Long Sixteen Poems
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The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-The Sun Is a Liar
It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...
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Categories:
sixteen, childhood,
Form:
Prose
Fahr An' IceFahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
sixteen, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
A Taste of My Varied GenresA Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along with these titles:
The Sound of His Breathing (Written about my...
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Categories:
sixteen, poetry, , cute, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI 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:
sixteen, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
sixteen, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
sixteen, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 96 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Boundaries Regulations and FrustrationsDate: August 2041
Members of the Damian fraternity
Were relaxing in the backyard. The
Soon to be 4 year olds conducted
Themselves in their sandbox.
The older children picniced on
The grass. Amadeus DJ Damali
And Desharah sat...
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Categories:
sixteen, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 97 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Times and ProjectsDate: December 2042
Early afternoon, Damian was
Busy in his den planning the trip
To Trinidad. He called CJ first
To confirm his commitment to
The project. "Hey brother you
Still on for that trip we spoke
About."...
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Categories:
sixteen, absence, allusion, earth day,
Form:
Alliteration
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
sixteen, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Finally Saved Part 1 - Translation From Rabindranath TagoreThis is a translation from a Poem (Title - Niskriti) by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate philosopher poet (1861 - 1941) from India. The story successfully depicts the status of women in a patriarchal society of nineteenth...
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Categories:
sixteen, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
sixteen, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
sixteen, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
sixteen, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
sixteen, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
sixteen, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Sandy Hook Poems 1Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we may,
that the truth of our Love may be spoken;
then, when...
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Categories:
sixteen, children, school, student, usa, violence, war, youth,
Form:
Verse
Insecurity Part TwoI went against my better judgment, I was flattered not appalled, the only affection that I had ever known was just affection that I didn’t want
By a man that was many years older than me,...
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Categories:
sixteen, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
Engaging the Family LaundryPerhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
sixteen, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T WignesanTranslation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
...
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Categories:
sixteen, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Territory TrampleHeadlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
sixteen, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 9As Lumi left the two, they strolled slowly along the cobbled streets and the mood changed from jovial to serious. DynDoeth's voice lowered to just above a whisper,
“Joulupukki, I...
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Categories:
sixteen, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The CallThe Call
For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I had good or bad news, it was just natural for...
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Categories:
sixteen, angst, blessing, courage, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Light of Reckoning -2The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I presented the poor
I told the onery...
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Categories:
sixteen, creation,
Form:
Epic
The ForgeI remember the beach sand and swing
when you and mother were still something
I remember the ducks in the lake
you held my hand watching their wake
I remember the sheep dogs when the day was through
and the...
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Categories:
sixteen, abuse, angst, emotions, life, recovery from, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 105 --Damian Delilah Mallory: Cruel Ball Plans AgainDate: October 2045
Desharah was 16 years old today
October 5, twenty- fourty five. She
Felt grown up and alive. As she
Discussed with Amadeus her mother
And Father. Amadeus Gave her an
Affectionate sloppy...
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Categories:
sixteen, africa, birth,
Form:
Alliteration