Long Plunges Poems
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Poems About Icarus
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
plunges, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
plunges, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
A Snow Queen Tale
Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
plunges, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
plunges, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-Xvi
Sonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
plunges, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break Iii
Poems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
plunges, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
plunges, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the Darkness
My Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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Categories:
plunges, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
Rilke Translations I
Archaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
plunges, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
China Tour Thoughts 3
China Tour Diary Moment #3
SHANGRI-LA, TIBET
--------------------------------
Paradise on earth: Himalayan range;
A phenomenon carved by elements;
Here magic gives birth to ways that seem strange;
A place where lessons of soul mark movement.
Our tour coach winds round the mountain...
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Categories:
plunges, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Promise
I'm writing on the first page.
I love the concord and quiet at my age.
The morning came from a genius mage.
In my spirit, I am searching for the truth stage.
To understand things to resist this upsurge.
It...
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Categories:
plunges, america, appreciation, confidence, depression, devotion, fear, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus
Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly
still felt dehydration, physical
fatigue and soreness,
which possibly linkedin
to using stationary bicycle.
Our bed (mine and...
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Categories:
plunges, angel, december, dream, good night, husband, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in grade school, whereat everyone ran away from me with worse...
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Categories:
plunges, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Free verse
4:32am
She stirs first..restless..looking longingly over..senses awakened.
Their feet shuffle slowly under warm covers. The moonlight shines thru the window catching her face. .illuminating it…her tousled hair frames her face.
She looks up, hopefully for his eyes to...
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Categories:
plunges, passion,
Form:
ABC
Scrounging For Boogers Wrought My Damn Nostrils Nearly To Bust
Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust
My humblest apology if the following account
doth gross thee out forlorn childhood of mine
found further ostracization of me tantamount
being shipped off to a...
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Categories:
plunges, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
The Winter's Lullaby Lyrics
Choking noble light held by the hands of Fate ...
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Categories:
plunges, dark, death, emotions, grief, lost love, music,
Form:
Lyric
Blood Bath
Finally my blood began to coagulate
a graceful gel, gently thickened,
so – whatever I might feel, the settling of the wound,
has begun…
in sensitive silences, the shadows echo the fear,
felt by a heart who knows the starkness,...
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Categories:
plunges, blessing, christian, faith, god, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
When In a Jam I Try To Preserve Meditative Trance
When in a jam, I try to preserve meditative trance
Synonymous with light hypnotic mode
inhaling and exhaling diffusing anger
lest mine noggin would explode
rhythmic breaths flowed
sustained me red nose (think Rudolph) glowed.
Holistic approach to derive peace of...
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Categories:
plunges, addiction, beautiful, blessing, daughter, father daughter, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
One Word
with midnight dreams we dance
unyielding, i stir unwilling to awaken
incessantly seeking
You
like virgin wings of the monarch, your shape gently unfolds
i clutch the edges of slumber
aware in my wakening you will be gone
Again
you have come before,...
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Categories:
plunges, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Nepenthe
Written: February 14, 2025 for Contest by Edward Ibeh
“Quote: Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Edgar Allan Poe”
...
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Categories:
plunges, beauty, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus
(joining "Wynken, Blynken and Nod"
at figurative drop of hat
even if yours truly immediately
woke from his slumbers).
When zapped of energy the sandman doth knock
no matter readout...
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Categories:
plunges, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
Illusions
Dripping darkness, doubt, despair
Melancholy, secrets kept
From the heart who knows only
To breathe and believe, to see
What is good and kind and alive
To give – what is moral, upright, polite
Like the miracle of angels passing by
On...
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Categories:
plunges, addiction, angst, anxiety, conflict, depression, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
The Painter and the Dragon
A pony pulled his two-wheel cart past guards and through the gate.
It carried his supplies of art with which he would create.
He heads for misty ocean cliffs, those rugged, ragged rocks;
Then, breathing...
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Categories:
plunges, adventure, art, color, creation, fantasy, marriage, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Collaborated Poem Contest
GUARDIAN OF HAUTE-SAVOIE
At Pointe Percee, a dragon's lair:
A hotspot where no tourist stamps their passport.
The roar of dragon’s mating, females laying eggs.
Wings of rushing waterfalls, winds of alcoholic breath.
They yearn to take flight, to frighten...
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Categories:
plunges, animal, conflict, courage, hero,
Form:
Free verse
Rich Man Poor Man
Human tastes vary and so are the desperate cravings to capture the best in human ambition,
A more desperate thirst for fame, riches and for power can be a low, vulgar bitter taste,
I admire the spirit...
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Categories:
plunges, inspirational, happy, men, night, beauty, beauty, happy,
Form:
Prose Poetry