Long Lozenge Poems
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Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
lozenge, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
lozenge, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse ILozenge
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 lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
lozenge, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe 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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Categories:
lozenge, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
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With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
lozenge, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Her Adamant FaceAdamant Face
My mother used to say with an adamant face, "There is a place for everything and for everything a place!”
My goodness, this house is a total disgrace"
So every Tuesday at quarter past 4:OO
each person...
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Categories:
lozenge, childhood, family, fun, my child,
Form:
Rhyme
Song For a Bad ToothWisdom tooth, the oral root of prophesy
I respect you with all my worth
When you speak my eyes come
I wake up and turn as you order
I constrict like a serpent stung
At your command I fizzle like...
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Categories:
lozenge, allegory, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Memory QuiltMemory Quilt “ For Auction contest “
Welcome all to today’s prestige event
Let us start the day ladies and gentlefolk
We have this wonderful memory quilt
For your deliberation and delectation...
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Categories:
lozenge, beautiful, celebration, clothes, devotion, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The Theoretical Analysis of the Origin of Easter EggsThere's this little fuzzy wuzzy bunny,
Who all year round eats loads of honey.
Now you’d expect his tummy to be runny
This fuzzy wuzzy little bunny
However, the honey has an adverse effect
And when I tell you, you...
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Categories:
lozenge, funny
Form:
Rhyme
No Words Rhyme with OrangeNo words completely rhyme with orange:
no orange fringe, no orange hinge,
no lozenge, no syringe, no twinge, no whinge – no nothing!
No words completely rhyme with orange.
Porridge isn’t orange; but, there is an Orange Province.
An orange...
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Categories:
lozenge, words,
Form:
Rhyme
LozengeLozenge
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 lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
lozenge, chocolate, kiss, love, romantic, sweet, sweet love,
Form:
Sonnet
Bells of HomeBells of Home
My memory sings when the brass school bell rings, so I ring it every day.
It sits on my hallway table with the other two. I love the words it has to say,
“Come...
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Categories:
lozenge, childhood, day, fun, good morning, home, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
Millions Light YearsThe wane of the sun has raised its finger
And the sun is wielded to bed
Life below lays forlorn, bereft of light
A posh dusky sheet is spread
Of a trillion zillion lozenge sequins
That float in...
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Categories:
lozenge, creation, moon, stars, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Midnight Dream Train To Nowhereso beautiful is she when she smiles
so lovely is she even when she frowns
so far away is she and i can still feel her touch
so wishing she felt for me in the same way i...
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Categories:
lozenge, imagination, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Ann Loves HelicopterSomebody who had seen Miss Ann
Advised her to just drop her Dan,
Mentioning my own serious plan
To take her to my secure clan
And keep her in a lodge with fan...
And Miss Ann burst into...
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Categories:
lozenge, care, crush, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme