Long Onward Poems
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State of the Art Iii
State of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
onward, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
onward, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
No Mark
No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
onward, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
Juvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
onward, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Iii
Poems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
onward, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Paul and Sarah - Part Two
Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...
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Categories:
onward, adventure, america, love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Wisp of Thought
There was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...
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Categories:
onward, beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes of the Angel's Fallen
Invocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
onward, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
When I Die
When my life has finally left me and my last breath has been shed
And the silver cord is broken and my bodies firmly dead
I shall hover near the body, download the scenes of this past...
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Categories:
onward, bereavement, christian, death, heaven, inspiration, inspirational, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Why I Don't Celebrate Christmas - Fiction
Grandma died when I was 18 years old, on Christmas day. I never really got to know her well since the family had pretty much kept their distance from her due to her 'weird religion.'...
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Categories:
onward, christian, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
From Seed a Promise, Treasures To Flourish On Earth
Blog, On Poetic Contrast, Between Dark And Light
(My two poems composed -one of dark, one of Light.)
(from my new blog)
(1.)
The Horrid Night, The Terrible Nightmare
In a dance of serpents the long fangs drip
poison...
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onward, art, creation, dark, deep, light, meaningful, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One
Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight
The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me
With my horse’s pace and that of...
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Categories:
onward, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...
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Categories:
onward, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form:
Epic
What Is a Life To You
What is a life to you?
Do you wake up to love
imagine a future with someone?
A wife or a husband,
a child or ten?
An exaggeration,
but love is different to everyone.
Do you have a cat or a dog,
that...
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Categories:
onward, america, anger, emotions, grief, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
The Raven and The Bard
The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers
The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's" fair hair,
Shed history's warm light to chase away all care...
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Categories:
onward, philosophy, poets, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.”
– General George Pickett
Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder...
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Categories:
onward, death, history, slavery, violence, war,
Form:
Ballad
Conceits
"Conceits"
Such conceits
as veils between
our windowed worlds
torn torrential incomplete
mayst thou watch and learn
the one I spawned,
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh
one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...
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Categories:
onward, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Ezra
This is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...
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Categories:
onward, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Wildmoor Symphony
FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
onward, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
onward, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4
March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
onward, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
A Daughter's Heart On Mother's Day
Mother, sometimes memories are fraught
...
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Categories:
onward, emotions, hope, mother daughter, mothers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Humble B Bumble - 28 - Bee-Real
Bee-Real
As I flew up, into the air,
I looked back one last time at the hive.
All the bees were standing there.
Some were happy and proud to see me go; some were still crying.
As they held...
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Categories:
onward, flying, friendship, imagery, insect, journey, joy, memory,
Form:
I do not know?
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:
onward, adventure, journey,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
onward, adventure, analogy, appreciation, boat, celebration, sea, travel,
Form:
Concrete