Long Intellectualism Poems

Come Down
by Michael R. Burch

for Harold Bloom

Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...

and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...

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Poems for Poets VI



Caveat
by Michael R. Burch

If only we were not so eloquent,
we might sing, and only sing, not to impress,
but only to enjoy, to be enjoyed.

We might inundate the earth with thankfulness
for light, although...

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POEMS FOR POETS IV

PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of...

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POEMS ABOUT POETS VIII

PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of...

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Alchemy of the Answers

Belief in the beauty of unrequited love blooming 
No relief as they replay the sounds of war looming 
A chief at the mane of the horse he is grooming 
A thief that...

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Today is International Women’s Day.

A day to celebrate women’s rights but those rights and freedoms are under attack and the wounds appear to be self-inflicted. So my question is where has the feminist movement gone?...

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Poet to poetry hide me from society melt me in the fervor of sullen brevity !
 there are lines being drawn in the sand let the reader understand in the furtherance of the plan...
 A...

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The Critics


This poem begins with a short story


Once upon a time in a land and time far, far away
People would listen to music
Read Novels
Read Poetry
Watch movies
Look at art
And decide for themselves
Whether or not it looked...

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As they leave,
They leave for us 
Calabash full of sorrow and agony
They leave for men a plate of frustration
And desperation.

As they leave
They leave for women nothing
But cups of tears and fears

As they leave
They leave for...

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Adroit Android

Somewhere between the outer limits and twilight zone
Operating within acceptable parameters of functionality
Sam Android, according to his name plate
Etched along his metallic neck and back
Came from outer space with an agenda
He did not come...

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Anti-intellectualism may breed anti-curiosity. 
Harsh reality can frustrate existential sternness.
They tied backlash against "mere" curiosity. 
Yet, every human behavior has a purpose.

Conveying a full breakdown of all the key sights.
Tangling, multiplying tendrils sepia from white.
My...

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January 21 Scripture Meditations Based on Exodus 31-35

Key Verse – Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of...

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September 7 Scripture Meditations Based on Malachi 1-4

Key Verse – Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD… 

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME

Thank You for loving me even though I’m impoverished in...

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June 10 Scripture Meditations Based on Proverbs 3

Key Verse – Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.   

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR DIRECTING MY PATHS

Thank You...

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February 28 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Samuel 17-20

Key Verse – 1Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he...

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Why love?

Why?
It’s not eternal
Creating Suffering
After love

Suffering loves me
I don’t need its life in mine
Love, dear Love give me love

‘He can’t hear you.’ Satan said.
‘I don’t want suffering.’ I answered.
‘That’s right. Then?’ Replied Satan.
‘Something good.’ I...

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The stench of puerile self-aggrandizement wafts through the air, a noxious cloud of platitudes and pomp, as the pusillanimous pustules of pseudo-intellectualism congregate to lavish accolades upon one another. How... amusing. The notion that these...

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He lived in room 757
just like a haiku
thats what he said to me
just like a haiku
eesh

There’s a reason I avoid this part of town

if not for the psuedo intellectualism that spreads
faster than herpes at a...

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no, there is need nothing and none,
no place is need for this,
no time is need for this,
no sky is need for this,
no earth is need for this,
no air, no fire, no water is need for...

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Digital fuzz in my ears
And I'm blowing bubbles
Watching them burst
In mirrored sunlight

This is what you get
Take it from the bottom
And tear it up to the top
Such fractured intellectualism

They call me a whore
Because I inject dictionary...

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               10/7/2023



A classical poet, indeed, you are not.
An intellectual poet, spare me the lot!!

Fingers that knew well,humanity’s heart .
Poetry that freed...

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Highgate Cemetery

Thank you, my young English photographer brother, for the tip
I will come back often to visit this fantastic and beautiful cemetery
The hours I spent here changed my life, those souls were owners of the...

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Your pupils are like the sun
When peeping at prime of the day-
Liveliness it strikes in turn,
As her gaze touches the summer's day.

Your smiles are like honey,
But not like honey:
Sweetening a battered heart.
Yet, it's your cheapest...

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You can tell who writes from the heart -- there is a living quality to those works transcending mere Intellectualism. 

He walks with his heart on his sleeve, 
so us poets can find reprieve 
He...

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Nostalgia

The moment I was here
I got the handshakes of kings
I got the hugs of queens
The moment I was here
I received a tap on my back
From those ahead of me in intellectualism

The moment I was here
I...

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