Long Sorrowing Poems
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Early Poems Iii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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sorrowing, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and Bound
In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound
I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye"
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's, "War and Peace"
I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die"
Remember...
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sorrowing, art, imagination, inspiration, literature, poetry, poets, writing,
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Rhyme
Demise of the Frail and Assail of the Skies
The bird wanted to fly
But the wind wanted to blow
“Rest now bird”, said the wind
“You now take it down slow,
And let me flow.”
The bird accepted thinking it was a request,
And ignored the proud in...
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sorrowing, angst, fear, grief, life, pain, sorrow, rain,
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I do not know?
When Poet Ponders What Fate Delivers
Quotes: -- " deus ex machina "
""Aristotle praised Euripides, however, for generally ending his plays with bad fortune, which he viewed as correct in tragedy, and somewhat excused the intervention of a deity...
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sorrowing, art, deep, humanity, journey, life, poetry, symbolism,
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Rhyme
Do Not My Youthful Life Now Mourn, Part Two, Mary Elizabeth Frye, Poet Dedication Series
Mary Elizabeth Frye dedication poem
(3.)
Do Not My Youthful Life Now Mourn
Do not my youthful life now mourn
My lot was set day I was born
I grew to be a healthy lad
This evil world turned my soul...
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sorrowing, appreciation, creation, death, dedication, deep, poetess, tribute,
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Rhyme
Life Now Cries Out, This Truth, There Is No Holy Grail
There Beyond The Purple Veil, I Hear Her Calling
As sorrowing winds blow, darkness begins falling
There beyond the purple veil, I hear her calling
For the smell of the hillside, the flowers gifting
Nature's streaming beauty, life that’s...
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sorrowing, art, creation, deep, destiny, endurance, fate, humanity,
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Rhyme
Emergency
Polly Pleasance was seven years old, like the decade soon is going;
She had so many pretty dollies, like deep purple pansies, showing.
Polly took care of her dear friends, for love's always taken seriously;
Buying doll clothes...
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Categories:
sorrowing, child, nursery rhyme, sick,
Form:
Couplet
A Grim Abscond
Walking on air.
Thirsting for sorrowing despair
is the only way I know how to keep you near.
My spirit lingers for a moment,
searching the softly dead silence for the words to...
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sorrowing, confusion, death, depression, devotion, fear, hope, life,
Form:
Ballad
Because Pandemic is Holocaust
Because the mind still stays
The memory of the holocaust,
And the face reflects the twinge that still lurks
In the hollow of our frail hearts;
My mournful pen shall bleed
In a forever flow of pensive mood.
We are survivors
Who...
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sorrowing, emotions, grief, holocaust, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Difference Between Judgment and Aid
The council meets, all hours, to hear old batty dames yell, what a *****,
we don't think she's a good person, because she doesn't look and act like us.
The soldier's hall considers, is it fair to...
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sorrowing, abuse, betrayal, character, children, community, judgement,
Form:
Couplet
Conspiracy and Evil Surmising
I am a Victim,
Lured by mascara, and by a pretext piety
Induced through lust by immoral vermin
I am a Victim
Blindfold through cunnings to fest on a plowed field,
“Whore scammed”, trapped in...
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sorrowing, abuse, death, depression, divorce, emotions, father, introspection,
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Burlesque
Lord God, You Are My Life's Breath
May 17 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 33-35
Key Verse – Job 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE...
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sorrowing, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
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Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Enquiry-Answer Giver
March 19 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 21-24
Key Verse– 1Samuel 23:4 Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for...
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sorrowing, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
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Rhyme
Thanks To Aunt Katie
Expectantly and nervously
I sought an empty chair.
Cousins I hadn’t seen for years
Were already gathered there.
We had come to hear the reading
Of Great Aunt Katie’s final will.
She had been left a wealthy widow
By my mama’s...
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sorrowing, familymoney,
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Rhyme
God Works For My Peace
When I groan in my sin-inflicted pain
Languishing in misery brought by disobedience-stain
Sorrowing midst fleshly triumph so void and vain…
God offers to me His grace I’m unworthy to gain
...putting my life into His peace-quarantining domain!
When I...
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sorrowing, christian, devotion, faith, god, jesus, peace, prayer,
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Dramatic Verse
They Were Dying, Part 3 of 7
(By the time of the shooting of
"The Misfits", the Miller-Monroe
marriage was in deep trouble.
The Pansy is Montgomery Clift,
The Tusker is John Huston.)
After the Fall
It started as a mental exercise.
I wondered if an East-Side Jew...
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Categories:
sorrowing, film,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest - a Trilogy
"ONE
“Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!”
i tick the trickling time of your heart
set in a fast paced, rat raced end of nought
burying your precious life for my rise of worthless death
in traitor riches of an annihilating amassment
and you lose his...
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Categories:
sorrowing, dark, death, grave,
Form:
Free verse
My Lunar Cycle
By the early years of that ancient decade, the 70's,
I'd tired of my obstreperous tomboyish games:
kickball with the neighbor kids, sledding in the winter,
desecrating the peacefulness of our street's grave yard
with our...
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sorrowing, life,
Form:
Free verse
I Knew You From a Distant Dream
I knew you from a distant dream
The sweet streams cry out
The dumb rocks perspire with dew
My heart flutters in your comely grace
You're more beautiful than the flower
And more sweeter than the nectar's burst
Your scent lingers...
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Categories:
sorrowing, dream, imagery, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
In Ancient Graveyard of Hidden Poems, Truth Danced
In Ancient Graveyard Of Hidden Poems, Truth Danced
In ancient graveyard of hidden poems, truth danced
Hiding deep, as romance keeps, a girl romanced
I a young man let verses sing as they pranced
Yet folly was true, gambling...
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sorrowing, appreciation, art, creation, heartbroken, lost love, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Prayer Shawl
Prayer Shawl
When summer nights are christened
With chanting crickets –
Last of their summer season song -
Rolling fields of ripening wheat - east of the mountains -
Revisit my mind;
I picture a young woman – suitcase in hand...
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sorrowing, family, prayer,
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Free verse
Broken
Do not despise the tears contrite heart ...
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sorrowing, faith, life, lost love, love, peace, prayer,
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Rhyme
Epic Pursuits
Back in the mists of time
Were stories sung
Where minds in thrall by minstrels
Were held
With tales revealing
Viscerality and viciousness
The currency of glory and shame.
Who does not marvel at
Achilles's pride
A ruthless killing machine...
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sorrowing,
Form:
Free verse
Conversation In Heaven
CONVERSATION IN HEAVEN
He looked down here from heaven and saw the grief and pain
That mankind was enduring because of sin’s black stain.
He saw all of the sorrowing that follows after death
In torments there forever past...
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sorrowing, heaven,
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Rhyme
Verses of the Poet
Sweet are the verses in rhymes that are sung
that genius the mind in history does crown
Blank white pages with divinity and splendor
Stoned face, haunting or dark and yet tender.
With celestial visions charmed as they be
Will...
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sorrowing, imagery, poetry,
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Rhyme