Long Sampled Poems
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Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
sampled, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
Epigrams V
Epigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
sampled, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Erin
Erin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
sampled, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
sampled, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Pull Out of the Crowd
Driven by the forces around you driven by the forces behind you
Driven by forces above you driven by forces beside you, driven by
Forces all around you. The mouth is moving up and down but half...
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Categories:
sampled, adventure, appreciation, cheer up, community, education, encouraging,
Form:
Narrative
The Proverbial Small Town
After winning a sweepstakes, I determined to go on a lengthy trip;
And I wanted to tour the mainland, after I had disembarked the ship.
The countryside was quite beautiful, and had myriad charming towns,
Some with the...
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Categories:
sampled, animal, fantasy, imagery, magic, nature, people, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
T Salamander
T Salamander enjoyed local fame
down by the creek, there with her daughter.
Prided herself on her inky black frame,
bathing each day in the cool, brackish water.
She set amphibious cold-blooded hearts
on fire, exploding, through black magic arts.
All...
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Categories:
sampled, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pods - Chilling Scifi Poetry
The Pods - Chilling Scifi Poetry
Fear, you are weightier than gravity
in pulling the stomach to the ground.
Rotors slowed and sound waned
as the helicopter sided, meeting the concrete
in a road ripping, heart stopping flame.
A distant...
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Categories:
sampled, dark, fear, horror, night, scary, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Surely Something
imagine, wonder, ponder, think
nebulous nothing is "surely something"
more than absence, spontaneous spawning on the brink
let's fantasise, let's dream awake
utter the dubious name of nothing
impostor corralled...
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Categories:
sampled, adventure, endurance, hope, philosophy, universe, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
Watermark
The water mark is still evident on the wall
You can still see where the rain had fall
The stain must have been there for many years
And every time it reappears
Sending chills into my ears
It embraces...
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Categories:
sampled, betrayal, community, conflict, corruption, courage, farewell, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
The Bakery and a Buttermilk Bar
I'd almost forgotten, how fondly this little hamlet
snuggles tight against the purple hills, and how State street
divides the town into two parts, like a pizza, one half a progressive present,
and the other half, the antiquated...
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Categories:
sampled, nostalgia, teen, , western,
Form:
Narrative
To My Love Part 6 Tbc
The hypnotic sleep-walk will diagnose this flaccid imp in me
All the recantations will die there where selfishness butchers the prophetic shields
As If I were to go through the film of yesteryears...
The sandy beach anchored in...
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Categories:
sampled, life,
Form:
Free verse
Because Pandemic is Holocaust
Because the mind still stays
The memory of the holocaust,
And the face reflects the twinge that still lurks
In the hollow of our frail hearts;
My mournful pen shall bleed
In a forever flow of pensive mood.
We are survivors
Who...
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Categories:
sampled, emotions, grief, holocaust, hope,
Form:
Free verse
How To Pay Your Bills (Part One)
This was a method employed,
By my last ex-wife,
Who enjoyed 16 years of
torturing me,
The bane of my life...
See she sat and slept in
her recliner,
The power seat of the house,
And treated me,
Like an annoying mouse...
I was...
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Categories:
sampled, adventure, angst, caregiving, depression, devotion, education, family,
Form:
Bio
We Walk Amongst the Faithful
We walk amongst the faithful.
Unknown to human eyes.
So normal and so human,
They can't see through our disguise.
The tears of angels made us
As they flew down from the sky.
They didn't want...
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Categories:
sampled, angst, childhood, confusion, death, depression, family, father,
Form:
Lyric
Great Music
Gavotte Minuet:
Most of the night
we shared several
moments together
most of the night
she and I together
the night doesn't end
until the morning comes
you know where
I'm coming from
we danced to the wrong song
Sappy Sweet
love infused passon'd
styled with...
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Categories:
sampled, analogy, character, guitar, music,
Form:
Bio
Grubbing
Adjusting Appetizing Palates.
I have sampled the variety,
I am the one who has tasted life;
The one who has had a taste of life.
Rarely indulged in the main course-
Seldom a full meal-
I come hungry-
To leave satisfied...
I want...
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Categories:
sampled, appreciation, food, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Hear Them Now
images are slow to fade, where did they go? why were they here?
pensive pen and ink, a gentle man of measure
pipe-smoke wafting cool blue persevering pleasure
cartoon humour designed with...
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Categories:
sampled, family, life, memory, parents,
Form:
Verse
Cats On Mars
Cats from Earth eat fish on sunny beaches
(Umbrellas optional, not included)
Unlike sharks they use tiny teeth to chew
And get motion sickness when traveling too
Seas hold goodies for feline nutritional needs
(Canned dolphins...
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Categories:
sampled, adventure, cat, crazy, earth, journey, judgement, space,
Form:
Quatrain
The Miss Who Taught Creative Writing Class
We faced each other in a circle as
we sat on chairs inside her classroom; then
she had us close our eyes. Perhaps we used
some blindfolds. I’ve forgotten details, for
it happened in my high school years ago.
Our...
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Categories:
sampled, high school, me, writing,
Form:
Blank verse
Looks So Good and Taste So Good-
Marriage is much like going to the grocery store to select your favorite fruit…What may look
good on the shelf? May have a different taste once consumed at home? As I walked through
the isles...
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Categories:
sampled, introspectionhome, home, may,
Form:
Free verse
Defeat embraces the soul that has unraveled from lies, baring the pure truth
Defeat embraces the soul that has unraveled from lies, baring the pure truth.
In the library of destiny, where each heart inscribes its chronicles,
I lingered among the scrolls of loss, in the chambers of vast silence.
A...
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Categories:
sampled, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
snowball
I got this new hand soap, called “Frosted Coconut Snowball.”
It's the dreamiest scent ever.
When I’d unpacked (from Spring break) and had everything in place, I dragged Andy and Leong into my bathroom. Wash your hands,”...
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Categories:
sampled, education, friendship, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
strange shrouds
I sat in restless chairs
I breathed stilted air
what feeling compares
with feeling squandered?
I’m not sadfishing,
I was bored in a 5-star hotel.
I’d swum the Atlantic - in the underground pool
and I felt like I was marinating in...
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Categories:
sampled, boyfriend, conflict, endurance, paris, travel, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
How I Like My Coffee
Coffee sir? Yes my dear, please……………..
And don't you dare bring me no damn cream….it's straight black coffee for me!
You see, I've sampled brews from all over the world, but the one I chose is just...
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Categories:
sampled, loveme, me,
Form:
I do not know?