Long Mightier Poems
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Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
mightier, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About the Coronavirus I
Poems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
mightier, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
mightier, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Poems About Mothers
Poems about Mothers
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...
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Categories:
mightier, child, children, love, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Epigrams V
Epigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
mightier, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
mightier, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Sandy Hook Poems 1
Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we may,
that the truth of our Love may be spoken;
then, when...
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Categories:
mightier, children, school, student, usa, violence, war, youth,
Form:
Verse
Cooing Birds Announce It's Time
a mere fledgling of twelve, with dreamy eyes, ...
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Categories:
mightier, inspirational, motivation,
Form:
Free verse
More Iffy Coronavirus Haiku
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
mightier, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
The Perspective of Alabaster Scrooge
THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALABASTER SCROOGE
In modern English people time, when the world was full of eminent joy, there lived a man of prestige who was totally the opposite of anyone who strives to form the...
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Categories:
mightier, culture, humanity, i am, identity, image, mentor,
Form:
Imagism
Categories:
mightier, emotions, friend, god, humanity, inspirational, peace, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Heals Heartbroken Souls
Checked by www.howmanysyllables.com>syllable_counter
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all.” Pericles
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...
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Categories:
mightier, heartbroken, hope, inspirational, life, storm, time, wind,
Form:
Quatrain
Free Love
Do you remember stories about the incensed 60s?
The smoke-filled Beatles,
and acrid flowering Hippies,
and Aquarian Age of Free Love.
It fizzled out.
It wasn't such a Great Transition
as we had hoped.
Exhausted by Foreign and Civil Rights v Wrongs...
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Categories:
mightier, freedom, integrity, life, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023
I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023
Unseen enemy invades my body
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz
Hib bully knock and sock kin me
courtesy roebuck seers...
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Categories:
mightier, adventure, anger, anxiety, april, body, caregiving, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Feather Power: Echo Poem 8-Th
Poet's Notes 1:
My poet's notes must precede the next Echo Poem as well because the poet
has not given me permission to publish her poems on my site. I can, of course,
reference her poems...
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Categories:
mightier, encouraging, passion,
Form:
Blank verse
The Year 6555
We're now in the year 6555, and I am feeling happy and so alive,
Above, sunshine pours like honey, as along the oceanside I drive.
Wind whips my hair around, beneath skies a deep sparkling blue,
Like the...
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Categories:
mightier, fantasy, future, imagery, nature, planet, time, travel,
Form:
Couplet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 23
I conversed with the lone demon,
Who had asked for redemption on an earlier day
On this day her voice was mightier,
More brave, and powerful
She dared not sing in the presence of the Dark Prince,
But spoke freely...
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Categories:
mightier, bible, change, conflict, irony, light, love hurts,
Form:
Epic
I Loathe Feeling Under the Weather
I loathe feeling under the weather...,
especially when nasty elephant
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine
struggle to band together
loosely analogous to voters
standing in a queue
waiting to cast their vote
(while...
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Categories:
mightier, 12th grade, adventure, animal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stonecutter From Shimoda
There was a man from the town of Shimoda who lived a simple and contented life.
A stonecutter by trade, he would go to the mountain and look at the type of stone that people will...
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Categories:
mightier, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose Poetry
Far and Beyond the Story of the Need of the Addicted
Could this be, that this is of no common concern to our Creator, as to just what we all use that moves us?
Just as long as we ask this "Power" to help us never...
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Categories:
mightier, 12th grade, 1st grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Ballade
Praise God, P R a I S E
Kind, like the time hope
Filled me with light,
Sunrise showing up in the dawn,
Silencing the dark and gentling
A calm breathed through the oaks,
Compassionate, dreamy
Feelings bleeding through the mists,
Erasing the bitterness, the tears
Embracing the miracle of...
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Categories:
mightier, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, god, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Morning Adventure
(FOR MA'ARUUFAH ODETUNDUN)
Today I was but walking on my path, full of self-confidence,
heading towards a purpose I had set from my residence.
My humble head bowed very low, I pressed forward in haste,
yet I was mindful...
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Categories:
mightier, beauty, care, emotions, feelings, girlfriend, love, sweet,
Form:
Couplet
Unmade - FIRE AND ICE, part 2
Let this not be poetry.
Let this be a reckoning.
(Honest John.)
You are a groomer.
You are a predator in plain clothes.
You are a bastard carved from rot
Too old to claim innocence,
Too vile to fake remorse.
You lusted after...
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Categories:
mightier, abuse, betrayal, corruption, dark, grief, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Childless
Epigrams/Epitaphs
Childless
by Michael R. Burch
How can she bear her grief?
Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight
of one fallen star.
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Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
mightier, child, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, mother, war,
Form:
Epigram
Takaha Shugyo Translation
These are modern English translations of haiku and tanka by Takaha Shugyo...
ochitsubaki ware naraba kyuryu e otsu
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
dôkefuku nugazu tentômushi...
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Categories:
mightier, death, life, nature, write, writing,
Form:
Tanka