Long Softer Poems
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Fairer, Indeed
WOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
softer, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
The First Valentine Poem, Circa 1415
The First Valentine Poem
Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) has been credited with writing the first Valentine poem for his wife in 1415. Charles wrote the first Valentine poem in the first year of his captivity while being...
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Categories:
softer, heart, love, passion, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
Family Poems
Family Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
softer, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Mothers
Poems about Mothers
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more...
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Categories:
softer, child, children, love, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Poems
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
softer, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Halloween
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
softer, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Children
Poems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
softer, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaph For a Palestinian Child
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child of...
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Categories:
softer, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and Smiles
Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
softer, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall Remain
Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
softer, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
softer, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
softer, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Cleansings
Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
softer, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
If I Falter
If I Falter
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
If I regret
fire in the sunset
exploding on the horizon,
then let me regret loving you.
If I forget
even for a moment
that you are the only one,
then let me forget that the...
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Categories:
softer, desire, engagement, fire, for her, friendship love,
Form:
Verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
softer, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Ii
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
softer, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Stardust and the Ivory Castle
Once upon a time there was a castle made of pure ivory. Pillars pale and barren, holding a surface of grace and elegance. This castle was the home of a mighty unicorn named Stardust. She...
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Categories:
softer, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Of Winks and Wings - Part 2
"Oh, indeed she was, young man ... I mean Greg. It IS Greg, if I recall correctly?"
"Yes. Or you can call me True Friend if you like." I turned to...
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Categories:
softer, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
The Children of Gaza Lyrics: I
"The Children of Gaza" Lyrics: I
These lyrics were written by Michael R. Burch and were adapted in places to the music by Michael R. Burch with input from composer Eduard de Boer.
World premiere, April 22,2017,...
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Categories:
softer, child, child abuse, childhood, mother, mother son,
Form:
Lyric
Final Lullaby
Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.
Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.
Sleep peacefully—like fields of fragrant clover
unmoved by any motion of the wind.
Sleep...
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Categories:
softer, death, eulogy, funeral, Lullaby, mother, mother son,
Form:
Lyric
Marlino
Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees,
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.
Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but...
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Categories:
softer, fish, fishing, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
softer, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Fabrication
"How Do I Feel Today"
written out of depravity of sleep, of self assurance of happiness
written out of love and vulnerability
I was so sure, aware; I had a plan!
but as the case with all my well...
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Categories:
softer, how i feel,
Form:
Bio
Bruce Walker, Elegy
My teacher died.
His lungs failed him.
He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.
His lungs are gone.
My grief has only just arrived.
He used his lungs...
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Categories:
softer, death of a friend, love, teacher,
Form:
Elegy
Chapter 157-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: CRUEL Ball FAMILY DaY
May 2051
Damali was preparing for the big event
Beginning today "12:30 bright and
Early like my Dad said". Damali
Was thinking. DJ was on video phone
Now. "Hey Damali! You know who'll
Be here today...
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Categories:
softer, absence, allusion, best friend, birth, black love,
Form:
Prose