Long Outspread Poems
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The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
outspread, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
outspread, body, death, fantasy, kiss, love, me, morning,
Form:
Ballad
Turkish Poetry Translations I
Turkish Poetry Translations I
Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you're like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes...
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Categories:
outspread, lost love, love, love hurts, memory, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
outspread, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form:
Blank verse
One Alarm Fire At Highland Manor Apartments
after dark April 26th, 2022
Prometheus bound out the heavens
to strike fear in the hearts of men and women
reminding us mortals how like oxen yoked
(together via a wooden beam forced
to undergo strenuous labor)
unlike most elderly residents...
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Categories:
outspread, adventure, angel, appreciation, april, confusion, fire, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Mom, when I Saw you Last
Is not ‘Mother’ the sweetest word in the dictionary?
She's one’s closest friend, companion, and guide.
How can I restrict her within the frame of a poem,
when my entire world circled around her once?
As I think of...
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Categories:
outspread, appreciation, farewell, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 5a
Truth... Is It true?
From somewhere lost atween stolen time
Some things left forgotten was remembered
Darkness moaning for lights to shine
Indefinite yet enticing to have feelings desired
Once was love I see… ever once was love in reality
I...
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Categories:
outspread, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Attila Ilhan Translations
Ben Sana Mecburum
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as ever-expanding dimensions.
You are indispensable; how can...
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Categories:
outspread, break up, farewell, for her, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
To What End
I waited
Under the outspread foliage
Of the banana tree,
With ripening fruits dangling precariously,
Wondering,
With eyes set on the earth,
Wishing I understood
This everlasting madness.
To what end would man go,
To what end?
A mystery it...
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Categories:
outspread, bereavement, birth, confusion, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Askance Chapter 3 Part 6a
The Age Of Misrule
Life is never more as normal as it should
Days to only ponder in wonder where tomorrow leads?
My darkest of dream has long since left its root
Where sleep is no longer an open...
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Categories:
outspread, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
The Askance Chapter 3 Part 5c
At first light, I awoke feeling revive and lively swell
Yet no words am to describe what I’m to foretell
I knew you were alive from words of my overseer
And ceaselessly I seek to be reunited with...
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Categories:
outspread, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Petals Of Pain
I hear the squelch of sorrow
nearing me once again,
pummels with the purple pulsation,
with the unheard echo in the frail veins.
The miasma of sadness envelopes
the mind-soul-body trinity,
the sigh of its drifting desolation
trails the...
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Categories:
outspread, analogy, lost love, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
The Factory
Your tarnished grey paint on a rotting wood canvas.
This melancholy greeting from an entrance to exploitation.
Why I keep meeting you in that gloomy terrain,
Why I trudge through rain and grime to slave for you,
Is all...
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Categories:
outspread, business, life, on work and working, people,
Form:
Free verse
Bedknobs, Bell Curves and a Broomstick
"Bugger the "Group" mentality. I say burn it up with a revolutionary act, start your own Group. If you didn't exist, there would be no world. You are your own world, your own Cosmos, you...
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Categories:
outspread, character, courage, imagery, inspiration, integrity, light, magic,
Form:
Free verse
The Rhythm of My Body
I dance when my eyes blink
I dance to touch your soul with an indelible ink
I dance when my heart sings
I dance to give a caged bird its wings
I dance when my soul sobs
I dance to...
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Categories:
outspread, dance,
Form:
Rhyme
The Drowning Moment
is when he of the Mount of Olives
whom you believe keeps the night watch
catches you by surprise with a wash over your spirit
like Baptism, when he suddenly exists "de facto"
as you are walking, just...
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Categories:
outspread, visionary
Form:
Free verse
Fake Festering Marital Spite Only Backfired
“FAKE” Festering Marital Spite Only Backfired...
More than a bajillion painful eons
after pledging troth
with thee missus,
whom I definitely blindly wed
comprised great ta ra ra boom
de ay ye blood red
boomerang/ domino pizza pie
effect pronouncing lead
din saucy impact...
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Categories:
outspread, adventure, care, destiny, emotions, integrity, marriage, muse,
Form:
Free verse
I Wish I Was the Wizard
I wish I was a tin man
Out there cutting wood;
I'd rely upon the lube can
To keep my elbows good.
All day I'd task and toil
Until it's time for tea,
And then I'd take a squirt of oil
To...
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Categories:
outspread, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Loosing Lou Sing the Damn Rumors
Loosing (lou sing) the damn rumors...
Torpedo style full speed ahead
keeping me in suspense,
what salacious gossip
gets browned, buttered, rolled
down the alley and bred
into unsavory tidbits,
these souffled ears dread
to hear hard boiled morsels
poached, scrambled, whipped
donning barren falsehoods
zeitgeist...
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Categories:
outspread, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Sad Tune
I hear the squelch of sorrow nearing me once again,
pummelling with the purple pulsation in the frail vein.
Sadness encloses the mind-soul-body trinity,
the sound of its footfall trails the echo of eternity.
In the dwindling day...
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Categories:
outspread, analogy, heartbreak, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme
Why the Willow Weeps
Why The Willow Weeps
Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a beautiful park in a sunny valley.
In this park there were three Willow Trees. In those days the Willow was a proud...
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Categories:
outspread, cry, loss, sorrow, tree,
Form:
Narrative
The Cage
Slowly
Very slowly
Fall a white feather
Against the weight of earth
On the ground covered in dirt
It lands there
To be seen
By the blue eyes
To be hold
By a bare hand...
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Categories:
outspread, freedom, peace,
Form:
Free verse
An Audience
An audience in the overhanging trees
glean upon the sight darkening light appease.
Free spirit blotting out the sun shortly ease;
dancing image in the shady shadow seize.
Glean upon the sight darkening light appease;
nesting...
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Categories:
outspread, bird, books, nature,
Form:
Pantoum
Scripting Poems Is a Godsend
This was my entry for Milt's last contest, sadly he passed away before he could judge it.
My lines of romantic Sonnets open a window to my heart.
I write about lost loves and tragedies that trouble...
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Categories:
outspread, poetry,
Form:
Pantoum
The Wynter Stars
I cannot stay wi' thee, my love
This long and chill Decembre night
The wynter stars that burn above
Cast forth their shrill and hollow light
On ev'ry hamlet, ev'ry dell
And of the coming battle tell
And tho' I'd bravely...
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Categories:
outspread, absence, death, devotion, war,
Form:
Rhyme