Long Heightened Poems
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Echoes of a Shady PastAn 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:
heightened, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Constructive CritismThere's consequences in all we say and do
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk
Quite distraught due to the fact that you're too good to be true
I...
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Categories:
heightened, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon 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:
heightened, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Trump In MotionTRUMP SMELLS B.O.
TRUMP SMELLS B.O.
BUST UP THE BEAT TO INTRODUCE IT'S TEMPO
GOT ME PLACES TO GO
SILENCE IS GOLDEN GOT BLOOD THAT"S UNFOLDING
SITS IN HIS IVORY TOWER ENGAGED IN THE WALL WHILE HE SITS IN HIS...
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Categories:
heightened, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
heightened, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
heightened, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
heightened, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
heightened, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
God's Return TicketGod's Return Ticket
Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...
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Categories:
heightened, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
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:
heightened, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Beware the Ides of March 2023Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
heightened, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
The True Knight -POTDPOTD 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:
heightened, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Stricken With Anguished NauseaStricken with anguished nausea
Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks,
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted
mine...
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Categories:
heightened, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
ChangeI am feeling the shock of fast change. How to cope with it is of course the question. Listen to Beethoven through the neighbor's window? Look up from the page? Appreciate doves even though they...
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Categories:
heightened, change, environment, hope, nature, sleep, strength, violence,
Form:
Verse
The Hidden LaneThe sun burst out from underneath the clouds
Ploughing through the merry crowd
The impact of nature is closing in
sucking the joy from within
Trucks and cars littered the streets
Adding more pain to the...
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Categories:
heightened, adventure, america, character, community, corruption, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Expose the JuxtaposedThe force of the righteous is full of the misguided, a forsaken realm to which we're never invited.
The gullible minds of weakness, led by their own obliqueness.
"Take your children (Psalms) and thrash...
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Categories:
heightened, art,
Form:
Rhyme
She - Epitome of Erotic LoveAn Ode to Femininity and Romance -
The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and reminisce on romantic memories while creating new ones - Perhaps...
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Categories:
heightened, love, romantic, sensual, sexy, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
heightened, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Rampant and Endemic Police BrutalityRampant and endemic police brutality...
flourishes against United States citizens of color
going on three years
post George Floyd
short lived heightened awareness
when #blacklivesmatter
in conjunction with 1619 project
wrought upwelling of progressive surge
hinting at positive...
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Categories:
heightened, absence, abuse, africa, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Free verse
A Sudden Recollection - Text VersionEarly last October, on a cool and breezeless morning, one o’ my grandsons, Grant, and I had a half a dozen lines
Bobbin’ near the cattails, in a small secluded bay…catchin’ perch and crappie…when the...
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Categories:
heightened, fishing, grandchild, grandson,
Form:
Rhyme
Heterosexual married sexagenarian maleHeterosexual married sexagenarian male...
Aims to trigger cerebral orgasm;
Other terms for said phenomena are
"brain tingles" and "head orgasm."
This sensation is described as a pleasant,
even euphoric, tingling warmth and/or feeling
of relaxation that comes...
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Categories:
heightened, 12th grade, beautiful, drug, feelings, heaven, husband,
Form:
Free verse
Easter BirdThe Sinai Rose finch, oblivious to the commotion in the nearby city, busily gathered dry grass and floral fodder to repair her nest, disturbed by a human behemoth, snatching the thorny brambles which hid the...
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Categories:
heightened, bird, easter, nature,
Form:
Prose
ForeverI am a writing this letter with my hand, and I hope that you will understand; I want you to penetrate every word and paint them at the center of your soul.
It's cold out...
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Categories:
heightened, america, beautiful, business, caregiving, change, city, community,
Form:
Narrative
I Heard the Universal Sound of Aum Pronounced OhmI heard the universal sound of aum (pronounced ohm)...
while being quarantined inside our own invisible bubble
Transcendent meditations
while athwart oblate spheroid
allow, enable, and provide
deft capability deciphering
snap, crackle and pop
accepted as mere static
to the untrained ear.
Each inaudible...
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Categories:
heightened, allah, appreciation, birth, devotion, flying, happiness, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Being a Cool Kid• By daniel miltz •
You're not born with cool, you've got to find it. A leather jacket that fits like a glove knows it. Cool is an act. Cool is by learning to stand out...
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Categories:
heightened, cool, crazy,
Form:
Bio