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Self ReflectionsSELF 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 DiamondsLet 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 IPoems 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 IiiPoems 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 AloneA 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 TranslationThis 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
Journey Through Time Part TwoAs 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
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
Road TripTime 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 ReflectionOngepatshket 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
Struggle To WriteStruggle 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
Kajal Ahmad Translations KurdishMirror
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 WindowApril 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 ThingI’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 FourteenDead 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
MasqueradeYou 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 OnWhat 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 HomeThe 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
AleaMist 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 WindowLooking 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
While I Gaze In Your EyesWhile I gaze in your eyes, cool cerulean blue,
Sifting night, straining stars through morning’s sweet dew,
I can fathom the depths of empyreal skies,
Angels fluttering by, riding wild butterflies
While I gaze in your eyes, changing, aqua-blue...
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Categories:
obscuring, love,
Form:
Rhyme
How To Pay Your Bills (Part One)This was a method employed,
By my last ex-wife,
Who enjoyed 16 years of
torturing me,
The bane of my life...
See she sat and slept in
her recliner,
The power seat of the house,
And treated me,
Like an annoying mouse...
I was...
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Categories:
obscuring, adventure, angst, caregiving, depression, devotion, education, family,
Form:
Bio
Hopper's Automat Expressed Poetically and AbstractInspired by the painting Automat by Edward Hopper in 1927.
The painting shows a lone woman sat at automated restaurant table.
Viewing the painting will enhance the poem.
Centre stage yet unseen, star still observable when no longer...
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Categories:
obscuring, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Positions: Part ThreePositions: Part Three
Arabic Poem by: Bushra Al-Bustani
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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The Position of Grief
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Was the sky blue in any day?
I have never seen...
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Categories:
obscuring, arabic, deep, feelings, grief, pain, passion, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
True Loneliness
If He ever left me, I would be so lost
Without a hope or chance,
No prospects, no promises or potentials
Without even expectation or anticipation
I’d be so very lost, without aspiration
It would be my finish!
If He ever...
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Categories:
obscuring, christian, courage, fear, jesus, loneliness, lonely, solitude,
Form:
Free verse