Long Silt Poems
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Free Verse I
Lozenge
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 lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
silt, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
silt, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
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:
silt, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Wild Flower Love
O’ my dearest love,
I gather the world’s rarest petals for you—
Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers
in the marsh’s quiet air
look, love, it fades
then rises in
the...
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Categories:
silt, devotion, flower, love, memory, metaphor, valentines day,
Form:
Lyric
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One ...
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Categories:
silt, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Clearing: Part I
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Categories:
silt, inspirational, nature,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Farewell, Phantoms
I, heart on sleeve ... proudly? I suppose, in a contrite way ...
but it's beyond my breadth to control, so it is what it IS.
...
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Categories:
silt, hope, lost love, relationship, true love, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Progeny
Should we shed the boy and be a man?
Shoot of spirit wild -to be tamed in the tamed land.
Where is the proof that this cynical evolution;
this cyclical passthrough is a strengthened constitution.
A blur and a...
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Categories:
silt, birth, child, child abuse, childhood, first love,
Form:
Rhyme
Alpine Wind
It's too hot and humid for September!
Even dust specks descending in the room's sunlight
are beads of sweat running down my sides.
I bring pencil, crossword and ice tea
to this chair and table, these angled shutters,...
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Categories:
silt, humor, longing, weather,
Form:
Imagism
Shooting Star
“Some people are like shooting stars. They burst through our lives in a spectacular arc, but they don't stay long. They just leave a trail.” - Erica Orloff, Illuminated
Stars doubt the night
Will the moon be...
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Categories:
silt, appreciation, inspiration, poetry, rain, star, stars, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
silt, butterfly, goodbye, poetess,
Form:
Epitaph
Poems about Science 5: Evolution
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION
Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I do not see the same as you, but hold
antenna to the brilliant...
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Categories:
silt, child, children, earth, life, light, science, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
Ophelia
POEMS ABOUT OPHELIA
Ophélie (“Ophelia”)
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
On pitiless black waves unsinking stars abide
while pale Ophelia, a lethargic lily, drifts by.
Here, tangled in her veils, she floats on the tide.
Far-off, in the woods,...
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Categories:
silt, betrayal, death, lost love, love, river, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan Trip-Trap
They poured in, before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their cribs -through-hearse stages,
trusting like kids, a burnished sky, blue-white,
a cocktail of the wrong...
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Categories:
silt, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Rain
rain hitting the asphalt, the cracking concrete, water weaving
its way down the overpass. Residents cover up with plastic,
a conflagration of yellow light on garbage bags
hitting tree tops, branches, leaves old and new. Boughs
sagging with the...
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Categories:
silt, absence, bird, city, love, nature, rain, winter,
Form:
List
Sleepless Nights
Sleepless nights
Wherein
Black velvet sky festoons solemnly my brooding words,
Exudes gloom from my mindly nib, drowned in woes two thirds.
Sharp shrillness of many of my lingering thought,
Shatter silence of stillness that dusk had on to me...
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Categories:
silt, image, imagination, introspection, lonely, longing, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
We Are the Ghost Dance Poets
We Are The Ghost Dance Poets
by David Lee Herring (The Powwow Poet)
We come together from near and far
Like wise men following the star
from the sweet Grass Hills, We come to be...
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Categories:
silt, dance, god, native american, poets, spiritual, spoken
Form:
Lyric
Portrait In Indigo -She Dreamed of Icarus
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She seemed to be like a delicate portrait
which had fallen from its gilded frame
Abandoned, lying face down on the cold winter floor
An elegant portrait once painted
In resplendent hues...
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Categories:
silt, allegory, angst, loss, sad, heart, winter, blue,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Short Story of My Nde, In Story Form Pt 1
In the 80's I lived in Anchorage Alaska. You could go anywhere and catch salmon till your arms fell off. I would drive for hours to fish in completely desolate (of people) lakes. There were...
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Categories:
silt, nostalgia, water, fish, me, water,
Form:
Narrative
Going All Bruce Lee
"Going All Bruce Lee"
It’s like holding water
in your hands.
they say, be like water
as if on the drop,
the turn of H20 on tap,
one can go all Bruce Lee.
he was rather gung-ho;
but the...
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Categories:
silt, dark, imagery, muse,
Form:
Narrative
She
By: Sashi.Prabhu(ZEAUOXIAN)
Dated:15/6/2012.(Mumbai airport)
Black velvet sky festoons solemnly my brooding words,
Exudes gloom from my mindly nib, drowned in woes two thirds.
Sharp shrillness of many of my lingering thought,
Shatter silence of stillness that dusk had on to...
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Categories:
silt, loss, lost love, love, for her, me,
Form:
Rhyme
My Lost and Forgotten Valentine
Dated:2/2/2013
Black velvet sky festoons solemnly my brooding words,
Exudes gloom from my mindly nib, drowned in woes two thirds.
Sharp shrillness of many of my lingering thought,
Shatter silence of stillness that dusk had on to me brought.
Grief...
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Categories:
silt, loss, lost love, love, for her, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Forgotten
Dated:12/7/2012.(chennai)... early morn 12.45 am
Black velvet sky festoons solemnly my brooding words,
Exudes gloom from my mindly nib, drowned in woes two thirds.
Sharp shrillness of many of my lingering thought,
Shatter silence of stillness that dusk had...
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Categories:
silt, lost love, love, for her, me, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
My Stand
Black velvet sky festoons solemnly my brooding words,
Exudes gloom from my mindly nib, drowned in woes two thirds.
Sharp shrillness of many of my lingering thought,
Shatter silence of stillness that dusk had on to me brought.
Grief...
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Categories:
silt, lost love, for her, me, heart, write,
Form:
Rhyme
Bhatiali
Afloat I am,
The blind horizon spreads to no end.
O river of rivers,
The queen river,
Flow as you wish,
Gather silt forever
That on your shores
Men may harrow, then sow
The seeds of happiness
And sorrow...
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Categories:
silt, allegory, beauty, fishing, mythology, nature, prayer, river,
Form:
Pastoral