Long Palely Poems
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Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
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Categories:
palely, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
palely, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
palely, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
palely, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xvii-XxivSonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
palely, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
palely, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Love Poems ILOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
palely, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Birthday Poem to MyselfBirthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch
LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,
Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;
come dwell again,
happy child among men—
men rejoicing to have known you
in the familiar manger’s cool
sweet light scent...
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Categories:
palely, birthday, dark, death, life, light, love, star,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse IvFREE VERSE VI
Reason Without Rhyme
by Michael R. Burch
I used to be averse
to free verse,
but now I admit
YOUR rhyming is WORSE!
But alas, in the end,
it’s all the same:
all verse is unpaid
and a crying shame.
What the Poet...
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Categories:
palely, freedom, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 6cCHAPTER 6 (continued, c)
Several of the primate children
Sat together in the branches
Of a tree; they did not notice
Danger silently approaching
Through the leaves a brown and yellow
Shiny scaly serpent slithered
Closer to the young gorillas
Eyes unblinking glimmered...
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Categories:
palely, adventure, africa, imagination, mythology, nature, science,
Form:
Narrative
Rabindranath Tagore TranslationsThe Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters boisterous.
On the seashores of endless worlds earth's children gather...
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Categories:
palely, universe,
Form:
Verse
At Six O'Clock In the Morning Upon the Sixth of JuneAt six o’clock in the morning
Upon the sixth of June
Came Michael-Paul O’Higgins
Into this bustling world.
At school he was but middling,
He never cut much ice
In English, Maths, Geography,
In Scripture, Sport or Art.
In early adolescence
On the back...
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Categories:
palely, faith, psychological, success,
Form:
Verse
Rabindranath Tagore: the Seashore GatheringThe Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters boisterous.
On the seashores of endless worlds earth's children gather to...
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Categories:
palely, allegory, allusion, analogy, beach, child, childhood, children,
Form:
Free verse
Reopening a Hero S SongbookIn his songbook,
are raving songs of beauty,
which thrushes around the phrases of my mind
and embroiders my soul on an errand
into a white night of a white Christmas,
in a white dreamland,
and having sleepless...
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Categories:
palely, tribute, death, me, brother, anger, brother, death,
Form:
Epic
Ode To SpringFair Spring, a lady, palely loitering,
Whose brow is decked with flowers and with dew,
Whose bosom births youth’s essence which does bring
Unto the barren glades, a glory, new,
...
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Categories:
palely,
Form:
Ode
The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot ShampooThe Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the...
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Categories:
palely, desire, hair, longing, love, lust, memory, remember,
Form:
Sonnet
The Fate of a Princess - the Great EscapeAnastasia was all too eager because the dream she dared not speak of in fear of jinxing it was finally coming true.
Back in the princess's quarters, Anastasia was adorned in Princess Layla's former wedding attire....
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Categories:
palely, betrayal, dark,
Form:
Prose
Tagore Translation: the Seashore GatheringThe Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters boisterous.
On the seashores of endless worlds earth's children gather to...
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Categories:
palely, boat, children, dance, earth, extended metaphor, happiness,
Form:
Verse
Who I Am
"I have built my foundation with life's bricks;
I exist. I am me. And that has been enough. "
...
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Categories:
palely, me,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Who I Am
"I have built my foundation with life's bricks;
I exist. I am me. And that has been enough. "
...
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Categories:
palely, me,
Form:
Rhyme
The First Quencher*Notting else tastes so good
when
the elegant daylight is still at spree
When
the bloomingblossoms are yet to yield
When
the earth yawns 'may we live
..left to grin.
The hibiscus now smiles in sane,
the boozy sky and...
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Categories:
palely, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
Day, and NightDay, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew us...
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Categories:
palely, day, flower, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Someone Else's EternityThat phobia shall never turn on someone's innocence suicidally
So continually identify our so unaware eternity
And his mountain should torment my venom
So you kill Satan's fate — I am apparent
But her unwanted venom should fear...
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Categories:
palely, death
Form:
I do not know?
JahWho is he that can show light its dwelling place?
Or carve destiny in to the hands of man or stud it in the sky?
Who is he that makes Earths foundation tear and shake?
And instructs the...
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Categories:
palely, religionlight, light,
Form:
Rhyme
God's ChainsIgnore this afraid temple
Heartlessly hurt the oh so unwanted razor
Fear their mountain
Someone else's dark resting place could hate God's soul until the end of time
Slowly hate her quite star-crossed hell
Your mortal creature...
Palely they imagine your...
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Categories:
palely, faithhate,
Form:
I do not know?