Long Tales Poems
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Childhood Dreams Part 1When I was a child
Everything was magical
Full of mystery and the unknown
I read hundreds of books
The library my haven
My home
Hours upon hours
Night and day
I read and got lost in text
They supplied me with adventures
Secret journeys
Fun...
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Categories:
tales, childhood, cinderella, dream, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
tales, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Tea Party"Go on forth young graduates,
And show us who you are
You're now our future leaders
We know you will go far"
And so commencement ended
Pictures done and people changed
Now, off to private parties
All orderly pre-arranged
But four young girls...
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Categories:
tales, america, future, graduate, graduation, life, sad, society,
Form:
Epic
Limericks Ii - Nature and AnimalsLimericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot!"
Clyde Lied!
by...
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Categories:
tales, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Halloween PoemsIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
tales, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
tales, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Animal PoemsDot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot."
Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a dromedary
who...
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Categories:
tales, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Limerick
It's HalloweenIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
tales, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
tales, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Ivthe Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
tales, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
The BartenderTwenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
tales, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
tales, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now CompletedNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
tales, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
tales, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Arthurian PoemsAt Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
tales, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
If I FalterIf I Falter
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
If I regret
fire in the sunset
exploding on the horizon,
then let me regret loving you.
If I forget
even for a moment
that you are the only one,
then let me forget that the...
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Categories:
tales, desire, engagement, fire, for her, friendship love,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IvJuvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
tales, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
tales, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
A Few Years Back and ForthA few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he meant The ReGeneratively Nutritious Flowing Self,
but he was probably shy...
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Categories:
tales, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
tales, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Song of Amergin: TranslationThe Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
tales, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderland VIII: Conclusion
it feels good to escape
with authors and poets
and dream up new places
with tales that are spun.
but sometimes what's real
and sometimes what isn't
encroach on each other
and read just as one.
such are the worlds
of rhyme but no...
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Categories:
tales, 10th grade, emotions, literature, world,
Form:
Narrative
Veiled"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed their lies and vicious tales,
she pled not guilty and moaned...
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Categories:
tales, allusion, analogy, evil, father daughter, imagery, murder,
Form:
Narrative
Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
tales, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
tales, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse