Long Sags Poems
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Poems About Poems Ii
Poems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
sags, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
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:
sags, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
State of the Art Ii
State of the Art (II)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...
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Categories:
sags, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Starlight and Moonlight
These 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:
sags, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Obsession
...inspired by 'Portrait Of A Lady' by T.S. Eliot
On winter days the view outside is nebulous at best,
within, the furniture is as it always was, and I am waiting,
waiting for a glimpse of you to...
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Categories:
sags, angst, devotion, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Time
Time
Did we think that time would always there for us?
An infinite amount of time to use as we please.
Never counting time.....and never thinking it would end
Did we ever doubt that someday time would be...
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Categories:
sags, 10th grade, angel, anniversary, appreciation, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
King of Kings: 1-90
1 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
It casts an orb three hundred stories high
Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
The birds and trees now stand a...
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Categories:
sags, metaphor, , western,
Form:
Epic
Autumn Side Of September
In the middle ages
these roughed and scuffed decades
between newborn crocus -snow-melt-nursed- and
dried hydrangea blooms sepia-skinned and papery thin
I earned the right to wear sapphires
and burn mademoiselle mistakes with wisdom-fires
I collected years for years to earn...
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Categories:
sags, age, beauty, birth, introspection, life, september, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Sun Setting Over the Dark Green Fringe of a Shivering Lake
Sun setting over the dark green fringe of a shivering lake on the last day of winter
An old man still unbent sits on a deserted wooden bench
with the load of his cares...
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Categories:
sags, bird, loneliness, song, spring, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Sappho Translations XI
Sappho Translations XI by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 92
translation by Michael R. Burch
“Sappho, if you don’t leave your room,
I swear I’ll never love you again!
Get out of bed, rise and shine on us,
take off your...
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Categories:
sags, beauty, clothes, flower, god, hair, women, words,
Form:
Free verse
The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine's La Soupe Du Soir
The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir
To J.-K. Huysmans
(Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of any symbolic or imaginary references. Even if I see no...
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Categories:
sags, poverty, stress,
Form:
Elegy
Sappho Translation: Eros
SAPPHO TRANSLATIONS
Eros harrows my heart:
wild winds whipping desolate mountains,
uprooting oaks.
—Sappho, fragment 42, translation by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
No droning bee,
nor even the bearer of honey
for me!
Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
sags, desire, longing, love, lust, passion,
Form:
Epigram
The Moon, a Golden Doubloon Buried In the Midnight Sky
The moon, a golden doubloon buried in the midnight sky, amongst a billion diamond
speckles, shimmers in the warm summer night’s air, as it slowly climbs to its zenith. The
lake reflects the scene back...
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Categories:
sags, losslost, dark, dark, girl, lost,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Its Not Normal Yet
The morning is creeping all over my skin and a distant wind is blowing cold breeze in front of me and reality has come back to haunt me.
“What are you doing here?” a silent voice...
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Categories:
sags, courage, destiny, endurance, history, image, social, success,
Form:
Narrative
Pride of a Woman
I was walking
absentmindedly on
the street
When I saw a sight
luvly to behold.
This sight fit to take
a man off his seat
Cos it's one that is
but for the bold!
I have been
oblivious of...
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Categories:
sags, religion, me, men, sun,
Form:
Ode
Obsession Part 2
Though I'll remember nature's wonders,
sunsets and the breath of spring,
feel the wind blow through my hair
and know the thrill of sunrise cresting.
We see the universe as dancing,
two such different creatures trancing,
we two will never understand
the...
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Categories:
sags, lost love, universe,
Form:
Verse
Obsession Pt 2
We see the universe as dancing,
two such different creatures trancing,
we two will never understand
the private notions of the other,
even if we take each other's hand.
Coming close to your destruction
you will see the other side,
who says...
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Categories:
sags, tribute, writing, universe,
Form:
Verse
My Favorite Devonshire
Winter's Rose
white frost streaks her hair
smooth ice-sculpture skin of youth
stroked by cracks
wrinkles that have weathered life
...
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Categories:
sags, inspirational, on writing and words, poems, rose,
Form:
Free verse
The Aging Process
Many years ago, when we were all young,
We really thought life, would be so much fun.
While playing dress-up, trying on mom’s stuff,
Putting on make-up, we found to be tough.
Then came our schooling, and boy things...
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Categories:
sags, age, childhood, children, daughter, family, children, kids,
Form:
Rhyme
Second Quiz With Even Broader Hints For Blind Poets
Second Quiz with even broader hints for blind poets
The Princess Anna stood
arms half-akimbo
at the scrawny edge of the receding bank
her Polonaise pollarded down
to her exposed tarsus...
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Categories:
sags, fantasy, heartbreak, loneliness, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Song For a Bad Tooth
Wisdom tooth, the oral root of prophesy
I respect you with all my worth
When you speak my eyes come
I wake up and turn as you order
I constrict like a serpent stung
At your command I fizzle like...
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Categories:
sags, allegory, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Poems About Poets V
Poems about Poets V
Edna St. Vincent Millay Has Her Way with a Vassar Professor
by Michael R. Burch
After a night of hard drinking and spreading her legs,
Millay hits the dorm, where the Vassar don begs:
“Please act...
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Categories:
sags, drink, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Obsession Part 3
I shall take my morning walk,
communing with the birds and talking
to myself while reading Kafka,
glancing at the latest headlines.
Dear Stravinsky's 'Rite' is slighted,
(he'll return when ears are righted.)
When I smell a rose I'm prompted
to...
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Categories:
sags, love,
Form:
Verse
Anything Short of Being Me
I lie on my now made bed
at a total loss for words and hope
And holding myself upright
Trying to block any thought
From escaping me
More especially the one that bothers me the most
Which would constitute the...
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Categories:
sags, confusion, life, words, me,
Form:
Free verse
I Have Three Favorites
Part I
Three TV shows stick in my mind.
Specific memories are hard to find.
There once was a series, long ago.
I would always cry at the end of the show.
“I Remember Mama” was the program's name.
Their family...
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Categories:
sags, nostalgia, peoplefamily, heart, family, heart,
Form:
Couplet