Long Recant Poems
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Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
*
Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
*
What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
recant, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
recant, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
No Recanting
May we be 'so graced' as to relinquish any faith, ...
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Categories:
recant, christian, forgiveness, god, political, pride,
Form:
Verse
Just Call His Name - the Pirouette Style
~ Just Call His Name ~
( Pirouette )
~O~
In Him find Love, Hope, Peace
In trouble, call His name
He'll respond Your call
Come in heart, live in you
When you...
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Categories:
recant, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
Highlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Punishment meted...
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Categories:
recant, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Old Pharaoh - 1 of 2
Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was the voice, for Moses talked real slow,
So he would wave...
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Categories:
recant, bible,
Form:
Ballad
You'Re My Light - Davedas Concrete Candle Style
~ You Are My Light ~
( Daveda's Hybrid Concrete Candle)
~O~
Dear
Lord
You're
My Light
You give
Love Hope
Peace Joy
In You...
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Categories:
recant, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
My Inner Voice Told Me
A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enjoins the ultimate in empirical assessment ...
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Categories:
recant, care, character, dedication, deep, encouraging, feelings, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems I
LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
recant, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than Cumulative
Yuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited
healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive
in into neat stack of wrapped gifts, when...
what! out of thin...
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Categories:
recant, 10th grade, 11th grade, appreciation, creation, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Yuletide pageant merry go round
Yuletide pageant merry go round
Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals
and...
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Categories:
recant, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration, chanukah, christmas, december,
Form:
Free verse
Living In the Middle East
You put him in a cage
That pilot you shot down
Pour gasoline on him
And set him ablaze
And the world is silent...
That seventeen year old girl
Writhes on that soiled bed
As you let all those other men
Rape her...
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Categories:
recant, violence, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
the GAUD poems
Poems from "the GAUD poems" and "the ur poems"...
& GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE
to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!”
—michael r. burch
reverse the Curse
with LIGHT VERSE!
recant the cant
with an illuminating chant,
etc.
—michael r. burch
Can...
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Categories:
recant, bible, christian, extended metaphor, god, light, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Healer Part Iii (From My Life Story)
At the age of twenty two I gave birth to my first child to survive. A beautiful
and flawless daughter with dark brown eyes and hair like mine. When she turned five years
of...
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Categories:
recant, mystery, native americandaughter, me, age, grandmother, age,
Form:
Free verse
Victory In China
Victories In China
14th and 15th Nov 2015 are days for avid badminton fans the world over to remember,
Somewhere over there in Fuchou, who cares where exactly that is there in China.
All that matters to die...
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Categories:
recant, appreciation, celebration, dedication, encouraging, passion, psychological, sports,
Form:
Light Verse
Yuletide Pageant Merry Go Round Second Time
tender petsmart impact, where world wide web populated
with sacrificial pacification sans deity
via oblation, immolation, flagellation appeasing Dominatrix
borrow wing, vis a vis amalgamated viz Roman sol invictus
wrought fiery brimstone tempting those who dared
assert contrary...
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Categories:
recant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Taking Our Stand and Having Our Say
*It was one Saturday that I first saw and heard this casually dressed
gentleman at the Q Street Mall in our city. I would later see him the ...
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Categories:
recant, fear, god, love,
Form:
Free verse
One Last
One last look before you turn the page
One last life fulfilled at a golden age
One last story before the truth can be told
One last journey before you truly become old
One last dance in the sun...
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Categories:
recant, song,
Form:
Rhyme
The End
SO very young, they all said
A heart of gold, remembering
Kindness’ in hues of carefully
Wrapped embraces, kisses
Breathing prayers, whispering
Gentleness in each carefully packed
Memento, each token – every treasure
It wouldn’t feel like death
Would dare to take that...
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Categories:
recant, beautiful, death, heaven, inspirational, jesus, joy, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
Death First Knocks, Fear Then Enters, Plea Given, Part One
(Double sonnets- Part One)
Death First Knocks, Fear Then Enters, Plea Given
(Double sonnets- Part One)
Cold hand of death, thy touch arrives too soon
Weakens my breath, sorrows my tragic tune
Thy blow that hits hard, thy strike...
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Categories:
recant, art, creation, death, deep, faith, fate, judgement,
Form:
Sonnet
Wide Eyed Saunter
There is an urge within me to wander randomly,
to explore in vivid detail each kaleidoscope,
incidental hue or pristine colour I encounter,
or just as likely that tantalising shady patch,
with its dreamlike mystical allure so faraway,
this blue...
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Categories:
recant, appreciation, august, beautiful, beauty, city, color, environment,
Form:
Haibun
Yule Tide Pageant Merry Go Round Second Spin
such heretics pitched headlong
into fiendish frothing furnace
forcing obeisance toward primitive popular
identified, honored, glorified father figure
expressing devotion re:
decking the halls of the mountain king,
whence boughs of Juniper sprigs contriving wreaths
sanctifying twisted brambles via...
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Categories:
recant, allegory, america, anniversary, candy, celebration, chanukah, christmas,
Form:
Elegy
The Wormwood Portfolio
"The Wormwood Portfolio"
Reams of stories
riddled with worms
wood for burning
all the children
cover their eyes
tears smoked
into the lungs
gender fluid
propheticising
bitter water
electric brains
chipped like
fine-boned China
downloading
overloads
dumps are
damp
the fuse
sizzles and
stops
green as absinthe
gauche ghosts
gone all...
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Categories:
recant, dark, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Dying Friendship
When a celebration feels like a business dinner...
When you judge not the sin, but condemn the sinner...
When silence is deafening...
When you wish for an ending...
When every word is laced with disinterested contemptuous ire...
When everything you...
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Categories:
recant, absence, best friend, break up, emotions, friendship,
Form:
Couplet
Azrael Rain
(For when you are a man.)
To my third child and second son,
You may be the most inquisitive one.
To answer the greatest of all concerns—
I love you more than fire burns.
I do the best with what...
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Categories:
recant, absence, care, child, destiny, family, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme