Long Shelters Poems
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Poems About MothersPoems about Mothers
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more...
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Categories:
shelters, child, children, love, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaph For a Palestinian ChildEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child of...
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Categories:
shelters, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
shelters, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
shelters, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
CleansingsCleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
shelters, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
shelters, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2
This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass...
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Categories:
shelters, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Didactic
Such Tenderness, For the Mothers of GazaSuch Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch
for the mothers of Gaza
There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed fledglings beneath a warm wing
and coos to them softly, unable...
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Categories:
shelters, angel, arabic, baby, caregiving,
Form:
Sonnet
An Early Mornings TaleOne morning early a Dad and his son Tom went for a walk in the country, they journeyed
through the still mist looking for flowers for the boy's Mom, but they did not see many.
Just then...
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Categories:
shelters, celebration, emotions, family,
Form:
Narrative
The Mask of TourmalineTwice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.
I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving with that which shadows...
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Categories:
shelters, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery, myth, night, psychological,
Form:
Couplet
The Mask of AlabasterOnce the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...
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Categories:
shelters, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Couplet
Recluse By Dint of CircumstanceRecluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
shelters, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
StormThe day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...
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Categories:
shelters, courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
Form:
Imagism
Moonlight Sonatas and Morning KissesIn the realm of moons and breathless tides,
where promises dance with a serendipitous sonnet of sunrises,
along with morning kisses, unfolds a love story—
a poetic novel etched in the chronicles
within the hourglass of time,
a journey that...
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Categories:
shelters, best friend, blessing, devotion, inspirational love, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Mask of LabradoriteThrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number.
I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to beg for booked...
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Categories:
shelters, corruption, imagination, judgement, life, mystery, myth, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Storm ConcreteThe day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting
aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle
...
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Categories:
shelters, school, storm,
Form:
Concrete
Fall of BerlinFall Of Berlin
There on the wall hangs a mixture of paint on linen,
Leaving the impression of a city besieged, encased in ice;
Purposely frozen in horror to remind the living,
Of blood oozing from the rubble into...
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Categories:
shelters, history, war, world war ii,
Form:
Verse
Hello, Brain FogI’m afraid, but with hope in mind –
Help me out of my cell if you can be so kind
My mind has been in a brain fog lately…
But my writing skills haven’t faded frankly…
Well, I...
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Categories:
shelters, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Words the Ship Melanie Dear Melanie Troubled Times LosstouchWords
The ship
Words come to me like spring.
They set free, they shed the shroud,
open with all their glory, beauty and sing.
They stand tall, they ring out loud,
from a life that blossoms with...
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Categories:
shelters, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Week 2 - Stages By Herman Hesse - a Second Translation RevisedAs ev’ry flower wilts and ev’ry youngster 11
Must age, so manifests each stage of living, 11
All wisdom blossoms too and ev’ry virtue 11
Enjoys its time, and cannot last forever. 11
At ev’ry call of life, the heart of man should, 11
(Without...
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Categories:
shelters, journey, life, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Boob Jobs and Bomb JobsBoob jobs and bomb jobs
Sisters in arms those tits and those weapons of massive
destruction sex and death go together in dynamics
thermodynamics psychodynamics fused on the playground
of this life of this poem on which...
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Categories:
shelters, conflict, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Original Mask of AlabasterA wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.
Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass,
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frothy brass.
It floats aloft the frost of...
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Categories:
shelters, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form:
Couplet
Drinker's Doom In Sobriety's SanctuaryYour drinker's doom
Turned out to be a tranquil tomb
Is there any room
To bring out your brilliant, legitimate bloom?
You linger around my restful haven,
My darksome and lonesome, yet pretty satisfying bedroom
You stared at me vacantly and...
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Categories:
shelters, addiction, angst, betrayal, deep, fear, lost, stress,
Form:
Rhyme
withthisrebellioninside#w/thisrebellioninside~
Seems you’re abiding by his side, side, side, my love
I tried to save you from giving in, but I had to save me
Appears I’ve been crucified, now I hide like a wingless dove
I’ve fought...
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Categories:
shelters, angst, hope, how i feel,
Form:
Lyric
Telling StoriesWhile there is no story at all
unless it has at least two sides,
when it comes to ego's narrative lines
and epic paragraphs,
we have great difficulty in casting ourselves
as other than a one-sided protagonist story,
which others might...
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Categories:
shelters, betrayal, christian, earth, integrity, love, native american,
Form:
Political Verse