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The Injury of Fury~~**This poem is super long, but it took me hours to write. I hope you all enjoy reading this as I have enjoyed writing it wholeheartedly.**~~
Awful anger expressed in verses
Didn’t give me blessings, but curses
I’m...
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Categories:
restless, anxiety, courage, deep, depression, desire, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Back BurnerI heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I...
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Categories:
restless, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
Halloween PoemsIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
restless, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
restless, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
restless, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
It's HalloweenIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
restless, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
restless, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
restless, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
restless, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
restless, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
Ono No Komachi Translation: AutumnWatching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
restless, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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restless, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Ono No Komachi TranslationsAs I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
restless, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Chapter 65 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xiv 2 : the Family VacationIt was at this point 11 o'clock
At night. Damian Left Molly and
Checked on the seven. Everybody
Was fine. He returned to
Business. Molly was no longer
Afraid she knew she was in the...
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Categories:
restless, 7th grade, beach, beauty, child, grandmother, parents,
Form:
Alliteration
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
restless, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young SolomonsDamian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be leaving today...
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Categories:
restless, adventure, birth, business, father son, women,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 15 -- Damian and Polly: 2025 Another Year With PollyA cool February evening Damian was
Asleep. He felt somebody rubbing
His chest. "Leave me girl." Polly
Rolled out of bed and announced
"Damian, you should move in with me!
I want you to move in! Wake up...
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Categories:
restless, friend, good night, happiness, passion, women,
Form:
Alliteration
Poems About Things That Break IiiPoems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
restless, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Pray For the Lost - the Linked Style~ Pray for the Lost ~
( The Linked Style )
~O~
Pray for the lost
P
Lost in this World
R
World Needs...
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Categories:
restless, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Oh My Numb CraniumWhy did He let me break?
Was it for a future's sake?
How did you all get here?
Are we all lost in epic fear?
Keep pressing on, my dusked Dawn
We welcome the sun, that's what we look upon
Do...
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Categories:
restless, deep,
Form:
Lyric
StevenHe has the biggest heart.
He enjoys doing things for other people
Just because it’s the right thing to do, and
Knowing he made someone happy makes him happy too.
He’ll do whatever he can to satisfy
Everyone around him.
But...
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Categories:
restless, addiction, anxiety, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 11Lumi's hand pressed upon his shoulder in a surprisingly firm grip guiding him into the dining area and to the second of two long slender tables where sat five older elves including DynDoeth.
...
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Categories:
restless, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Poems About Children IiiPoems about Children III
Miracle
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
The contrails of galaxies mingle, and the dust of that first day still shines.
Before I conceived you, before your heart beat, you were mine,
and I see
infinity leap in...
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Categories:
restless, adventure, child, childhood, children, dad, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
restless, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 36I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light indeed could sustain itself in the midst
Of what then was...
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Categories:
restless, appreciation, dark, desire, endurance, inspiration, literature, meaningful,
Form:
Epic