Long Midsummer Poems
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A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
midsummer, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Arthurian PoemsAt Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
midsummer, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
The Pictish FaeriesThe Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in the starlight
when the moon was full
and men...
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Categories:
midsummer, fairy,
Form:
Verse
Truth As I See ItHow could this possibly be a anything fake
For that would be true if you were Rod
Or Todd
Or Harry
Or drake ...
But no, you seem to arrive at just the right pace
Perhaps anyone...
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Categories:
midsummer, cute love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years AgoExcerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago...
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater),
and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice reading some lines
regarding Midsummer Night's Dream
upcoming performance.
Arch...
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Categories:
midsummer, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and the House of Random Penguins
“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins”
The womb
is scooped like
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost garden explored
overturned and raked,
neatly messed,
in more ways...
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Categories:
midsummer, muse,
Form:
Narrative
One Summer NightI was rehearsing for an upcoming play, but it wasn't going well,
For I somehow lacked inspiration, and my delivery did not excel.
If only I could read more feelingly, I uttered with a sad sigh,
I would...
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Categories:
midsummer, career, dream, fantasy, magic, rose, summer, time,
Form:
Couplet
Free FruitsGreen light means go ahead
Make your choice
Here’s a list of the Green light or free, fruits go, go, go and eat them up
Apples, dried: Dried apples make a great snack food and are easy to...
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Categories:
midsummer, fruit,
Form:
List
That was then, this is now"Play the audio is in accord with the dramatic monologue," ... by the Poet
...
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Categories:
midsummer, father son, forgiveness, longing, loss, missing you,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Midsummer Night's BeachWhen I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We were all this way, and there is no shame
In the...
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Categories:
midsummer, beauty, color, creation, sea, summer, truth, youth,
Form:
Free verse
It's An Amazon Out ThereThe travel agent said adventure was calling,
In a lush paradise of beauties enthralling!
No harm would befall us, with a capable guide;
This Amazon tour would be a scenic, easy ride.
We weren't outdoors types, my companion and...
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Categories:
midsummer, adventure, bird, fantasy, green, imagery, nature, tree,
Form:
Couplet
MasqueradeA colourful array of falsehoods
Intricately designed disguises
Fools, fortunes, phantoms
Masks clinging on their faces
Lives hidden away by an illusory veils
Veils that cannot be removed
Cannot be seen
Secrets tucked away in their eyes
Each a pair of...
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Categories:
midsummer, extended metaphor, freedom, imagery, imagination, insect, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
Green Spanish Eyes - Part 3Continued from Part 2
Ah Consuela! I’m watching as lightning at midnight in green Spanish eyes
kindles cracks within crystals like flashes from pistols
residing inside of the gloom
as it hovers above us betraying a dove as
...
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Categories:
midsummer, green, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Children of the Summer GardenCHILDREN OF THE SUMMER GARDEN
In the lazy days of summer
When heat streams up in afternoons
Come into the season’s garden –
Nature’s outdoor living room.
Early riser, blue Morning Glory vine
Opens at dawn and sometimes...
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Categories:
midsummer, flower, garden, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 3Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
Having seen the moon
I can bid this planet
farewell.
—Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The moon settled
in...
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Categories:
midsummer, animal, dream, heart, humanity, moon, planet, wind,
Form:
Haiku
Cholla's LegacyA diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic
in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes
and barren rocks-- sixteen miles
from the golden rays of western tomorrow.
Time is played out in crucial moments of...
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Categories:
midsummer, america, appreciation, august, beauty, imagery, nature, sun,
Form:
Free verse
I Could Not Hold On To YouI could not hold on to you
But oh...how hard I tried
Excavated each forgotten chamber
Of my heart
To find some charm
Some talisman
To cast a spell
And make you mine
Some magic potion
That would make your every night
A “midsummer night’s...
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Categories:
midsummer, longing,
Form:
Free verse
The Work: Summer Solstice, AveburyAcross the land this morn, a roll of light
Gave birth to shadows, cast from chalky hills
The larks ascended, sang away the night
Vibrated sky to waking with their trills
‘Tis Summer; round the circle swirls the...
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Categories:
midsummer, love, mystery, mythology, nature, summer, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The Invisible Man 27I wrote the Invisible man poems many years ago. These poems, and I have not submitted them all, was for a little girl who died in a road accident. They are a tribute to her...
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Categories:
midsummer, depression, life, sweet, summer, life, love, me,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Complete Jackass Collection - From Bad Seed PressGONE with the JACKASS
SOMETHING JACKASS this WAY COMES
Of MICE AND JACKASSES
The GRAPES of JACKASS
MOBY JACKASS
JACKASS in the RYE
I KNOW WHY the JACKASS SINGS
The GREAT JACKASS
JACKASS of the FLYS
MEIN JACKASS
BRAVE NEW JACKASS
PORTRAIT of the ARTIST as...
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Categories:
midsummer, allegory, humor, literature,
Form:
List
Sweetwaters Music FestivalFar off the beaten track and trail
on quest for music’s Holy Grail
led pilgrims on biblical scale
more than...
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Categories:
midsummer, adventure, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Aubade On the Morning AfterIm half awake, and glaring at the sunrise
distant brilliance slowly eating at my dry eyes
squinted to best witness the aureate Apollo
refract off blades soaked through with dew
heaven's first blush, midsummer quiet, and coffee scent
cast clarity,...
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Categories:
midsummer, passionworld, universe,
Form:
I do not know?
An Opera of Comedy and TragedyAn oversized vintage T-shirt is
My weekend attire or
More like my mainichi attire
My face bare
Exposing an unnamed galaxy of freckles
The bottle of
Cheap combini
Apple sparkling wine
Feelin like a millionaire
A neon highlighter between my lips
A novel...
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Categories:
midsummer, addiction, books, loneliness, lonely, longing, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Midsummer Night's Eve StrollAn evening stroll, on Midsummer Night's Eve ,
under the silver light of the horizon moon.
Life that burst among a small acreage,
of old-growth forests, flourished.
A delightful flurry of fireflies, drifting,
twinkle among the foliage, an amazing sight.
Echoing...
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Categories:
midsummer, allusion, fairy, fantasy, music, pride, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Honeybeei love the early morning rasp of his voice
the birthmarks and burn scars
midsummer skin
i love the sticky rash of lust
the way a heart ticks until it implodes
the sugar soaked kisses
i do not love the way...
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Categories:
midsummer, anger, anxiety, dark, love hurts, poems, spoken
Form:
Free verse