Long Parched Poems
Long Parched Poems. Below are the most popular long Parched by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Parched poems by poem length and keyword.
Cymbric Vale
I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
parched, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
parched, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
parched, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii
My most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
parched, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaph For a Palestinian Child
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child of...
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Categories:
parched, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
Rip
R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
parched, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
parched, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
parched, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Whats Behind the Curtain
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
parched, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Behind
I used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
parched, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
parched, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
parched, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Observance
Observance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
parched, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iv
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
parched, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Cleansings
Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
parched, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
What Good Are Our Tears
What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
parched, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
FireGod Speaks Out
Angry FireGod sneers sarcasm,
"Not warm enough yet?"
"Still too much clean water and air
and other healthy stuff,
like sun-baked red chili peppers?"
Excuse me,
I was under the impression
that I invited you for my interview,
which would involve me asking...
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Categories:
parched, culture, destiny, fire, health, religion, science, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
Bucky Fuller's ReVival Ghost
Let’s say the number 1
iconically speaks in Left-Yang Universal Language,
root of ecosystemetrics,
while PlaceHolder (0)
bicamerally dreams in Right-YinDiPolar ReGenerative PolyCultural Action,
health-flow of autonomic, enthymematic thought and awareness
influenced by feelings of EarthCentric BiCameral Consciousness
as Plan A,
so...
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Categories:
parched, earth, earth day, health, humor, political, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
parched, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems V
LOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
parched, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
parched, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Oasis
Oasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
parched, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Early Poems I
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
parched, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Prose Poems
Prose Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
parched, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
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:
parched, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet