Long Sparking Poems
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Food glorious foodFood glorious food
Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...
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Categories:
sparking, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
sparking, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
sparking, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Let Me Give Her DiamondsLet Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch
Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.
Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.
Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.
Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.
Let me...
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Categories:
sparking, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
Love Poems IiLOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...
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Categories:
sparking, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RINGLegacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
sparking, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Life Beloving Dualdark Night
Some days and nights
I am terrorized by death,
cold silo ache-echoing fear,
claustrophobic breathless dark
barking inevitable factness and finality
of my decomposing mortality,
and posthumous demise,
probably post-humorous as well,
should we discover any essential difference.
What good is death
if it cannot...
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Categories:
sparking, death, depression, humor, identity, life, love, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Brave New World(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
sparking, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
The Untold Story of a Sitar 3
The Untold story of a Sitar Part 3 Concluded
.
A soothing musical note
Was coming out and floating
In the air
In that White coated
Old auditorium
Of a different era
Which was so alive before...
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Categories:
sparking, music, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
MarlinoTwo, 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:
sparking, fish, fishing, sea,
Form:
Narrative
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan PoeOn the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose at the...
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Categories:
sparking, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
The Train - POTD POTD 25 Nov 2020
Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares
I do get it about advertising campaigns.
Enough to know that,
‘strategically placed ads’ catching the eye, is huge.
But this poster...
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Categories:
sparking, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
The Love Song of L Marie ModenbachWe disagree
I want to breathe people
Feel a timeless, immortal pulse
My solitude is anonymous observation
Strolling in unnoticed contemplation through worlds stacked upon worlds
The Flâneuse
My sustenance is colorful variety
Diving into the expressionism of bizarre fringes
Taste testing any...
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Categories:
sparking, change, emotions, growth, humanity, love, society, together,
Form:
Free verse
Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W EdenSCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN
Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that Serpent knew of the...
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Categories:
sparking, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible, nostalgia, symbolism, trust,
Form:
Verse
Reflections Upon Mine Gender Identity ReduxReflections upon mine gender identity redux
Although heterosexual
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine
showcasing undersize
male member, when fully erect
not much to crow
about, contributed
diminished masculinity within
body electric regarding
wordsmith...
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Categories:
sparking, age, analogy, anxiety, atheist, birth, boy, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
Depression IslandI left my heritage n followed
Walking in a water i couldnt see the depth
I danced in the hungry ocean with my tender self stepping in each...it leads
Laughing at my ignorance for even with its...
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Categories:
sparking, adventure, africa, character, confidence, deep, depression, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
The ImpIt was a simple task, sweep the floors and keep the fire going
whatever his master was brewing the flame must not go out
Tittle thought himself adequate and most confident
out he went into the woods to...
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Categories:
sparking, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Who Knows If Magic ExistsWho knows if magic exists,
if dreams come true
and whether miracles take place
(all of these things we thought we knew)
... buried in our haste
to dig childhood's grave...
And though something gets lost
along the way,
it's never very far...
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Categories:
sparking, appreciation, beauty, family, friendship, imagery, introspection, mystery,
Form:
Prose Poetry
NumbSensing the death of something
That once brought more life than
The heartbeat or breath, faith
In the beautiful and intimate places
Where light kisses away the darkness
And music replaces the most horrible
Dread with a feeling so blessed,
So...
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Categories:
sparking, anxiety, divorce, emotions, pain, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Sans sixth psychic senseSans sixth (psychic) sense...
poise zen dystopian rant
This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
United States storied republic,
which alarming horror
points to instantaneous annihilation
of America the beautiful;
(ohm my dog) turbulent
endemic chaotic...
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Categories:
sparking, abuse, america, anxiety, april, betrayal, bullying, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
A Garfield's ChristmasWhat would this fat lazy house cat ask for Christmas you might ask?
No squeaking cat toys oh no, forget those cat nipped laced
Mice’s too, for it’s a Garfield Christmas my friend and only natures
Perfect creation...
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Categories:
sparking, cat, celebration, christmas, holiday, imagery, imagination, international,
Form:
Free verse
Sagittarian SuretyIt is decidedly so,
That I shall go where you go
And in our journeys
I shall never let my love tire
The stars deem it worthy
Your fire is my truest desire
For this is decidedly so
And nobody will quite...
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Categories:
sparking, dedication, deep, desire, devotion, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
Spirit's JourneySpirit’s Journey
I’m sailing on the sea upon a sunbeam;
I’m hovering on a cloud that’s made of snow;
I’m flying on an asteroid round the planets;
The universe is guiding spirit’s flow.
I’m...
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Categories:
sparking, deep, heaven, universe,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
OceanWe are Winkin, Blinkin and Nod.
Many years this earth, we have trod.
We each had a dream, we three.
Winkin first said” my dream came back to me.
It was the Pacific Ocean calling to me you see.
Discarded...
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Categories:
sparking, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
An Elegy for a Fallen Bridge: Baltimore’s Night of TragedyAs night draped its cloak over Baltimore's sleeping form,
A cargo ship, the MV Dali, sailed to greet the dawn.
From the bustling harbor shores it had slipped away,
Bearing goods for far-off lands, under the sky's dark...
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Categories:
sparking, death, horror,
Form:
Elegy