Long Shimmer Poems
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Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
shimmer, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Ii
Poems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
shimmer, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Wonderland
Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
shimmer, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
The Making of a Poet
The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
shimmer, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
shimmer, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume Translation
To a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
shimmer, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
No Mark
No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
shimmer, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The State of the Art
The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
shimmer, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Modern Sonnets I
MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
shimmer, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Tapora
Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to...
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Categories:
shimmer, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems I
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
shimmer, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Water, 30 random word prompt
The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my...
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Categories:
shimmer, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poets I
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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Categories:
shimmer, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Chinese Translations I
Chinese Poets: English Translations
These are modern English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Du Fu, Huang O, Li Bai, Li Ching-jau, Li Qingzhao, Po Chu-I, Tzu Yeh,...
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Categories:
shimmer, children, heaven, moon, sorrow, spring, water, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Travel Light
* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
shimmer, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light
Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
shimmer, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
Uncle Eldon
UNCLE ELDON
Now that I am old, I see more clearly through my mind's eye, than I did in my youth, all those special people who played such a wonderful part in my life....
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Categories:
shimmer, dedication,
Form:
Narrative
Literary Feud Among - Pt 1
Prelude to what…..
I see you, / you / yes, come into my……
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought
and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete.
Where Titans...
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Categories:
shimmer, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Compelling Confusion is so uncool -No Way? Yes Way-
Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-inside-prideful lies
Memorably,...
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Categories:
shimmer, angst, anxiety, community, confidence, conflict, confusion, desire,
Form:
Acrostic
I Am Feeling Good Enough
Break the chains that are putting me in captivity...they're breaking me, for its reducing me to pity
In my heart, I felt your love
In my heart, I broke free your light
In your heart, I see flawless...
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Categories:
shimmer, beauty, change, deep, emotions, encouraging, hope, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
The Whiskey Bottle Wish
The Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
shimmer, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
The Aura of Time: Don'T Ask Why I'M An Ambivert
***I KNOW IT'S LONG...please don't tell me to shorten my poems or songs because I'm expressing myself through poetry. Thank you ahead of time. I did write concise poems. Check those haikus I wrote on...
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Categories:
shimmer, angst, deep, depression, emotions, feelings, hope, how
Form:
Lyric
So-Called Positive Poe
Downstairs I go
Elevate me, you know
I'll get over the luv floo
Over the bad days too
Acting like a weirdo
A clown with an upside down frown... I'm a positive Poe
I'm out of my mind
I can't...
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Categories:
shimmer, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
shimmer, body, death, fantasy, kiss, love, me, morning,
Form:
Ballad
Dream On
“Dream On”
Hm, my heart as it slips out of my reach
Like the waves of the sea, flowing passed the palm of my hand
Do you know what I mean? You’re eyes are as blue and playful...
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Categories:
shimmer, beauty, betrayal, change, dark, deep, hope, uplifting,
Form:
Lyric