Long Recondite Poems
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State of the Art IiiState of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
recondite, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IvPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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Categories:
recondite, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
recondite, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcomeI dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...
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Categories:
recondite, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Villanelles IIVillanelle
by Michael R. Burch
Is poetry mere turning of a phrase?
Has prose become its height and depth and sum?
What happened to the songs of yesterdays?
Does prose leave all nine Muses vexed and glum,
with fingers stuck in...
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Categories:
recondite, dark, muse, poems, poetry, poets, song,
Form:
Villanelle
Stephane Mallarme TranslationsThese are my modern English translations of sonnets by the French poet Stephane Mallarme.
The Tomb of Edgar Poe
by Stéphane Mallarmé
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Transformed into himself by Death, at last,
the Bard unsheathed his Art’s...
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Categories:
recondite, eulogy, extended metaphor, french, poetry, poets, surreal,
Form:
Sonnet
A New View, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: La Nueva MiradaA New View, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : La nueva mirada
(My own view of Carlos Bousono stems from a full academic year – from the beginning of September 1970 to the end of May-June...
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Categories:
recondite, philosophy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Ronald Rump Reasonably RoastedRonald Rump reasonably roasted
Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety
rambling reverence regarding “r.”
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled -
rickettsia re:itch ruler.
Rapaciously ravaged
revered reverential rubric.
Radical ruthless renegade
rapidly riotously ripped rigged ramparts.
Refrained retaining remnant
redolent...
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Categories:
recondite, 12th grade, america, betrayal, december, grave, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Ronald Rumprepugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler.
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric.
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts.
refrains retaining remnant redolent regal, resplendent rafters.
riches rudely rupture rooted rectified rights.
ruckus ricochets revenant...
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Categories:
recondite, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy, funny, imagination, lost,
Form:
Alliteration
Cassius ClayCassius Clay
A heavy Weight Champion
Who punched his way
Through barriers of colour
With blows of a kind Heart...
He floated like a Butterfly
Yet,...
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Categories:
recondite,
Form:
Rhyme
The Barghest's MonodyTherewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.
A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
will serenade.
Stringent Death forthwith anoints the mithridate to
Life's cantankerous and rankling ado
Hither now come, anon...
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Categories:
recondite, death, life,
Form:
Ballad
An Obscenity TrialAn Obscenity Trial
by Michael R. Burch
The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of trying to reach the "common crowd,"
and they said his poems...
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Categories:
recondite, poems, poetry, poets, society, voice, words, writing,
Form:
Verse
Twenty Poetic Devices of My WoeMy heart is an ebon swallowed night where nobody ever goes,
raging in a recondite rift like ripples resounding in rueful repose. ...
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Categories:
recondite, poetry, sorrow,
Form:
Couplet
NeanderthalNEANDERTHAL
In times gone by, now recondite,
Neanderthal, erect, upright,
spoke softly, tones so lily-white,
and tried to put the world aright.
He taught us how the flame ignites
that wearing furs will warm the nights,
just why the rolling wheel excites,
and...
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Categories:
recondite, allegory,
Form:
Monorhyme
Announcement Prayerful and Frolicsomely Playful: Or, a Canticle I Think I'Ll BeA canticle I think I'll be,
A rimed thought, hoary and ancient,
Stinking as the dust heaped up empyreal on the hills of
The Judean sands;
And as dulled and dimmed as an archaic coin tarnish'd.
This...
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Categories:
recondite, absence, adventure, allegory, anger, anniversary, august, betrayal,
Form:
I do not know?
Autodidact In Love With WordsZealousness prevails to amass knowledge
lifequest nsync toward expansive lexicon
extant since yours truly kneehigh toddler
inquisitive mind fired passion to steep me
within inexhaustible voluminous treasure
trove housing increasing bound knowledge
inexplicable to thyself, wherefore heartfelt
ineradicable passion to sequester attention
between...
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Categories:
recondite, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
TimeFour dimensions, yet three in one,
Location, space and time,
X Y location, space around, and in time,
We don’t consider an X as without a Y really.
So quantum mechanics stand to floor,
The claim...
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Categories:
recondite, age, childhood, education, planet, space, time, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Autodidact In Love With WordsZealousness prevails to amass knowledge
lifequest nsync toward expansive lexicon
extant since yours truly kneehigh toddler
inquisitive mind fired passion to steep me
within inexhaustible voluminous treasure
trove housing increasing bound knowledge
inexplicable to thyself, wherefore heartfelt
ineradicable passion to sequester attention
between...
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Categories:
recondite, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal - Concluding StanzaRECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - La Ballade “Le Chant Royal” -Concluding Stanza
(Note: As you can see, I have taken certain liberties with the fixed form, but have always kept close to the spirit of...
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Categories:
recondite, abuse, allegory, child abuse, cinco de mayo,
Form:
Ballade
Shattered PrismsWho is this I have found
lying dying
on the ground
drowning in her
prose and woes
making not one
single sound?
Where does she go to
where does she hide
see how she’s swimming
against a recondite tide?
What have the Gods wrought
crumpled on this...
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Categories:
recondite, love,
Form:
Free verse
Bewitched VisionMy nights have lately become sultry
as suffocating heat chases sleep away,
I lay wide awake unloved and sweating
beneath the murmurous ceiling fan
hoping for some refreshing relief.
Each eventide I hear her bittersweet song
drifting from the verdant...
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Categories:
recondite, longing, love, magic,
Form:
Free verse
Elbowmarks On My Window SillI sit and reminisce about the "good ol' days"
The prelapsarian time before it all went sideways
The details of life were all that I saw
There was no rich, no poor, no petit bourgeois
As an unbeknownst...
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Categories:
recondite, analogy, blessing, culture, destiny, dream, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Passing of An IconPassing of an Icon
An accomplished Lady of recondite letters
Writing humanity to free from its fetters-
From your clever Prose being deciphered,
With skewed minds, is where you differed.
And where, with prejudice, our minds think
Fellow Human beings...
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recondite,
Form:
Rhyme
The Captive AngelTHE SNOW and coarse wind both plunge down over oceans
Unbound and unmeasured by obstinate sailors
Who drift while confronting ungrappled emotions
Like obdurate petrels and stoical whalers.
Imprisoned ashore on a cliff is the mourner
Whose wings have...
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Categories:
recondite, angel, death, life, mountains, philosophy, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
The Villanelle of David Torment of Mavis Chill Autumn Night Plight-- The Villanelle Of David Torment of Mavis’ Chill Autumn Night Plight-
Mavis couldn't stop thinking about the chill
burr, twas just so autumn of a night
But she could never forget the frill
Cold morning, Mavis was shocked...
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Categories:
recondite, anxiety, autumn, cool, deep, morning, night,
Form:
Villanelle