:
gleaming, christian, conflict, courage, england, history,
Form:
Couplet
Seeking the Boundaries of Love's Depths and Her Hand
Poem One: Inspired by my reading of -Lady Labyrinth's---magnificent
poem , "Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"
(1.) Poem One
Seeking The Boundaries Of Love's Depths And Her Hand
The air, its surging breath sings
into the...
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Categories:
gleaming, appreciation, art, beauty, dedication, love, passion, poetry,
Form:
Romanticism
The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...
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Categories:
gleaming, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Couplet
Mothman
anxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidable -
eighty inches tall,...
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Categories:
gleaming, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery, myth, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
(A call for the lights to dim as a single spotlight illuminates the legend Judy Garland, who is center stage. She wears a faded housecoat as her beautiful, brandy brown eyes hold a lifetime of...
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Categories:
gleaming, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness, lonely, psychological, woman,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Vespers’ Prayer Preparation for Black Mass
In preparation for the ritual Black Mass at midnight, Rosalia recites the following prayer incantation which must be rendered latest...
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Categories:
gleaming, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
gleaming, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad