Long Imperial Poems
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Poems About DogsPoems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
imperial, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Doggerel IiDoggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
imperial, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Dog Daze I: Poems About DogsDog Daze
by Michael R. Burch
Sweet Oz is a soulful snuggler;
he really is one of the best.
Sometimes in bed
he snuggles my head,
though he mostly just plops on my chest.
I think Oz was made to love
from the...
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Categories:
imperial, dog, family, friend, friendship, friendship love, love,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
imperial, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Resistance On the Iberian PeninsulaResistance On The Iberian Peninsula
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity),”
Scream French revolutionists as they guillotine monarchists heads, 1
Then crown Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France, 2
Who commands the French forces in wars raged across Europe.
The Grande...
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Categories:
imperial, education, freedom, history, irony, patriotic, war,
Form:
Verse
The Queen of EnglandQueen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
“We are all visitors to this...
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Categories:
imperial, appreciation, celebration, grief,
Form:
Clerihew
Categories:
imperial, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
The Whips of History - 1This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
imperial, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Chapter 80 --Damian Delilah Mallory: CongregationsDamian Stood in the Hugh room
Surveying the expansiveness of
The place. "Yeah, this will be a
Imperial family event in my house.
The judges will be here too.
There were two large tables
The capacity was almost
Immeasurable....
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Categories:
imperial, abuse, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Poems About Poets ViiPoems about Poets VII
Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch
for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn
Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.
Teach us to sing...
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Categories:
imperial, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Angels of MercyAngles of Mercy
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
There is not to many of us that can say that the owe their existence on this earth to a Native in a Foreign country, in my case I can say...
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Categories:
imperial, angel, father, memory, men,
Form:
Narrative
The Three Enigmas of TurandotThe three enigmas of Turandot
The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old.
Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary,
a ballad of love and loss that must be told.
The Emperor's daughter,...
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Categories:
imperial, crush, longing, love, moon, romantic love, sad
Form:
Narrative
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal SleepGloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...
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Categories:
imperial, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Ashoremargins stimulate and juxtapose
edges greet with troubled, disturbing friction
faraway forces exert influence and combine relentlessly
how the Sun and Moon dance together about the planet Earth
their grasping hands...
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Categories:
imperial, beach, environment, humanity, ocean,
Form:
Verse
A Prodigy In PiecesA boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado,
the chessmen championed his ego
wickedly warring to a visionary's voodoo,
those soldiers of black and...
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Categories:
imperial, america, heart, history,
Form:
Epic
Spirits In the WoodStanding all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines ever sway slowly,
while pockets of air blush...
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Categories:
imperial, death, earth, fantasy, sin, sound, spiritual, tree,
Form:
Free verse
I Can Clean, I Can DrivePlenty of sleep, no more tv, the wars in the Middle East
are resource wars, disguised as religious debates.
So Dad would say.
A beautiful winter day, hunting
season. A Gun In Every Home, in light of U.S. mass...
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Categories:
imperial, home, magic, poetry, religion, sleep, war, winter,
Form:
Verse
Inside the Winter Wild
"Inside the Winter Wild"
Inside the Wild,
Winter races
towards Time
like a runnaway train
it’s shadowy
and dark,
yet, inside Winter,
the wild keeps
without fail
its burning light,
a passion play
for everything
and all,
along the way
discovered
in...
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Categories:
imperial, christmas, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
BelovedI knew I loved you the very day we met
our God and Father showed me a heart I’ll not forget
it doesn’t...
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Categories:
imperial, desire, devotion, introspection, longing, lost love, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Great Little Englandskinny island rump
highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies
entity England
migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf
monarchs, priests and lords
relaunching history and hope, the...
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Categories:
imperial, culture, england, history,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
imperial, forgiveness, judgement, power, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
Recollections From the Golden Cree II know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods
By which...
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Categories:
imperial, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Something's Amiss POTDI was a successful, scientific explorer, traveling to the remote, distant lands,
Bettering noble lives of many, like budding, green spring which understands.
And every day held fruitful discovery, as when the autumn colors are flying,
Or when...
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Categories:
imperial, dream, fantasy, feelings, happiness, love, world,
Form:
Couplet
Water WorldI had always loved being near deep-sea water, and I was never too far away,
As the beauty of fresher tomorrow, is but mystic hours from prevalent today.
I enjoyed swimming and boating and surfing, and even...
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Categories:
imperial, beautiful, color, fantasy, nature, rain, water, world,
Form:
Couplet
YeshuaYESHUA
His name was Yeshua, the legitimate, not immaculate,
scion of a young Jewish couple named Miriam and Yosef and surely
a brown-haired, brown-eyed Middle-Eastern man, sun-bathed and beige,
raised in the traditions of Abraham and Moses, David and...
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Categories:
imperial, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse