Long Remonstrance Poems

Regret
by Michael R. Burch

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .

once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .

a shining there
as brief
as rare.

Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .

unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....

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Filched Physiognomy – Mine revisited!

Absolute zero escape
velocity guts dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordance
with light as a feather

miss lost acquaintance
the boy within forced admittance
as sure man tanks of...

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I

Hungry earthworms
Forever entombed in the bowels
Of mother earth
Awake

Defy this asceticism and prostrate
For your ultimate destiny
Lies not in the dogmatic 
Steady march along beaten footpaths

Hungry earthworms
These reminiscences of plaintive cooing
They do not placate
Those dethroned, deprived spirits
Of...

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Filched Physiognomy - Mine!

Absolute zero escape
velocity guts dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordance

with light as a feather
miss lost acquaintance
the boy within forced admittance
as sure man tanks of fat...

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Loitering in the lair of incontinence without askance
Chaufeured by alter ego looking for any appealing circumstance
Besieged by an uncontrollable libido that craves a licentious remonstrance
Bridled by an insecure complex that insists on a meaningless dalliance
Bethrothed...

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I saw those men in solemn chain trooping from the line
hand on shoulder, link to link their bandaged eyes gas blind.
The image burned upon my soul, and tied me to their chain
A scene imbued with...

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Freelance wanderer carefully navigating the vast expanse
Shadow warrior doth stealthily advance without 
remonstrance
With bartered lance, pawned knife; abridged parlance
Shuffling in tantric harmony o'er unforgiving terrain; 
nuanced eccentric
Camel cavalcade, entrancing spectacle across glistening 
sands prancing
Shrouded by...

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“Sleep”
Somnus, Somnus
Those sweet words my mother sang to me 
It is a wonderful state to be 
How much I long for it 
How much I need It.

Somnus, Somnus
For I have been asleep far too long...

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“Sleep”
Somnus, Somnus
Those sweet words my mother sang to me 
It is a wonderful state to be 
How much I long for it 
How much I need It.

Somnus, Somnus
For I have been asleep far too long...

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Somnus, Sleep
Those sweet words my mother sang to me 
It is a wonderful state to be 
How much I long for it 
How much I need It.

Somnus, Somnus
For I have been asleep far too long...

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Imperial night, your proud face sheets
 escarpements of history and space...
 All your dark volume encloses wells of roses
 wherein their liquid capes of blood
 reflect the school of living things


 Imperial night, eternity's black...

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Why mimic thus the feeble bee
And flutter over each lovely flower
Where is the harp I strung for thee
The wing I braced with growing power 

I gave thee not the sprightly flute
To call the dance and...

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Let me bear trials and pain
Without complaint or holler; 
Let me endure the rough rain
And strong storm or vile weather.

Let me display forbearance
Under strain, hurt, and heartache; 
Let me beat the remonstrance, 
Even the wrong...

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Power of a fancy
over good reason,
My imagination !

A force of nature
trust or truth,
delight of an immature?

No war no red earth
no remonstrance,
A fascination ?

Bumptious or chagrined
deeply possessed neurotic,
an absconding notion ?

Pulling me in pool of love
then...

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