Long Kernel Poems
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The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
kernel, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
kernel, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Turkish Poetry Translations ITurkish Poetry Translations I
Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you're like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes...
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Categories:
kernel, lost love, love, love hurts, memory, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting ReaderSelf help addict needles unsuspecting reader
Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow
scouting about for carrion
scavenging for dead animals
and rooting about...
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Categories:
kernel, 12th grade, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, april,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue TeasersUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers
Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky...
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Categories:
kernel, animal, girl, humor, irony, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the ThirukkuralNiitthaar Perumai, The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar
(In these kurals, I give both the "unrefined" versions using connective particles and modified post-positions (in Tamil: according...
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Categories:
kernel, dedication, devotion, spiritual, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
My Annual ResolutionsGrowth should be the ultimate criterion,
nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge,
for myself and other people who might gain,
from a heartfelt commitment such as mine,
that monumental new year down the clock aptly named,
global village stepping...
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Categories:
kernel, adventure, art, birth, care, celebration, character, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Liber Novus
“Liber Novus”
Life is read
it bleeds continually
we simply need to stop
and breathe forgive
ourselves for tripping
over misspent thought
too caught up and enraptured
in the chapters we imagine
we always dream
best beginnings
and tidy arduous ends
unicorns in black matter
Life is...
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Categories:
kernel, birth, dark, death, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Who Am IWho am I?
This is a question that unable, I am, a definite
Answer to give
For
Buried I find myself, under layers upon layers of
Beliefs and prejudices that centuries past, have
Deposed upon my helpless and...
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Categories:
kernel, creation, introspection, life, prejudice, universe, world,
Form:
Free verse
Screeching Cornered Animal Synonymous With Banshee On the LooseUpon exiting side door nearest
to our single bedroom
(few dozen strides to access way
out apartment - complex edifice),
I unexpectedly encountered
(on August 30th, 2021 ~10:15 pm -
née namely heard but did not see),
a small screeching creature
whose anatomical...
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Categories:
kernel, 12th grade, adventure, angst, anxiety, autumn, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Lines More Lunatic Than the Sun 4 - 6Lines more lunatic than the sun – 4
your body
that’s fond of tv-soap
with its un-worldly moonlight and worldly tricks and posterings
as if it wants to plough
a thin winter that is attached firmly with a mermaid...
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Categories:
kernel, allegorybody, sun,
Form:
I do not know?
The Urchin In Dr Radhakrishnan Road - Part TwoPart Two
a hardly flickering oilwick open trough lamp lighting
limply other framed coloured pictures of Ganapati
two half-empty troughs of kunkunum and vibhuti
on the half-opened cicatrised...
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Categories:
kernel, life, magic,
Form:
Free verse
ReturnA fine mist of rain falls silent
on his thin, sharp-angled face.
He picks up the pace and tilts
his head to the wind. He walks
through the plundered slumber
of crumbled poverty, abandoned,...
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Categories:
kernel, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Why I Am Not a Christian Easter ThoughtsApril 16 Why I am not a Christian Easter Thoughts
On Easter Sunday, I often think about Christianity
I don’t understand why anymore would believe such nonsense
The essential story makes no sense
An imaginary all powerful deity...
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Categories:
kernel, bible, christian, religious,
Form:
Free verse
Attila Ilhan TranslationsBen Sana Mecburum
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as ever-expanding dimensions.
You are indispensable; how can...
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Categories:
kernel, break up, farewell, for her, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
What Happened To the Giants, Part IYou may have heard folks speak about giants,
it certain circles that some call ‘plain nuts!’
among cryptozoological types
they’re speculated upon rather much.
And every few months on the internet,
at least if you’re into that type of thing,
you...
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Categories:
kernel, conflict, history, myth, people, perspective, science, time,
Form:
Epic
Truth Lies Open To AllIt was said of old, 'Truth lies open to all', but today
perception is all; no one is perfect...
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Categories:
kernel, philosophy, life, time, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Truth1.
This is Truth that to you, mortals is now speaking,
I’m the one that in the kernel of everything that exists resides,*
That no human has ever seen**, up to this very moment and
No one,...
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Categories:
kernel, god, love, truth,
Form:
Personification
Dented Cans, Dented LivesThe human body was built with a stretching ability. Skin and muscles are very elastic and prepared for adversities. Bones can be fractured and broken, but mends back in time. Ache me; bend me; mend...
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Categories:
kernel, anxiety, community, endurance, family, inspiration, relationship,
Form:
Personification
Pure FantasyPure Fantasy
Authors disclaimer this is the only poem that eye must disavow all attempts of
actual emergence no murder will ever be done...
The Central tower has a clock the people gather in the...
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Categories:
kernel, science fiction, urban, war, me, fantasy, me,
Form:
Free verse
Chiaroscuro ChoreographyA light mist of ethereous rain falls
silent on his thin, sharp-angled
face. He lengthens his stride and
leans toward the wind. He walks
through plundered poverty; crumbled
by the weight of exodus. Abandoned
to the blood-rough nails...
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Categories:
kernel, historylight, light, cancer,
Form:
Verse
GerminationAh, the fortitude of a circle
the circular wisdom
of spring to summer fall to winter
the spinning wheel’s twist of threads -
at once both self-reliant and reliant
my soul to embryo seed...
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Categories:
kernel, birth, faith, flower, garden, growth, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
A Plea For Awesome PhraseOn a shattered pebble beach my kernel,
becomes this dervish dancing to the maniacal symbol rash tune,
of inchoate monsoon grass beat timpani,
that’s dimly frowned on by sonic virtuoso,
but terms like briny carrageen sea sweep gain purple...
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Categories:
kernel, care, character, color, creation, deep, emotions, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Immanent Yet TranscendentWritten: September 21, 2023
Immanent yet transcendent Contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
God is both fully transcendent and utterly immanent – extensively beyond us but genuinely with us. By...
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Categories:
kernel, analogy, appreciation, devotion, dream, god,
Form:
Rhyme
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover
Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other
We are all one,
tho’ from a different umbilical mother
Notice the bloom of time,
come rain ...
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Categories:
kernel, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry