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Childhood Dreams Part 1
When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...
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Categories:
stand in, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Matthew delivers his latest bullet tin
Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ready to be mortally wounded
courtesy notorious big headed
(and bigoted) infamous...
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Categories:
stand in, absence, america, angel, august, courage, future, political,
Form:
Free verse
No Mark
No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
stand in, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
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:
stand in, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
stand in, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
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 feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
stand in, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
stand in, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Dylan Thomas
These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
stand in, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
stand in, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From Tagore
Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
stand in, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
My Spirit Animal
The soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...
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Categories:
stand in, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
stand in, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Insecure, Illuminating Ill-Tempered, Invigorating Icicle I Once Was
I’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure
I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure
I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was...
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Categories:
stand in, appreciation, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Advent of Healthier Economics
It's not only
our cultural value conditioning
that presents a health communication problem
about transitions of climate
without our Interior
and within our Exterior
Landscapes.
It's also about internally incommensurable
cultural values,
norms enjoined throughout Earth's domesticated human race
toward humane evolution's economic journey
Whether transportive...
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Categories:
stand in, adventure, birth, bullying, hate, health, life, true
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 71
The preparations were almost complete when Lumi reappeared down stairs. He seemed preoccupied and burnished an all encompassing smile across his face.
“Lumi... Lumi,” Joulupukki had to repeat himself to...
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Categories:
stand in, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Exaltation of Inanna
The Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
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Categories:
stand in, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
THE PEPPERMAN IN THE GALLERY OF PUBLIC OPINION
I opened a door in the Universe
and found myself in the gallery
of public opinion.
A serious debate was taking place
over Freedoms
and God given rights.
On one side several thousand people
proclaiming Slaves have No...
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Categories:
stand in, america, atheist, crazy, freedom, future, identity, political,
Form:
Free verse
Leaving sooo Soon
I guess I’m sorry I was leaving so soon
It came out of the blue,
It came out of the blue moon…blue moon…
I couldn’t find my left shoe
I could have been here
For a little while, while,...
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Categories:
stand in, angst, devotion, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Lyric
The Chrysanthemum Throne
In the ancient Empire of the Chrysanthemum Throne, horsemen riders from the southern regions, their steel swords close to their sides, clang heavily to their waist as they ride hard to the capital. Before their...
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Categories:
stand in, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
stand in, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Was Versus Now
I’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure
I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure
I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was...
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Categories:
stand in, anxiety, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
the imps encouraged
the once good Poesie folk
to jeer and throw pebbles
the...
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Categories:
stand in, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
HEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow heads in silent paean,
while polished trucks stand...
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Categories:
stand in, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
Asked and Answered - An Echo Poem
HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF
People often say to me
“What can you tell me about yourself”
guess it’s my duty to explain to them
and so I look them in the face and reply
My...
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Categories:
stand in, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Mothman
anxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidable -
eighty inches tall,...
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Categories:
stand in, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery, myth, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse