Long Gulf Poems
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EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
gulf, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI 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:
gulf, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
gulf, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
gulf, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of NebraskaMy love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
gulf, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
Love Poems IiLOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...
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Categories:
gulf, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Someone To Love-Part 2...cont
Always wanting to get the most from life,
one morning after a terrible snow storm
she rose from bed stretching
the most radiant, playful grin spread across her face,
"I feel incredible," she screamed,
"Let's have a picnic!"
"In this?"...
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Categories:
gulf, loss, love, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Most Courageous American President For the AgesA Most Courageous American President for the Ages
I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take a moment to
share some of my reflections on the life and distinguished public
service of the late 41st...
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Categories:
gulf, america, celebration, character, inspiration, patriotic, political, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells HomesThe Great Lakes acronym spells homes
I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge
of aforementioned material slim.
Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA
Great Lakes Environmental
Research Laboratory writ tomes.
Pellucid...
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Categories:
gulf, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat, creation, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rhine Salmon Complaint Translation of Etiemble S Complainte D Un Saumon Du Rhin By T WignesanThe Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin
For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in...
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Categories:
gulf, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication SeriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...
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Categories:
gulf, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
The eye of the stormHuge fluffy clouds began to form over
Sanibel Island as the salted gulf splashed
against the rocks around the lighthouse
coastal waters rose up as a calming coolness
carried this gentle warm breeze over to...
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Categories:
gulf, allah,
Form:
Nonet
When I Was TenNow in my time echoes
I remember then
my full days in a life
when I was ten.
We lived in a shadow
much greater
at the gates of...
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Categories:
gulf, memory, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
My Friend Calamia Remembering our friendship
how we'd talk for hours about
any topic family love kids life
how it hurt not to hear from
one another sending cards
pictures letters remember that
I remember so well that achy
lonely...
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Categories:
gulf, allah,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Prediction of God Bless America When it comes to “this” generation, many (if any) do not know about the songs we sung faithfully and wholeheartedly each and every morning at school.
I was born in the sixties and even in the...
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Categories:
gulf, america, change, freedom, growing up, symbolism, together,
Form:
Narrative
Consciousness Correction
Placed seventh in
Consciousness Correction Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
...
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Categories:
gulf, emotions, inspirational, introspection, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun in the east does appear
from St. Augustine to St. Clair,
to loose me from sleep’s tranquil hold
and dreams of serendipities of old -
to rise again the boy I was...
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Categories:
gulf, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Our Environment TodayI was taught by my father to be obedient in the dense forest to save the individuals trees, stop destruction to plantation. I cannot be silent under the detriment from lumberjacks to global...
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Categories:
gulf, earth, farm, flower,
Form:
Free verse
The UndertowThe Undertow
The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let it flow
The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed and flowed at...
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Categories:
gulf, anxiety, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form:
Verse
Back To the Future
I
On the hill betwixt Carlisle and Deep Creek
...
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Categories:
gulf, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly knights; encased Great-Helm:
Thus maketh the pale maidens meek pulse
To so...
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Categories:
gulf, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Dear Friend, Waiting For Youflying over Gulf of Mexico
...
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Categories:
gulf, best friend, bird,
Form:
Personification
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife TroisInevitable death defines afterlife - trois
So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized
chapped sticky man
spinning the david bowie playlist
as a somber dee...
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Categories:
gulf, absence, allah, analogy, angel, appreciation, blessing, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Corner of the StreetPedestrians are moving ups and downs the day can define the differences he experiences in the bathroom, cars buzzing their noise, around my understanding I cannot keep on thrusting for answers which has to be...
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Categories:
gulf, appreciation, butterfly, candy,
Form:
Chant Royal
Creations of the Human EgoThe human ego, a deadly thing; it convinces we’re better,
more powerful, creators who have no limits and we believe its’ lies.
Greed = ego,
hate - ego
selfishness = ego
self-centeredness,
vanity,
inconsiderateness,
a desire for power,
Germ Warfare = Human Ego
it’s all...
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Categories:
gulf, poems, poetry, sick,
Form:
Free verse