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Premium Member Echoes of a Shady Past
An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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Categories: gleams, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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Categories: gleams, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form: Prose
Kaos In -Part 5- Final Part
Hate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's the cause of these negative, gross, worthless flawful laws that...

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Categories: gleams, abuse, deep,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poems Ii
Poems about Poems (II)

Kin
by Michael R. Burch

for Richard Moore

1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...

2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...

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Categories: gleams, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The State of the Art
The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch

Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?

Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...

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Categories: gleams, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form: Verse



Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?

The wind...

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Categories: gleams, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight

your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...

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Categories: gleams, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poets I
Poems about Poets I


The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch

for Leslie Mellichamp

The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...

but...

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Categories: gleams, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Tranmutation
Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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Categories: gleams, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
GenieUsGenusPlan


In the darkness of the night, 
a ruby gleams 
to contrast a slumbered eye awakened 
to feeling, 
reflection, light, 
Lady "Genie", eyes aglow
like a beast, in mid-stride,
lost in her midnight dreams is clothed in a...

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Categories: gleams, april, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Literary Feud Among - Pt 1
Prelude to what…..

I see you,  /  you / yes, come into my…… 
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought 
and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete.

Where Titans...

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Categories: gleams, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Marat and Charlotte 3
Act 3. A dark, empty stage.

Marat
(standing up)

My eyes went blank. That's how it goes when
you have been doubly knocked flat on your back
in half an hour. He went, he went,
he went, he went, he went,...

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Categories: gleams, death, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand." 

(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)

The muskiness...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gleams, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form: Prose
The Adverse World Unfinished Will Finish
You stole away my lonely melody, Lord,
And made it harmony according to Your accord
I’d like to thank You with all of my heart as I make sound
My mind is trying to look forward to a...

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Categories: gleams, angst, emotions, encouraging, moving on, pain, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Three Tribute Poems, Composed By Me, For Longfellow Blog
Three Tribute poems--  composed by me,

For Longfellow blog….

(1.)

Glory Of Faith's Triumphant Golden Crowns



The rays of morn took their first golden breath

Dispersing powers of night's darkling mists

First gleams romancing sweet the earthen shores

Beating back dark...

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Categories: gleams, art, creation, dedication, deep, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Search For Idealism
Placed First in:
Can`t Believe It was a Na Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One

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Categories: gleams, humanity, inspirational, men, world,
Form: Quatrain
The Sky Could Be the Limit
Ahh...ahh...ahh...
If I did a trust fall,
Would you catch me at all?
If the sky was the limit,
Why won't you admit...
Your true colors towards me that meant so much to me?
I just want your wings to fly,...

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Categories: gleams, deep,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times. 

She’s a queen who sees her lover...

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Categories: gleams, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Stoicism as a Way of Life
Written 23 November 2023
Placed 1st in :
Stoicism as  Way of Life Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet

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Categories: gleams, humanity, inspirational, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Welcome To the Big Top
Step right up, buy your ticket, wait in anticipation to see the show, the one beneath the tent that holds all the dreams I never wanted to be exposed
But now it’s time, I must share...

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Categories: gleams, anger, goodbye, loss, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Hearts One Love
Reflections

Though our love nurtured well in passion's fire
Aroused now as a lamplight on life's road
This ember's torch burns still from our desire
With gleams of memories from love bestowed
as we journeyed in wondrous enchantment
I've kissed you...

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Categories: gleams, life, love, romance,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Utopia
You’re an angel of light (in my sight)
Well, I know you are unforgotten in my memory
And, darling, everything will be alright - You can fly…but I’m incompetent…I am  ashamed to say goodbye! 
Your moonlit...

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Categories: gleams, beauty, confusion, freedom, grief, hope, hurt, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ledger of Love: PART I
Ledger of Love

In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home,
Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome.
Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast,
But now a thin whisp, a ghostly jest.

Her gaze averts from her...

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Categories: gleams, confusion, desire, heartbreak, longing, love, marriage, sad
Form: Narrative
Premium Member On the Seas of Night Potd
I loved sailing upon the blue sea, and I was never too far from it,
As one who knows sweet cravings, is seldom far from chocolates.

In my previous much loved vessel, I had sailed a thousand...

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Categories: gleams, adventure, fantasy, nature, night, planet, space,
Form: Couplet
My Lack of Lucky Charm
You raise me up above the mountains
You bring me below the vibrant valleys
You allow me to weep happy fountains 
When I walk in your bright alleys

Enormous in envy my heart is
Nervouscited for what lies ahead...fed...

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Categories: gleams, deep, desire,
Form: Verse

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