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Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
sifts, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Iii
Poems 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:
sifts, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
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 feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
sifts, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Dylan Thomas
These 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:
sifts, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
Myth, 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:
sifts, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
A Kept Woman
Dream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
sifts, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx
Sonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.
Because you...
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Categories:
sifts, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6
Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments,
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...
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Categories:
sifts, adventure, character, gothic, heart, love, philosophy, power,
Form:
Free verse
Starlight and Moonlight
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
sifts, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Zero-Souled Consciousness
In a surprise announcement today,
President Plan B Sandman's
EcoMinister of CoOperative Economics
translated bipartisan balanced ecologic
into "Full-Budda BiLateral Political Consciousness."
Curiously,
rather than presenting theoretical support,
he seems to offer analogical evidence
for his ecological thesis
about logic,
or logos,
or neurosystemic linguistics,
or...
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Categories:
sifts, culture, deep, environment, identity, philosophy, western,
Form:
Political Verse
Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds of the day"
Virtues are...
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Categories:
sifts, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Righteous Loyalty
Environment of elegance emerges and Solar System shimmers anew in our lives
We need and want to shine...waiting till the Kingdom of Glory arrives...arrives...
Burn negativity into the flames
I’m sick of your silly little games
Burn negativity into...
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Categories:
sifts, depression, hope, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
China Tour Thoughts 3
China Tour Diary Moment #3
SHANGRI-LA, TIBET
--------------------------------
Paradise on earth: Himalayan range;
A phenomenon carved by elements;
Here magic gives birth to ways that seem strange;
A place where lessons of soul mark movement.
Our tour coach winds round the mountain...
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Categories:
sifts, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
A Noble Tree
The heavens shimmer
as billowy linen-white gossamer clouds slip away, as soft blossoms open for the sun.
Mystical wings of Eden brush sunset colors;
caress the rose petal; touch the lustrous cream bisque glossed onto an...
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Categories:
sifts, allusion, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Collab Convos Jt
Jazz man of the mill suffering atomic verse
Born of the waves, air-raids of sound
Moons to profile the edge of weather
And sun to light the way
Inside the cliffs and black holes beyond...
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Categories:
sifts, august, autumn, blessing,
Form:
I do not know?
Illness is
a lonely place.
It's nothing to do with that person
who asked how are you? this morning.
It's to do with staring through
fear-frosted windows
as snow sugar-sifts the street,
watching through dark windows
as firework flowers burst to bloom in a...
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Categories:
sifts, life, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poets Ii
Poems about Poets
Elemental
by Michael R. Burch
for and after 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...
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Categories:
sifts, art, inspiration, muse, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Insurrection
Insurrection
by Michael R. Burch
She has become as the night—listening
for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening,
reminds me of her, and the wind, whistling,
lashes my cheeks with its soft chastening.
She has become as the lights—flickering
in the distance—till...
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Categories:
sifts, allegory, analogy, aubade, break up, desire, extended
Form:
Quatrain
Penelope Alecknavage
Penelope Alecknavage nee perskin whose death aye assay
to comprehend, this son of the late Harriet Harris -
November thirteenth 2016 marked her eighty first birthday
if she still lived these last eleven years...
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Categories:
sifts, absence, beautiful, bereavement, death, eulogy, grief, loss,
Form:
Ode
At Once Into Blind Empty Space, At Once Into Her Arms
At Once Into Blind Empty Space, At Once Into Her Arms
How can it be
Something so unwittingly described
Can break me
Remake me
Turn me to the sorriest of fates
And still fill my heart
With this happiness of late
How can...
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Categories:
sifts, loveme, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
Special Touches of Christ
What special touches - the eyes, the mouth, his hands.
The brushes illuminate the solid ground - his walk.
Invisible beings painted in, sentries stand by, awaiting
his slightest command. The diablos stands by too,
mocking each mark of...
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Categories:
sifts, christian,
Form:
Free verse
Thanksgiving Delight
Thanksgiving Dinner by Mario Vitale
Home for the holiday from New Orleans,
Happy as a bee in the tree making a tune so merrily We only get a glimpse of what is to come The thought to...
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Categories:
sifts, art,
Form:
Free verse
In the realm of shadow where memories are born and die unnaturally
In the realm of shadow where memories are born and die unnaturally,
And stars watch in silence, reflecting celestial nostalgias.
The Moon dresses in the silk of night, preparing for union,
With the night's dew, in a celestial...
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Categories:
sifts, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Worthy
Am I worthy of your unique, Agape love?
Am I worthy of any sign of significance?
Am I worthy of higher thinking above?
Am I worthy of your righteous radiance?
Am I worthy of brilliance?
Am I worthy?
Why am I...
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Categories:
sifts, courage, dedication, deep, desire, emotions, endurance, youth,
Form:
Free verse
The Emperor of Empathy Chapter 1
Distress is my pain empire
Fluttered in my Liar Mentality…truth be told while I be bold…letting time unwind…
I’m sorry – I’m no higher
Than a King from on High…but, I don’t mind…
Descending from the Stairway of Heaven…walkin’...
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Categories:
sifts, deep, drug,
Form:
Free verse