Long Roam Poems

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Be of Good, Compassionate Courage

Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down 
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown

I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...

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Categories: roam, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form: Free verse


Above Under

Verse 1: We held hands and I fell under your spell...you are the hell from above
My heart has turned to ashes, but I rose again like a Phoenix because of you and I's love
I bled...

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Categories: roam, deep, desire, emotions, universe,
Form: Lyric

I Am My Father's Son

They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...

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Categories: roam, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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THE TINY TRIAGE EXAM ROOMS

I'M TRANSPORTED BY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION AMBULANCE I'M ALWAYS AFRAID SUFFERING SEVERE PANIC DISORDER I TRY AND FOCUS MY MIND HURT MY EYES ARE SWOLLEN PANTING PANIC ATTACKS AGAIN THE NURSES ARE KIND RIGHT AWAY I...

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Categories: roam, allah,
Form: Naat

I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 1

(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...

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Categories: roam, angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form: Free verse


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This is Happy Land, The World's Playground, lyrics

"Welcome to the playground"
'Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses. 
Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses.'

Jack the ripper, he slept with a whore, and became deadly ill 
While his soulmate Jill became...

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Categories: roam, birthday, conflict, culture, dark, death, drug, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

The True Mother

“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s dreams 
rust crumbles to dust

Virulent apathy spreads 
Betrayal’s destruction 
hand...

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Categories: roam, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Medieval Poems Ii

Medieval Poems



Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!

Wulf's on one island; I'm on...

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Categories: roam, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form: Rhyme

As Time Walked By

These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade. 

as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch

yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...

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Categories: roam, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form: Free verse

The 996th Poem

Fulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...

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Categories: roam, beauty, change, corruption, courage, crazy, deep, writing,
Form: Free verse
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Chapter 16 -- Damian Hakim Polly Dolly and Molly: Damian's Plans and Family Time

March  2026
The final weeks of the CCC plan:
Damian and Polly planned the
Copy Cat Club convergence with
Molly and Dolly. The meet was postponed 
A few times until everything was set.
Damian and Dolly knew one another...

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Categories: roam, allusion, best friend,
Form: Alliteration
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Who's Crazy Now

I have an outside RightBrain dominant thalamus
to watch and listen to,
to feel confluent and resonant with,
to love,
as parent with child,
yet this is more of a mutual-mentoring of
notsad-notsad sustainable bliss
within our normally limited nutritional sensory environment.

My...

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Categories: roam, body, dream, health, humor, identity, psychological, science,
Form: Political Verse
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The World Is a Small Plane

I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...

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Categories: roam, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form: Narrative
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The Journey

Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.

It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...

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Categories: roam, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form: Rhyme
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Paul and Sarah - Part Two

Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...

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Categories: roam, adventure, america, love,
Form: Rhyme
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A Kept Woman

Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body 
c h a...

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Categories: roam, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form: Free verse
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MESSY MEXICAN FEMALE VIOLENT OFFENDER

Sad place when Lucifer sits behind a desk allowing severe repeat violent offenders to give false statements falsified documents in order to frame innocent persons from behind bars after over 20 convictions queen pin drug...

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Categories: roam, allah, corruption, innocence,
Form: Kyrielle

Longing For the Stars

My mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...

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Categories: roam, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: I do not know?
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You Lift Me Up - the Trine Style

~ You Lift Me Up ~ 
(Trine) 


When troubles blow my way and just come 
You help me see better and then some. 

You lift my spirit up and my soul like no one can...

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Categories: roam, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
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TERRORISTS THREATS FROM 17 GANGSTER DISCIPLES OF WISCONSIN ON THE STREETS AND BEHIND BARS

NO FEAR OF 17 GANG MEMBERS VIOLENT OFFENDERS STORMED THE HOSPITAL AFTER HOURS INTIMIDATING MY DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER IT WAS A LONG DAY MY DAUGHTER TOOK HER INFANT DAUGHTER TO GET HER FIRST IMMUNIZATION GOD...

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Categories: roam, allah,
Form: Lento

Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I

Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...



Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...

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Categories: roam, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Free verse
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Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 37

The cold air seemed to help clear his head but the lullaby was persistent and 
he could not get it out of his mind.  He walked for just a few moments
before passing the the...

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Categories: roam, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
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A Poem of Ruth

The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...

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Categories: roam, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

The Twins, Part 1

In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.

In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...

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Categories: roam, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form: Prose

Addicted To the Appeal

Verse 1: I'm loving every second of our time together
I'm liking the fact that you aren't a memory, all ablur
I adore you and everything about you
We were meant to be...you came to me out of...

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Categories: roam, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, grief,
Form: Lyric
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