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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:
rhetoric, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
rhetoric, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
rhetoric, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Mirza Ghalib TranslationsNear Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...
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Categories:
rhetoric, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form:
Verse
Warrior
“Warrior”
When the Argonauts, came across
the abandoned Starship, they
found within the wrecked
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message.
It took several attempts to
reactivate, but when opened,
the following was translated: ...
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Categories:
rhetoric, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Today Is DifferentToday is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.
Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacred
happy secular "Amen!"
Our nearly fearless Editor and Chief
calls for political "ACCOUNTABILITY!"
like...
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Categories:
rhetoric, america, health, integrity, prayer, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
rhetoric, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Wall StreetSet upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth. The meek children bending over for millennium, taken spankings of...
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Categories:
rhetoric, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
rhetoric, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 1 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part One by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
rhetoric, imagery, introspection, literature, philosophy, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part Two By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...
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Categories:
rhetoric, art, creation, literature, philosophy, word play, writing,
Form:
Free verse
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Categories:
rhetoric, change,
Form:
Free verse
Fire God Speaks OutAngry FireGod sneers sarcasm,
"Not warm enough yet?"
"Still too much clean water and air
and other healthy stuff,
like sun-baked red chili peppers?"
Excuse me,
I was under the impression
that I invited you for my interview,
which would involve me asking...
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Categories:
rhetoric, culture, destiny, fire, health, religion, science, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 110 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damali Desharah DjDate: June 2046
Damian traveled into town to
Observe results of the Deuces
Bar renovation. Joshua Godfrey
Barrington Shadir and Matthias
We're in the gym trying to play
A type of cruel ball...
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Categories:
rhetoric, birth, business, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Purity-LoveFreed from my mind
I escape it
I end time
I think it
I think nothing of it
I believe in you
I believe in the American Dream
I think of it
I think nothing
I know you are something
How is it found
Where...
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Categories:
rhetoric, love,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 4 By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN - Part Four by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis,...
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Categories:
rhetoric, literature, political, rights, society, time,
Form:
Free verse
Holier With ThouMy continuing impatience problem
with smug fundamentalists
self-asserting holier than thou moral positions,
is that Christ's main point is not
Holier Than Others, like Chosen People
but Holier With Thou,
as one interdependent EarthBound BodyMind.
British King James monotheistic readers
digest at AntiLiteraturist...
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Categories:
rhetoric, culture, god, imagination, integrity, love, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Stolen Illumination of the StarSTOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR
This journey has not been a fanciful adventure,
we're all settlers in these dynasty of neo-colonialism
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes
victims of civilized inducement,
terms of...
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Categories:
rhetoric, political,
Form:
Narrative
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:
rhetoric, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Choir Dissonant PracticeI am a right-brain prominent writer
which must not be confused with
a prominent left-brain writer,
which I am almost decidedly not
nor would I aspire
toward such all or nothing thinking
and not at all both/and feeling.
Like most writers,
I feel...
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Categories:
rhetoric, anxiety, appreciation, depression, health, integrity, muse, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Speaking From Felt ExperienceEnjoying Earth's promised land
of compassionate
multicultural communion,
we share a preference for deep
rich soil
and fertile green-blue
resonating surf
As our bodies adjust
to rocky and prickly
either me
or not me space
And our minds flow
back and forth
through gooey both "me"
and organic neurosystemic...
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Categories:
rhetoric, anxiety, community, feelings, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential winStrong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...
for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of the game
of thrones breaking apart ramparts
of inalienable rightful
freedoms rent sunder, whereby nothin
can stop...
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Categories:
rhetoric, america, angst, anxiety, business, conflict, culture, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Gott, Oh Machtig, Trump Iz On the Warpath AgainGott, oh mächtig, Trump iz on the warpath again!
Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists
will apply figurative screws
in an effort at blatant mud slinging ruse
exercised courtesy mail in ballots,
or...
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Categories:
rhetoric, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
One More WoundTo quote the queen of my broken heart
“Call me a coward, too scared to leave”
leave my cocoon; evolve, maybe I never will
the air in here is suffocating
suffocating but this is home
To rewrite her words, I...
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Categories:
rhetoric, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Wandering MinstrelIn history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace. A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow delights
On ladies, peasants, and errant knights.
Their...
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Categories:
rhetoric, music,
Form:
Ballad