Long Look back Poems
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After All Is Said and DoneI wrote this random rap song just yesterday! Have a blast, reading it! :D
"We shall all be like magnets,
Connecting to God's Laws in perfect symmetry
We shall all shine as the sun,
Glorifying the son of...
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Categories:
look back, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Lyric
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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Categories:
look back, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
look back, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
The Making of a PoetThe 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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Categories:
look back, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
The State of the ArtThe 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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Categories:
look back, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of 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...
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Categories:
look back, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Memories In the SandIf ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
look back, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 79Lumi smiled and reached out to grab his shoulder. They passed over the ridge where, as Joulupukki had said, a small hamlet clung to the side of the mountain about equal distance to the...
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Categories:
look back, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Silent Cries and AgoraphobiaI remember feeling so empty the abuse had escalated after four hurricanes witnessing a murder horrific traumatic brain injury I was now uprooted leaving my beautiful home in Fort Myers Florida at the behest of...
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Categories:
look back, anxiety,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
look back, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About RegretRegret
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 . ....
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Categories:
look back, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Nowhere ManNowhere Man
Star dust, the stuff of a fool’s dreams.
Oh !!!, to travel upon star dust streams
- that glorious, never ending journey -
into the realms, the space of many.
This old spirit, seems, not to fit into...
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Categories:
look back, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Same Ol' Song and DanceAs I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and dance,
tragically sad, yet also bilaterally bound with happier...
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Categories:
look back, community, dance, humanity, humor, integrity, love, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Wherever You Are, I Will Be ThereSpoken: Life happens when change changes us
Well, that change, unfortunately, made us fuss
Wait…
Time is a valuable notion
It determines our emotion
Being taken advantaged of, time and time again, hurts
In return, you hand me shirts...
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Categories:
look back, confidence, encouraging, endurance, faith, feelings, longing, passion,
Form:
Lyric
The Beast of the CaveWhen I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled
Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...
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Categories:
look back, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Insecurity Part TwoI went against my better judgment, I was flattered not appalled, the only affection that I had ever known was just affection that I didn’t want
By a man that was many years older than me,...
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Categories:
look back, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pictish FaeriesThe Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in the starlight
when the moon was full
and men...
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Categories:
look back, fairy,
Form:
Verse
Charming PatternsWhen still young, ...
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Categories:
look back, career, christian, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Your Secret I'll Never TellRest your weary head my love and let sleep consume your soul, I promise that your secret I’ll never tell, I’ll let your heart and life remain whole
It has been fifteen years since the last...
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Categories:
look back, heartbroken, hurt, i miss you, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Greenpower DreamsLast night I dreamed.
I dream--
sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively
and in-between sub-climax performing
some wins and some perpetual losses
more ambiguously back and forth, up and down, in and out,
and not nearly sensual...
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Categories:
look back, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
look back, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
Please don't leave me I love youHe reignited my creative passion when he reentered my life
His can sense to the core how I am feeling and asked me right away to be his wife
Though it's been 45 years we have known...
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Categories:
look back, loss, lost love, love, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Make It Up To MeInsecurities is gone in a heart beat now
Emotional injuries fade away somehow
I can feel the tension as it sheds away
I can deal with the motion of your sway
I feel you here with me, no...
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Categories:
look back, abuse, angst, depression, emotions, endurance, hurt, love
Form:
Free verse
The Train - POTD POTD 25 Nov 2020
Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares
I do get it about advertising campaigns.
Enough to know that,
‘strategically placed ads’ catching the eye, is huge.
But this poster...
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Categories:
look back, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto ViContinues the translation of the great Dante's poem written 700 years ago,
probably the most important poetry ever written in the human story
When my mind returned back, after the stop
Due to pity for two brothers...
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Categories:
look back, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima