Long Scintillant Poems

Observance
by Michael R. Burch

Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...

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Poems about Poems III

Radiance
by Michael R. Burch

for 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 but...

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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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Poems about Poets I


The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch

for Leslie Mellichamp

The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...

but...

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The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
 
(for Leslie Mellichamp, the late editor of The Lyric,
who was a friend and mentor to many poets, and
a fine poet in his own right)
 
The stars were always there,...

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Starbright

As I gaze into indigo skies,
Stars are brighter tonight,
Twinkling in the darkness 
Of a new moon.
Orion's belt enchants 
My impassioned heart
As my thoughts of you soar
In a dimension devoid 
Of Time's constraints.
Let me feel the...

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Man of melancholy - memories ashen and shadow gray,
heart harrowed, solicits solace from her psychic energy.
An offering, his woebegone weeping wildflower bouquet,
teardrops titian, sorrow scintillant, reflects rueful reverie.

Heart harrowed solicits solace from her psychic energy,
free...

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| I Dream Poetry in Darkness and Light |

Unbroken, my light rises like deep alluvion of sweet rivulets,
Craving passions and tragedies like written poetries of Juliet.

In softly spoken words I quell, of streamed sheen of...

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se déplaçant lentement la tête
de la gauche vers la droite
que le ciel s'ouvre à la lumière night-club
avec le globe scintillant
avec les produits chimiques se précipiter dans les veines
elle ferme les yeux pour profiter de chaque...

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In the days of mystic Merlin and captivating Celtic lore
The Ancient Druids danced and exuberantly did explore
The Celtic Circles of cityscapes and festive furthermore

They gathered ritually round their sacred scenic stones
Like super Stonehenge sites of...

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I watch her in the sky shining like a diamond chit 
splashing her light around in the midnight sombre
she is more beautiful then all other things that orbit 
this star, she's an insight to our...

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Nestled in the woods,
away from sundry glances,
she sleeps in his shadow 
and sighs in dusky dreams.

Her melancholic, frozen limbs 
ache for the warmth of his orb!

At the dawn of the mellow sphere,
embellished with his golden...

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My dream was to marry Miss Poetry
When I was very, very young
Intelligent, determined and strong
Miss Poetry was sweet, zesty and classy.

My Muse was about styles and literature
As I said before, it was always a dream
A...

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 Your love orbits my celestial body causing earthquakes and floods,

Within a calamitous canopy mixing of the barbarous bacterial bloods…

A seditious satellite roaming amongst the scintillant sacrificial spheres,

Hiding amidst your clever cloaking giving me many...

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Ave-Maria hymns lift you in flight
to Heaven’s gate apt angel does ascend
and follows lantern's light predawn of night
on star-dust wings for spirit a Godsend.

On April morn in skies of blue as you
besprinkled crystals from your...

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Why do the stars die?
What if such light vanishes?
What if glows darken?

Seek new horizons,
Illuminate dim radiance,
Burnish darkened clouds...

Should glows be polished?
Should obscure stellar cores shine?
Are they even bright?

Clear lucid dreaming,
Scintillant astral travels,
Flashing dimensions...

Should universal
Concealments be...

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The mist of the dew
smokes my vision
before the shadows
that penetrate my mind
because of your fallacies, felonies
and fallible conviction;
that with notable ghostings
they falsify your reason...

Well, I'm the phoenix
renascent before dark carburization
and cenesthetic ashes,
that has reached its...

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The hymns of harmony
Refer to me alas—
With gallant glowing glee,
And shiny silver glass.

Scintillant starry streaks
Of light cleverly hide
The wakefulness we seek
Between The Worlds' divide.

And fumes that Gods inhale
Will perforate my mind.
The fragrance very frail,
With ecstasy...

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