Long Juvenilia Poems
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Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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juvenilia, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
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Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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juvenilia, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
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Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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juvenilia, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
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Rhyme
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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juvenilia, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
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Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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juvenilia, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
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Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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juvenilia, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
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Juvenilia: Early Poems IvJuvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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juvenilia, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
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Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiJuvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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juvenilia, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
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Rhyme
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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juvenilia, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
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Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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juvenilia, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
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Rhyme
Early Poems IiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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juvenilia, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
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Juvenilia: Early Poems XiiJuvenilia: Early Poems XII
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly,...
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juvenilia, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
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Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes Writers - XxxviiiUnquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...
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Categories:
juvenilia, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiiiJuvenilia: Early Poems XIII
Davenport Tomorrow
by Michael R. Burch
Davenport tomorrow ...
all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun.
Now it is always summer
and the bees buzz in cesspools,
adapted to a new life.
There are no flowers,
but the weeds,...
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juvenilia, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
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Rhyme
Early Poems XviEarly Poems XVI
The Beautiful People
by Michael R. Burch
They are the beautiful people,
and their shadows dance through the valleys of the moon
to the listless strains of an ancient tune.
Oh, no ... please don't touch them,
for their...
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juvenilia, 12th grade, age, animal, boy, child, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems XviiEarly Poems XVII
Morning
by Michael R. Burch
It was morning
and the bright dew drenched the grasses
like tears the trembling lashes of my lover;
another day had come.
And everywhere the flowers
were turning to the sun,
just as the night before
I...
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juvenilia, 8th grade, day, flower, morning, sun, sunshine,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems XxiEARLY POEMS XXI - JUVENILIA
Dance With Me
by Michael R. Burch
(circa age 18)
Dance with me
to the fiddles’ plaintive harmonies.
Enchantingly,
each highstrung string,
each yearning key,
each a thread within the threnody,
bids us, "Waltz!"
then sets us free
to wander, dancing aimlessly.
Let...
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juvenilia, child, childhood, dance, nostalgia, teen, teen love,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems XixEARLY POEMS XIX
Bound
by Michael R. Burch
Now it is winter—the coldest night.
And as the light of the streetlamp casts strange shadows to the ground,
I have lost what I once found
in your arms.
Now it is winter—the coldest...
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juvenilia, 12th grade, fire, light, rose, roses are
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Rhyme
Early Poems XxiiiThese are my early poems, or juvenilia...
alien
by michael r. burch
there are mornings in england
when, riddled with light,
the Blueberries gleam at us—
plump, sweet and fragrant.
but i am so small ...
what do i know
of the ways of...
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juvenilia, child, childhood, class, voice, write, writing, youth,
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Rhyme
In Memory of Grumpy CatIt is so hard to say goodbye. The end has come.
I knew it would . . . someday. Such a good cat;
for twelve long years, my Grumpy,...
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Categories:
juvenilia, childhood,
Form:
Elegy
Rhymes With Blisshappiness
i have spent this life
with mermaids and maidens
the most beautiful of women
who made words like sweet perfume
flying above me are valkryes and fairies
long looking for my soul
and how they could bless me
lovers and mistresses made...
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juvenilia, epicwords, me, me,
Form:
Name
Some Sun Drunk Day He SaidEmotions war against sense,
And his mind remains
A pot pourri,
And thoughts in his head
When he lies in his bed
Would make Dorian Gray
Appear pristine.
He wishes to moralize
On a corrupt example,
Yet from the wicked cup
He hath supped a...
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Categories:
juvenilia, art, corruption, emotions, love, pain, rain, time,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems XxEARLY POEMS XX
Cameo
by Michael R. Burch
Breathe upon me the breath of life;
gaze upon me with sardonyx eyes.
Here, where times flies
in the absence of light,
all ecstasies are intimations of night.
Hold me tonight in the spell I...
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juvenilia, dream, heaven, life, light, night, time, visionary,
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Rhyme
Sound the Gong For the RiverSound the gong
O ye poetic comrades!
Heralding the seventieth year of the River
Play the flute
O ye poetic comrades!
A symphony of moving waters.
As the river flows, not withstanding
Its stage of life into craving streams
So does...
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Categories:
juvenilia, dedication, life, river,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems XXEarly Poems XX
These are my early poems or juvenilia.
Paradise
by Michael R. Burch, age 15
There’s a sparkling stream
And clear blue lake
A home to beaver,
Duck and drake
Where the waters flow
And the winds are soft
And the sky...
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Categories:
juvenilia, 10th grade, 9th grade, animal, earth, nature,
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Rhyme