Long Suspended Poems
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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
suspended, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
suspended, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
InstructionInstruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
suspended, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
suspended, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Does the Butterfly GoWhere Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
suspended, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
suspended, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
suspended, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Various Heresies 5Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
suspended, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
Form:
Verse
The World Is a Small PlaneI have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
suspended, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
suspended, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Free Verse IiiSalve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
suspended, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Things That Break IiiPoems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
suspended, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"
Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly grazed, then held long
slow, deep, warm and wet
The story is...
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Categories:
suspended, dream, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Dillen and the DmvTO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity
I don’t...
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Categories:
suspended, culture, discrimination, health, political, race, perspective, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Superior Courts of Ecological JusticeWhat evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits,
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?
What are financially healthy benefits for cultural communities
both internal to corporate identity,...
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Categories:
suspended, culture, earth, health, humor, judgement, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Divine Comedy, Second CantoThe day was going off, and the brown air
To the terrestrial animals gave rest
For their labors; and only me was there
Just ready to withstand the war at best
Both of the journey and of the torment,
Which...
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Categories:
suspended, fantasy, proposal,
Form:
Terza Rima
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
suspended, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ghost Dance Part IiiWovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
suspended, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
suspended, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Juozas Miltinis Learning Years In ParisIt was September
Of one thousand
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with ripe yellow
And orange squash
He was born in a little
Wooden house...
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Categories:
suspended, art, destiny, french, history,
Form:
Bio
The WarfareLiving in a war- wrecked, grass thatched hut, ...
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Categories:
suspended, abuse, bullying, conflict, war,
Form:
Free verse
Anticipation of RealitySo cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...
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Categories:
suspended, birth, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Jean-Louis Barrault As I Lay DyingHeavy storm was sweeping dark Paris streets
Lit with dim lights that dreary November night
With ghostly shadows lurking in the corners
Cold wind dancing with dirty wet leaves fallen
In the water pools in the middle...
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Categories:
suspended, allusion, art, death, french, imagery, life, philosophy,
Form:
Ballad
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:
suspended, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
suspended, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse