Long Sweetly Poems
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Emo Love
With this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
sweetly, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Auschwitz Rose
Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
sweetly, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
As Time Walked By
These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
sweetly, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Veronica Franco Translations
Veronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
sweetly, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
sweetly, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
le livre bleu
“le livre bleu”
Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers,
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine teeth,
they drown their sorrows in their muses -
contemporary little monsters – Still Life,
they call...
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Categories:
sweetly, muse,
Form:
Free verse
My Sweetest Gift, a Childhood Memory
My auntie came to visit when I was three, but nearly four.
I proudly and lovingly wore her name gifted to me, a sweet legacy.
I...
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Categories:
sweetly, angel, childhood, love,
Form:
Free verse
Insecurity Part Two
I went against my better judgment, I was flattered not appalled, the only affection that I had ever known was just affection that I didn’t want
By a man that was many years older than me,...
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Categories:
sweetly, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
like a bird
sings a song
the metre repeats and...
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Categories:
sweetly, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Deor's Lament
Deor's Lament
(Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem circa the 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland endured the agony of exile:
an indomitable smith wracked by grief.
He suffered countless sorrows;
indeed, such sorrows were his bosom companions
in that frozen...
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Categories:
sweetly, destiny, england, fate, old, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Verse
Something Old Something New
In a matter of months, we would experience the greatest economic ...
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Categories:
sweetly, change, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
I walk o u t...
I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture between life/death/rebirth
gnaws at my marrow This dilemma-kudzu
coils tight, constricting tomorrow's breath
Death...
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Categories:
sweetly, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
sweetly, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Prologue
Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...
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Categories:
sweetly, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Proof
We are the days that we’ve become.
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings,
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings.
Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...
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Categories:
sweetly, allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
A Moment of Hope the Invisible Man 30
Sometimes I have the courage to think of the things that made me what I am today,
My memory takes me back to terrible things far away far off into my bitter past,
My mind like a...
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Categories:
sweetly, depression, happy, beautiful, me, world, old, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fall
"FALL"
I wrap
my Autumn world
around you
Calliope turning
raising the
season’s poetry,
I am she
returning
dancing
with Summer’s
dying leaves
Twirling you up into
my warm golden brown
symphony
hear me sing,
whispering notes,
holding keys
towards you
you're approachable
reaching...
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Categories:
sweetly, autumn, symbolism, winter,
Form:
Epic
Urdu Translations
Last Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...
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Categories:
sweetly, desire, hindi, longing, love, nature, passion, urdu,
Form:
Verse
Emeraldo's Song
Verse 1: You put me in a silly, good mood
Know where I stood in the hood
Always felt kind of misunderstood
You and I together look good
No doubt, you’re mine
My girl, you lookin' fine
Am I...
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Categories:
sweetly, angst, boy, boyfriend, break up, courage, girl,
Form:
Lyric
The Calming of Her Storm
"The Calming of Her Storm"
My mother gave me solace
I fell into her deep hollows
to kiss the wisdom of her
breath chanting quietly
I still hear her
nightingale birdsong caressing
the soft fluttering
of her tireless...
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Categories:
sweetly, love, mirror, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Wildmoor Symphony
FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
sweetly, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Odium of Sodium
Like a Phoenix, I rise up from the ashes of my past
Your beautiful tune mended the Earth with exquisite mirth
Like a runner, I'm running forward to the finish line oh so fast
You're...
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Categories:
sweetly, betrayal, crazy, dark, deep, depression, desire, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thrill, the Jin of your Jihad...
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Categories:
sweetly, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
Highland Lassie
Inspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.
(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure on the Highland roads;
Peerin' from the Highdown, breezin' through the...
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Categories:
sweetly, girl, mountains, sea, travel, wisdom, youth,
Form:
Lyric
For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – exhalation - it envelopes her...
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Categories:
sweetly, betrayal, environment, natural disasters, peace, pollution,
Form:
Free verse