Long Mussels Poems
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Poems About FlowersLady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
mussels, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
mussels, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
mussels, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
mussels, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
TaporaLike Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to...
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Categories:
mussels, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
mussels, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
mussels, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
mussels, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Princess Diana PoemsPRINCESS DIANA POEMS
Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch
Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so solemn, so lovely?
an orchid ablaze in a crevice...
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Categories:
mussels, angel, beautiful, beauty, england, princess, rose, woman,
Form:
Epitaph
Children's PoemsPicturebook Princess
for Keira
We had a special visitor.
Our world became suddenly brighter.
She was such a charmer!
Such a delighter!
With her sparkly diamond slippers
and the way her whole being glows,
Keira’s a picturebook princess
from the points of her...
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Categories:
mussels, children,
Form:
Verse
Croquet On the Lawn At Three Pm1 2 1 2 in a tutu playing croquet at three pm
Abracadabra is a giant kilo of horse manure thrown at the head with a boom. But a boom is neither a boomerang nor a...
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Categories:
mussels, addiction, america, baseball, basketball, beach, bible,
Form:
I do not know?
Odyssey From Africa 8b9aCh8, cont.
Northward parallel the valley.
And their ridge-top elevation
Gave advantage of perspective
They could see the forest's ending
In the distance. That same evening
Would reveal a stronger reason
For Ipiki's intervention
Something sensed in his...
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Categories:
mussels, adventure, africa, history, journey, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Song Lyrics ISong Lyrics I
"We Came Together" was written as song lyrics for New Zealand composer David Hamilton.
Song Lyrics: We Came Together
by Michael R. Burch
We came together – people of two lands
so unalike, at first, we hardly...
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Categories:
mussels, community, discrimination, friend, friendship, music, race, song,
Form:
Rhyme
The Boatman's Song 20/ ManyThe Boatman’s Song 20/ Many
The world would come to know one day
The real strength of your arms and the balance of your mind
And your love would be, the inspiration of your life
Making you,...
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Categories:
mussels, life, love, musicteacher, men, time, day, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The FallLast night,
after I was struck under the ground, and did not, could not get up;
I met one of the most beautiful of all beings that God could ever create; an Arch Angel…
Her robes...
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Categories:
mussels, art, death, fantasy, life, loss, sadbeautiful, me,
Form:
Verse
Seafood Valencia PaellaIt's morning as I make a special trip to the
fish market. There, I will look for the freshest
mussels, large shrimp, and Maine lobster.
A large crowd has formed mostly chefs
wanting to get...
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Categories:
mussels, appreciation,
Form:
Didactic
My Inner IndianWhen I was very young
All I really wanted
To be was an Indian.
My mother always read to me -
Stories of fairies and elves,
Of princesses and ogres, witches,
And brownies who did good deeds.
Poems, “Wynken, Blynken and Nod”,
“The...
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Categories:
mussels, childhood, growing up, introspection, memory, nature, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The Menu That Built the EmpireDon’t worry about being thinner
Get yourself off down the pub
Then go home to a good British dinner,
Of British traditional grub
Delicious roast beef of old England
Served up with a thick Yorkshire pud
With roast spuds and cabbage...
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Categories:
mussels, foodold, nice, home, home, me, nice, old,
Form:
I do not know?
An Ode To My Banjo and My Little Country HomeThere’s a load of dust and sweat pulling my ole tired mussels
down
These...
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Categories:
mussels, farm, house, memory, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
A Titch More of Tom's Torturously Terrrible TidbitsI went to buy an R.V.
They said all I could afford was a Lose-a Beggo.
I bought a pair of alligator shoes.
But then I started wandering off into swamps.
Finally, I had to toss them, they were
really...
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Categories:
mussels, funny, on writing and words, parody, me,
Form:
Burlesque
A Secretive Beetle With a Suitcase Jumping Around On a TrainTortoiseshell tulips often grow at left angles to the moon and are otherwise adjusted to a sealed lip of ground. But a curled canopy of shredded wheat and oats make even the wildest of gardens...
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Categories:
mussels, baseball,
Form:
I do not know?
MightOh how very marvellous then. Synchronised shopping in a ship stream. Level out no lever in a gale. And swarm to sale rails like oversized tanks on waves of euphoric energy excursions. When waving rattles...
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Categories:
mussels, age, allah, allegory, allusion,
Form:
I do not know?
Samson and The Liar: ParodyYond the Book of Judges, uncover the smudges,
Samson and or Shimshon, a Nazarite vowed, son,
Delilah deceptor, Philistia's daughter,
The lipstick was preying, weight lift also praying,
The black widow spider, spun her web of desire,
Weakness met the...
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Categories:
mussels, analogy, beauty, betrayal, bible, death, death of
Form:
Alexandrine
Sea LifeA dance of elegance they leap
in grace of movements sweep
moonlights skipping on the waves
upon the circuits the currents paves
A Spanish Dancer twirls her skirt
whose painted like a rainbows shirt
Your works oh Jah blanket the Sea
where...
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Categories:
mussels, creation, earth, life, nature, ocean, sea, water,
Form:
Quatrain
How ManyHow many years is it
From the long past decades
When we were young
And brought our children
To Martha’s Vineyard?
I often think “How many?”
How many pails of clams dug,
How many dozens of crabs netted,
How many pounds of mussels
Picked...
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Categories:
mussels, appreciation, happiness, introspection, memory, places, time,
Form:
Free verse