Long Loveable Poems

Villanelles

The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain. 



Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch

The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day, 
with the...

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Regret
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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Large And Tall, Medium Tan Brown  Skinny Girl---



          so cute               ...

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The fine art of making excuses

which achievement, deportment,
endorsement, and indictment
(more serious than rigging an election)
jump/kickstarts (a divine comedy of errors)
not reason enough
to be deported),
but necessitates more than a facile effort
linkedin to a working knowledge
of familial...

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The Divide
by Michael R. Burch

The sea was not salt the first tide ...
was man born to sorrow that first day
with the moon—a pale beacon across the Divide,
the brighter for longing, an object denied—
the tug at...

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Ordinary Love
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
"I love you," in the ordinary way
 
and tug the coverlet where once we lay,
all suntanned limbs entangled, shivering,...

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One fine morning, I went to the farm,                           ...

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My feelings toward him are like a bond betwen a farther and a son the way the two of them 
just  play catch,football,talk about girls, or even going fishing. my feelings towrad him are...

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What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.

Human nature is affable and affectionable.
Human nature is admissible and admireable.
Human nature...

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I don’t run with the mob ... 
the mosh-pit, gossip crowd
End of message     Stop!
Just wanna hip you to this fact,
right off the top

I’m a clean living woman,
the mop-and-pail type gal

I know...

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I was a marvelous ophthalmologist, impacting how others saw this world,
As tomorrow one day sees yesterday, on lanes where hued leaves swirled.

I corrected hazy, crazy vision problems, with eyeglasses and with surgery;
Like a second look,...

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Garfield, a loveable famous, lazy cat,
Who likes to eat and eat, that’s why he’s fat,
Jon his companion, Garfield’s friend or foe dude,
On call twenty four seven, to give Garfield food!
The world knows their love hate...

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Because Her Heart Is Tender, for Beth
by Michael R. Burch
 
She scrawled soft words in soap: “Never Forget”
dove-white on her car’s window (though the wren,
because its heart is tender, might regret
it called the sun to...

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Staring at my reflection in the mirror,
I can barely recognize the person I’ve become.
A stranger stares right back at me,
Boring holes with those eyes,	
As she looks into my soul and pierces it with her gaze.

A...

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In a cold world on a hot day, I come home and relax. Yes, 98 degrees outside. I turn on the ac and lay across my bed to take a nap. The beauty of the...

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I am made of light
I am made of stars

I am made of confidence that flashs the word bazzare

I am hope that travels through me hard
And shivers every vein in me... While i deliever this poem
And...

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Everywhere I see You,
Everywhere I feel You!
In a bit or a byte,
Capturing throughout my vision,
Romantically draping You, in my arms of prison!
Ohh my lady love,You rose my heart & I felt rocked!

Accompanying You, Aimlessly I...

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{This "Free Verse" entry Received HONORABLE MENTIONS
              IN THE Intergenerational Poetry to Bridge the Generation
       ...

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YOU GUYS SAY YOU NO EVERYTHING ABOUT ME

IF YOU DO GO AHEAD WALK INTO MY PAIN AND MYSTERY

YOU WONT KNOW A DAMN THING OF WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH AND YOU THINK 
IM LYING

I WISH...

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There is no need to impress. Be yourself. 
People notice you, more than you think.
Notice yourself. Notice how you feel, your thoughts.
Notice what makes you happy. Notice what makes you upset.
Be present. Only think of...

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A lot of time was spent at school.
I always liked to play the fool.
It was written in my school report,
although the teachers would exhort.

The teachers wrote their report letter, 
'Mrs Wilde, your son, he must...

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I woke up today
I am sure I did
Or have I?
I slowly unwrapped myself from my bed
Groggy and yawning
I was off to write the constitution
Should I failed in this endeavor
I shall hope to have enough gasses...

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It's not the exchange rate or demand I value,
When I think of any United States Dollar;
I think of the currency note or coin whose view,
Depict biographies of persons of valor...

John Quincy Adams, nation-thinker of no...

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Seek and ye shall find a song for you.and I. Love of a familiar kind. Eternally yous and forever mine. He is my provider my soul insighter. My world much brighter for before him I...

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Seek and ye shall find a song for you.and I. Love of a familiar kind. Eternally yous and forever mine. He is my provider my soul insighter. My world much brighter for before him I...

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