Long Sunflower Poems
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Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
sunflower, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About the Coronavirus I
Poems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
sunflower, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
sunflower, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
sunflower, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
sunflower, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
The 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:
sunflower, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Prose Poems
Prose Poems
Something
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 and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
sunflower, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
The Little Blue Fairy
There was a little wind fairy who lived in a meadow near a small town, her name was Estella. Estella had beautiful blue hair like the sky, so her friends called her the little blue...
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Categories:
sunflower, blue, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T Wignesan
Translation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan
(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs...
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Categories:
sunflower, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost love, poetry, solitude,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of free will and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is.. is over in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
sunflower, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
Sweepers Final Countdown
ask me about my day as a sweeper today..
its hilarious to even tell this to all today..
the supervisor the power abusing man.
have fallen in love with me.. madly..
he cannot even take his eyes off me..
and...
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Categories:
sunflower, adventure, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character, encouraging, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Bye Bye Birdie
It was late in the perpetual summer, and I had been dozing,
On a blue and balmy afternoon, as I lulled on my porch swing.
When from my pleasurable dreams, I was eventually aroused,
By sweet breezes that...
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Categories:
sunflower, adventure, beautiful, bird, fantasy, friendship love, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
More Iffy Coronavirus Haiku
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
sunflower, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Ghost of Tsali Comes
Ghost Of Tsali Comes
Lost in mist and maze
Ghost of Tsali in the corn
River water runs
Colors of fall alive
“Til moon replaces sun
That’s when Tsali comes
Corn roots cling to bone
As he tends the empty weirs
This spot...
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Categories:
sunflower, animal, autumn, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Van Gogh
Endless sunflower field
Rhythmically swaying in the wind
Like lazy ocean wave stretches
To the distant line of horizon
Touching the edge of the sky
Melting into hot noon brilliance
Boiling all shades of yellow into
One burning brightness of...
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Categories:
sunflower, anxiety, art, crazy, desire, pain,
Form:
Free verse
A Light At the End of the Tunnel
"What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.
We would all go for a swim, and then have a fine lunch,
And would return...
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Categories:
sunflower, adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship love, home, light,
Form:
Couplet
Perspectives Miscellaneous
Good new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my sin,
peace,wholeness and...
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Categories:
sunflower, life, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Fibonacci
A Narrative of Life
On this morning after the dogs have been fed and run around the yard barking at the crows and squirrels as they find the morning treats I have left...
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Categories:
sunflower, feelings, life,
Form:
Narrative
Summer Realities
Global warming blaze...
now threatens sunflower bliss
heaven's bright warning*
May 13, 2018
*Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
2nd place, "Haiga...
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Categories:
sunflower, environment, heaven, summer,
Form:
Haiku
Grocery shopping with mum
It's always Aldi on a Sunday afternoon. You're always waiting with your shopping bags in hand, slowly trudging along with your walking stick. It takes you ten minutes to get into the car....
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Categories:
sunflower, mother son, mothers day,
Form:
Prose
The Game Is Finally Over
I can feel my spirit crying
And I can tell that someone is dying
I can feel my spirit crying
When a special tear drop from my eyes
It is not a tear of worry,
Neither is it...
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Categories:
sunflower, beauty, cheer up, deep, desire, endurance, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of the eve
This is the story of how it all happened
How...
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Categories:
sunflower, fantasy, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Bird Feed Under My Window
Since childhood I was always fascinated with nature
Curious to know how plants grow
Always intrigued by the ingenuity of ants
And mesmerized by the coordination
And spectacular tactics of birds.
Birds come in different colors...
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Categories:
sunflower, bird, christian, community, food, freedom, mystery, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Decaying As I Wander On His Road
Got caught in a shimmering, glimmering summer haze
Gone through anxiety and hallucinations — hate this phase
Don’t discard me when I’m trekking this road
This road of God’s abode…I admire and abide in it — He’s my...
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Categories:
sunflower, angst, anxiety, hope, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Always a Dream
A little fairy princess one day sits resting on a most beautiful sunflower,
And magically she begins stretching her wings for anticipatory flight
While capturing a vision assortment of most bright flying colors,
Of one gentle and...
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Categories:
sunflower, allegory, beauty, celebration, emotions, fantasy, i love
Form:
Narrative