Long Intimate Poems
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Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
intimate, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Two Lovers V - Convenience StoreShe looked at him concerned
"Oh my God, we forgot the buns!"
A barbeque happening
Guests arriving
Coals flaming
Food prepared
But nothing to put burgers on
For their housewarming
Hasty instructions and some cash
From his Lover and her roomies
Then he starts to...
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Categories:
intimate, first love, happy, relationship, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
intimate, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
The First Valentine Poem, Circa 1415The First Valentine Poem
Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) has been credited with writing the first Valentine poem for his wife in 1415. Charles wrote the first Valentine poem in the first year of his captivity while being...
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Categories:
intimate, heart, love, passion, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
intimate, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Short Stuff: EpigramsEpigrams 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:
intimate, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
intimate, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
intimate, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Mom's UnderGround PeaceTrainA transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow
anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with EarthDays more kosmic travels
through naturally wild
and domestic spirits.
Remember to ask permission
before...
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Categories:
intimate, beauty, community, earth, humanity, humor, love, mother,
Form:
Political Verse
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
intimate, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Revolutionary StoryThey called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and Yin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet privately erotic,
not so much politically and economically
where Yang could not...
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Categories:
intimate, health, humor, joy, life, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Gaia Out SpeaksQueen Gaia
of Earth's Shabbat
is here to speak today.
Unfortunately,
she can only sign,
and the only way she can see
is through our DNA/RNA fractally-balancing syntax,
so she has asked if she could respond to your questions
as she understands them
within...
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Categories:
intimate, earth, gender, god, health, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Fadwa Tuqan TranslationsFadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
intimate, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 126 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Holly: Holly's Orientation Night Pt 2Date: July 2049
The expanse of the sky was darkness.
End of July 11 pm. Dolly Molly
And Holly were keeping an all night
Party pleasant pressureless delight.
Dolly grabbed the remote for the
Plasma 54" TV....
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Categories:
intimate, allusion, confidence, courage, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
intimate, tribute,
Form:
Verse
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa TuqanEnglish translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
intimate, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
intimate, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
intimate, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
intimate, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
intimate, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Home Sweet Hell"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
intimate, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
What Remains, When Love Outlives the Living
Under the cadence of footsteps on worn cobblestones,
At the café where steaming cups held time hostage,
Eyes met and lingered, a glance stretched into an eternity.
A young American, as if sculpted from sunshine itself,
And she, like...
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Categories:
intimate, culture, emotions, heartbreak, imagery, language, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Gold Political Nutrition StandardsIf political scientists study power relationships,
could economists study interior and exterior communications
for cooperative/competitive nurturing for/against
empowerment/disempowerment
integral win/win health association
through disintegrating
pathologica win/losel
dissociation trends?
Both political and economic researchers,
one and all together,
of sound neurologically wealthy
monotheistic AnthroMind
and ecologically healthy...
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Categories:
intimate, beautiful, culture, health, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Same Ol' Song and DanceAs I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and dance,
tragically sad, yet also bilaterally bound with happier...
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Categories:
intimate, community, dance, humanity, humor, integrity, love, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Judging V MediatingJudging v Mediating,
like Teaching v Mentoring,
like Win/Lose Retributive Motives v Win/Win Restorative Motivators
like dogmatic Preaching v compassionately Communicating,
As felt
and appreciated by my LeftBrain dominant
RightWing hand
nurturing StraightWhite patriarchal
overpoweringly privileged
systemically elitist judgment
Branching, colonizing,
extending up and...
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Categories:
intimate, community, culture, earth, environment, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Political Verse