Long Love kiss Poems

The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...

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She's  fixated                                ...

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Epigrams VI

These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." 



Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
 
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe...

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This is my modern English translation of a French poem by Voltaire, one of my all-time favorite writers. The poem is followed by two translations of epigrams by Voltaire.

Les Vous et Les Tu (“You, then...

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Opposites attract.  I like that.
I wouldn’t want you to be just like me,
With my insecurities, my doubt, my thoughts, 
My clouded apathy.


My heart is on fire and you the water soul,
Are consistently changing from...

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You want a poem my dear damsel
abruptly I start this off beat for you still
after all these illustrious years
turn my heart into a robotic puppy
I curl up next to your feet wanting to be petted
to...

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These are translations of Voltaire, one of the world's most prolific, best and most influential writers. Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was an amazingly prolific writer who produced works in nearly every literary genre, including...

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This is a true-life celebration of love ballad. A chance meeting on a Greek island becomes a whirlwind romance. From Athens’ vibrant Monastiraki markets to a Taverna where you can experience the lively traditional, passionate...

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These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller...

These are selected XENIA epigrams with...

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“Nous nous sommes assises” (“We Sat Down”)
by Renee Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
Darling, we were like two exiles
bearing our desolate souls within us.

Dawn broke more revolting than any illness...

Neither of us knew the native...

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It felt like I was actually diving into the abysses
Touges start rolling,  but it was my actual first kiss
A feeling when every limb in your body goe’s weak
Up until then it was nothing but...

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I'm kinda sorta moving on 
Finally my will is strong
     But your still a temptation for me
          Is it destiny that I...

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~Once Upon A Time Snow White~
(Narrative /  Free Verse)
 


Once upon a time
In a far away land
There was a very beautiful  Princess, called Snow White
And she lived in a very big castle so...

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O, unbidden rain I welcome you to my garden,
the flowers are thirsty . . . .
We have been w a i t i n g  for you
The cosmos, daisies and red roses are hanging...

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With heavy eyes and a hallowed heart,
A young man crows at the ivory moon.
Like a skipping record scarred by strife,
He tightens and loosens an angry fist, 
Focused on the faint outline
Still etched upon his left,...

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It is not The Refrigerator almost empty or unplugged...
It was The Children with-in with All Their kisses and hugs.
It definitely isn't The Cheating Heart that cons and lies.
It was The Hard Working Parents that had...

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Cupid's Heart

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~Once Upon A Time Snow White~
 (Narrative / Rhyme poem)


 Once upon a time
 In a far away land
 There was a very beautiful princess,called Snow White
 And she lived in a very big castle...

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~Once Upon A Time Snow White~
 (Narrative / Rhyme poem)


 Once upon a time
 In a far away land
 There was a very beautiful princess,called Snow White
 And she lived in a very big castle...

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Blindingly bright: flames devour rocky: 
                             ...

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~Once Upon A Time Snow White~
(Narrative or Free Verse)




Once upon a time
In a far away land
There was a very beautiful princess, called Snow White
And she lived in a very big castle so grand


Her father had...

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(8/31/12)

When you are holding the woman you love in your arms
Snuggling up on the couch, and feeling her heartbeat
Pounding against your chest, and feeling her slow breaths.

You feel as if nothing else in the world...

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We are at the age where our memory begins to turn selective, 
We chose what we want to remember and we tend to forget the rest. 

Yet We have forgotten how to love, 
We have...

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seminal squirt didst sanctify 
   an anonymous boulder 
when mercury dipped below 
   hashtag mark registering colder

than usual temperatures circa 
   winter of year 2000 in proximity 
 ...

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You lips
so close, so promising
awe-inspiring
inviting
enticing

If only...
I sigh
I die
to everything else
but this
wondering...
ah....wondering...
what it would be like
to touch
      to taste
            ...

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