Long Lifting Poems
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Poems About Icarus
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
lifting, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Native American Translations
Native American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
lifting, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
Juvenilia: 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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Categories:
lifting, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Salat Days
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
lifting, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.
Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...
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Categories:
lifting, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form:
Political Verse
The Book - the Narrative Style
~The Book~
( Narrative / Short Story)
Shhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everyone...
Did you see what that young man did all this evening at the table while taking some of his notes?
Yes,...
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Categories:
lifting, beautiful, books, fantasy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
lifting, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 7
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A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
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“Who is this child?” he whispered to...
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Categories:
lifting, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Operation Money Jump
Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
lifting, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
Your Sanity
Stuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity?
Has it transformed to insanity?
I like the way you make me feel
Oh, you don’t...
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Categories:
lifting, anger, angst, appreciation, beauty, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...
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Categories:
lifting, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
The Book
Shhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everybody...
Did you see what that young man did all this evening at the table while taking some of his notes?
Yes, sure we did, and so what?...
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Categories:
lifting, bible, books, conflict, wisdom, writing, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative
Canto Xix Hell Translation
Simon wizard, you poor under his sway
That all things of God, which then of good will
Must be always brides, and you birds of prey
For gold and silver adulterate still,
Now it's time that the trumpet sounds...
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Categories:
lifting, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Multi-Di-Minstrel Message: Revival
KGOD presents ...
SALUTATIONS!!!
Well. Let’s just get started!
Here at the Ogden! The God den of music and soul!
So, let me introduce myself to thee,
I am DJ Multi-Di-Minstrel Messenger!!!
Thanking you...
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Categories:
lifting, celebration, jesus,
Form:
Spoken Word
Lethal and Dope Lyrics
De Tod Motet//
Listen to my raw//
Observe my new law//
Innocent quench hunger waves//
With my black rhymes//
We are reaching the last days they say//
Be with me in soul and everyday//
Because i see dogs piercing sharp emotions to...
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Categories:
lifting, anger,
Form:
Verse
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of free will and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is.. is over in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
lifting, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
In London Town
In London Town, a girl was born
Who lost the crown, but won the scorn
Of Lady Margaret's deep disdain
For something proud, she cannot reign
Her daughter's name was Mary Grace
An angel with a beaming face
Who blessed...
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Categories:
lifting, beauty, conflict, england, faith, family, love, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
The Adverse World Unfinished Will Finish
You stole away my lonely melody, Lord,
And made it harmony according to Your accord
I’d like to thank You with all of my heart as I make sound
My mind is trying to look forward to a...
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Categories:
lifting, angst, emotions, encouraging, moving on, pain, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28
Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit,
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...
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Categories:
lifting, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Wild Flower Love
O’ my dearest love,
I gather the world’s rarest petals for you—
Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers
in the marsh’s quiet air
look, love, it fades
then rises in
the...
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Categories:
lifting, devotion, flower, love, memory, metaphor, valentines day,
Form:
Lyric
Lux Vitae Love Stories of the Fey: In the Clouds
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey:
“In the Clouds”
“What are you looking at Mum?”
“They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her daughter
“Every night, the same time, the numbers seem to grow,...
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Categories:
lifting, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey, mystery, mythology, science
Form:
Free verse
A World Without Pity Part Ii
I will begin my story with this concise summary,
Of the amazing things that have happened to me;
After I had lost a home, where I'd lived my life long,
So they could build a highway, for the...
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Categories:
lifting, adventure, earth, fantasy, love, nature, peace, science
Form:
Couplet
That Spark of Hope
A little girl lost her home this year, for her, Christmas wouldn't be there.
Her family was angry from all the troubles, they simply couldn't repair.
Don’t bother us about presents her parents said, they were depressed...
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Categories:
lifting, christmas, conflict, confusion, depression, devotion, dream, emotions,
Form:
Narrative
A Daughter's Heart On Mother's Day
Mother, sometimes memories are fraught
...
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Categories:
lifting, emotions, hope, mother daughter, mothers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Kabodlute In Harmony
World famous player of the five fingered flute,
Wasn't quite so happy as he used to be.
Being alone with just his flute,
Nice clothes,
And lounging...
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Categories:
lifting, 4th grade, fun, music,
Form:
Free verse