Long Sagged Poems
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Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
sagged, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Roses and Lilacs
Winter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
sagged, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
sagged, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Sonnets Lii-Lx
Sonnets 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:
sagged, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Love Poems V
LOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
sagged, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children Iii
Poems 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:
sagged, adventure, child, childhood, children, dad, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
The Terror Bugs pursued them through the skies toward the river
Cody flew just fast enough but still he felt a shiver
“Any slower and we’ll stall...
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Categories:
sagged, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
My New Year
If there is life there
must be an encounteration.
Even the moons and
the suns, all get to return
back if they passed
to their eventual
transportation. The morning
lights shunned and pass
like flying clouds. When...
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Categories:
sagged, africa,
Form:
ABC
The Silver Axe
He wondered with horror how so many memories, so many forms to be branded on his skin and engrave there.
Then the wet rattle of a twisted throat, and he beats his last breath to his...
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Categories:
sagged, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 78
“One completed, two to go,” Lumi said to Joulupukki as he lifted the mud guard in front of them. He wanted to give Joulupukki the chance to talk if he wanted to. His weary...
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Categories:
sagged, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
a letter
I got a text from one of my professors yesterday saying, ‘Please stop by my office at 6 pm tomorrow.’ It didn’t say why. This was the first day after November recess, had I missed...
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Categories:
sagged, appreciation, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
rooftop
Lisa and I had a party to hit-up. I can’t stay inside all the time, not on a Friday night anyway and a rooftop is the perfect place to mull over big questions and get...
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Categories:
sagged, night, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets I-Iv
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the...
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Categories:
sagged, desire, first love, for her, love, lust,
Form:
Sonnet
Distance
Sometimes I still use a cordless house phone.
When I call her I imagine her wrapping an invisible cord around her finger
as if she were only walking slowly the opposite direction as the cord...
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Categories:
sagged, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, loss, love, sad, house, me,
Form:
Personification
Children's Poems XI
Children's Poems XI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
To My Child, Unborn
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
How many were the nights, enchanted
with despair and...
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Categories:
sagged, child, childhood, children, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ruin In a Modern English Translation
THE RUIN
an Old English poem about fate & destiny
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
well-hewn was this wall-stone, till Wyrdes wrecked it
and the Colossus sagged inward...
broad battlements broken;
the Builders' work battered;
the high ramparts toppled;
tall...
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Categories:
sagged, destiny, eulogy, fate, gothic, history, horror, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
At Gethsemene
Today is Good Friday. Jesus, the Nazarene, who robbed no one, cheated no one, who loved all, healed the sick and performed only acts of kindness, when accused guilty and became the victim of gross...
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Categories:
sagged, angst, betrayal, cry, death,
Form:
Free verse
The Monarch Who Thought He Was King
The Monarch Who Thought He Was King
Once there was a butterfly
who fluttered by a gate.
The gate was closed, that’s when he said,
“O shucks, now I’ll be late!”
He danced and pranced and shouted...
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Categories:
sagged, allegory, dream, children, pride,
Form:
Rhyme
The Look On His Face
I could tell from the look on his face that things were not going his way, the numbers have been overwhelming but the people have been deceiving him; some people with bad intention tells...
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Categories:
sagged, america, betrayal, business, celebrity, change, conflict, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
sagged, childhoodold, old,
Form:
Free verse
Ballad: Just Another Odd Guy
Ballad : Just another odd guy*
He was just another odd guy
With a self-abnegating smile
He spun no known wilful ploy
Enough – just look at him a while
Others came to camp...
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Categories:
sagged, smile,
Form:
Ballad
Innocence and Snowflakes
To her, their apartment was the whole world—a small but cozy place where she felt safe and loved.
It was early morning. She heard her sister squeal with joy hearing that schools would be closed today...
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Categories:
sagged, child, death, family, heartbreak, innocence, parents,
Form:
Free verse
At Gethsemane
An unusual heaviness hung in the air.
The wind didn’t stir, no single leaf fluttered.
The dead weight of engulfing darkness pressed on.
It...
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Categories:
sagged, angst, jesus,
Form:
Prose Poetry
At Gethsemane
An unusual heaviness hung in the air.
The wind didn’t stir, no single leaf fluttered.
The dead weight of engulfing darkness pressed on.
It...
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Categories:
sagged, abuse, betrayal, god,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Save the World
[Dearest American friends... Gloucester is pronounced ‘Glosster’]
...
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Categories:
sagged, girl, hero, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme