Long Surge Poems
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EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
surge, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe 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:
surge, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: 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:
surge, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1The young lady's car slowed to a stop ...
As she pulled as far off the highway, (onto the shoulder), as she could
(Allowing for any snow plow that might come along).
She had chosen poorly this time
Believing...
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Categories:
surge, angel, appreciation, christmas, snow, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
surge, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight
your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...
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Categories:
surge, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Athenian Epitaphs IiAthenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
surge, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
surge, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan
Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...
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Categories:
surge, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
I Survived '75KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
surge, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Balancing Work and PlayI was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's Baltimore Sermon.
Rev. Jaynes had a son,
a second generation Julian...
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Categories:
surge, christian, destiny, god, health, history, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted MeUnidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
surge, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
The Daily Star Thursday issueThe Daily Star Thursday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This...
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Categories:
surge, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june, star, summer,
Form:
Free verse
CREATIVTY- PERCEPTION-tenet 1x4
FOUR TENETS OF CREATIVITY
PERCEPTION PARTURATION PUBLICATION PARTICIPATION
INTRODUCTION
This short eBook encompasses my experiences of the creative in both art and poetry in particular.The content of each of the four...
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Categories:
surge, education, poetry,
Form:
Didactic
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
surge, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The Daily Star Tuesday IssueThe daily star Tuesday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings
Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people...
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Categories:
surge, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, creation, england, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Autumn AtonementFace to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Memories ... the demurring requiem to summer tide...
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Categories:
surge, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october, solitude, soulmate, true
Form:
Free verse
Last Trap of ZulaikhaZulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird,
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?
Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...
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Categories:
surge, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Michelangelo: Modern English TranslationsMICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
surge, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part IA Place Not Meant To Be
PART: I (810 of 1487 words)
#1: A Day...
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Categories:
surge, analogy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,...
a willing experimental subject
to escape untenable married life.
Upon falling into a deep slumber,
the following subconscious
somnambulant scenario arose
allowing, enabling, and providing
temporary alleviation from
outa harried...
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Categories:
surge, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Deprived Of Your LoveGlib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...
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Categories:
surge, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct,
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...
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Categories:
surge, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
The Daily Star Announces Summer Solstice 2022The daily star announces Summer Solstice 2022
Tuesday, June twenty first
at 5:13 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people living the northern hemisphere.
Just shy...
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Categories:
surge, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, creation, devotion, june,
Form:
Rhyme
Temporal incarnation of AphroditeTemporal incarnation of Aphrodite...
induces idyllic reverie
delight evoking similar surge,
when skirting, and eluding
fidelity defining the marital law
on par with courting in flagrante delicto.
After reading about
Greek goddess of love
fancy notion woke whereof
warmth suffused me
snug as...
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Categories:
surge, absence, adventure, angel, april, beautiful, blessing, dream,
Form:
Rhyme