Long Platinum Poems
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SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
platinum, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
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:
platinum, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Used To Go To This BarRed light, the neon beer sign on the distant wall reflects off the long expanse of polished bar top, overpowering the quiet brown wood. It’s after lunch, only a few people in to stir the...
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Categories:
platinum, addiction, beauty, drink, religion, society, solitude,
Form:
Prose
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
platinum, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz DiveSaul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...
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Categories:
platinum, humor, murder, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Queen of EnglandQueen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
“We are all visitors to this...
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Categories:
platinum, appreciation, celebration, grief,
Form:
Clerihew
Love Poems IvLOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
platinum, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer Memories Summer Realities Thoughts About Part 1Summer Memories
Summer Realities
This, the first day of summer, two thousand and two, finds me,
slipping back into what once was my desire, my need, my reality.
This step back into, and into times passed, has allowed me...
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Categories:
platinum, summer,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Three Ways of Swiping the World CupTHREE WAYS of Swiping the World Cup
"It is sweet and fitting/glorious to lay your life down for your country » - from a poem by HORACE
(See my story selected to represent France in the 2006...
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Categories:
platinum, football, games, humor, sports, stress, woman, women,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Tell Her You Saw MeTell her you saw me ...
Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...
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Categories:
platinum, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
The Monroe MoonIn glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon hunger;
their dewy eyes blurred by the sawdust of stardust
pseudo-princess-pleasure-seekers
—drama daring...
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Categories:
platinum, age, beauty, lust, moon, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue TeasersUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers
Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky...
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Categories:
platinum, animal, girl, humor, irony, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
WallowingSee, I've been wallowing in it for far too long
knee deep sunk in it even at times
eyes too marred by melancholy to see the way out
even as I gave in to the allure...
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Categories:
platinum, desire, family, fate, growth, how i feel,
Form:
I do not know?
My Voodoo BrideMY VOODOO BRIDE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Married only three hours still in jubilation
My beautiful bride natures finest creation
A seaplane trip to an island just east of Haiti
I had in my life a model of unmatched beauty
She was...
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Categories:
platinum, betrayal, conflict, evil, grief, horror, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
My Words Do Not Match YoursInsignificant,
My proses are nothing without you-
but scribbles, through and through
I dream a dark weary blur
of letters, a phrases, going by in a flur-
Even that; my thoughts seeming simple
even then it lacks luster given by you-
the...
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Categories:
platinum, angst, beauty, creation, growth, heart, introspection, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
I Saw God But Now What. Darkness there was...
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Categories:
platinum, religious,
Form:
Rhyme
Classic Vinyl Love PoemThe radio plays their song
And two hearts beat as one
To the rhythm of a tune they call their own.
The gold and platinum vinyl spins
Creating the sound where love begins.
If only for the moment, they have...
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Categories:
platinum, hope, love, music,
Form:
Free verse
Welcome to tinsel town: where majestic crowns are adorned by the passionate and the Precious#IT'S QUITE THE HONOR...
TO BE A RESIDENT OF THIS TOWN!
KINGS AND QUEENS, A.K.A.
"EMBRACING BEINGS"
WALKING, TALKING, VIBRATING...
FEET FIRMLY HOLDING GROUND!
"STERLING SILVER!"
"STERLING SILVER!"
"SPARKLING STUPENDOUS SENSATIONAL
SUPER SPECIAL SPECKS..."
OH HOW IT REFLECTS!!!!
{SUCH LUMINOUS LIGHT}
ALL NATURAL, A TRUE...
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Categories:
platinum, appreciation, discrimination, hair, men, silver, uplifting, women,
Form:
Free verse
Reticence‘tap, tap, tap’
your petite knuckles
gently attacking my door -
I envision their French-painted nails
dancing in the shine of
the hallway light
like a row of bishops bowing to the Pope
(your sensual sacrilege)
I don’t make a sound
though my eye...
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Categories:
platinum, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Stevie Ray Vaughan InspirationStevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock in the late 1960s.
He ruled the American blues from 1983...
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Categories:
platinum, analogy, appreciation, beauty, history, music,
Form:
Bio
Would Love Breathe Forever? Sometimes, when
your sparkling spirit
waltzes with me
to the perfumed
periwinkle grooves
of saffron breezes,
I'm lost in a forever gaze,
within those
flickering ferns
of a nascent nightmare,
where I ain't any
velvet-purple orchid,...
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Categories:
platinum, deep, emotions, flower, poetry, sorrow, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Best Sports Poems IiThese are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II
The Locker
by Michael R. Burch
All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation or sentiment,
left with the pungent darkness
as remembered as the sudden...
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Categories:
platinum, baseball, basketball, boxing day , football, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Indian Independence - 75 YearsBorn after freedom; I witnessed
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over
Years went by: I grew bigger
I witnessed the 50th too:The Golden Jubilee
The country...
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Categories:
platinum, beautiful, celebration, devotion, happiness, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Indian Independence - 75 YearsBorn after freedom; I witnessed
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over
Years went by: I grew bigger
I witnessed the 50th too:The Golden Jubilee
The country...
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Categories:
platinum, beautiful, celebration, devotion, happiness, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
If I Become 'Rich'If I get all the riches of the world, will win all stress
I'd snatch you away from all of your business
No order, no shipment would draw your attention
Just you and I, none else would exist...
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Categories:
platinum, dream, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme