Long Scalding Poems
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The Only Northern Northern Star
As winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
scalding, africa,
Form:
Ode
Early Poems Iii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
scalding, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
scalding, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
If I Falter
If I Falter
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
If I regret
fire in the sunset
exploding on the horizon,
then let me regret loving you.
If I forget
even for a moment
that you are the only one,
then let me forget that the...
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Categories:
scalding, desire, engagement, fire, for her, friendship love,
Form:
Verse
A Vain Word
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 darkening...
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Categories:
scalding, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
The Angry Black Woman
She stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
scalding, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
The Children of Gaza Lyrics: I
"The Children of Gaza" Lyrics: I
These lyrics were written by Michael R. Burch and were adapted in places to the music by Michael R. Burch with input from composer Eduard de Boer.
World premiere, April 22,2017,...
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Categories:
scalding, child, child abuse, childhood, mother, mother son,
Form:
Lyric
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated
Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary
after Grahame Wood
determined to meet
the evolving needs of the community
opened the first Wawa Food Market
in Folsom,...
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Categories:
scalding, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Everything of Yours Must Go Now, Even If It Burns
I write about my ex a lot,
we didn't talk much, but our tongues touched,
we used to have sex a lot and
it was so hot that it set my soul ablaze,
and no, it wasn't...
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Categories:
scalding, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Liatra
Pasha Acremodios grew greedy,
discontented with the domain he dominated,
so he turned covetous eyes toward Farabia,
sending his soldiers to seize this ripened plum
Spoiling for a fight and fighting for spoils,
his army swept across Farabia
like a bloody...
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Categories:
scalding, dance, death, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Norwegian Bachelor Farmer Days I Never Lived
Norwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived
Woebegone and egg foo young on you
meaning me of course
sidestepping a crucial positive
electric kool aid battery acid test
prior to pledging troth,
and tying Gordian knot
to strangulation point,
never fending for myself,
nor...
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Categories:
scalding, adventure, america, appreciation, atheist, blessing, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Beauty In Disguise
My parents had both passed and I felt orphaned, alone --
Although I was married and lived hours away with a family of my own.
And today was a day I had dreaded for months
Silently traveling the...
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Categories:
scalding, age, beauty, childhood, death, home, love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Love Burial
The burial ground, groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they come to mourn
the Poet who perished for the passion of...
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Categories:
scalding, cute love, endurance, love, universe,
Form:
Epic
The Blue Hellion
I do not fear you, Blue hellion of Satan! From deep within the reaches of his evil den, your master has sent your frozen azure waves crawling to my stronghold. Inch by inch, your glacial...
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Categories:
scalding, dark, god, spiritual, war,
Form:
Epic
How Broken Men Begin Again
There's a time to chase the world,
and a time for the world to chase you...
the distinction between destiny and damnation
can become ambiguous as a dream
on the edge of twilight
when the world is watching you ruthlessly,
hungering...
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Categories:
scalding, adventure, america, art, courage, god,
Form:
Epic
Believe It Or Not Page Two
The heart calls the safety of the beats the melodic beat the beats that love beats from destiny doors and the two shall meet to become one faith one Lord one feeling one love...
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Categories:
scalding, adventure, appreciation, body, forgiveness, inspiration, memory, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
Best Sports Poems Iv
The best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part IV
King Henry the Great
by Michael R. Burch
Long live the King!
Send him victorious,
happy and glorious,
long to reign over us:
Long live the King!
Long...
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Categories:
scalding, america, baseball, basketball, boxing day , football, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Psalm Contest
Psalm of the Heretics Saved
Oh, God!
You’ve taken my hands;
the blood spills onto the heathen soil of my birth!
The jaguar cannot help me.
The mighty pyramid rising past the trees
is a pride you’ve turned to shame.
You sent...
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Categories:
scalding, abuse, angel, anger, baptism, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Hand Him Your Hands
It was such a simple act but it had a significant meaning
the Disciples had no idea what the Lord Christ was gleaning
they had witnessed His death with their own eyes
and could not grasp the concept...
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Categories:
scalding, day, devotion, faith, grandmother, hope, inspirational, me,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Where the Railroad Track Meet
Where the Railroad Track Meet
Grasping, lunging as does a donkey for the
dangling apple leading it forward, I reached
for the ever elusive spot. That place where
the railroad track meet. Almost had it in
Idaho...
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Categories:
scalding, moving on, remember,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Infidelity
I don’t deserve
This kind of punch to my pride
You used your best left hook, uppercut and jab to my ego
Here desperately griping the corner of the ring
Unable to believe the idea
That he ever felt that...
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Categories:
scalding, lost love, words, me, light, light, me,
Form:
Bio
A Cyber Lament
Ah Microsoft Word you tempt me
As I lay across my keyboard wrapped
In a red wine haze
My fingers lingering over the letters
Caressing the ‘L’ for ‘Love’
You speak to me silently
Tantalise me
Trip me up why don’t you?...
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Categories:
scalding, love, words, me, rain, red, life, me,
Form:
Blank verse
Summer Perdition
after 'Berck-Plage' by Sylvia Plath
(1)
A sheet of glass, this expanse of water.
How its tranquillity mocks my unrest.
Bloated beachballs and balloons
travel the park and float from diminutive hands.
Bodiless voices call in the sun
and bounce off these...
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Categories:
scalding, abortion, loss, summer,
Form:
Free verse
I Write Wits Psalm Burning Desire
I Write Wits Psalm Burning Desire...
Why?
To escape livingsocial,
and negate mine birth
figuratively, knowingly,
and precariously,
I nightmarishly perch
teeter tottering atop - dearth
of financial...
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Categories:
scalding, angst, blue, dad, fate, goodbye, grave, love
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Poems About Poets Ii
Poems about Poets
Elemental
by Michael R. Burch
for and after Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea...
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Categories:
scalding, art, inspiration, muse, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme