Long Imploring Poems
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Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
imploring, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Ivthe Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
imploring, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
imploring, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
imploring, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Oh My Numb CraniumWhy did He let me break?
Was it for a future's sake?
How did you all get here?
Are we all lost in epic fear?
Keep pressing on, my dusked Dawn
We welcome the sun, that's what we look upon
Do...
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Categories:
imploring, deep,
Form:
Lyric
4th Generation Soda Jerk -- Both Audio and TextThis is one excited kid and one PROUD father...
I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the best in quite some time.
And when we’d finished shopping -...
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Categories:
imploring, father son, relationship, youth,
Form:
Narrative
Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked earthling near death owing to drowning. Sam (Ka ‘Lo -...
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Categories:
imploring, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
imploring, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
imploring, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Kaleidoscope
"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the knowledge
of such terrible and ruthless, lusty
characters of strong will;...
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Categories:
imploring, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Demise of the Frail and Assail of the SkiesThe bird wanted to fly
But the wind wanted to blow
“Rest now bird”, said the wind
“You now take it down slow,
And let me flow.”
The bird accepted thinking it was a request,
And ignored the proud in...
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Categories:
imploring, angst, fear, grief, life, pain, sorrow, rain,
Form:
I do not know?
Secret Love
Hidden beneath the hopes and dreams, gentle
Feelings, inspiring me to trust, believe
Fondness this alive isn’t accidental
It feels amazing, just like Christmas Eve,
Joyful and inspired, like a heart afire
Breathing whispers of light over the soul
Remembering the...
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Categories:
imploring, love, romance, senses,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Breath, In Blue
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8
"Breath, in Blue"
Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten...
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Categories:
imploring, animal, bird, earth, fish, god, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its intricate patterns - so ancient- so old
Her Creator’s mandate she...
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Categories:
imploring, desire, hope, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Her Son NathanielShe is searching for the son taken from her arms
simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to stand up to her parents’ wishes -
those GOD fearing upright...
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Categories:
imploring, baby, cute, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Why I Never Wrote This PoemThis piece explains why I never managed to get this particular poem written -
On a cold December evening back in 1967, just before I went to bed, I heard
a scratching noise
Coming from our...
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Categories:
imploring, horror, humor, humorous,
Form:
Verse
Dream QuestYoung like the Spring grass, smelling
Beautiful – so fresh and alive,
Trembling dandelions dancing in the light
Sunny whims caressing the thoughts,
Remembering the joy and kindness
She brought when she gentled the dreams,
With laughing honesty, sincerity
Wishing on the...
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Categories:
imploring, addiction, death, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Vice President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 2024Uncertain if my one man pep rally appeals to thee most amazing, daring, grueling... youngest aspirant to restore Earth in the balance predicated upon uncomfortable truth. The old geezer here would be over the moon...
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Categories:
imploring, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, business, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Being Rightbeing right all the time can be very boring ...
if always right, perhaps you may have little to say
that's problematic for all-powerful beings, godlike creatures
the rest of us engage...
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Categories:
imploring, art, philosophy, religion, science,
Form:
Verse
Hues of Kindness - 1Indigo dreams smile through
Clouds of silvery light
Breathing silent whispers
Within prayers to the Creator
Who knows hearts and souls
And comforts through sweet hope
Cerulean stardust moments
Brighten lives with a dance of joy
Refreshing yearnings deep and sparkling
With reflections...
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Categories:
imploring, god, inspirational, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishmentDigging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery plot within Elysian Fields
although honestly, and truthfully
as an organ donor,
yours truly opts for...
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Categories:
imploring, addiction, age, angel, atheist, blessing, creation, grave,
Form:
Free verse
aching sky -
I knelt amidst the mountain's rise
beneath the weeping opal skies
there to measure Io's swoon
...
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Categories:
imploring, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagination, planet, science, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Beyond Words
Like the empty smiles
Addictions hide behind
Her grief secret, silent
Coloring her in a heavy doubt
Darkness speckled in glimmers
Hope that could be read
In the moments, breathed
On the song of stardust
Dreams, reflections poured out
In lavender creams, gentle
Like a...
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Categories:
imploring, christian, faith, hope, inspirational, jesus, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
The DivideThe Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide ...
was man born to sorrow that first day
with the moon—a pale beacon across the Divide,
the brighter for longing, an object denied—
the tug at...
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Categories:
imploring, creation, light, love, moon, sea, water,
Form:
Villanelle
The Ballad of Arthur and MandyA tribute to the late, great Victoria Wood x
Arthur and Mandy sat one night
When he gave her a dreadful fright
Ripped off his jumper revealed his string vest
Showing snippets of his hairy chest
He looked at her...
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Categories:
imploring, funny,
Form:
Rhyme