Long Sleepless Poems
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The Power of My PenI have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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Categories:
sleepless, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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sleepless, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Storm Is In the CalmThe angles are in the storm
Just before the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
and relinquish that awful...
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Categories:
sleepless, abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form:
Narrative
Ono No Komachi Translation: AutumnWatching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
sleepless, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Poems About Poems IiiPoems 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:
sleepless, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ono No Komachi TranslationsAs I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
sleepless, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Around 4 Am - Lived Life As a Loser SnoozerI have a lot to write and say, buddy, so hear me out some more
Don’t make me feel lower than I have ever felt before…
Listen, understand and stay quiet until I say no more…sorry if...
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Categories:
sleepless, addiction, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form:
I do not know?
The Twins, Part 1In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.
In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...
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Categories:
sleepless, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose
Juozas Miltinis Learning Years In ParisIt was September
Of one thousand
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with ripe yellow
And orange squash
He was born in a little
Wooden house...
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Categories:
sleepless, art, destiny, french, history,
Form:
Bio
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1SHE was my wife, once ...
long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,
supplying...
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Categories:
sleepless, history, sad love, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
The Mask of TourmalineTwice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.
I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving with that which shadows...
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Categories:
sleepless, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery, myth, night, psychological,
Form:
Couplet
The Mask of AlabasterOnce the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...
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Categories:
sleepless, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Couplet
The Mask of LabradoriteThrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number.
I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to beg for booked...
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Categories:
sleepless, corruption, imagination, judgement, life, mystery, myth, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
A Penny For a Poets Thoughts IStanding up for the kids standing up to sleep in overbearing heat clothes damp from their pee, God made night separate from day, but with lights bright all night as well as all day, the...
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Categories:
sleepless, abuse, anger,
Form:
Political Verse
Femme FataleFemme Fatale By A Wishing Well
(In The Wastelands Of War)
Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...
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Categories:
sleepless, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Freed From My Shackles - Translation From TagoreThis is a poem (Original Title “Mukti” in Bengali, which means “Freedom”) by India's Nobel-laureate poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - a poet, writer, playwright, composer, social reformer and painter. He was a man...
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Categories:
sleepless, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
SisterA friend—
not a good one, but a close one;
one that I couldn’t let go
If I could see you now, I don’t know what I would say…
there were always things I didn’t know
but I loved you...
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Categories:
sleepless, abuse, best friend, betrayal, poetry, relationship, sister,
Form:
I do not know?
Saturday Morning ReflectionsMy stomach is growling from the coconut trash bubbling in my system, my stomach is growling from toxic energy circulating in the street. My stomach is growling from words people are shouting in the town;...
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Categories:
sleepless, community, future, happiness, sad, strength, success, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Sir Sleep.So this one was really just a bit of fun I wanted to try and incorporate some really old slang type language within the piece, I've included a glossary below for the old words but...
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Categories:
sleepless, dark, dream, night, old, silence, sleep, stars,
Form:
Free verse
UpsurgeFar beyond the horizon we gazed at sunlit skies
glowing from gigantic mountains, thick blue clouds
hang peacefully over our heads, painting hopes and
aspirations as we journey relentlessly to recapture
our dreams.
We have been climbing this...
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Categories:
sleepless, celebration, faith, success,
Form:
Narrative
A To Z An Amazing Couple~A To Z An Amazing Couple~
A is for Allow me to write a poem about my best friends
love affair with an army man, she was 35 years old he was
the same age living...
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Categories:
sleepless, family, mum,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Time To GoEverything seems better when I am in my own world
Everything is better when there is no one there
Once when I had someone
When I felt friendlier
When all I wanted to do was be...
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Categories:
sleepless, sorrow, suicide,
Form:
ABC
Lost and FoundI loved my job as a botanist, which took me to many foreign lands,
Like the golden sun rises smiling, to meet all our natural demands.
I was always marked for this work, ever since I was...
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Categories:
sleepless, adventure, fantasy, flower, green, lost, nature, work,
Form:
Couplet
To a Superior JudgeI could not do what you are mandated to do
every day on society's justice bench,
weighing retributive justice
against restorative healing.
I cannot look with any comfort
at police
and correction officers'
routinely criminalizing vocations,
and courtroom injudicious levying of fines
against...
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Categories:
sleepless, anxiety, blue, bullying, culture, health, racism, society,
Form:
Political Verse
The Path To the LightThe Sun begins to rise as I lay here in bed,
Listening as these questions repeat in my head.
I know I should be sleeping
But I choose to listen instead.
Searching for an answer,...
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Categories:
sleepless, heaven, inspiration, religious,
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I do not know?