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Poems About Poems IvPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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intensity, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
intensity, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To ChurchEarly morning dawn July
"Mallory" Damian whispered, sliding
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...
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Categories:
intensity, angst, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
The Holy Bible - the Quatern Style~ The Holy Bible ~
(Quatern)
It tells the beginning of man
How God created all from start
He made the moon, stars, earth, day, night
It tells of...
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Categories:
intensity, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Adieu - Part 1Do you remember?
We lay in the moonlight, exhausted and content,
Moments from perfection, skin glistening with moisture,
Salty and sweet from love - love so amazing
That it stunned us every time ...
Always better than before, and always...
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Categories:
intensity, heartbreak, love, passion, romantic, sad love, true
Form:
Free verse
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of NebraskaMy love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
intensity, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
Modern Sonnets IiMODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
intensity, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Bartender Tales Ii: ChangesKerris spoke to Damian the junior
Bartender on the phone. "Yeah, it's
8 o'clock now. I'll be there at 9 to
Open. Meet me there at that time."
He smiled happily thinking...
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Categories:
intensity, beautiful, blue, engagement, friend, friendship, heart, life,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 42Rian sat puzzling in his suite in the Keep. His thoughts in disarray, jumping from one concern to another without any logical order. He sat before a desk that once was...
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Categories:
intensity, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
intensity, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments,
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...
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Categories:
intensity, adventure, character, gothic, heart, love, philosophy, power,
Form:
Free verse
PrefaceGreetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....
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Categories:
intensity, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
It's Me, Not YouIt's You, Not Me
*this poem can be offensive and has naughty words*
It's all my fault
I put a gentle halt
I'm cold in my skin
You are warm with anger, disappointment and sadness from deep within
It's me,...
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Categories:
intensity, anxiety, beauty, betrayal, boyfriend, break up, cheer
Form:
Lyric
New Year Poems INew Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
intensity, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
The Scorpion's Touch
“The Scorpion’s Touch”
Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath
like insects running around
frantically out of time
we are magnified
in our tight enclosures
internally observed
the external turns away
two heart...
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Categories:
intensity, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Hot and Cold Comes the NightLIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION
You
must know
I cried yesterday
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet and sour coated seeds
I grew free standing expressions and then...
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Categories:
intensity, depression, heart, introspection, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
A Museum Ap-ArtI'd risen from my bed quite early, in the pale silent sunshine,
And I thought to have a day out, and not waste summer's prime.
The world still was sleeping, but the bluebirds sang a tune,
And blooms...
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Categories:
intensity, adventure, art, beauty, color, fantasy, imagery, summer,
Form:
Couplet
Deprived Of Your LoveGlib 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:
intensity, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Compassionate ReturnsYour compassion reveals
mutual biological interests,
a powerful tool
for focusing fertile thoughts
and pent-up feelings
My passion regenerates
articulates
seeks to accurately label
read and process,
attend to your best nonviolent communications,
nonverbally hummed flirtations
of this
our potentially significant
Otherness.
These compassion communications,
positions,
postures,
poses,
plays,
prances and dances and trances,
Intuited...
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Categories:
intensity, culture, health, integrity, peace, political, power, strength,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Sandless Sand CastleThe Sandless Sand Castle
Let me tell you about my eldest brother.
I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...
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Categories:
intensity, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS
She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel
soft it lay cradled
rhapsodic rubicon...
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Categories:
intensity, character, courage, death, emotions, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form:
Epic
The Whiskey Bottle WishThe Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
intensity, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
SeeSee
Did You See him when he walked into the large dimly lit room and sit at a table, Alone, on fringe of the dancing and laughter. Did you See his eyes light...
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Categories:
intensity, loneliness,
Form:
I do not know?
Summer Memories Summer Realities Thoughts About Part 1Summer Memories
Summer Realities
This, the first day of summer, two thousand and two, finds me,
slipping back into what once was my desire, my need, my reality.
This step back into, and into times passed, has allowed me...
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Categories:
intensity, summer,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sweet Child of MineAs I watched my daughter playing with her son, I couldn't help but see myself in her. I still think of her as a child, but I guess parents always see their grown children as...
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Categories:
intensity, daughter, grandson, love,
Form:
Haibun