Long Journals Poems
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Poems About Poems Ii
Poems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
journals, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Starting With Beginnings
Left:
Let's start at the beginning
of your ecotherapeutic day.
I'm talking today with Fr. Time,
Earth's only fully self-ordained ecotherapist,
and recently published author of
"Journals of MotherEarth."
We have no corporate sponsorships to report,
although we are for sale
especially if you're...
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Categories:
journals, gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, perspective,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii
My most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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journals, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Making of a Poet
The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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journals, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
No Mark
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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Categories:
journals, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The State of the Art
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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journals, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
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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journals, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Modern Sonnets I
MODERN SONNETS I
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.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
journals, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
journals, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
journals, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Theories of Every Big and Little Thing
Key CapitalistYang/CreolistYin EcoHistoric Concepts
I find a fuzzy irony in this morning’s early search for a new journal notebook, having filled my last from what had been, five years ago, an inconceivably high pile of empty...
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Categories:
journals, culture, earth, health, history, political, science, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Precious Priceless Progeny
Precious priceless progeny
Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...
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Categories:
journals, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Queen of England
Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
...
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Categories:
journals, appreciation, celebration, death, grief, loss,
Form:
Clerihew
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Iii
My most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
journals, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
First Love
Oh, where on earth do I begin….Twenty years ago…
There he was. Standing by the door of World Literature Class in 1996.
There I was. Walking past him in the hallways of high school.
Our eyes met...
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Categories:
journals, beautiful, desire, love, passion, , literature,
Form:
Narrative
Death
Michael and Carolyn came home again
Their busy lives disrupted by death's end
Not knowing they'd encounter love unrestrained
By coming home for mom's funeral to attend
Life has some changes for which to contend
Michael and Carolyn were shocked...
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Categories:
journals, death, life, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Journeys With Father Time
Hi!
I'm Sister EarthChild
journalist with Youth Radio
speaking with Mother Time,
who recently published her hilarious
"Journeys With Father Time:
Wasted Journals of Mother Time."
First, I want you to know
I've been reading your book
as if it were my own story.
So,...
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Categories:
journals, gender, health, history, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
If I Carry My Secrets To The Grave
{"I fall into the river drenched in my own expectancy,
The peddles inside enveloping me as a fairytale destined to be. However I knew life was far from being caressed and revived by fiction once...
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Categories:
journals, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety, deep, devotion, love,
Form:
Free verse
Veracity
Melodies, breathless as foggiest daybreak
healing all my heart’s restlessness
releasing the song, pure as the gentlest stream
washing away the distance
between happiness and pain,
correcting the silence so beautiful reigns
cleansing the darkness with the hope
from a glistening...
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Categories:
journals, appreciation, encouraging, faith, fantasy, inspirational, music, song,
Form:
Free verse
Ironies Within Ironies
The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research journals like abandoned promises, their spines...
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Categories:
journals, education, irony,
Form:
Haibun
One Most Dramatic Change In My Life
(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to
fatherhood for first time).
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of Edenic Joy
Twenty one plus years ago
faux...
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Categories:
journals, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, baby,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Fearing Father
There in the corner of the living room
on a loveseat meant for two
now only resides one
there he sits, by a warm fireplace
its occupant a man
a man have I known only as a...
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Categories:
journals, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst, art, conflict, death,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 19
Through April and May not a single Indian has been noticed
along all the serpentine bends of this rambunctious river,
however I feel we are being espied by a jealous warparty
immortal in it's protection of this pristine...
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Categories:
journals, adventure,
Form:
Epic
La Poetess Gardener-A Dedicated Verse To Poetess Jan Allison
La Poetess Gardener;
And in her garden she's growing;
Small flower Jan Allison;
We thank you for your words and verses of encouragements;
How be it some funny, a lot heaven sent;
We thank you for sharing your creativeness;
A small...
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Categories:
journals, analogy, appreciation, dedication, funny, garden, mentor, poetess,
Form:
Free verse
Words Are Useless
The days go slow as the minutes embrace my loneliness. I am nothing but a mother yearning for redemption from the loss of her own precious baby girl. Believe me when I say, WORDS...
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Categories:
journals, death, mother daughter,
Form:
Haibun