Long Parnassus Poems
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Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
parnassus, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
unaware
the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,
"beware, beware"
barefoot softly
the Supernaturalist
transfigures instead
from under shine
she bares...
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Categories:
parnassus, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Errata I
Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!
***
Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
***
Negligibles
by Michael...
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Categories:
parnassus, crush, desire, funny love, giggle, hilarious, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetry Spoke Truth, and Truth, Poetry
I.
Like arrows swiftly launched on bleeding wings,
space and time flew to shape our foretold fates.
Parnassus glorified supernatural beings,
birthing grand songs too vast to narrate.
From Pierian springs, I drank like deer that...
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Categories:
parnassus, beauty, death, fate, fire, god, poetry, truth,
Form:
Ode
This and Other Things I Write
By God
of Earth and Eden
In this life
I have a pencil
Bitter and sweet
Heavy and light
I will ink for a while
but then I must buckle
for my boat to set sail
into the Island of Light.
I will wrestle and...
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Categories:
parnassus, motivation,
Form:
Free verse
On Youth, Love, and the Muse
I.
What delight is there, when the wine of youth
runs out and just the dregs of life remain?
When childhood flowers, and love's fire becomes truth,
the lusts...
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Categories:
parnassus, childhood, desire, love, lust, muse, passion, youth,
Form:
Lyric
London Poetry Olympics
Litter London with latent suicidal tongues
Olympian words rise to claim the covet of crown
National pride perhaps, to hear the dialect sings
Diminished not again by that foreign fang of words
Once strangling memory of native speech.
Nation language...
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Categories:
parnassus, political, me,
Form:
Free verse
Love For Three Women
LOVE FOR THREE WOMEN
In bays and headlands of my dreams I hear her sweet laughter:
She strolls along the beach in morningtimes at low...
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Categories:
parnassus, love
Form:
Sonnet
Angels and Lyres
Fair Angels of Parnassus, Muses Nine,
That on its snowy summit gay recline
With other gods, are haply the cynosure
Of poets whom inspires your sacred ewer,
O'erflow'd with the ambrosial Hippocrene,
The haunt of daughters of Mnemosyne,
And Father...
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Categories:
parnassus, angel,
Form:
Classicism
A Phantasmagoria of Nonsense
I searched in vain for inspiration.
I even climbed the sacred Parnassus
Where all the muses reside.
I danced with them
Engaged in endless discourse.
All in vain.
Then I resigned to my fate.
Oh Pythagoras? How I refused
Ever to believe in...
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Categories:
parnassus, addiction, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Crushed
To Lesley do I owe a big debt
No more over verse will I ever sweat
Reading her nuanced advice between the lines
My motivation to versify sharply declines
It has become clear to me...
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Categories:
parnassus, lost love, poems, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Loss of Faith
If Muse can strengthen faith by her Parnassus,
then whisper, thou, thy love's labor (and call
the messiah!) to author my soul's Damascus,
to blind my eyes...
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Categories:
parnassus, allusion, betrayal, christian, faith, god, inspiration, loss,
Form:
Sonnet
Tearthem For Their Bad Verses
O Cinna man,where you gonna run to?
O Cinna man,where are you gonna hide?
What's with poetry which makes us all blue?
Your verses we can no longer abide
Most of us labour on the foothills...
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Categories:
parnassus, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Prayer For the Makers
Our pages' dearth decrees our need for death
when, from time to time, we invoke the Muse
and she doth not reply (but doth refuse!)
as our quills...
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Categories:
parnassus, god, inspiration, jesus, metaphor, muse, mythology, prayer,
Form:
Sonnet
When Melancholy Drowns My Interests
When melancholy drowns my interests,
all seem lost; when black bile's ooze then molests, ...
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Categories:
parnassus, depression, god, hope, inspiration, life, love, mental
Form:
Sonnet
I Long For Your Truant Inspiration
I long for your truant inspiration,
O Muse, for I've felt your absence too long;
empower me to sing a gay, new song,
that...
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Categories:
parnassus, creation, inspiration, life, muse, mythology, poetry, simile,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
An Appeal To My Muse's Inspiration
I long for thy truant inspiration,
O Muse! (I feel thine absence for too long.).
Restore to me the gift of creation
once more,—that I may sing a...
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Categories:
parnassus, creation, inspiration, longing, loss, muse, simile, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
A Bard's Self-Reflection On Life
None can share in full the loss You have known;
from innocence to experience, You,
fair child, were never meant to be alone;
to be betrayed by saints...
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Categories:
parnassus, destiny, fate, heart, introspection, life, loss, mythology,
Form:
Sonnet
''Where Art Thou, Muse''
Where art thou, Muse? I seek inspiration!
I have endured your absence for too long:
restore to me the gift of creation
once more, that I may sing a new, gay song.
When you return I'll feel great elation,
for...
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Categories:
parnassus, creation, inspiration, metaphor, muse, poetry, simile, writing,
Form:
Sonnet