Long Preceding Poems
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Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
preceding, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
preceding, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
preceding, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Jesus Is Great - the Linked Style~ Jesus Is Great ~
(Linked)
JESUS IS GREAT
J
Great is His name
E
Name so Holy
S
Holy is He!
U
He, Son of God
S
God, our Father
I
Father Almighty
S
Almighty and true
G
True and...
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Categories:
preceding, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
preceding, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part FourRosalia - The Evil Witch of the Harz, Part Four
Rosalia’s Date with Destiny and the Power of Light and Goodness
It is said that the Almighty Lord God works in very mysterious ways . . ....
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Categories:
preceding, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments,
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...
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Categories:
preceding, adventure, character, gothic, heart, love, philosophy, power,
Form:
Free verse
Beware the Ides of March 2023Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
preceding, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Speaker, Subject, and Theme In Edna St Vincent Millay's ''Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now''“Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now”
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the past-
Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow
Or Trojan waters by...
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Categories:
preceding, betrayal, desire, literature, love, passion, poetess, sin,
Form:
Prose
The Andromeda Strain Part I: ILMO - my sonI thought of writing about another High School Social Studies book report. This is an intriguing piece riddled with a complicated set of circumstances. I chose to write it as a short story as it...
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Categories:
preceding, mystery, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
One God, Under SupremacismPlease don't share this
pledge to inter-religious allegiance
with your straight white monotheistic worshiping
friends and family,
But, just between us panentheistic ecofeminists,
sometimes,
not often enough,
we would be healthier and wealthier
to reflect together upon
Internal polytheistic integrity communications,
bilaterally organic both/and dipolar
internal/external...
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Categories:
preceding, god, health, joy, light, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Another Apricot SunriseIt was just one of those splendid days, which held no excitement;
Moreover it required none, for in its stillness, I was content.
Lying on the forest green grass, luxurious blue skies in my eyes,
Summer winds brought...
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Categories:
preceding, destiny, friend, imagery, nature, travel, universe,
Form:
Couplet
TouchingMoment to moment, all moments entwined,
I feel the touch of magnetism divine,
the source of which, by mind is not divined
so to know the truth, with heart I align.
With this preamble, let’s step back in time,
that...
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Categories:
preceding, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Light of the WorldThere is an author, a creator, a maker of the LIGHT ...
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Categories:
preceding, god, jesus, light,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 16
The day, following their nuptials, was like most days. The humans that had come to witness the Joining had all left early, thanking the elves for their hospitality and packing their carts with...
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Categories:
preceding, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Breath, In Blue
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8
"Breath, in Blue"
Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten...
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Categories:
preceding, animal, bird, earth, fish, god, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the MissusBeddie 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:
preceding, angel, december, dream, good night, husband, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
Today August 29th 2021 Sluggishness Dogs Yours TrulyToday August 29th, 2021 sluggishness dogs yours truly
Forecasting to thunderous applause
fast as greased lightning draws
upon futuristic atmospheric gewgaws
hot air emanates out these slackened jaws
spluttering courtesy indentured maws
armed with four footed tall paws
gesticulations resembling horizontal seesaws....
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Categories:
preceding, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
preceding, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
My Esteemed TeacherMy esteemed Rinpoche
repeatedly impresses upon me
Our humane democratic vocation
to become an enlightened individual.
Which sounds like a polyculturing lot,
for absorbent
co-acclimating residents and guests
of Earth's cooperative green/blue hermitage
To accomplish
in solitude,
in one semi-lifetime,
demi-deathtime.
While this seems ambiguously...
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Categories:
preceding, art, culture, health, integrity, language, math, teacher,
Form:
Political Verse
Philosophy of IntegrityIs also a metaphysics of integral co-relationships,
which would make an even worse title
for drawing you into
our shared land of bicameral consciousness.
Philosophy of scientific method
could also become
Philosophy of Beauty and Humanity,
You never know
this negative bipolarity
could turn...
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Categories:
preceding, community, environment, health, philosophy, political, science, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Nothing To Hide, Translation of a Coeur Ouvert, Poem By Rene EtiembleNothing to hide*, Translation of a poem: “A coeur ouvert” by (René) Etiemble
For Jeannine
(Later in life, Etiemble suppressed his first name, ostensibly on account of the accented “é”
ending his first name and preceding the...
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Categories:
preceding, love, , literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Husband Feebly Tried To Smite FigurativelyPreface preceding promiscuous philandering peccadillos
undermining energy and time not spent with missus
and mother of our precious progeny,
whereby, yours truly sought, (somewhat assertively, modestly,
and zestfully) to elicit – illicit prurient heterosexual predilections
before dark shadow of guilt...
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Categories:
preceding, betrayal, conflict, depression, desire, fantasy, heartbreak, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part IIdes simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 issue
url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-
the-ides-of-march-8664107/
top ten reasons to
beware the...
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Categories:
preceding, adventure, celebration, conflict, death, eulogy, fate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Weird Fake NewsWeird "fake" news
This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close
to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...
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Categories:
preceding, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form:
Free verse