Long Meteors Poems
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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IiPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
meteors, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems IPoems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
meteors, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
meteors, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
meteors, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
meteors, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
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:
meteors, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
meteors, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
meteors, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Let Me Give Her DiamondsLet Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch
Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.
Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.
Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.
Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.
Let me...
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Categories:
meteors, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xvii-XxivSonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
meteors, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
meteors, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiJuvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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Categories:
meteors, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
meteors, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth - With New FootnotesGod Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!
God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!
God bless each day's magnetic field on Earth (1) that shields the human race
from cosmic rays bombarding Earth and us (from...
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Categories:
meteors, love, science, space,
Form:
Rhyme
'continental Drift' - the Metaphor'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor
In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of a puzzle (a jigsaw), found place
that joined ‘drop-offs’ waves hid...
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Categories:
meteors, faith, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Beginnings EndingsBeginnings – Endings
Out of the darkest reaches of time and space
came molten minerals, gasses, rocks, comets
– life traversing aeons, in suspended animation
across millions of light years, billions of desolate miles
creating unseen universe after universe,
creating unseen...
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Categories:
meteors, history, planet, universe,
Form:
Free verse
ProofWe are the days that we’ve become.
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings,
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings.
Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...
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Categories:
meteors, allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 11Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the men are feeling...
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Categories:
meteors, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Hello Bad BoysFINAL EPISODE OF PURE FANTASY
Hello Bad Boys!
The starry, twilight zone high above, this night
With it’s shooting stars, and the moon, so bright,
Looked heavenly, even Venus, was in sight,
It was clear, could see far and beyond
Across...
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Categories:
meteors, earth,
Form:
Free verse
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
meteors, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form:
Blank verse
Soul Stance River - 25Christ!
A warparty of 60 Shoshone warriors has just stampeded into the meadow
faces painted red and white for blood and death, all sorts of strange designs,
bows and arrows ready to fly on us, skull breaking cudgels...
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Categories:
meteors, adventure,
Form:
Epic
EscapadeI never cared to do the dangerous things, and liked to play it safe,
But the strict bonds of ordinariness, can oftentimes start to chafe.
I always preferred to cover my bets, for I hated the idea...
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Categories:
meteors, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, imagery, mountains, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Disunity Then UnityDISUNITY THEN UNITY
Last Episode of Pure Fantasy.
Fireball always seems to take center stage,
Except in the last episode it was with absolute rage,
Echoman has secretly loved this ravishing beauty
Lost her to a human whilst she...
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Categories:
meteors, universe, war,
Form:
Free verse
And So It Began Series 2 Episode 1AND SO IT BEGAN (Series 2 episode 1)
The bad boys were defeated on
Planet Earth,
Their New Year held no mirth,
All they could think was revenge,
Echo Man and Fire Ball,
Thought they could upsurge
Them, time they...
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Categories:
meteors, stars,
Form:
Free verse
So much Love to give O beloved rose in my
garden of fairy-lamps,
would you bloom in hues of stardust?
let the daffodil moon
envy this fragrant field of
immortal lyrics~
for I’ll treat you with kindness,
scatter...
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Categories:
meteors, break up, fantasy, heartbroken, love,
Form:
Free verse