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Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.

She...

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Categories: nicholas, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Medieval Poems V
Medieval Poem V

A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.

2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...

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Categories: nicholas, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: Merciless Beauty
Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.

Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...

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Categories: nicholas, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Classified Part Four
I was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...

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Categories: nicholas, science fiction,
Form: Prose
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English Language
Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems

The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

(excerpt)
He who granted me life...

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Categories: nicholas, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Classified Part Three
The photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large triangular shape on three legs which were all at a...

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Categories: nicholas, science fiction,
Form: Prose
Beware the Ides of March 2023
Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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Categories: nicholas, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form: Rhyme
My X-Mas Wish To Santa, My Letter To Santa, Keep the Worst Buddy
SONNET 1
                         MY CHRISTMAS WISH TO SANTA
    ...

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Categories: nicholas, appreciation, blessing, christmas, forgiveness, friendship, giving, truth,
Form: Sonnet
First Love
Oh, where on earth do I begin….Twenty years ago…

There he was. Standing by the door of World Literature Class in 1996. 
There I was. Walking past him in the hallways of high school.
Our eyes met...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nicholas, beautiful, desire, love, passion, , literature,
Form: Narrative
Me, Dreams, Reality
One bright night
In the Twilight of day
I awoken to a dream
With in a world of worlds 
Not my self, but still the same
What was it? Never more
What year was it? Forgotten 
One must be careful...

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© Ember Arc  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nicholas, adventure, age, dream,
Form: Free verse
Lament of My Life
Lament of My Life Contest
Sponsor: Casarah Nance
 

~My Bereaving Eulogy~ 


Time seemed to pass so much faster than I expected,
All the love, loss, passion and things I have neglected.

How many times have I lost a...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nicholas, bereavement, blessing, death, eulogy, heaven, life, loss,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nicholas Street Jail
The structure is imposing, massive and fearful.  Built in 1862 as a jail and
gallows for the worst of humanity.  "Living"  conditions were sickening and
appalling.  The top floor was reserved for death-row...

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Categories: nicholas, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Classified Part Two
We turned off before reaching Kings Lynn and headed down a road that would take us to Henderson Aerodrome a local flying school, we were waved through the main gate and headed onto the main...

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Categories: nicholas, science fiction,
Form: Prose
The Beautiful Tale of Family Bliss
Down by the reverie lived a lovely lady named Princess Marie. 
She stood out in a crowd and was more beautiful than the rest-
She saw things of the Kingdom that even the King couldn’t see....

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nicholas, children, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part I
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 issue
url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-
the-ides-of-march-8664107/
top ten reasons to 
beware the...

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Categories: nicholas, adventure, celebration, conflict, death, eulogy, fate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived 
See not the panorama
of pursuing cloud shapes
that conceal a frivolous...

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Categories: nicholas, fate, first love, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happy New Year
Bang those pots and pans, Rattle those noise makers as loud as you can,
For its New Year’s Eve my friends a chance to start fresh again, let’s start
That sacred count down just before the appointed...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nicholas, celebration, family, friendship, holiday, inspirational, new year,
Form: Free verse
Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there

The children...

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Categories: nicholas, christmas,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Saint Nicholas, the Bishop In Red
A little girl approached her mother and said to her one day
"Santa Claus is not real, that's what all my friends say"
 Her tears began to well up and she started to cry
And said "Mommy,...

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Categories: nicholas, children, christmas, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
I Just Knew
A Poem Please Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless


in love with you forever
sorrow can heal wounds
through sickness and health

I grew that day…
I knew that day…
I had high hopes of a well spent future with him. Dreams of us...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nicholas, daughter, death, family, hope, husband, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Belle of the Balls
Belle of the Balls
                               ...

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Categories: nicholas, fantasy, children,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Compendium of Love Poetry
TOMORROW IS ALWAYS YESTERDAY
The day my love was rejected
My soul itself,was so dejected
All the nights drift into the surreal
My life's..a nightmare..so unreal
Pain touches my inner core
The day she said no more..no more
Concentration just flies away
Tomorrow...

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Categories: nicholas, love,
Form: Verse
Talent
Talent
by Michael R. Burch

for Kevin Nicholas Roberts

I liked the first passage
of her poem: where it led
(though not nearly enough
to retract what I said.)
Now the book propped up here
flutters, scarcely half read.
It will keep.
Before sleep,
let me...

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Categories: nicholas, creation, friend, friendship, poems, poets, words, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Other Mom
I was laying on the beach
On a hot August morn
A sudden pain in my gut
I knew that something was wrong
It's Eddie.  I felt it so strong
I Picked up my cell and I called
The emotional...

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Categories: nicholas, death, mother, sad, son, son, heart, pain,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Nicholas Trim 2 Years a Poet Celebration Poem
* I wrote my first poem 2 years ago, to celebrate, I've written this poem where I've stole my own rhymes from my own poems and morphed it all together enjoy

I'm a quick wit picnic...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nicholas, me, poetry, poets, rap, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things