Long Shines Poems
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Constructive Critism
There's consequences in all we say and do
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk
Quite distraught due to the fact that you're too good to be true
I...
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Categories:
shines, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Childhood Dreams Part 1
When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...
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Categories:
shines, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Woman: The Flame that Lights the World
In every dawn that breaks anew,
In every dream, and skies of blue,
A woman’s strength, steadfast and true,
Guides the world in all we do.
Through ages past and times untold,
Their stories rise, so brave, so bold,
In quiet...
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Categories:
shines, inspiration, literature, meaningful, memorial,
Form:
Narrative
Justice Is Crying In the Street
Oh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
shines, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Honey Bee Flying Around In Winter
I have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't understand what it was all about
I have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't want anyone to get hurt
Morning comes and evening...
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Categories:
shines, angel, blessing, business, community, freedom, mythology, people,
Form:
Narrative
Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
shines,
Form:
Abecedarian
Zen Death Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
shines, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
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:
shines, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 3
Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
shines, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
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:
shines, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vi
Juvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
shines, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
shines, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Rip
R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
shines, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)
The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes
a threadbare fading strand,
A quest for wisdom
in this digital land.
Sage:...
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Categories:
shines, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
shines, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Yosa Buson Translations
Yosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
shines, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Chaucer Translation: Rejection
Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
shines, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems V
Medieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
shines, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
shines, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Rumi Translation: the Field
The Field
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lazes in such lush grass
the world is too...
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Categories:
shines, earth, green, islamic, rights, soulmate, sound, words,
Form:
Epigram
Stranger Than Fiction
*warning* disturbing lines have been detected - you have been warned, readers. Okay, enjoy this somewhat deep and astounding poem from me that took days to write...>:)
I bet you anything that I'm the laziest guy...
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Categories:
shines, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Rumi Translation: Birdsong
Birdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!
I choose to love you in silence
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
shines, bird, music, poetry, poets, song, universe, writing,
Form:
Verse
Today and Tomorrow - the Butterfly Style
~Today And Tomorrow ~
( The Butterfly Style )
~O~
Love God with all heart
He is best friend
Always there
The Lord
Greatest
In all
Just ...
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Categories:
shines, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Wisp of Thought
There was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...
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Categories:
shines, beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Longing For the Stars
My mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...
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Categories:
shines, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form:
I do not know?