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State of the Art IiiState of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
shrieking, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
shrieking, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
RipR.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:
shrieking, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Whats Behind the CurtainI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
shrieking, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
BehindI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
shrieking, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
shrieking, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
shrieking, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IiiPoems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
shrieking, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
shrieking, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
shrieking, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Modern Sonnets IMODERN 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:
shrieking, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
shrieking, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Dylan ThomasThese are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
shrieking, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
shrieking, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Song of Amergin: TranslationThe Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
shrieking, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Couples CounselingMy early 20s Eldest Black Lives Matter Son
wears his disabling ADHD label uncomfortably,
impatiently,
like a possibly self-redeeming crown
but with unfortunate MessiahComplex thorns
as the Great WhiteMan's sacrificial lamb.
His First, and hopefully last, Girl
is an ADHD Latina,
with sparkling...
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Categories:
shrieking, earth, games, health, humor, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part OneUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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Categories:
shrieking, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
FICTIONAL BIO:FICTIONAL BIO:
The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...
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Categories:
shrieking, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
shrieking, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 76 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Cruel Ball Plans and Birthday CelebrationsAverage affluent Almost Afternoon
11:30 morning time. Damian was
Still asleep as were DJ and
Amadeus. Molly and Dolly were
In the kitchen planning Barrington
And Godfrey's birthday party.
"Come sis are we baking this cake...
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Categories:
shrieking, environment, family, father son, girlfriend, house, july,
Form:
Alliteration
Conversational EcstasyI believe SuperEgo bicameral comprehension
functions, forms, and flows organic
ecotherapeutic integrity;
I believe balanced Left-Right consciousness
orbits toward ecstatic psychology.
I've got nothin' to say
And I'm gonna keep it just that way
'til my mean old SuperEgo
lets me go outside...
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Categories:
shrieking, freedom, god, identity, imagination, joy, love, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl of Light and the Fly Peoplea collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo
The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her eyes
light continued to seep out
Her brilliance, competed with the sun...
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Categories:
shrieking, beautiful, depression, desire, dream, fantasy, fire, loneliness,
Form:
Epic
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt RavidasDancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas
I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous rage and great...
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Categories:
shrieking, art, dark, evil, fantasy, horror, raven, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Waters and SkiesI.
You can always tell by the eyes
When they’re starting to go
You’ll fall for a few of their lies
Before you begin to know
And you will just defy it
(But they know you will never go)
They’ll glide through...
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Categories:
shrieking, addiction, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announcesGalley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces...
Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian
strong contractions forced me
to pass thru cervix,
buck naked bare lady,
I ranked as only grandson sharing
same surname as Aaron,
(mine paternal grandfather)
me the...
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Categories:
shrieking, 6th grade, 7th grade, abuse, age, angst,
Form:
Rhyme