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Epitaphs
Epitaph 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 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: surge, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form: Sonnet
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: surge, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Christmas Snow Angel - Part 1
The 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 Antietam
Alone 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



Premium Member 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 Ii
Athenian 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 Levi
World 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
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T Wignesan
Translation 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surge, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Survived '75
KEY - 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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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surge, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Balancing Work and Play
I 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 Me
Unidentified 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 issue
The 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Amberina Ballerina
A 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 Issue
The 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
Premium Member Autumn Atonement
Face 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 Zulaikha
Zulaikha:
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 Translations
MICHELANGELO: 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
Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
A Place Not Meant To Be
           
PART: I            (810 of 1487 words)

#1: A Day...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
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
Premium Member Deprived Of Your Love
Glib 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
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud 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 2022
The 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 Aphrodite
Temporal 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry