Long Slept Poems
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I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 1(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...
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Categories:
slept, angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form:
Free verse
The Tea Party"Go on forth young graduates,
And show us who you are
You're now our future leaders
We know you will go far"
And so commencement ended
Pictures done and people changed
Now, off to private parties
All orderly pre-arranged
But four young girls...
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Categories:
slept, america, future, graduate, graduation, life, sad, society,
Form:
Epic
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:
slept, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Categories:
slept, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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slept, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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slept, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
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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slept, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Chapter 48 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Damian JuniorYear 2031 would soon come
To a close. Everyone will be
A little wiser.
Damian Junior wanted a
Girlfriend and he was soon to
Be 13. Amadeus and
Desharah will both turn 10.
The oldest kids had a desire to
Add...
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Categories:
slept, beautiful, birth, black love, business, cute, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
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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slept, 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:
slept, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Chapter 65 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xiv 2 : the Family VacationIt was at this point 11 o'clock
At night. Damian Left Molly and
Checked on the seven. Everybody
Was fine. He returned to
Business. Molly was no longer
Afraid she knew she was in the...
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Categories:
slept, 7th grade, beach, beauty, child, grandmother, parents,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 100 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Big Barbecue Celebration of Life Mass Invitations ContinuesWhile family Mingled with one
Another and strangers the party flowed
Smoothly. Music was enjoyed.
Everybody indulged. With a little
Champagne some wine and juice.
The bar also served smoothies.
Adults mingled. Delilah Mallory
Mother Daughtry and Amaliah...
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Categories:
slept, 4th grade, birth, child, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To ChurchEarly morning dawn July
"Mallory" Damian whispered, sliding
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...
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Categories:
slept, angst, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 21-- Dolly Damian and Molly: Cascades Continued IiDolly was beside herself with thoughts
Of this powerful man, Damian Possessing
Her. She wandered around his
Spacious apartment before
Returning to his bedroom
to sit on his bed.
Damian was ready and dressed...
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Categories:
slept, emotions, feelings, love, lust,
Form:
Alliteration
The World Is a Small PlaneI have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
slept, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Things That Break IPoems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
slept, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 63 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xiii-- Vacation11 o'clock at night. Everyone is
In bed. Molly was in the adjoining
Room with the seven and
Desharah. Damian was awake
and Planning. Dominant
Damian was deeply devious
in his domain. In bed with...
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Categories:
slept, adventure, atheist, beach, deep, divorce, good morning,
Form:
Alliteration
The Witch At InvernessPlease take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.
With the Dragons gone and the...
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Categories:
slept, adventure, children, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
slept, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My White House InterviewI was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it felt like an obligation
to at least show up,
although perhaps about...
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Categories:
slept, caregiving, earth, health, humor, nature, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
slept, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Who is this child?” he whispered to...
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Categories:
slept, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Remember WhenRemember when you were very young, ...
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Categories:
slept, fun, games, life, love, remember, today, youth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
slept, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
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:
slept, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme