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Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch



Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
 
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...



Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch

Love should be more than the sum of its...

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Categories: incandescent, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form: Epigram



Vacuum
Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know

that once intrigued us so.

Come then, let us...

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Categories: incandescent, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form: Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Juvenilia: Early Poems V

Poetry
by Michael R. Burch

Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.

They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...

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Categories: incandescent, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
The Making of a Poet
The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch

While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...

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Categories: incandescent, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Verse
The State of the Art
The 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: incandescent, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form: Verse



Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...

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Categories: incandescent, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX

Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch

The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...

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Categories: incandescent, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form: Sonnet
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...

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Categories: incandescent, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
 
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...

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Categories: incandescent, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form: Free verse
Early Poems Ii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch

Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...

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Categories: incandescent, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xii
Juvenilia: Early Poems XII

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

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,...

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Categories: incandescent, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
Love Poems Iv
LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage. 



She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...

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Categories: incandescent, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form: Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Iii
My most popular poems on the Internet (III)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...

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Categories: incandescent, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.

I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...

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© B.J. Fitz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incandescent, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Deprived Of Your Love
Glib rhetoric concerned with  striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...

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Categories: incandescent, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...

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Categories: incandescent, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Original Mask of Alabaster
A wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.

Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass, 
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frothy brass.

It floats aloft the frost of...

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© B.J. Fitz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incandescent, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Paradox of Time Reborn

The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...

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Categories: incandescent, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form: Blank verse
Theatre of the Absurd - Fusion
Godot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!

...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a notice
Announcing a brand new play
A fusion of two classics

Waiting for...

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Categories: incandescent, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dreams I Translation of Etiemble S Poem Reves I By T Wignesan
The Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan 

(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incandescent, creation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iii - Miklos Radnoti
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti

Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...

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Categories: incandescent, holocaust, murder, race, racism, war, world, world
Form: Free verse
The Lights Ft Edgar Allan Poe
I 

See the phone towers with the lights- 
Glowing lights! 
What a world of mischief and sorrow their pattern foretells! 
How they twinkle, twinkle, twinkle
In the icy air of night! 
While the clouds that are...

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Categories: incandescent, adventure, america, angst, city, deep, desire, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Fire Cypher 2 For My Haters
This is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection 
Haters in my life 
only lead to introspection 
Understand 
I’m still the man
Who are you to question 
I agree to disagree
With all your...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incandescent, art, hip hop, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Most Irish Fairy Tale - Merry Christmas To All
It is not just Santa Claus who we meet in cold December— 
There is “Carolina,” and she’s the beauty of a winter picture perfect 
With luscious long coal black curly hair far down on her...

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Categories: incandescent, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form: Narrative
A Dark Dialogue Pt3 of 3pts
I. a dark awakening

Shuddering awake feeling the freezing cold fingers still around my throat, struggling to catch my breath struggling to focus.

Finding my air. Shaking myself awake, shaking fragments of dreams from my mind, imagery...

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Categories: incandescent, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety, art, conflict,
Form: Free verse

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