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I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
grope for, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Poems About Poems IiPoems 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:
grope for, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About MothersPoems about Mothers
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...
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Categories:
grope for, child, children, love, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IiPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
grope for, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
ErinErin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
grope for, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
grope for, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
grope for, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
State of the Art IiState of the Art (II)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...
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Categories:
grope for, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 4Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
grope for, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
Free Verse IiiSalve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
grope for, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Prose Poems IiProse 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:
grope for, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Canto Xviii Hell TranslationIn hell is called Malebolge a site
Completely made of ferrous color stones
As almost all the rim around looks quite.
Of the malignant field the middle zones
Are the seat for a well much wide and...
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Categories:
grope for, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Poems About Poets IPoems 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:
grope for, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
grope for, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
grope for, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxiii Part1Uplifted his mouth from wild and fierce meal
That sinner, it furbishing at the hair
Of head on back of which he had to steal.
Then started: “You want I renew and share
Desperate pain which is pressing my...
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Categories:
grope for, fantasy, , cute,
Form:
Terza Rima
Brahma IiiBrahma III
The frivolous life lives vainly
looking at a phantom, chasing after illusion;
men accuse one another thinking their life is real,
fight each other thinking they are existing. Today as well,
I wander in the valley of...
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Categories:
grope for, life, philosophy, religious,
Form:
I do not know?
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a MisanthropeAn image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope
Mein kampf fraught re:
emotionally/psychologically challenged
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
and entertained escapist fantasies,
whereby Miss Rainbow
(sixth grade student teacher),
though robbing...
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Categories:
grope for, 6th grade, adventure, age, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
HopeHOPE BY N3
Slashed at the throat a blow aimed not at the esophagus but at the vocal cords
Paralyzed by something worst than fear,
Speech grows limp even as silent screams are constrained by shame’s chord.
Tethered like...
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Categories:
grope for, christian, lost, night, drug,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ultimate Metaphysical BaseWritten: November 04, 2023, For Jaymee Thomas Contest
_________________________________________
Reflecting on this rip-roaring round adventure,
Gazing into the depths of...
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Categories:
grope for, analogy, appreciation, creation, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
EndymionMythology Revealed:
Endymion was a mortal man, perhaps a shepherd,
who had a countenance of sheer beauty. He was fond
of the mystic moon and her aura of light. This was a
love affair between a...
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Categories:
grope for, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks IXLimericks IX
Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch
The world’s first antinatalist limerick?
Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In the dark of the night,
In the end what remains from...
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Categories:
grope for, fire, giggle, humor, humorous, life, light, nonsense,
Form:
Limerick
Poems about Science 5: EvolutionPOEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION
Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I do not see the same as you, but hold
antenna to the brilliant...
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Categories:
grope for, child, children, earth, life, light, science, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems about Science 3: EvolutionPOEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 3: EVOLUTION
Peers
by Michael R. Burch
These thoughts are alien, as through green slime
smeared on some lab tech’s brilliant slide, I grope,
positioning my bright oscilloscope
for better vantage, though I cannot see,
but only peer, as...
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Categories:
grope for, bird, fish, fishing, insect, science,
Form:
Rhyme
AI POEMSAI POEMS
These are poems about AI (Art-ificial Intelligence) and poems about science.
The AI Poets
by Michael R. Burch
The computer-poets stand hushed
except for the faint hum
of their efficient fans,
waiting for inspiration.
It is years now
since they were first...
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Categories:
grope for, class, confusion, education, farm, school, science, science
Form:
Rhyme