Long Remorse Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
remorse, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
The Breeze at Ease - with hardly any difficultiezDriven insane by sorrow, there’s no tomorrow to cure it…
Honestly, I’m in vain and so guilty…feeling way less than legit…
I’m holding you close in my optimism and its memories along with it
Torn apart by negative...
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Categories:
remorse, angst, beautiful, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Free verse
CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
remorse, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
A Taste of My Varied GenresA Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along with these titles:
The Sound of His Breathing (Written about my...
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Categories:
remorse, poetry, , cute, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
remorse, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
remorse, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
remorse, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
remorse, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
remorse, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
A Snow Queen TalePart 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
remorse, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Dylan ThomasThese are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
remorse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
remorse, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
remorse, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
remorse, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Sunday Morning JoggersGoodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
remorse, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
Randomlings 1-34Randomling 1: Matthew Macfadyen
I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen”.
Randomling 2: Birthday Wishes
For my birthday,...
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Categories:
remorse, cat, deep, depression, dog, emotions, funny, love,
Form:
Verse
Forever Forgive MeForever forgive me
For my one and only iniquity
Please forgive me
With forbearance eternally
Lots of anger and lust
Got a hold of me…
So, I must...oh, I must…
Set my soul free
Forever forgive me
Determine my footsteps to the light
Emotionally unhappy
Intervene...
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Categories:
remorse, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, longing, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part SevenRosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
The Final Days: Rosalia’s Death and Destruction
In the wake of such evil, debauchery and depravity what can be said now in the case of...
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Categories:
remorse, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About RegretRegret
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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Categories:
remorse, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Truth Is All An Act In Government ExposedOne small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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Categories:
remorse, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Used As An ExperimentUsed As an Experiment
THE SILENCE IS BREAKING MEEEE….CAN’T YOU SEE?
V.1: Strong AS STEEL, wrapped up with silver, heartfelt ribbons
Give it to me – the rope of hope
You smoked me out like a cigarette…
Used like I’m...
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Categories:
remorse, angst, beauty, betrayal, blue, emotions, freedom, hope,
Form:
Lyric
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ moreDeliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...
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Categories:
remorse, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems IiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
remorse, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Maya 2Continued from Maya 1
At length, when the womens' screams had ceased
and the sound of the thunder had stopped,
he gathered his courage and withdrew himself
from his hiding place beneath the corn.
He left the hut and prostrated...
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Categories:
remorse, allegory, conflict, courage, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
remorse, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse