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Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
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 Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
impotent, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
impotent, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiJuvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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Categories:
impotent, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
impotent, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the DarknessMy Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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Categories:
impotent, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
Moving On Part Two Part ThreeMoving on ???
I have come to wonder – as time passes – why ?,
the lady brings tears to my heart – makes me cry.
This lady who took in hand, in holy of holies, in mouth,
resurrecting...
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Categories:
impotent, friendship, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
We Are BrothersWE ARE BROTHERS
1.
Don’t look at me as though I am an alien or stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy fly out of your eyes,
...
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Categories:
impotent, love, peace, prejudice,
Form:
Epic
Dedication To Alex BraesThe early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad
all he could do was weep
he, knee was so painful
he had to go...
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Categories:
impotent, emotions, funeral, grief, pain, poetry, sorrow, stress,
Form:
Free verse
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...
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Categories:
impotent, corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form:
Free verse
We Are Brothers IiDon’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.
I am your neighbor.
Don’t call me a foe, an antagonist, or a rival,
Don’t roll up...
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Categories:
impotent, cute, immigration, love, peace, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
Present Wedded Bliss Haint No TouchstonePresent wedded bliss haint no touchstone...
Circa ~ late spring/ early summer 1978
twas at behest of Harriet Harris,
thus due credit mother dearest
(she long since passed away)
who tried, to bribe, coax, exhort...
(protracted effort not all in vain),
cuz...
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Categories:
impotent, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dedication, devotion, husband, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
We Are Brothers IiiDon’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.
I am your neighbor.
Don’t call me a foe, an antagonist, or a rival,
Don’t roll up...
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Categories:
impotent, peace, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
A Gentle Violence IIs this the price we pay for our right to have guns
the blood of innocent souls lost to oblivion: a gentle violence
Forever a mental brute, a slow gentle violence
of unforgivable action, wither insane...
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Categories:
impotent, abuse, allegory, allusion, america, analogy, anger, angst,
Form:
Free verse
A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human MelancholyWhat is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of sorrow that engulfs us, rendering us incapable of envisioning a...
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Categories:
impotent, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation, perspective, philosophy, proposal,
Form:
Prose
Your Devoted Loving HandsYour devoted adoring Loving hands
Shields the abyss with trance
in utter bewilderment
As every hand is first an apprentice
That slaves beneath The Temple Of LOVE
Your Loving hands have valor and daring
to weave my sorrow into a...
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Categories:
impotent, courage, devotion, i love you, inspirational, love,
Form:
Lyric
Memphis BelleI recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof...
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Categories:
impotent, allegory,
Form:
Blank verse
The Sniffling ChildI woke up suddenly and leaned against the helpless wall
hoping that it would support my abounding weight but instead
I had to rely on the courage and faith that kept me alive over the years.
With sweat...
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Categories:
impotent, blessing, child, children, community, cry, dream, fire,
Form:
Free verse
Thru a Paroxysm of TearsThru a paroxysm of tears...
I inconsolably wept a river of sorrow
starkly aware alienated daughter(s)
implacable woe sundered fatherhood
yesterday, today and tomorrow.
A series of unfortunate events
(move over Lemony Snicket)
set in motion since my birth
unleashed impotent scrawny infant
registering...
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Categories:
impotent, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, analogy, april,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poets ViiiPoems for Poets VIII
Fireflies
thinking to illuminate the darkness?
Poets!
—Michael R. Burch
BeMused
by Michael R. Burch
You will find in her hair
a fragrance more severe
than camphor.
You will find in her dress
no hint of a sweet
distractedness.
You will find in her...
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Categories:
impotent, poems, poetry, poets, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems XviEarly Poems XVI
The Beautiful People
by Michael R. Burch
They are the beautiful people,
and their shadows dance through the valleys of the moon
to the listless strains of an ancient tune.
Oh, no ... please don't touch them,
for their...
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Categories:
impotent, 12th grade, age, animal, boy, child, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
impotent, allegory, heart, imagery, relationship, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom From CondemnationShe struggled frantically as she was yanked from the bed
Hauled into the street straight to the temple, no match for her rabble size
With bare foot struggling to find their footings
Hammered fear, cold deafeningly in her...
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Categories:
impotent, angel, character, faith, fate, happy, heart, hope,
Form:
Narrative
RevengeOne..
When everyone gets sorrow, everyone does not know to cry,
Some of the heart breaks like a glass piece!
But do not water the eyes!
The only God who knows how to mourn, how deep is the sorrow!
I'm...
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Categories:
impotent, anger, bangla, boyfriend, break up, crazy, depression,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
impotent, anxiety, conflict, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cowardice of the Taliban and the Silence of the Good MuslimsThe Cowardice of the Taliban and The Silence of The Good Muslims.
When hot lead tears the flesh of a 14 year old girl,
ripping through her skull,
leaving her to bleed out and die,
does Allah not recoil...
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Categories:
impotent, allah, daughter, faith, freedom, girl, girlfriend, god,
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I do not know?