Long Smoke Poems
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The Injury of Fury~~**This poem is super long, but it took me hours to write. I hope you all enjoy reading this as I have enjoyed writing it wholeheartedly.**~~
Awful anger expressed in verses
Didn’t give me blessings, but curses
I’m...
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Categories:
smoke, anxiety, courage, deep, depression, desire, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
An Adverse World Uncurled“I am NOT like my father!!!
You say that again, I’m going to kill you!”
I shrivel up in shame
For, I am not to blame
For the shenanigans you put me through so many times
Sometimes, I wish I...
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Categories:
smoke, addiction, anger, angst,
Form:
Free verse
The Hotel CaretakerHow unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
smoke, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
smoke, america, future, graduate, graduation, life, sad, society,
Form:
Epic
The Back BurnerI heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I...
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Categories:
smoke, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
smoke, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
smoke, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
smoke, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The BartenderTwenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
smoke, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations IiChinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
smoke, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
smoke, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
smoke, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
Pablo Neruda TranslationsI love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...
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Categories:
smoke, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
smoke, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
smoke, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Various Heresies 5Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
smoke, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
Form:
Verse
Let Us Speak ClearlyLet me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain piratically rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to feel-good AmericaFirst...
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Categories:
smoke, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
smoke, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)
The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a threadbare, fading strand,
A quest for wisdom, in this digital land.
Sage:...
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Categories:
smoke, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
smoke, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IvJuvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
smoke, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Power of Gods Armor - the Hourglass Style~ The Power Of God's Armor ~
( Hourglass )
Oh Lord! help me in daily walk
In your Holy name, let me talk
Thru life guide me so less I fall
Each day I want to hear...
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Categories:
smoke, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
smoke, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Brain InjuryPain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears are always ringing with this...
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Categories:
smoke, america, anxiety, beautiful, lonely, mental illness, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
smoke, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse