Long Outdoes Poems

Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .

Quiescent unions...

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Everything bonds so quickly I can hardly find a place the move the trigonometry of the earth has placed everything in a cluster beneath the hidden dirt.

 I can get from Helsinki to Copenhagen in...

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this is for all the DECENT ladies out there...
i dont know about you, but im sick of being second choice to skeezy women
i dont know about you, but when i have a boyfriend i just...

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Necessarily to Samora


On the stream, a cork was thrown
She sank in
She tripped on
She was picked up
A beach, a wave and a sailing ship don’t matter.
You will arrive at the time of coming back. 
-Faceless towards...

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Every morning, as heaven sighs
There comes the dawning
Of hope inspired by the dreams
That beckon from hearts
Minds who breathe the light
Erasing the darkness of night

As a lemony sun rises to smile
On the gentle mountains
Across the green...

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I do love cheese!
Jeez, Louise,
what artistry I see.
A scrumptious luscious fresh confection
waits here just for me. 

It’s fine, so fine
and looks divine.
What an awesome feat -
to make dessert that looks almost
too beautiful to eat!

Oh, what...

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He looks like September,
as tall as the trees.
Makes me want to be better,
talks to strangers with ease.
Wish I could be more like that,
but then he comes near.
Even when he just wants to chat,
he quite outdoes...

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Fittingly hallowed gods must intrinsic majesty hold.
Even before deities invoked weigh the caller's case,
The deity's potent title should alone spell the balm,
And tint with nourishing grace the supplicant's face. 

Woe justly betides gods modelled by...

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She Calls Me Home…

At days long end
Left on troubles shore
When I just know
I can't take anymore
When the last light
Of hope is gone

She calls me home
She calls me home

When my thoughts
Are racing round
And I can't find
A...

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Sing Your Song of Joy
                              ...

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White buffalo are sacred to Native American tribes
Symbols of hope and prosperity, to see one you are blessed
A cart filled with white pumpkins offers our dear friend who scribes
To her unique and loving heart this...

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I can’t fall asleep, I don’t want to sleep, 
Being awake is so much more fun,
As at last reality outdoes all my dreams, 
Now I have found my number one,

With a beautiful smile, voice, and...

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So sweetly, 
as she descended the stairs
I turned at the perfect moment to see her beauty.
Nothing to anyone else’s eyes,
but to mine, she is perfection.
She came down, 
just wearing everyday clothes,
but, it was the way...

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Always a friend, come rain or shine.
Is this special poet of mine!
He lifts me up, when I am down.
I think he is uniquely royal and deserves 
a crown!

No wonder my poem to him is in...

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