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Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
obscuring, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Let Me Give Her Diamonds
Let 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:
obscuring, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Things That Break I
Poems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
obscuring, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break Iii
Poems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
obscuring, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Alone
A young girl who’s lost & wandering in the darkness cries out
“If there’s a God out there please save me!”
The darkness replied with silence
But she kept listening so intently to the nothingness around her,
Clenching and...
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Categories:
obscuring, anxiety, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy Translation
This is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912.
Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Every angel...
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Categories:
obscuring, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form:
Elegy
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon read reliable publications...
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Categories:
obscuring, abortion, abuse, america, anger, bereavement, emotions, history,
Form:
Free verse
1856
During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wait
Tomorrow I'd...
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Categories:
obscuring, dark, dream, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Journey Through Time Part Two
As time passed on by, they settled and married
producing a fine brood of children
yet growing more and more unsettled
until one day they headed off again
this time going to the far north
where the lands were bound...
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Categories:
obscuring, adventure, journey,
Form:
Epic
Road Trip
Time for a road trip, my dad, mom and us three kids all packed into our old station wagon. I guess it wasn't so old but it sure seemed that way at the time....
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Categories:
obscuring, memory,
Form:
Prose
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed Reflection
Ongepatshket torqued skewed reflection
drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.
When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then instantaneously
hairline fractures appear
than 'afore long
snap,...
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Categories:
obscuring, 12th grade, adventure, america, celebration, confidence, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Affectations trailed with pet appellations, particularly endearments suffuses me with giddiness
Affectations trailed with pet appellations, particularly endearments
suffuses me with giddiness
Even though veritable hypothetical unknown females
courtesy Facebook Messenger
frequently pepper their text messages to me
with sweet nothings,
which figurative playful banter tickle my fancy,
and immediately triggers romantic fantasies
courtesy...
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Categories:
obscuring, adventure, age, analogy, angel, appreciation, august, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Still stunned with disbelief
Still stunned with disbelief...
that our apartment unit B44
received thumbs up
meaning that we passed
the grueling, and harrowing yearly inspection
three days ago - May 28th, 2024.
About a week prior,
when notification circulated
(validating horror about to befall us
as averred...
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Categories:
obscuring, angel, anxiety, blessing, celebration, humorous, may,
Form:
Free verse
Struggle To Write
Struggle to write
Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.
This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...
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Categories:
obscuring, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Shadow of Sunlight
When wounds keep seeping,
dawn continues to unfold~
blurred projections
engrossed in dishonesty.
And I wonder if the tulip moon
could see the ash...
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Categories:
obscuring, angst, anxiety, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Paranoid
O August, I feel subtle scents
of dandelion days melting,
like spring falls of delirious diamonds,
while memories of sentimental sapphires
flow amidst clouds of colorblind cruelty,
revealing how butterflies
from the temple of fragmented armors
abandoned my spirit
at the altar of...
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Categories:
obscuring, angst, anxiety, heartbreak,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Kajal Ahmad Translations Kurdish
Mirror
by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
My era's obscuring mirror
shattered
because it magnified the small
and made the great seem insignificant.
Dictators and monsters filled its contours.
Now when I breathe
its jagged shards pierce my...
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Categories:
obscuring, arabic, bird, conflict, earth, home, sun, travel,
Form:
Free verse
April 29 Looking Out My Window
April 29— Looking Out My Window
published as part of Tiferet Journals' 2018 Poem-a-thon see my poetry blog https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com for these and other poems
Looking out my window
In Incheon
What did I see
The...
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Categories:
obscuring, america, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Cat's Embassy - Fragments of the Too Long Thing
I’ve died many times
And not been reborn.
Nine lives were mine;
Now two. Or three.
Or one;
This one, the last.
I am the cat,
But that’s not the answer.
I am for you to tell.
My kind...
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Categories:
obscuring, cat, journey, mythology, time,
Form:
Free verse
Dead Poet Two Thousand Fourteen
Dead Poet Two Thousand Fourteen
Dead Poet Two Thousand Fourteen
solyant green the 666 is money the dollar sign the number on the bill the id
card the birth date and now the phone number all these...
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Categories:
obscuring, death, devotion, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Masquerade
You saunter through the double doors
Head held high
Chest puffed out
Putting on airs
You think you’re so clever, so deceiving
Showing up baring the most ornate mask
But I see right through
The mask that you wear tonight
You think it...
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Categories:
obscuring, absence, allegory, anger, angst, betrayal, boyfriend, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Keep Calm and Carry On
What do we know about the Coronavirus
The real risks behind the panic and human bias
Now let’s look at the facts that we have to date.
It not great news, its spreading at an alarming rate.
Corvid...
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Categories:
obscuring, anger, earth day, humanity, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Departure From Home
The looking glass and the reflection are broken,
but it does not lie
He has spoken
Yet, I do not recognize this who stares back
The moon was high,
the time was nigh,
after that, I would have to make my...
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Categories:
obscuring, birth, corruption, creation, depression, desire, evil, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Alea
Mist of the morning obscuring the dawn;
The veil of my conscious darkening my ken.
A battle ensues; the gods drawing their blades;
Gentle zephyrs ease the mist out to sea.
A strange arena of secrets morphing into a...
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Categories:
obscuring, dark, deep, desire, fantasy, longing, love, sad
Form:
Free verse
Looking Out My Window
Looking Out My Window
Looking out my window
In Incheon
What did I see
The neighboring apartment buildings
Obscured by the April rains
And yellow dust of early Spring
And in the distant the mountains
Aflame...
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Categories:
obscuring, how i feel, life,
Form:
Free verse