Long Sculpts Poems

Sonnets V-IX



Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch

The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse... warm, palpable and slow...

once...

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NEW YEAR GREETINGS 2023
By Leon Enriquez


Two-zero-two-three comes now
To usher charming feel;
Live well this new endow
With blessings of goodwill.


Love is the charming way
To bless each face you meet;
Peace of mind fruits each day
As joy...

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I have no room for hate in the world, and I’ve always forgiven anyone who’s ever done me wrong—and I wouldn’t have it any other way. There’s already too much hate out there, whether it’s...

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(Dedication: For Ann)
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Man makes gods here to quench desire;
Urge and surge flood the pathway sight;
Sense hint and cheer in burning pyre;
Embrace warm blood in glimpse of light;
See phantoms near that play with fire.


Meet your true...

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Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
 
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse: warm, palpable and slow;
once...

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In the heart of inner wanderings hides, alas, a tormented soul,
Wilted by anguishes woven at the edge of the mind, where the thread breaks.
In verses, the silhouette of an overwhelming sadness takes shape, a landscape...

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Under the mantle of the night, where the stars murmur ancient secrets,
Destiny dances like an aurora borealis, hidden in your heart,
A fragile feeling, like the wing of an angel,
For only you hold the key to...

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Slowly, slowly, everyone transforms into shadows, like dreams woven from star dust,
Better to step boldly into the other world, in the splendor of a burning passion,
Than to fade and wither sadly under the burden of...

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Good books enrich
Your journey quest,
Learn to now niche
Your lavish best.


Start where you are
With ample hope,
Dare dream on par
To feel fond scope.


Joy comes to mind
To see the truth,
Love helps you find
As work sculpts proof.


Be patient then
With...

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Look to sure grace for peace of mind,
Prize time and space to seek and find.


Live from your heart as soul funds joy,
Give as you start with play and ploy.


Faith is the key as blessings show,
Hope...

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When Thor struck his hammer
upon the flat ground on Earth
it was the pieces withstood the blow we named rock,
constructs we came to know as the mountains.

Even before that time
I crossed my fingers
wished I'd one day...

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In vivacious luminous 
landscape of luring longing, 
desire sculpts dream,
spreads spectrum of ardor 
in sapphire sky,
fervor floats on cloud,
shaping sensual crave,
          charismatic.
Spring-soaked beguiled brush 
paints passionately...

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From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus
Spectral filaments of the netherworld
Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette
Osseous structures fracture contort
I ascend from the fecund terra firma
A cadaverous marionette oscillates in a morbid gavotte
Sole rhapsodic...

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In life's deep caverns, where shadows dwell,
Adversity looms a weighty spell.
A crushing force, it seeks to restrain,
The heart feels heavy, burdened with pain.

The storm arrives with a furious roar,
Clouds heavy, laden with woes galore.
The mountain...

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Evening cicadas
Cacophony climax;
Night time music

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By this playground
Noisy frolic parades;
Little feet gather

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Haiku moment:
Brief promontory,
Dragonfly buzz

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Raining non-stop
Wet moments splash;
Umbrella parade

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Aqueous verses
Heavy pieces drowning;
Pouring rain recites

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Walkway cobblestones
Busy footfalls conspire;
Old man ponders

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Odd faces
Cellphone conversations;
Bus-stop queue

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Gone away
Cannes vacation;
Stopover at Nice

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Fruit...

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Sun-soaked
spectral topography
sculpts with lattice 
of longing
                luminescent, 
the veering valley 
of my lucent life
undulating briskly
in plains of passion
with the cadence...

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Journey Journal
NEW YEAR SOJOURN
By Leon Enriquez


Brand New Year
Prize happy cheer


Live fond bliss
Greet all you miss


Be happy
Live your story

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Here and Now
Stillness endows


Now and Then
Love funds all trends


Here in time
Feel mystic chimes

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Words bind rhymes
Time after time


Look and...

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Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges,
Where my once sure steps now breach bonds and ridges.
Your scars are but an alluring landscape,
Their call, an echo urging me to reshake.
I return, a prisoner...

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Be now happy as you can be,
Live now cheery through all you see.

Be true and bold as love takes hold,
Joy warms the cold as darkness folds.



Be kind with jest and live your best,
Seize healthy zest...

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Dare to dream with zest,
Write your story well;
Prize your talent best,
Pen the way you tell.


Start now with clear heart,
Close your eyes and see;
Learn to attract art,
Feel and think deeply.


Start to use your mind,
Dare be profound...

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There starts right here
 Here with sure wit
   Wit that weaves clear
    Clear as a hit...


Heart knows the way
 Way to sculpt zest
   Zest in fond play
 ...

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GALLALEO

Man was born stark, innocent, into a mysterious jungle dark,
His raw brain did train at the point of a bloody fang and claw.
Around the flickering firelight, imagination sculpts, as fantastic shadows spar,
Dueling gods and goddesses...

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BEAUTIFUL SADNESS

“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows
brown and sear.”   William C. Bryant

Does she hear the tinkling bell in her sweltering state? No...

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(Dedicated to the Seeker in You.)
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Learn to sit still,
Let all things go;
Breathe slowly.

Learn calm goodwill,
Observe the flow;
Feel true beauty.

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Be silent now,
Let tension fall,
Watch you see you.

Be beyond how,
Purge bitter gall,
Feel you know you.

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Go deep within,
Go...

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On tundra that is intent to destroy and defy,
the winds and the ice will attempt to deny 
any who are willing to stray across boundaries.
Those who are willing to scale up a mountain, 
or leap...

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