Long Hypertexts Poems
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State of the Art IiiState of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
hypertexts, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
hypertexts, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
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:
hypertexts, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
hypertexts, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The State of the ArtThe 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:
hypertexts, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
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...
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Categories:
hypertexts, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Lxxi-LxxxSonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.
Because you...
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Categories:
hypertexts, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
hypertexts, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
hypertexts, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
hypertexts, 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:
hypertexts, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
hypertexts, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Children's Poems IIChildren's Poems II - Lullabies
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sappho's Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Hushed yet melodic, the hills and the valleys
sleep...
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Categories:
hypertexts, boy, child, childhood, children, father, mother, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Final ProphecyFinal Prophecy
by Michael R. Burch
Listen to me now and heed my voice;
I am a madman, alone, screaming in the wilderness,
but listen now.
Listen to me now, and if I say
that black is black, and white is...
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Categories:
hypertexts, cry, dream, judgement, moon, visionary, voice, wind,
Form:
Verse
Native WordsBy: George P. Lumayag
https://georgelumayag.weebly.com/
An online dashboard of hypertexts conquers attention
Through viewing, pressing letters,
Clicking hypertexts and laughing,
Like fish gill tenderly pumping
Then shouting when logging-in
And dreaming to code in the World Wide Web
Such life of crafting an...
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Categories:
hypertexts, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Survivors, a 911 PoemSurvivors
by Michael R. Burch
(for the victims and survivors of 9/11 and their families)
In truth, we do not feel the horror
of the survivors,
but what passes for horror:
a shiver of “empathy.”
We too are “survivors,”
if to...
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Categories:
hypertexts, death, family, horror, pain, sympathy, truth, violence,
Form:
Rhyme