Long Receding Poems
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The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
receding, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
receding, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Free Verse IiNucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
receding, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
receding, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
receding, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
receding, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
receding, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
receding, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Never AloneA young girl who’s lost & wandering in the darkness cries out
“If there’s a God out there please save me!”
The darkness replied with silence
But she kept listening so intently to the nothingness around her,
Clenching and...
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Categories:
receding, anxiety, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems IvLOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
receding, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
A New MythologyThere is a new mythology emerging,
Howling from the hind end of the pack,
Scorching the composted leavings
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame
Showing the way for true rock & rollers.
It’s...
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Categories:
receding, allegory, mythology,
Form:
Blank verse
The Cover-Up -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationI've long wondered about that so-called - "Moon landing"!?
Everything went smoothly on the morning that we launched and headed off to make our flight through space.
And we’d now been receding from the earth for...
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Categories:
receding, space,
Form:
Narrative
Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912.
Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Every angel...
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Categories:
receding, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form:
Elegy
Waters and SkiesI.
You can always tell by the eyes
When they’re starting to go
You’ll fall for a few of their lies
Before you begin to know
And you will just defy it
(But they know you will never go)
They’ll glide through...
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Categories:
receding, addiction, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Seasonal Walks In the Parkbaseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”
A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches overhead
That can shock and moisten one’s...
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Categories:
receding, baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
Form:
Free verse
The Wound That Never HealsScience can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I was teaching Shakespeare’s 92nd ridiculous sonnet
to my...
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Categories:
receding, christian, husband, mother, music, night, prayer, snow,
Form:
Verse
The Best Poet EverWouldn't it seem to persist an unspoken personal longing for perfection?
Is insinuated toward poetic supremacy; obviously . . .
I would feel confident in generalizing the presence within us all—to achieve god-like greatness.
I must say, that...
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Categories:
receding, adventure, art, beauty, character, courage, deep, how
Form:
Lyric
The Visit, Part I("The Visit", Part I)
My name is Lemon, without the 'ade'.
Not for my colour though, hue or shade,
For I'm a pinto with brown and white,
Said to be pretty from distant sight.
But up close is a different...
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Categories:
receding, abuse, horse, love, trust,
Form:
Rhyme
Princess Diana PoemsPRINCESS DIANA POEMS
Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch
Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so solemn, so lovely?
an orchid ablaze in a crevice...
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Categories:
receding, angel, beautiful, beauty, england, princess, rose, woman,
Form:
Epitaph
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:
receding, animal, bird, earth, fish, god, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
A Land Where East Meets WestWritten 19 November 2023
No. 1259 New Poems Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Stand
...
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Categories:
receding, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Booth Made Famous On April 15th MdccclxvBooth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV...
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").
Ever since early forerunners
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth),
modern Homo Sapiens...
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Categories:
receding, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form:
Free verse
Public HistoryI sit here steeping in the History
of Our Land, a class, my eyelids dense.
Our Flag hangs in the corner of the class
Red and White folds in deluge, licking the
framed portrait of our Thomas Jefferson,
our...
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Categories:
receding, america, education, history, identity,
Form:
I do not know?
Let Your Guard DownI had a compelling feelings today to get up and go outside
I had been writing reports all day and looking desperately for another way
At first I wanted to go east but I...
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Categories:
receding, adventure, america, angel, beautiful, confidence, culture, england,
Form:
Narrative
Canto Xxv Hell Translation Part2Any face of before was there suppressed;
Two and no one the sinner’s wicked face
Was looking; and such way slow pace progressed.
As the green lizard when so strong lambastes
The heat wave of day, then changing the...
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Categories:
receding, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima