Long Irreducible Poems

Poems about Poems (I)



What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch

What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.



Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch

“What will you conceive in...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...

telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...

here where you have...

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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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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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Loneliness:
https://youtu.be/ZkwaiIGoyT4
There is Lonliness everywhere. 
My fate, I have faced failure on the road of my real love content.My dreams are broken,there is a disappointment all over.
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible...

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Black Ops

Tex Lester and his sidekick Lumpy Bascom 
wiggled down the arroyo on their bellies
to better observe a latifundista trouble spot
too hot to touch so they tap danced instead
Lumpy grabbed the walkie talkie and said...

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He awoke, though he could not tell
if it was the middle of a long night
or the middle of his life.
The years before were sodden with autumnal leaves
and so he remembered much.

The mechanics had laid down...

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Before I scarred the page
Raging what your letters cannot invent
Let me invite you to other books
I wrote before you owed me wage
For all maladjustment and discontent
Tettering on tentacles on hooks
Invite you to an open age
Of...

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Dear future wife,
Incase you wanna be in my life,
I got some irreducible minimums,
Of which you should have to maximums,
I aint making life hard for you,
But instead offering a leakage for you,
With these,life will be a...

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Distracted
Restlessly inactive
Desperate for the formula for joy

Attracted
Recklessly reactive
Rescued from the silence of the void

(Hearing everything)
Over the frozen ground
You walk on by
              ...

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It's odd to realize that ones life is best described experientially, as a series of discoveries in an irreducible phenomenon cast in viscus matrices. 

    "These Days":  The superficial and arbitrary...

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I open up the fridge and the light flickers.
The immistakable vaporous flatulence of leftover yesterdays slams (back) shut.
Beer cartons with warning labels and horrific mug shots, people gone missing riddle me this. 
Dead soldiers they...

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Simplicity seduces stunning symmetrically salivating stimuli
Complexity confounds controlled curiosities calculating clarify
Ambiguous ambitions amplify arousing academics admirable
Mellifluous melodies making magical memories memorable

Poetic pendulums pondering pensive promiscuous pleasures
Esthetic echoes encouraging efficacious emulative endeavors
Deceiving diametrical dilemmas distancing dichotic...

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No human concept defines me
No human concept binds me
Only God's precept binds me,
as his unconditional Love outlines me


My form is a simple dimension,
of the God of love's comprehension
my soul is the reality of his holy...

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LOST CONNECTIONS
the
irreducible
with a
  deep intemotiit
in
the
contemporary

sometimes
explored
with
 a   satisfying
singularity
the serious&
 complex
  &comprehensive
 yet
unheeded emotion
ever prevailed
with
a
particular
an obsession
 &
the  dramatic
 in
 a
  questioning
direction
  of what
    mattered
 most

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and...

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When I look at the charred plasma 
of a bare knuckled wind
I forget yellow

I forget the smeared tone 
of skunk cabbage
rising through fog and mulch
or how in Chiang Mai
the river at sunset
transforms a blistered heat
into...

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The Forge
by Michael R. Burch

To at last be indestructible, a poem
must first glow, almost flammable, upon
a thing inert, as gray, as dull as stone,
 
then bend this way and that, and slowly cool
at arms-length, something...

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Here she goes, working her magic again
Always saying the right things at the right time
Making me feel truly loved and appreciated.

She is just so incredible.

She always puts me up on a pedestal, as if
I were...

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Irreducible

What is it
that we can say is
irreducible..?
This has been 
science's quest over
the centuries:
to locate the illusive
irreducible..

Atoms in ancient times
seemed irreducible 
followed eventually by
electrons..protons..quarks..
You know these names..
Names of matter 
tinier and tinier..
irreducible

And the end 
is not...

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The way we diminish
the irreducible
is by drawing a veil
of ignorance on soul ~
dark fear forms that assail.

The way we diminish
divine omnipresence
is by conjuring thought,
plunging us in deep trance ~
dream life ego begot.

The way we diminish
our...

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