Long Ragged Poems
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Vacuum
Vacuum
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:
ragged, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
The Making of a Poet
The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
ragged, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
State of the Art Ii
State of the Art (II)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...
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Categories:
ragged, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
ragged, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Arthurian Poems
At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
ragged, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1
The young lady's car slowed to a stop ...
As she pulled as far off the highway, (onto the shoulder), as she could
(Allowing for any snow plow that might come along).
She had chosen poorly this time
Believing...
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Categories:
ragged, angel, appreciation, christmas, snow, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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:
ragged, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Azure Vistas
"Azure Vistas"
Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain falling petulantly on blunt contracts
I glimpsed the sweet refrain of a resurrection
swift upon a...
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Categories:
ragged, muse, political, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Skin of Terror
Skin of Terror
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
(The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming anxiety. He peers out into the gloominess at the wheel and tightly clutches...
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Categories:
ragged, horror, mental health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Room 123 Part 1
Here I stand outside this door heart beating out of my chest, knowing that once I cross this threshold there will be nothing of me left
I got myself into this predicament I wanted this so...
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Categories:
ragged, heartbreak, i miss you, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
ragged, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
ragged, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man
Star dust, the stuff of a fool’s dreams.
Oh !!!, to travel upon star dust streams
- that glorious, never ending journey -
into the realms, the space of many.
This old spirit, seems, not to fit into...
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Categories:
ragged, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto Ix
That color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
ragged, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 76
The night sky was dark but for the beam of light that glared through the trees before them as they walked into the woods. Joulupukki and Lumi were careful not to get to close...
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Categories:
ragged, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Territory Trample
Headlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
ragged, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats
“I love you...
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Categories:
ragged, friendship, fun, happiness, journey, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xii
Juvenilia: Early Poems XII
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly,...
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Categories:
ragged, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
Form:
Rhyme
All That Was Sparta
Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
ragged, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Random Acts of Karma
The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and many other homeless people lived), and stopped to give him...
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Categories:
ragged, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Trial of Red and White Fire
Centuries ago
In ancient Hermopolis
A debate roared loud
Between a proud Christian priest
And a strange shepherd
Who was a Manichaean
Wearing ragged clothes
And who was looking for sheep
“Flames will consume you”
The priest roared at the shepherd
Because their debate
Was going...
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Categories:
ragged, beautiful, fire, religion, religious, spiritual, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Choka
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
ragged, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
In London Town
In London Town, a girl was born
Who lost the crown, but won the scorn
Of Lady Margaret's deep disdain
For something proud, she cannot reign
Her daughter's name was Mary Grace
An angel with a beaming face
Who blessed...
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Categories:
ragged, beauty, conflict, england, faith, family, love, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
The Woods of Four dimensions
Washed ashore on the lost island
Skin already peeling on the beach
Burning from the hot green summer sun
Meat melting off to become bone
Jumping back into the water
Cooling off with the clams and fish
Washing the sand...
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Categories:
ragged, appreciation, creation, happy, mountains, sun, sunshine, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
The following pastiche
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros
(????) cow licked
country bumpin videlicet hick
bullied who consider me
on account of a dinky dick.
Me primate...
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Categories:
ragged, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse