Long Omens Poems
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Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
omens, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
omens, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
omens, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
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:
omens, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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Categories:
omens, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
omens, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
omens, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
omens, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Search For IdealismPlaced First in:
Can`t Believe It was a Na Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
...
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Categories:
omens, humanity, inspirational, men, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Knowledge Is a Genie Once Let Out of the Bottle It Cant Be Put Back1
Profound insight climbing the mountain
The higher you go the more beautiful view
Opens up wide spread in front of you
You see the world under your feet
Overwhelmingly liberating experience
Shocking overpowering, and scary
You play walking on...
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Categories:
omens, allusion, deep, humanity, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars”
Wings hover
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family
highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique
spiralling into shape
more black and grey
than white spills
from their eyes
light from their shining
hidden away
intelligence...
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Categories:
omens, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
O' BaobabO' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn,
Against the fire, the desire for sigh
Haughty, you stand, before the...
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Categories:
omens, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
K375 and K376 of Canto Xxxviii of the Thirukkural With CommentaryK375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary
(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...
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Categories:
omens, fate, life, nature, people,
Form:
Couplet
Chaos Theory
"Chaos Theory"
The Message is sent on a breeze
Fire eats the wounds of a Mother
Her skin blisters
cracks and peels
Her children inhale a different pollen
Drones bark messengers like Bowie's Diamond Dogs
Tables now turn
machines are giving orders...
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Categories:
omens, future, humanity, world,
Form:
Free verse
I Saw God But Now What. Darkness there was...
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Categories:
omens, religious,
Form:
Rhyme
The World of FraudStolen golden treasure chest
Dead man lying on his chest
Discarded like garbage
Because we act like we all savage
Eaten by vultures
As greed transcends cultures
Lying gypsies
False omens like eclipses
Fake prophecies
They packed their bags for those ill fated...
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Categories:
omens, political, satire,
Form:
Lyric
He Who Creates Re-Creates Himselffor René Passeron*
You may not grow old too soon
if
Things you have known...
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Categories:
omens, art, time,
Form:
Didactic
He Is Ever Welcome, Not Just At Special Time of YearBrief Prelude
Diwali is a vivacious festival of Lights celebrated in India. It's big revelry time (akin to Christmas). The key symbolic aspect of festivity is lighting of oil lamps all around and indulging in...
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Categories:
omens, holidaygod, sweet, time, god, love, stars, sweet,
Form:
Kyrielle
The Valvet WitchIn the elliptical nights moonshine of night, a figure of lavender
And aged white lace, roams amongst the rocky sea shore, a
Glittering phantom of beauty most fair, walking with an essence
Of smoldering evil and the...
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Categories:
omens, adventure, beauty, grave, halloween, holiday, horror, little
Form:
Free verse
Portal - part 1
Today, this black oak forest will become my grave.
A crow caws in the distance, but I swear it is calling my name. I have never believed in omens or curses but perhaps there are...
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Categories:
omens, fantasy, suicide,
Form:
Haibun
The Dew DiariesI was a world famous fashion designer, and quite enraptured with the new,
Like first caress of pink, peach dawn light, smiling at the full moon's taboo.
I adored laboring with colors I loved, in my fashions,...
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Categories:
omens, appreciation, beauty, fantasy, morning, nature, sunshine,
Form:
Couplet
Nasir Kazmi TranslationsWhat Happened to Them?
by Nasir Kazmi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Those who came ashore, what happened to them?
Those who sailed away, what happened to them?
Those who were coming at dawn, when dawn never arrived ...
Those...
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Categories:
omens, grief, love, night, pain, soulmate, urdu, youth,
Form:
Ghazal
Earth Hour 2012By: Sashi Prabhu (zeauoxian)(written 29th march 2012)
(UNITING PEOPLE TO PROTECT THE PLANET)
(8.30 pm Saturday 31st march 2012)
The portent prophecy is teeming and bursting with dark fears,
Nature’s omens are crystal clear,
Horrendous and awful signs we see...
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Categories:
omens, hope, life, nature, social, me, world, change,
Form:
Rhyme
The Haunting
"The Haunting"
What happened
was a crime
in more ways
than one
who can understand
the mind of a recidivist
twisted, calculating
in this story, there is
more than one,
the night
of a thousand
cutting knives
the turn of the...
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Categories:
omens, dark, journey, light, strength, war,
Form:
Narrative
Creations CreatedCreations created, never outdated,
C
...
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Categories:
omens, creation, inspiration, meaningful, society, spiritual, wisdom, write,
Form:
Epic