Long Immensity Poems
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Haiku 1The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
immensity, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
immensity, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
immensity, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
immensity, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
immensity, history, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
immensity, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
immensity, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Categories:
immensity, 1st grade, bird, humanity, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku VariationsHaiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch
This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:
Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch
Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!
How will you tidy your hair
this near
summer?
Leave to each still night
your lightest...
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Categories:
immensity, autumn, farewell, seasons, snow, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Soul Cry
"Cry for the soul that will not face the body" Dory Previn
...
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Categories:
immensity, journey, life, self, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Red Sky At NightOnce upon a nightime grim
all creatures of Earth dreamed
our Mother was not enough for everyone,
just "me."
This collective nightmare thunderously rolled out
dark implications:
Earth is insufficient for our needs!
We live in Closed Systems of immunity,
heading toward decay!
EarthTribe...
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Categories:
immensity, earth, forgiveness, freedom, health, peace, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
immensity, god, life, light, love, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
Beannchor Looks On, Fabulous Pivoting Placemolten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
belly-belching landform
oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
land-bridging, submerging
any one place moving astride, stutter-shifting
continental drifting world
climate...
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Categories:
immensity, future, history, ireland, places, sea, society,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Perry and Empire‘Twas but a mist-enshrouded speckle
dark-painted on looming horizon.
Petty worker holds unwavering watch,
silently, stealthily keeps his eyes on.
Forward motion undeniable,
each passing minute size increasing.
Small heart stands alert and viable –
beating fast and tremulous; though, never...
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Categories:
immensity, allegory, heart, imagery, relationship, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
A Word Vs the WordAs I sit in crumbling sand, that’s laced between my toes,
I wonder.
The gentle breeze caresses my cheeks,
whilst the wind plays daintily with wisps of fringe.
Faces are but a distant silhouette in orange hue.
I watch as...
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Categories:
immensity, anxiety, appreciation, bible, introspection, silence, time, words,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
immensity, appreciation, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Change Will Occur FastI know that things will get better for me and for all,
I know things will improve and happiness will spread,
prosperity will spread; love will spread;
I know appreciation, gratitude, and energy will spread.
The way for a...
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Categories:
immensity, celebration, community, culture, encouraging, feelings, future, uplifting,
Form:
Prose
In View of My Mortality Part 1 of 2(Ps. 39:5 / Ps. 8: 4 / Mark 5: 41 / Matt. 10: 30 / Job 14: 14, 15 /
Lu. 23: 42, 43 / Job 7: 17 / John 6: 40 / Acts 24: 15...
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Categories:
immensity, cancer, death, faith, feelings, god,
Form:
Free verse
Cosmic JewelsIf Keats could have seen through Hubble’s eyes
when the sonnet ‘Bright Star’ he wrote,
meaning its telescope-imaged skies
with those stellar tableaux afloat,
would he have noted ‘aloft it hung’
‘steadfast’ all night in ‘splendor lone’,
that poet...
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Categories:
immensity, earth, fantasy, nature, poetry, space, stars, world,
Form:
Verse
Paul Valery Translation of Secret OdePAUL VALERY TRANSLATION: “SECRET ODE”
“Secret Ode” is a poem by the French poet Paul Valéry about collapsing after a vigorous dance, watching the sun set, and seeing the immensity of the night sky as the...
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Categories:
immensity, dance, french, night, sea, stars, sun, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
Descent and Ascent“on an as is where is basis we choose
descent of consciousness into the gross
then we rise again following heart’s muse
higher than where stood, bearing love’s cross”
When I see others getting much ahead of me,
And ascending...
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Categories:
immensity, anxiety, conflict, happiness, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Even Dawn Cried About Death of the PoetEven Dawn Cried About Death Of The Poet
They that see dawn in softest crimson glows
Having sought to embrace the golden moon!
They that ink paradise as a true gift,
Sings praises of the gentle month of June!
Whilst...
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Categories:
immensity, art,
Form:
Rhyme
The Flame of a LampPlaced eighth in:
No. 1235 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
...
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Categories:
immensity, faith, god, happiness, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form:
Concrete
My Snow White Catie LindseyAngel of mourning soup
Angel of mourning
Who gives birth to fresh morning dew who
helped me pursue who showed me the light
when I was lost for clues in times of blues
Angel of assistance
From were did you...
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Categories:
immensity, dedication, me, rain, friendship, me, mirror, rain,
Form:
Free verse
POETRY CHURCH
Not to belittle the real Church of God
Not to belittle the real benefits of communion
Not to belittle kneeling and praying for a miracle
Not to belittle the laying of hands
Not to belittle...
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Categories:
immensity, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme