Long Surfeit Poems
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SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
surfeit, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
surfeit, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
surfeit, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rhine Salmon Complaint Translation of Etiemble S Complainte D Un Saumon Du Rhin By T WignesanThe Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin
For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in...
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Categories:
surfeit, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Love Poems IvLOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
surfeit, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep PersonificationsDream state yields deep sleep personifications
Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
yours truly immune to wakefulness
despite being...
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Categories:
surfeit, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure, animal, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
God's Kind of PoetryThe finite contemplating the infinite
The stardust male and female still flush with light
From exploding stars, seeding new possibilities, our true progenitors.
So that even God Himself must take note of our passing (in its season),
Such elemental...
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Categories:
surfeit, god, poetry, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
A Week In LifeIt is Monday, today is pay the bills and light shop.
All this after we have been for the morning run.
The dogs are always keen, they trot beside me
as at ten miles an hour we cover...
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Categories:
surfeit, life,
Form:
Epic
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union
aimed at the destruction
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...
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Categories:
surfeit, abuse, age, anger, bereavement, bullying, corruption, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
Eminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, UsurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice
against Ukrainian population.
Impossible mission to comprehend
the mindset of belligerent, egotistical,
indignant, NeoNazi, tsarist
self anointed totalitarian zealot.
Gross violation of human rights
blatantly carried out
courtesy diabolical...
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Categories:
surfeit, abuse, anger, conflict, death, discrimination, evil, hate,
Form:
Free verse
Who Are We At Our CoreAn evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds,
scuppered signpost to a fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed quantum migrant,
who might chortle at vivid veil flimsy vacuum,
skirt recklessly...
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Categories:
surfeit, art, beautiful, beauty, care, character, courage, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
The Voice of the OppressedThe grandeur of my life are elusive
Mine ain't melioration; it's oppression
My free life is cramped by chains of servitude
And shout out loud I mustn't
Because even the power of my tongue is tied
Blank in me...
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Categories:
surfeit, bullying, corruption, discrimination, political, poverty,
Form:
Political Verse
Clued Into oneselfAn evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds ,
scuppered signpost to a fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed quantum migrant,
who might chortle at vivid...
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Categories:
surfeit, care, character, deep, emotions, feelings, growth, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Discomfort Notwithstandinghanging in the air
humidity’s heaviness . . .
the river’s slow crawl
On the Mississippi lies the beautiful little city where I once lived. How many times I trudged up inclined streets; or leaning forward, red-faced and...
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Categories:
surfeit, life,
Form:
Haibun
An Impermissible and Impossible ThingWere it not a thing impermissible,
I'd take handfuls of all these silly bits of
Simulacra, and detritus, dross and debris:
The minutiae and impedimenta that are all these
Constricting, confining rules and bylaws, codes and...
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Categories:
surfeit, allusion, anger, angst, anxiety, art, beauty, betrayal,
Form:
I do not know?
Kaleidoscopic Webbed Wide World UneAgainst light source well crafted
tubular structure appended with eyepiece gazing
offers viewer eye-opening, mind boggling
instantaneously birthing then vanishing
resplendent myriad colorful
geometric awesome shifting shapes
hypnotizing sight seer into a whirling gigolo
where multifaceted fractals...
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Categories:
surfeit, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Canary CollusionIt was after Mom’s dad passed her mom bought canaries.
Grams felt life less lonely, I think, with their singing,
and gave her idea that flying the coop to
live close to my mom could be Southland for...
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Categories:
surfeit, humor, political, race, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Cloaked Man
In one ghost whisper of a town,
the mourning sunset had bloodshot eyes
A tombstone place that was
long shadow
past it’s boomtown prime
Withering eureka hope fills the short cups
of the abandoned...
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Categories:
surfeit, allegory, death, symbolism, violence,
Form:
Epic
Not Another AgainAgain the sun will rise and the moon will shine,
Again the night will shudder,again the night will whine.
Again the darkness will beseech, the sky will remorse for its stalemate,
Again her wail will lament in the...
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Categories:
surfeit, abuse, emotions, evil, lust, sad, woman, women,
Form:
Lyric
Kaleidoscopic Whorled Wide Webagainst light source well crafted
tubular structure appended with
eyepiece gazing offers viewer eye-
opening, mind boggling instantaneously
birthing then vanishing resplendent
myriad colorful geometric awesome
shifting shapes hypnotizing sight
seer whirling gigolo where multi
faceted fractals...
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Categories:
surfeit, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Plumb Line Hoisted DeepBrainstorm cometh, damning frontal hemisphere
jamming lookout, noggin perched, roiling thinking
uber wayfaring zealot, drills legendary phalanx.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *...
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Categories:
surfeit, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
BooksBooks
I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair the other day.
It was mind-boggling..Books!
There were fat books, thin books,
White books, black books, tawny books,
Paperbacks, hardbacks, beautifully bound books,
Pure books, lax books, learned books, lay books,
Plain...
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Categories:
surfeit, books,
Form:
Free verse
Letter From a Classic Archetypal Dope, January 4, 1960 - Part TwoPart Two
From that moment onwards
Not when the fingerless muscles unclasped
the indented bones
But from that moment of knowing
from that very moment of sustenance
That day of human unbelief died unsung
And...
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Categories:
surfeit, girlfriend-boyfriend, day, me,
Form:
Free verse
The BreakingThe breaking,
the shaking;apace
my king's fall is rise
my land is anon taken.
...
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Categories:
surfeit, dedication, jesus,
Form:
Ode
The PinnacleSurfeit of stalagmites barring, hampering my way
Clouds descending from heavenly heights
Obscuring my outlook in the rarified air
Mount Certes challenged all my senses
Aching muscles, pounding heart, gasping intakes of breath
But for all that I felt elated,...
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Categories:
surfeit, blessing, mountains, spiritual, uplifting, visionary,
Form:
Narrative