Long Measure up Poems
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Above UnderVerse 1: We held hands and I fell under your spell...you are the hell from above
My heart has turned to ashes, but I rose again like a Phoenix because of you and I's love
I bled...
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Categories:
measure up, deep, desire, emotions, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
measure up, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Fairer, IndeedWOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
measure up, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
measure up, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
measure up, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
That Long Evening
When you came to me...
Not that you wanted me. Oh, no! It was I who wanted you,
Your comfort... your caring... your
... compassion, your compassion...
Your body, beautiful and young, perhaps that as well at...
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Categories:
measure up, feelings, lost, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
measure up, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
measure up, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
measure up, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
measure up, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
measure up, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
measure up, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About ChildrenPoems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
measure up, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
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:
measure up, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now CompletedNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
measure up, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
measure up, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Pablo Neruda TranslationsI love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...
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Categories:
measure up, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
measure up, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Chapter 65 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xiv 2 : the Family VacationIt was at this point 11 o'clock
At night. Damian Left Molly and
Checked on the seven. Everybody
Was fine. He returned to
Business. Molly was no longer
Afraid she knew she was in the...
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Categories:
measure up, 7th grade, beach, beauty, child, grandmother, parents,
Form:
Alliteration
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
measure up, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
My Love My AllWorld's Longest Love Poem (second edition)
Title: My love my all
Edited by Izunna Okafor
Editor's Note:
Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2020 Valentine celebration a poetic taste...
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Categories:
measure up, love,
Form:
Free verse
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
measure up, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Mirza Ghalib TranslationsNear Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...
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Categories:
measure up, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form:
Verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You PlayEvery Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
measure up, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Sufi Dream Poem-Theory: Cosmontological Uni-BallCosmology + Ontology = Cosmontology
NEW Cosmontological Principle: Be SO SO humble!
>>> SEE NOTE BELOW
A Sufi Dream-Poem--Our purposefully "proto-conscious" UNI-ballish recycling?
By: Moji Agha
Started on Oct. 26, 2020
You know?
Being a microtubular cosmontologically proto-conscious
goofy sufi...
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Categories:
measure up, creation, destiny, imagination, mystery, planet, science, stars,
Form:
Free verse