Long Skyward Poems
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Poems About DogsPoems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
skyward, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 2Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
skyward, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a ProblemIt’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
skyward, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems IiMedieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
skyward, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You PlayEvery Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
skyward, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
skyward, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiJuvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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Categories:
skyward, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
A Walk On the BeachI went again today ... to that place, the allurement overwhelming ... the one
we called "ours" so tritely, "mine" before you, "mine" again now, (tho' others
have doubtless staked claimed - ages before and since). I...
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Categories:
skyward, heartbreak, lost love, ocean, passion, solitude, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
skyward, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dance of SalomeThe Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
skyward, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"
Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently...
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Categories:
skyward, america, appreciation, art, bird, books, dream, history,
Form:
Blank verse
ProofWe are the days that we’ve become.
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings,
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings.
Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...
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Categories:
skyward, allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
skyward, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form:
Blank verse
Zeitgeistcompeting cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
hominins humming mostly human song
altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
opportunistic, never staying long
self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
real representative intelligence
modelling...
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Categories:
skyward, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form:
Verse
Friends Speak - An Echo Poem(Brian Johnston speaks to Lora Colon)
Getting older don't you wonder
What your life is all about?
Wages earned don't leap to haunt me
Like my dreams of fighting trout -
Lightning flash and...
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Categories:
skyward, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Warm Air BalloonAlone, surrounded by seventeen million humans who call New York home
In a rut, depressed, searching in pain and in vain for hope
A crisp fall day, I venture north to play
The Adirondack valley, mountains borne from...
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Categories:
skyward, anxiety, autumn, courage, depression, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Jo Jo Part TwoCoercion began
as the ground surrounds the seed
baring life and truth
A kingdom of soil
An army of soiled crickets
A pubescent king
Presenting Jo Jo
the leader of the region
and sire to the throne
Forced to lead the masses
basis chases hatred
Bandaged...
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Categories:
skyward, spiritual, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Children's FableAre you sitting comfortably, children?
Because it's a long tale.....
Then I shall begin.
Arthur was a Mason, which in case you hadn't known
is a man who sands and chisels, making shapes from out of stone.
From animals to...
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Categories:
skyward, allegory, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Most Mind Boggling Mysterious MortalMost mind boggling mysterious mortal
Mystification prevails stupefying yours truly
befuddled, he blindly stumbles along rocky
pathway illusory impediments strewn helter
skelter intangible obstructions hinder access
psychological barricades effective impasse
detains, deters, detours manhood maturation
manumission manifestation materialization
linkedin, when permanent submission arises
beckoning...
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Categories:
skyward, absence, angel, angst, atheist, birth, courage, creation,
Form:
Free verse
The Otherwisethey disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
......
retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
fresh slants on shadowy delight
the foreboding, ominous,...
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Categories:
skyward, community, psychological, sleep, voice,
Form:
Verse
The Tale of Billy FlynnThe Tale of Billy Flynn
Billy Flynn looked skyward
As the fire slowly died
The embers dancing gaily
They had a hard days ride
He looked down at the fire
At the coals and their red glow
"Better get them horses covered"
"The...
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Categories:
skyward, america, , western,
Form:
Epic
The Lonely AnglerHe was there in the beginning
and through the eternal ending.
He'd scattered his seed 'cross numerous worlds.
They flourished.
They perished.
Flora, fauna, innumerable forms,
aeons of evolutionary warfare.
Extermination of the unfit
without the mercy of design.
Quadrillions of cadavers
paving a road...
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Categories:
skyward, endurance, fishing, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, spiritual, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Sometimes, the 5 Glasses1st glass...
sometimes
I need you
more than
...
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Categories:
skyward, sad love,
Form:
Ballad
The Total Eclipse ExperienceDragon took his penguins aloft to view the eclipse on that fine day.
They were careful to use the special viewing glasses as their mainstay.
The penguins were so excited and Dragon was always eager to please.
But...
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Categories:
skyward, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Subconscious Super EgoParent-like, I looked at my past and the Resolutions
once made.
In doing so I asked myself: "What are Resolutions
anyway"?
Are they initial Collections of thoughts, plans,
Plots, fine proposals, investments and more,
That were all carefully thought...
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Categories:
skyward, bible, blessing, courage, desire, hope, inspirational, poetry,
Form:
Free verse