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Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
pebbles, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Whats Behind the CurtainI 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:
pebbles, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
BehindI 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:
pebbles, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
pebbles, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
pebbles, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems 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:
pebbles, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children VPoems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
pebbles, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
pebbles, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
pebbles, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets IiMODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
pebbles, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Thirty-Twofrom island corner, big Antrim lad
to Belfast city, a tiny pad
shattered windows, tilted clocks
Goliath had lost his socks
gargantuan giant going mad
Armagh apple girl, any topic
...
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Categories:
pebbles, ireland, nonsense,
Form:
Verse
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
pebbles, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Final LullabyFinal Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.
Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.
Sleep peacefully—like fields of fragrant clover
unmoved by any motion of the wind.
Sleep...
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Categories:
pebbles, death, eulogy, funeral, Lullaby, mother, mother son,
Form:
Lyric
Gingerbread Cottage FrightAt the edge of a wood, in days of summertime,
Lived Hansel and Gretel, once upon a time;
Whose dear father, a poor woodcutter,
Could no longer earn their bread and butter.
Late one night, a conversation overheard--
As from...
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Categories:
pebbles, children, family, fantasy, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
the imps encouraged
the once good Poesie folk
to jeer and throw pebbles
the...
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Categories:
pebbles, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUYA MINISTER RETIRES :
SOLILOQUY
I arise as infant Phoenix
from Akasha ashes
counterparts frozen
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration
Source Light breathes into
fontanelle slowly sleepily
Sekmet my...
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Categories:
pebbles, change, character, emotions, extended metaphor, growth, humanity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I'Ve Got To GoI’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...
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Categories:
pebbles, cute, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
The eye of the stormHuge fluffy clouds began to form over
Sanibel Island as the salted gulf splashed
against the rocks around the lighthouse
coastal waters rose up as a calming coolness
carried this gentle warm breeze over to...
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Categories:
pebbles, beach, beautiful, creation, rainbow, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
Wildmoor SymphonyFIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
pebbles, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
pebbles, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
My Friend MaryRemembering our friendship
how we'd talk for hours about
any topic family love kids life
how it hurt not to hear from
one another sending cards
pictures letters remember that
I remember so well that achy
lonely...
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Categories:
pebbles, beautiful, friendship,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Galactic Strings Or Void of SpaceGalactic Strings or Void of Space?
A poem’s akin to a necklace, one fashioned
of water-worn pebbles (from rarest of realms),
stone cold truths tumble-polished, love’s chord weaves together.
Do fossilized beads left behind in Life’s wake
spark faint hint...
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Categories:
pebbles, faith, love, poetry, science, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Femme FataleFemme Fatale By A Wishing Well
(In The Wastelands Of War)
Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...
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Categories:
pebbles, war,
Form:
Rhyme
RED SEARED SEA
At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
mud of my anus, ink of...
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Categories:
pebbles, allegory, body, color, courage, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form:
Ballad
Yet More Than a BrotherMoods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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Categories:
pebbles, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother, character, feelings, friend,
Form:
Bio