Long Shadowed Poems
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Halloween Poems
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
shadowed, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Halloween
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
shadowed, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Villanelles
Villanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
shadowed, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Arthurian Poems
At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
shadowed, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
shadowed, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse Iii
Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
shadowed, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
shadowed, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Chance Conversation At Osmers Hill 1999 Part 1
On a typical English day late June Joe travelled the above country road, his buisness was in the construction field, and this day he was estimating work as per customer enqiriy, this being the case...
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Categories:
shadowed, appreciation,
Form:
Narrative
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
Starlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
shadowed, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems Iii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
shadowed, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pictish Faeries
The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in the starlight
when the moon was full
and men...
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Categories:
shadowed, fairy,
Form:
Verse
Foggy May
This foggy sky
darkly and relentlessly rains
especially for an early May morning.
He is not prepared for darkness
seeping through new-born leaves,
not yet full grown into this year's trunk-lacing dress,
soaking up from saturated soil,
slurping into his compassionately
empathic...
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Categories:
shadowed, age, culture, depression, destiny, earth, health, rain,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Reforesting Guidelines
GROUP VALUES
Belief in WinWin organic ability
to cooperatively manage secular
as BothAnd sacred
health development vocations.
Desire to create
open DNA-familiar GREEN systems--
Great
ReForesting
EconomicYang 3D SpaceDriven
EcologicalYin 4D TimeFlowing
Networking organic WinWin
reverse-time gaming cooperative system
especially following matriarchal-wombed
DNA and RNA strings...
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Categories:
shadowed, health, integrity, love, paradise, peace, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
Bruce Walker, Elegy
My teacher died.
His lungs failed him.
He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.
His lungs are gone.
My grief has only just arrived.
He used his lungs...
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Categories:
shadowed, death of a friend, love, teacher,
Form:
Elegy
The Raven and The Bard
The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers
The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's" fair hair,
Shed history's warm light to chase away all care...
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Categories:
shadowed, philosophy, poets, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.”
– General George Pickett
Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder...
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Categories:
shadowed, death, history, slavery, violence, war,
Form:
Ballad
Embrace the Lines
Embrace The Lines
Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water
marks engraved...
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Categories:
shadowed, life,
Form:
Free verse
Sun-Drenched Safari
The scenery was magnificent, and the morning was slightly hot,
Our land cruiser was windowless, and sitting in a lovely spot.
The giraffes were splendid, and much bigger than I'd expected,
One could hardly gaze at the vast...
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Categories:
shadowed, adventure, africa, animal, fantasy, friendship love, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Death
Michael and Carolyn came home again
Their busy lives disrupted by death's end
Not knowing they'd encounter love unrestrained
By coming home for mom's funeral to attend
Life has some changes for which to contend
Michael and Carolyn were shocked...
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Categories:
shadowed, death, life, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Earth Day Voices
Voices of creation speak Type A and Type B,
and polyglot dialects through Z,
somehow under what lies in shadow
from B through Z
Anyway, Type A conscious I am alive
in this indoor moment
awake but not directly sun-absorbing...
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Categories:
shadowed, culture, earth, earth day, health, language, light,
Form:
Political Verse
Word Fantasy In F Sharp Minor In 3 Movements
Word Fantasy in F Sharp Minor (3 Movements)
1
(Andante con moto)
Hey man. Take this.
I got it last night,
under a fractured street light,
with shattered pieces of clear glass, scattered
at the nexus of an obscure dark freeway...
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Categories:
shadowed, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
BLUE NUDE : Pablo Picasso: 1902
she rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful
D
...
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Categories:
shadowed, allegory, allusion, art, bereavement, blue, body, color,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan Ashley
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
shadowed, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Prisoner of the Matrix Loaded
Prisoner of the Matrix loaded
Prisoner of the matrix loaded
Cattle within the herd
cages within the slaughter
Profiteers prey upon the wounded
Branded comodified beings consumed
In consumption
Led to the plunder of themselves
Within the plotted grids of bondaged earth
Still between...
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Categories:
shadowed, america, analogy, philosophy,
Form:
ABC
The Enchanted City of Dual Realms
The Enchanted City of Dual Realms
In the sprawling labyrinth of concrete towers and spectral glass,
where skyscrapers, like ancient obelisks, pierce the celestial veil with unyielding ambition,
serpentine rivers of fortune murmur in arcane tongues, their secrets...
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Categories:
shadowed, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse