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Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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stand by, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Auschwitz Rose
Auschwitz 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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stand by, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems Iii
Poems 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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stand by, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style
~ Seek The Lord ~
( Star Of David )
God
For sure
Knows sees all
Wants best for you
He sure loves us all
Lord wants us to have Love...
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Categories:
stand by, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Lifeboat the Sinking
As to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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stand by, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
A Glimpse In a Life
A Glimpse In A Life
By James Hackett Jr
Grasping Sand
The harder i try to reach you, the gap seems to expand.
Its like grasping at sand the harder I squeeze the more slips through.
I do not know...
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Categories:
stand by, beauty, betrayal, conflict, death, family, growth, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Love Has a Southern Flavor
Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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stand by, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 58
When they came to a side hall Joulupukki stopped.
“Do you feel the magic?” He said to her. She nodded. He stepped around the corner, on the far...
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Categories:
stand by, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Trump verses and other mild curses
All for the price of a dozen eggs,
America stands on shaky legs.
Globally, the claim is heard ~
"The US ~ laughingstock of the world,"
as daily, we star in our very own theater of the absurd.
Said the...
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Categories:
stand by, america, anger, angst, anxiety, corruption, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Paul and Sarah
He was born in backwoods Missouri.
1840 the year he arrived.
Conflict, sickness and hard times prevailed.
Through it all he grew strong and survived.
Skills to live were a gift from his father.
Faith in God from his mother...
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stand by, adventure, america, blessing, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 4
The Lay of The Best Man - Part 4
I ask you this: Have you ever known a man to ‘buckle under stress’?
Or have you never seen a man have a ‘moment of madness’?
Have you not...
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Categories:
stand by, bullying, character, corruption, discrimination, men, vanity, women,
Form:
Lay
The Murderers Cry
Haven’t you had enough blood from the beginning of time?
Haven’t you taken enough lives before they should have died?
All around I can hear their cry
They want to escape from the under world
You spill blood...
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Categories:
stand by, betrayal, break up, bullying, conflict, death of
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Domestic Mask
I see a rose wilting by the darkness of an abusive husband/
And I feel guilty just standing by and not doing something/
I’m proving nothing with my inactivity and hollow words/
Truth is hard to swallow but...
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Categories:
stand by, abuse, dark, poetry, women,
Form:
Rhyme
A To Z An Amazing Couple
~A To Z An Amazing Couple~
A is for Allow me to write a poem about my best friends
love affair with an army man, she was 35 years old he was
the same age living...
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Categories:
stand by, family, mum,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Perfumed Letter
My darling sweet sweet love Pete
its been over three long months seems like eternity now since you departed and my world stopped
And my sun became cold
I miss you more with each breath and...
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Categories:
stand by, absence, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Romanticism
Traumatic brain injury headaches
I shan't try and be witty an engage in the norm
peeking through such pain my eyes see dim
as crushing temporal lesion push against
soft tissue endings pounding my optic nerves
from my forehead...
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Categories:
stand by, allah,
Form:
Grook
Curiosity Exploring Innocence In All Innocence a Journey Into Manhood
Curiosity.
Exploring Innocence,
In all innocence.
A journey into manhood.
At three, sweet Linda’s flower bloomed for me
in my driveway under our old maple tree
where pedestrians, neighbours, family could see.
In our innocence- as we explored – they did not...
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Categories:
stand by, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A White Sheet of Paper Part I
"A White Sheet of Paper." Part1
Once upon a time I was a white sheet of paper
Pilled between hundreds on a shelf my neighbor
For years was an old stapler.
I was full of life yet...
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Categories:
stand by, imagination,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Conscience
This war, with allies unified
(reminds of German genocide),
leaves mandates, empty, purified,
...
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Categories:
stand by, dark, evil, humanity, war,
Form:
Rhyme
She Wrote To Me
She Wrote To Me
My secret lover I left you 5 years ago I could not take it anymore I had
to fill my emptiness without you since I left I would cut out my heart...
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Categories:
stand by, dark, emotions, lost, love, , cute,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lost: For the Children of the Holocaust
Lost
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost—
lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight,
vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars
immeasurable...
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Categories:
stand by, child, children, death, holocaust, loss, lost, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Assemblage
All are walking to the courtyard the bell has tolled it’s time to start, they have all but arranged the wooden stakes they are just waiting to ignite the spark
Everyone stops and stares as I...
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Categories:
stand by, betrayal, cry, death, emotions, hate, heartbroken, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 169-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLYANNA: The GIDDY VACATE
Date: end of October 2051
Godfrey was awake first. He woke his twin Barrington.
The 15 years old woke the rest of the youngsters for the
Trip that morning room by room. We have...
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Categories:
stand by, age, anxiety, beautiful, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Sacred Lakes
“Sacred Lakes”
There is magic
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo
busy under cover of autumn leaves
turning burnished topaz gold
idling unrushed roll over
in honeyed slumber
turning back hands
to face a time of
blushing...
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Categories:
stand by, journey, love, magic,
Form:
Romanticism
Sonnets V-Ix
Sonnets V-IX
Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse... warm, palpable and slow...
once...
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Categories:
stand by, love, moon, night, star, time, universe, world,
Form:
Sonnet