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Poems About Poems IiPoems 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:
lees, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
State of the Art IiiState of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
lees, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
lees, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
lees, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
lees, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
unaware
the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,
"beware, beware"
barefoot softly
the Supernaturalist
transfigures instead
from under shine
she bares...
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Categories:
lees, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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Categories:
lees, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
Laureate
"Laureate"
Laureate
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind
guide my hand
I write I write I write
receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether
sublime
not normal writ
medium calculating in the script
In that other time
there you hold...
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Categories:
lees, dark, freedom, hero, light, muse, romance, spiritual,
Form:
Romanticism
Fords Theater April 15th 1865Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
(i admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular).
between a hard spot of whiskey
...
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Categories:
lees, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poets IvPoems about Poets IV
The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch
for June Kraeft
Here was a woman bright, intent on life,
who did not flinch from Death, but caught his eye
and drew him, powerless, into her spell
of...
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Categories:
lees, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ideally Primed To Write...Ideally Primed To Write...
Fallow wing on figurative
awk kill lees heal
of: "My on call (Uncle)
Muse Never Sleeps"-
which hoop fully
...
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Categories:
lees, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Croatoan WinginaI can’t see your face for spirits move mysteriously But terrible evil is haunting, this dark place ...
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Categories:
lees, death, metaphor, murder, mystery, poets, raven,
Form:
Rhyme
Prince of DarknessOh Prince of Darkness gilded gold
your heart to hatred you have sold
dispair is your path and lot
for the worship you have sought
Into the fall you did man lead
through the veil of his need
through the...
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Categories:
lees, death, dedication, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Utopia" Imagine a place where there is beauty, bliss and plentifulness for all. It is nothing short of utopia. Though we are far from realizing it, isn't it thrilling to imagine a version of the...
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Categories:
lees, beauty, fantasy, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Summer In Karroodorp 1954On the anvil that’s the dorp
The noon-day sun beats down.
So between twelve and two
Life in the place is suspended.
Doors to the stores are ‘toe’
And in their dusty windows cheap
Mannequins sleep with open eyes.
The air...
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Categories:
lees, seasons, solitude, urban, , western,
Form:
Blank verse
Deep Thoughts About RaceYes, I am thinking about the human race
Please note that race has ‘four letters’
And most four-letter words
Can cause problems, ills, havocs and wars
Race is to describe what fills up the space
It is a trivially descriptive...
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Categories:
lees, culture, discrimination, hate, prejudice, race, racism, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Die the DeathDIE THE DEATH!
(Dona eis requiem sempiternam)
Die the death and transcend vanity
O poor vernal flesh and bone,
Waned out of this primal valley
And sink like the moon beyond the coast.
All expectations, ‘tis the greatest
Reclined at the backdrop...
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Categories:
lees, celebration, courage, death, destiny, heart, inspiration, time,
Form:
Verse
To My LoveFeelings of my heart, pouring like a foss
To the queen goddess of Pothos and Himeros
Before her alluring reflection I’m nak’d
My bones, flesh consum’d and spirit possess’d
With a fuddled heart fallen out of ease
Drunk of love...
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Categories:
lees, addiction, art, beauty, feelings, life, longing, love,
Form:
Ode
Heartbroken"Broken families beget culprits, and late remorse can never set things right"
~ By Poet.
Scenes reel back casting dark shadows,
Of the fated day I had to leave my home,
Handcuffed and guarded by cops on either side,
Despised...
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Categories:
lees, addiction, angst, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Then and NowOnce,
I saw rainbows
Across the tear washed sky,
Their iridescent gleam
Slanting down on the waters below,
Buds burgeoning on every branch,
Flowers opening their delicate folds,
And summer bees spiraling around
Gathering nectar for frosty days.
All in partial haze….
Saw...
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Categories:
lees, appreciation, creation, desire, thanksgiving,
Form:
Free verse
The Bow That Bridges HeavenHe wrangled with his world, found a way to cross the seas
on merchant boats brimful of slaves, bound for British shores.
Innumerable are the things that we shall never know;
amazing, those things to which destiny holds...
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Categories:
lees, 11th grade, boat, slavery, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Sipping Coffee
In the tawny twilight hours at the edge of the void life,
perched on the sea shore of foaming contention,
with the coffee cup full of fulfillment in hand I see
the dusky desires reach the drowning horizon...
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Categories:
lees, analogy, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
You Were There.I can understand why you came down on me that way,
It was my self destructive pattern you were trying to break.
So used to sabotaging all the good things in my life,
I’ll fight against all my...
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Categories:
lees, me, time, me, time,
Form:
I do not know?
Sounds of SilenceHave you ever heard in your mind
the sounds that silence makes
the silence that spreads like music
as in splendor a dewy morning breaks
silence that clings to a Florentine fog
as lone cyclist a cobble street snakes
the silence...
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Categories:
lees, today, , Lullaby,
Form:
ABC
Elegy For a PoetOnce you sailed upon the dawn
to grace the eaves of Pomona's verdant lawn,
but now in splendor you have drooped;
no longer shall you unleash torrents from your tongue.
Oh, white-hot zephyr of the morning,
How I wish...
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Categories:
lees, bereavement,
Form:
Elegy