Long Silks Poems
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Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
silks, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
silks, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
The First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578
The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)
The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell the King, 3
Was reserved for England.
The routes ‘round...
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Categories:
silks, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form:
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:
silks, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Burning Memories
Crown of Sonnets
Yesterday's poems now pages turned brown
Lay scattered, torn on the floor of my years
Written long ago with words I wrote down
When the ink was used to quell the heart's fears
These words of my...
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Categories:
silks, lost love, memory, poems,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Pypu Pull Yo Pants Up
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
PYPU what ya gonna do boyz
don't need to see your Fruit or your Looms
don't wanna see your buttocks in those..
Vincent Motega's don't wanna see your...
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Categories:
silks, america, analogy, body, change, character, clothes, metaphor,
Form:
Ballad
The Stonecutter From Shimoda
There was a man from the town of Shimoda who lived a simple and contented life.
A stonecutter by trade, he would go to the mountain and look at the type of stone that people will...
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Categories:
silks, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose Poetry
HALLS OF AMENTI 1
HALLS OF AMENTI :1
My Kingdom is clear of books
...
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Categories:
silks, allegory, character, death, deep, growth, humanity, inspirational,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Poems About Poets Viii
Poems for Poets VIII
Fireflies
thinking to illuminate the darkness?
Poets!
—Michael R. Burch
BeMused
by Michael R. Burch
You will find in her hair
a fragrance more severe
than camphor.
You will find in her dress
no hint of a sweet
distractedness.
You will find in her...
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Categories:
silks, poems, poetry, poets, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Different Spot
"Hey could I come?"
"Sure."
She's very simple I thought, she just hangs up on the time she bought.
I ready myself and head out the door, the day is still out, my eyes will explore.
I step on...
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Categories:
silks, life, peoplehouse, me, old, house, me, old,
Form:
Free verse
Poems about Science 6: Evolution
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 6: EVOLUTION
Singularity
by Michael R. Burch
Are scientists confounded like the ostrich?
Heads buried in the sand, they shout, *Preposterous!*
This universe, so magical, they say,
proves there’s no God. But let’s look anyway ...
He said, *Let...
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Categories:
silks, earth, life, light, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a poem for our time
Speak!
by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Speak, while your lips are still free.
Speak, while your tongue remains yours.
Speak, while you're still standing upright.
Speak, while your spirit has force.
See how, in the bright-sparking forge,...
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Categories:
silks, dark, father, fear, sea, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Rhyme
The Palace Guardiennes
The Palace Guardiennes were the sultan’s delight,
resplendent in their tight uniforms
of scarlet and magenta silks,
embroidered with golden flowers,
with sterling silver scimitars in
ruby studded scabbards
hanging off lovely hips,
and boots and belts of finest faun-skin
and helmets topped...
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Categories:
silks, adventure, arabic, courage, irony, soldier, women,
Form:
Free verse
A Man and a Flower
very short, abridged, edited, small version.
There was a cave, deep within the hills
Of St Francis
A seedling traveled by the black crow
And was dropped on the wings of a dove
Only to tumble tumble, down, earthenly bound
The...
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Categories:
silks, love,
Form:
Light Verse
Poems About Poets Vii
Poems for Poets VII
Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch
(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)
Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be glad the stone-tongued apes are stricken dumb
by anything like music;...
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Categories:
silks, love, music, night, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tomb of the China Poblana
Jarabe tapatío in Plaza Castillo,
girls dance in the Mexican night.
The floral bouquets of their dresses ablaze,
a rainbow of colors so bright
But it wasn't this way, far back in the day
when dances held little such drama.
So...
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Categories:
silks, history,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
silks, faith, husband, loveme, heart, longing, heart, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Fulcrum of a Rose
When the raspberry horizon
is curled up,
shaping caramel-lilac lips
of the cashmere kismet,
singing in a choir of cherry chivalry
and honey-glazed fireflies ~
those snowy stars
simmering...
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Categories:
silks, deep, emotions, life, metaphor, rose, spiritual, storm,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Freedom is the realization that freedom is just another drug to calm a pain, to continue the show
Freedom is the realization that freedom is just another drug to calm a pain, to continue the show,
And this drug comes in a variety of models, prices for the mass market or highly segregated niches.
In...
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Categories:
silks, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Selfish Knight and His Lady
The Selfish Knight and His Lady
Sixteen pieces for me
Allotted the same for you
But, it always begins with Me first
Unless the 'me' is you...
Whereupon, like Alice in her checkerboard world,
It's up to me to find our...
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Categories:
silks, romance,
Form:
Blank verse
Wild Mountain Honey
Old Mountain tales of love spin
'neath dawn's blush,
Elderberries, purple ink drop pearls
drawing me nigh.
Ah! Her laughter just like a honeybee’s dance
...
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Categories:
silks, adventure, devotion, inspirational love, longing, love, mountains,
Form:
Lyric
The Elephant Gift
The Elephant Gift.
upon the elephant rode a boy prince,
his royal command, he was there to evince.
dark with grace and dripping with youth.
bringing his men, his crown and his couth.
town after town he strode...
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Categories:
silks, child, fantasy, humorous, life,
Form:
Verse
Poppy
Poppy
by Michael R. Burch
“It is lonely to be born.” – Dannie Abse, “The Second Coming”
It is lonely to be born
between the intimate ears of corn . . .
the sunlit, flooded, shellshocked rows.
The scarecrow flutters, listens,...
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Categories:
silks, birth, flying, heart, life, light, love, love
Form:
Free verse
17 Gray Street - Port of Spain
A Simpler Time
...
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Categories:
silks, childhood, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Dreaming of White Willows
Immortal. The word spoken passed through on a slight breeze, a wind to splinter trees.
A flaming light, in the distance a bird in solemn flight.
Soaring over, down below, drove into the depths as...
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Categories:
silks, autumn, desire, dream, imagery, symbolism, time,
Form:
Free verse