Long Peripheries Poems

Dream 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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PRINCESS DIANA POEMS

Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch

Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so solemn, so lovely?
an orchid ablaze in a crevice...

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POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects and the superb narration by Dorsey Jackson (Deeja) on the...

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My Rhetoric Rhapsody

Oh! I am a Poet
It’s me again pretty poet of the century,
Breaking through till I reach mercury.
A pretty poet with popping phrases,
A poor poet with perpetual personality.
Praying that my poems pulls out pieces...

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‘Madness kills Insanity’


Melancholy daggers had struck him down again

Compressed a fragile state of festering fragments

Left behind on slow incisions ready for the kill


A crazy old man on death row of split darkness

Stripped to the core...

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Digging into and detecting deep roots gives me a thrill.
Though raking up the foregone quarrels is a tiresome drill,
Values I have lost in the name of modernization,
Traditions that, like ancient hills, succumbed to damnation...
Should threads...

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Let me tell you


Let me tell you one truth
The vastness of infinity is fathom less
But one wonderful matter to win this
Poets' knowledge is beyond case

That is why that their pens ride and run
To catch easily...

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You think, therefore 
You're rising with the rising stars

But in dreams 
You're falling to the far side

Day by day 
Collecting what's yours from your sales
Of whatever it is you sell these days
You watch your profits...

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Deep into scientific facts, I do not want to go,
Though - why? And what? - Questions of reasons often in me glow;
I wonder at the mystery of the magic sun, here,
How he splendidly, with his...

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monstrous sound slashes silence              
the bellow of a giant beast, 
or the flutter of a thousand wings
elevations and indiscriminate creed will not...

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The Peripheries of Love
by Michael R. Burch

Through waning afternoons we glide
the watery peripheries of love.
A silence, a quietude falls.

Above us—the sagging pavilions of clouds.
Below us—rough pebbles slowly worn smooth
grate in the gentle turbulence
of yesterday’s forgotten...

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the bottom lines scripted peripheries in a mirror

          a headline toppled and reversed time and place

left became right and wrong pretended its centre

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Pigeon Man Frank,
buried underneath the
morning fog coddling the
fractured arteries of
urban sprawl
which mill humanity
against civilization's grindstone

Pigeon Man Frank,
bears wounds of scorn
as a foul wraith that
dredges along the
peripheries of civil society, 
Lo! the herpes sore
squatting on the
public's...

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Can you feel it sometimes? 
This feeling that goes and comes
That always hangs at the peripheries
Waiting quietly in the shadows 
 Have you met it  this feeling called nothing.

It’s like touching a live wire...

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A Poet Drives a Truck

Transmit and reflect light with a steady glow.
             Inspect the equipment routinely and thoroughly.
Explore alternate routes when feasible.
 ...

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It's past midnight; the witching hours
 softly creep through the darkness.
 Music muffles out of an open doorway,
 shadows thump as hearts beat.
Seeing fluid bodies merge in time
 I'm the wrong piece in an incomplete...

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Once sealed tight
the eyelids of
my shrouded eye
nestled in the crumbling confines
of this teetering temporal form
auspiciously slip apart
my cradled cornea now
lugubriously leering at the
plainly demarcated peripheries
of this leery physical plane

Turquoise tellurian irises
spotted by a drop of
festive...

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ATHENA

A girl so gorgeous to regard upon with grins
does protect this peaceful city with serene souls.
She blesses all the dwellers with witful arts and
cunning crafts that carve them into beautiful souls
into beautiful souls that radiate...

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Who chooses when to fall in love
The ocean waves sweep even doves
Carrying all gates
To the roof of the sky above

Who chooses when to fall for affection
Love chooseth not
Do true feelings ever define boundaries
Or winds opt...

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Kitty Cats inhabit the space between day, and night
guarding the twilight from the unknown Dark.

Seeking out nooks and crevices,
they stalk,
lurking at the peripheries of trees.

Surrounded by numerous unseen creatures, their graceful frames greet the dimly-lit...

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