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Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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showers, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Does the Butterfly GoWhere Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
showers, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
The Making of a PoetThe 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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showers, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
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Verse
The State of the ArtThe 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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showers, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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showers, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family AffairsNext day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The Hakim
Children...
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Categories:
showers, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 73 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Historical Hakims' Hit the Road10 o'clock am the morning
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July
Morning of 2038. They had a Bicycle
Expedition to tend to plus a newly
Minted swimming pool...
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showers, cancer, missing you, nonsense, rude, scary, visionary,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young SolomonsDamian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be leaving today...
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Categories:
showers, adventure, birth, business, father son, women,
Form:
Alliteration
Cooperative FeministasCooperative Feministas
are not quite so much Competitive Manifestos.
In David Holmgren's introduction to Permacultural Therapeutic Design,
he contrasts "Industrial Culture" with "Sustainable Culture"
kind of like comparing masculine LeftBrain culture
with feminist RightBrain enculturation, nurturance, resonance
over the longer-term scenaria,
rather...
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showers, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
showers, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems IiLOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...
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showers, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.
...maybe it's been a while since...
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Categories:
showers, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
The Heat of the MomentI’m powerless over my addiction
I’m relentless in my sweet infliction
The heat of the moment showers
Upon me truly hours after hours
I lie here on your stone
In distress, on my own
I lie here on your stone
I express...
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Categories:
showers, addiction, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
On Fam'Ly Traditions - 2nd ThirdOn Fam’ly Traditions - 2nd third -
“Might as well grab us some food an' some beer...some ice...and some bundles o' wood, an' prob'ly some charcoal....there ain't nothin' better than walleye from right off a...
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Categories:
showers, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
showers, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
The Train - POTD POTD 25 Nov 2020
Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares
I do get it about advertising campaigns.
Enough to know that,
‘strategically placed ads’ catching the eye, is huge.
But this poster...
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Categories:
showers, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Brownian Motion Writ LargeBrownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial
and endothelial cells, and although
there must be biological...
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Categories:
showers, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, appreciation, business,
Form:
Free verse
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of CharityAn Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
showers, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
The Peasants TruckEverybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot stand the scorching heat that is swelling up from the...
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Categories:
showers, angel, blessing, business, character, confidence, earth, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
The Good GirlThe Good Girl
Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...
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Categories:
showers, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Prose
Three Tribute Poems, Composed By Me, For Longfellow BlogThree Tribute poems-- composed by me,
For Longfellow blog….
(1.)
Glory Of Faith's Triumphant Golden Crowns
The rays of morn took their first golden breath
Dispersing powers of night's darkling mists
First gleams romancing sweet the earthen shores
Beating back dark...
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Categories:
showers, art, creation, dedication, deep, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Rain ShowersThe Earth dry and bare; waiting eagerly for the drops of care;
Caught in the hot, steaming summer’s snare;
The flowers and creepers decorating window sills; all look desolate and ill;
As the nature withers...
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Categories:
showers, nature, life, rain, summer, water, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
Phantom MechanismsMechanism 1
Part #1
The things outside of my window dry out my eyes. The egg that I saturated has mold on it. The moon decays when I speak. The stars are all just God’s germs. Lately...
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Categories:
showers, mystery, me, night, people, me, moon, night,
Form:
Free verse
Mail ItI’ve sat here questioning myself numerous times do I want to open this Pandora’s Box? Am I ready to experience the backlash that will come after all of the pain I will have dropped?
Dropped into...
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Categories:
showers, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Knowledge Is a Genie Once Let Out of the Bottle It Cant Be Put Back1
Profound insight climbing the mountain
The higher you go the more beautiful view
Opens up wide spread in front of you
You see the world under your feet
Overwhelmingly liberating experience
Shocking overpowering, and scary
You play walking on...
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Categories:
showers, allusion, deep, humanity, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse