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Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
overthrown, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
overthrown, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems Iii
Medieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
overthrown, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Prose Poems Ii
Prose Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
overthrown, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx
Sonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.
Because you...
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Categories:
overthrown, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
Deor's Lament
Deor's Lament
(Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem circa the 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland endured the agony of exile:
an indomitable smith wracked by grief.
He suffered countless sorrows;
indeed, such sorrows were his bosom companions
in that frozen...
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Categories:
overthrown, destiny, england, fate, old, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 97
“Morning beautiful lady,” Joulupukki greeted her.
“Beautiful? Maybe a couple hundred years ago,” she replied as Joulupukki stood and kissed her on top of the head.
...
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Categories:
overthrown, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Crown of Sonnets - Part 2
Yet there in the mist is the stories tusk
There full of the hidden secrets of men
The men and fairies who are full of lusk
They do hide them away here in the glen
Here they are hidden...
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Categories:
overthrown, adventure, imagination, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Revolution
REVOLUTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
A revolution is much deeper than what the eye can see
An opportunity to rid the land of despotism and tyranny
When any citizen can expose the enemies of the state
Present and judge valid...
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Categories:
overthrown, betrayal, corruption, evil, fear, irony, power, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Advent of Other Happy Endings
Throughout 2016 I have been reading Rob Brezsny's Pronoia
Is The Antidote For Paranoia
now ending before I reach 2017.
This postmillennial bible of multiculturalism
ends with several questions or statements
with space to write in my responses.
I am about...
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Categories:
overthrown, destiny, earth, health, humanity, humor, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
The Cry of Dolores
A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdinand VII was held captive El...
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Categories:
overthrown, cinco de mayo, cry, culture, history, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Palestine will be Free!!!
POEM: Welcome to Palestine. The land of the prophets and the martyrs.
Let’s show show some respect, and bow down in humility…
Gaza may be small, but their angels are all over and as far as...
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Categories:
overthrown, allah, christian, freedom, islamic, jewish, religious, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Son of Amittai - 2 of 2
(continued from 'Son of Amattai - 1 of 2')
in the belly of the fish
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God,
Deep from the belly of leviathan.
“I cried out to you, Lord, in my distress,
For I...
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Categories:
overthrown, bible, fish,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Lilith
"Truth are not from the valley of the shadow of death ... Lilith, like all mythological entities, are humanity's creation, to explain--what they cannot," ... by The Poet
Hawaii Nei, bidst Aloha, inoa Pelekane ke'o ke'o,...
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Categories:
overthrown, abuse, america, betrayal, bible, conflict, imagery, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Silent Majority
Secrets are anxiously being kept with a behavioral struggle, as one of the special few enters the room; obviously preoccupied with his thoughts. Bottom teeth are nipping his upper lip tucked tight, rope acting as...
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Categories:
overthrown, betrayal, fear, metaphor, power, silence, society, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Till Death Do I Part
The room was cold and flooding with a silence that makes men go insane,
There are footsteps in the hall as they grow nearer and then dissipate into nothingness,
A loud and defined set of steps grow...
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Categories:
overthrown, body, deep, depression, emotions, health,
Form:
Free verse
The Bachelor Spectacular
The Bachelor Spectacular
by Michael R. Burch
One heart? Tossed aside.
The other? A bride’s.
In all his great wisdom, the bachelor decides.
Eeenie, mean-ie, mine-y, mo’,
one gal must stay and one must go.
If she hollers? That’s the show!
No heart...
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Categories:
overthrown, engagement, funny love, heartbreak, marriage, nonsense, relationship,
Form:
Verse
The Way My Ex-Friends Wan'T You To See
people always say to me
you clearly want to better me
succeeding whilst I fell away
conforming to normality
I don't meet or speak to people
face to face invisible
but hey, nobody knew anyway
one...
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Categories:
overthrown, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems For Poets Vi
Poems for Poets VI
Caveat
by Michael R. Burch
If only we were not so eloquent,
we might sing, and only sing, not to impress,
but only to enjoy, to be enjoyed.
We might inundate the earth with thankfulness
for light, although...
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Categories:
overthrown, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalypse's Overture: Ascending From Hell's Abyss To Heavenly Glory
In the Apocalypse of Hell, a warning strong,
Of destruction and judgment, where dark throngs,
Where eyes that sin, must cut to save,
To seek the path, the righteous pave.
Hell's inferno starts on Earth's domain,...
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Categories:
overthrown, christian, forgiveness, in memoriam, riddle, voice, world
Form:
Narrative
Trumpian Nightmares
April 2 Walls
April 9 Pane e circus 2017 Redux
By order of his excellency
Emperor Donald the First
The merciful,
the Christian King of Kings
The Sultan of Sultans
The Emperor of North America
Be it hereby decreed
That the ancient honorable...
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Categories:
overthrown, political,
Form:
Free verse
Bachelorhoodwinked
bachelorhoodwinked
by michael r. burch
(a poem about wedlock, or lock->wed)
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ***ALARMING***
since all my resolve
dissolved!
u
are
chic
as a sheikh's
harem girl in the sheets
but castle's no longer my own
and my kingdom's been overthrown!
That Not-So-Mellow Fellow, Othello
by Michael R....
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Categories:
overthrown, desire, engagement, lust, marriage, passion, sexy, wedding,
Form:
Free verse
Abtract Gospel According To Author of God In South Africa
Albert Nolan
"Abtract Gospel"
God in
"Picture" out
current problems
shoved aside
preach good
Feel good
do apartheid
II - Part 2
In his book, God in South Africa The Challenge of the Gospel," Albert Nolan ends his work quoting passages from Isaiah that convict...
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Categories:
overthrown, africa, appreciation, immigration, international, judgement, relationship, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Masked
Masked
If you pass a glance in my direction, a shell you will see,
An image that's skin deep, not a true portrayal of me.
But please, take the time to slowly peel away my mask,
Just...
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Categories:
overthrown, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Das Furer Trumpeting Totalitarian Triumph
Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war,
never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial
complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied,
openmouthed, dumbfounded at inane ill logic to send
best and brightest, or even those boasting...
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Categories:
overthrown, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, fear, how
Form:
Dramatic Verse