Long Sparkling 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: sparkling, anxiety, courage, deep, depression, desire, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Free verse


Live 2 B U

{intro}
(Whisper) mmmmhmmm
Turn me on by your tranquil, no-drama-no-trauma tune
It will be noon soon,
My sweet maroon moon
Don't panic, maniac of mine...you're swimming in your lament lagoon 
Ohhhhh...
Please
Hear me out 
At ease,
I hear your victory shout!!!

Ooooo I-I-I-I...

{verse...

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Categories: sparkling, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, fear, hope,
Form: Lyric

The Only Northern Northern Star

As winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...

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Categories: sparkling, africa,
Form: Ode

Medieval Poems Iv

Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.



Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....

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Categories: sparkling, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form: Rhyme

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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Categories: sparkling, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme


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Chapter 100 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Big Barbecue Celebration of Life Mass Invitations Continues

While 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: sparkling, 4th grade, birth, child, confidence,
Form: Alliteration

Salvage

"Salvage"


Salvage the fixating salvation 
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming 
the ladder from the deep of all things 
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping 
dissolved...

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Categories: sparkling, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism

Randomlings 1-34

Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen”.


Randomling 2: Birthday Wishes
  
For my birthday,...

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Categories: sparkling, cat, deep, depression, dog, emotions, funny, love,
Form: Verse
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Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning

The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked earthling near death owing to drowning. Sam (Ka ‘Lo -...

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Categories: sparkling, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form: Narrative

Juvenilia: Early Poems Viii

Juvenilia: Early Poems VIII

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student. 

Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch

Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...

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Categories: sparkling, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form: Rhyme
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Ironbar

He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly 
Driving up...

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Categories: sparkling, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Sorry I Shied Away

Is it just me or I'm starting to slow down along with the unwinding of time? 
Time is running out and oh how I feel sublime
I'm in need of understanding God's Word and Law 
I...

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Categories: sparkling, deep, depression, desire, , cute,
Form: Lyric
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Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library

Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...

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Categories: sparkling, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form: Narrative
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The Gift

From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sparkling, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
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Couples Counseling

My early 20s Eldest Black Lives Matter Son
wears his disabling ADHD label uncomfortably,
impatiently,
like a possibly self-redeeming crown
but with unfortunate MessiahComplex thorns
as the Great WhiteMan's sacrificial lamb.

His First, and hopefully last, Girl
is an ADHD Latina,
with sparkling...

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Categories: sparkling, earth, games, health, humor, integrity, mental illness,
Form: Political Verse

Daylight Is Wasting Away

You see the pain in my eyes
And you erase the cruel lies
I see the pain in your eyes
Tell me something promising as time flies
Don't say your goodbyes
I say hello to our temporary highs 

Pre-chorus: Do...

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Categories: sparkling, best friend, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
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Kidnapped By Aliens

They had kept me imprisoned there for three full days,
In that sparse, solitary room, of scarce sunshine rays.

Having good food to eat, had never been a problem; 
They brought hot meals, but the problem was...

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Categories: sparkling, adventure, earth, fantasy, imagery, space, stars,
Form: Couplet

Ali's Song

Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...

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Categories: sparkling, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form: Verse
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Travel Light

* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...

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Categories: sparkling, child, children, loss, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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travel light

Her small angelic face ...

Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...

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Categories: sparkling, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form: Free verse

Part 1: Confusion of the Muse

The large, bright Winter moon shone it's heavenly light over and out amongst the snow-covered city. The city was large, the city was noisy. It was midnight and the bustling still urged on. People ached...

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Categories: sparkling,
Form: I do not know?
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Random Acts of Karma

The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and many other homeless people lived), and stopped to give him...

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Categories: sparkling, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
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Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 8

He awoke to the sound of lightly crunching ice.  As he opened his eyes the boy stood looking at him, then with one fluid motion he stepped forward and stretched out his hand, 
...

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Categories: sparkling, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
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Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1

SHE was my wife, once ...

long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,

supplying...

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Categories: sparkling, history, sad love, soulmate, true love,
Form: Free verse
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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: sparkling, lost love,
Form: Narrative
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