Long Insist Poems
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Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
insist, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
See
See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
insist, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
insist, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
Sonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
insist, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
insist, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Adam and Eve - Part One
Year One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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Categories:
insist, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
Heat Lightening
Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
insist, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
insist, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 11
Lumi's hand pressed upon his shoulder in a surprisingly firm grip guiding him into the dining area and to the second of two long slender tables where sat five older elves including DynDoeth.
...
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Categories:
insist, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of Nebraska
My love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
insist, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
insist, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
My dog's as smart as a geek and other doggy poems
My dog's as smart as a geek.
He can bark in English, Arabic, and Greek.
He’s expert in canine mathematics,
can discuss dog-fight aerodynamics,
and is fluent in bow-wow doublespeak.
And yours?
Would it be okay if later today
I brought Bixby...
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Categories:
insist, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, dog,
Form:
Light Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14
Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed. His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall. He had but one question for him that he...
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Categories:
insist, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Ash Can
The Ash Can ©
I got the call on Sunday night. I was traveling on business. When I looked at the caller ID
I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....
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Categories:
insist, bereavement, introspection, lost love, suicide,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Megan's Quest Part 2of7
Now Regan and Megan were down on their luck
and faced with little or no choice.
So with a quiet trepidation... a deal was struck
and from now all would...
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Categories:
insist, adventure, funny, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Eros and Cupid
POEMS 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:
insist, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 31
They had only been practicing for a few days but DynDoeth was not surprised when he was made aware that elves were on their way to escort him to Rian. He had his spies...
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Categories:
insist, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid
After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...
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Categories:
insist, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
insist, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
In His Divine Love - the Nonet Style
~ In His Divine Love ~
( Nonet )
It tells me that God is good and true
The Bible says this and much more
Tells us of things we need to know
How with Faith need to...
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Categories:
insist, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Old Friends
Quakers build their cooperative politics
on following consensually-held fertile lights.
Buddha adds,
Follow your TruthLight,
back through our universal co-arising (0)-spacetime equi-valence
dualdark Out/In Breathing-Landscapes
of BiCameral MindLiberating/BodyConserving Balance,
sacred ecology of birth through regenerate rebirth
of ego/eco-cooperative ZenZero co-investment
EarthTribe life-centric health...
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Categories:
insist, destiny, earth, earth day, freedom, humanity, light,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Love Poems I
LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
insist, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Speaker, Subject, and Theme In Edna St Vincent Millay's ''I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed''
“I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” (Sonnet XLI)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair,...
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Categories:
insist, america, anger, love, passion, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Prose
A Poly-Amorous Man
(One poet's vision of what being indwelled by Christ's heart might look like)
What makes me feel loved isn't easy to say,
And not because the heart of...
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Categories:
insist, love, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Journey
Part 1: Catalyst
I recently read a blog that purported to report news
Of extraordinary import to us all,
That the Catholic Pope, with a new encyclical letter,
Announced to the world his conviction that there is no Hell
And...
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Categories:
insist, faith, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry