Long Quarry Poems
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CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
quarry, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
VacuumVacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
quarry, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
State of the Art IvState of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
quarry, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight
your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...
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Categories:
quarry, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Such Tenderness, For the Mothers of GazaSuch Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch
for the mothers of Gaza
There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed fledglings beneath a warm wing
and coos to them softly, unable...
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Categories:
quarry, angel, arabic, baby, caregiving,
Form:
Sonnet
Mahmoud Darwish English TranslationsMahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems
Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of bread warming at dawn,
a woman haranguing men,
the poetry of Aeschylus,
love's...
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Categories:
quarry, allah, arabic, judgement, race, racism, rights, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
There Was An Old Lady Who Lived In a HutI heard a story being told by a traveling man. He told of a story that was passed down from father to son for generations This story journeyed from country to country and was translated...
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Categories:
quarry, appreciation, friendship, society, symbolism, tribute, visionary, woman,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...
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Categories:
quarry, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Oferta Del Diablo - Part OneThe Beast smirked, horns quivering ...
"You know you want to", he said, nodding toward the hills
There, above a dark, gaping wound of earth, Página Sagrada shone.
A sheer, white marble face of mountain, it shamed all...
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Categories:
quarry, adventure, analogy, fantasy, metaphor, satire, science fiction,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Burden of Broken Ties
Written: December 31, 2024, Contest: Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
...
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Categories:
quarry, analogy, god,
Form:
Free verse
Seeds
"Seeds"
Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy
opens the light
inside me
cracked eggshell
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind
in the smallness
of me
something
quietly blooms
ragged yet refined
a gecko...
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Categories:
quarry, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To the End of WarSharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No flag of truce waved, or friendship offered as token
Nothing was...
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Categories:
quarry, friendship, war,
Form:
Epic
Stalingrad IAs gods go forth to set the world a fire
‘tis ego that consumes the despot mind.
While domination seeks its epic spire,
the raging wars from east to west align.
‘Tis mere despite that veils a wailing world
then...
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Categories:
quarry, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Grim reaper forever guaranteed eternal plentiful harvestGrim reaper forever guaranteed eternal plentiful harvest
the following written
for no particular rhyme nor reason
quite aware the exit (stage door left)
allows, enables, to provide every season
with a bumper crop of dead souls.
many mortals beseechingly
lift...
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Categories:
quarry, 12th grade, absence, angel, atheist, birth, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rigamarole of TraitorsThe US Marshall is a tedious branch, that can be manipulated over a process of a deadly undergoing investigation. The perpetrator was very elusive from the get-go. He boards a US Marshall plane rigged to...
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Categories:
quarry, addiction, betrayal, conflict, hope, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Recollections From the Golden Cree II know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods
By which...
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Categories:
quarry, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell taleBrief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale
Living social amidst
crime infested urban jungle
bumping uglies cheek to jowl
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors
spurred subject matter in question
to journey...
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Categories:
quarry, adventure, anger, animal, beach, beautiful, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
RumpelstiltskinBurn, burn does fables fire, as an impish figure dances,
Around the wild flames of greed, guess, guess my
Uncommon name, by the devil’s hang nailed toe,
Your never guess it mortal woman, and so your
Royal child will...
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Categories:
quarry, fantasy, gothic, halloween, history, holiday, imagery, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Among Butterflies SoughtIs
This
Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece of land
Take a little time to mend
This rainforest trembles
An open window in shambles
Sitting on my own made porch
I fire up...
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Categories:
quarry, betrayal, butterfly, conflict, dark, nature,
Form:
Concrete
Freedom's Lament"Freedom's Lament"
Oh sweet Freedom how quick you have gone from Groom to Widower.
How saddened are those who succumbed and labored so freed we could all be after Freedom had so long toiled and quarried to...
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Categories:
quarry, freedom,
Form:
ABC
Belle of the BallsBelle of the Balls
...
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Categories:
quarry, fantasy, children,
Form:
Narrative
my little bookworm -
home again, jiggety-jog
oh, how kindly my castle welcomes me!
the pungent loves of earlier meals and my dear one's perfume
Je Reviens and Acqua Di Gioia
like manna for the sensual senses
a weary man dripping from a weary...
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Categories:
quarry, analogy, appreciation, books, fun, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Overzealousness and AssiduousnessOverzealousness and assiduousness...
now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal mind
filched mine banknotes
rationed for when I exhibit decrepitude.
Cutthroat robber baron
re: newly minted vandal
an alumni matriculated
from school for scandal
a sheep in wolf's clothing
said culprit I...
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Categories:
quarry, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Rhyme
Bloody MaryIn the flickering of the ethereal candlelight, as the greenish blue flame
Burns dimly against the ancient mirror of reflections, the necromancer
Chants in rhythms rhythmic undertones, stirring the rippling pools of
Illusions, between the divisions of altered...
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Categories:
quarry, fantasy, halloween, history, holiday, horror, imagery, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Icarus, ResurrectedFinally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch
Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand
and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands
where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting
and Passion seems
like a wise bloodletting
and all I remember
upon awaking
is: to Love sometimes
is...
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Categories:
quarry, desire, dream, fantasy, flying, god, joy, magic,
Form:
Verse