Long Tangle Poems
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VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
tangle, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
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:
tangle, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
tangle, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Yangyyolks With Yinyin-WhitesStart and end each day,
and life,
with a taoist egg.
I doubt my eggs are religious.
No, but they are natural,
organic incubators,
co-arising nondual yolk form
with transparent regenerative function,
cosmological purpose, maybe,
if you're a chicken,
or a turkey,
or a...
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Categories:
tangle, analogy, culture, earth, food, health, math, science,
Form:
Narrative
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...
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Categories:
tangle, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
Translation of the Windmills of Your Mind By T WignesanTranslation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan
(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs...
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Categories:
tangle, autumn, destiny, heartbroken, lost love, poetry, solitude,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Font Din BlackFont Din Black
so u real???
Warning! The following choppy, batty,
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy,
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy,
sketchy material prone to find the reader
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...
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Categories:
tangle, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Solitary Confinement 1SOLITARY CONFINEMENT 1 : Number Four
Many chains, many locks and bars
clattered at four in the morning
black bitter coffee drugged
a single bucket of cold water
...
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Categories:
tangle, africa, body, character, emotions, history, humanity, integrity,
Form:
Bio
The Rising Hills, the Slopes To Quench My ThirstTHE RISING HILLS, THE SLOPES, TO QUENCH MY THIRST.
In the last century, the hopes were little,
Grasses they collected, yellow bananas, they peeled,
To move up the slopes, preparation was fore filled,
Oh the grower of banana trees,
To...
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Categories:
tangle, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, drink, school,
Form:
Free verse
Goethe or The Metamorphosis of Plants Andre Masson
Too much to know, I just don't know it
As I fumble around, just a humble poet
Frustrated as I watch unfurl a show
I just don't know it, too much to know
Answers are near, in the...
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Categories:
tangle, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gillsBrainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills...,
and finally gung-ho with a poem title
important to yours truly
not disappointing his Facebook fan base,
which electronic affirmation,
and confirmation, breeds gratification
analogous to being
the proud papa begetting offspring
progeny growing up at...
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Categories:
tangle, absence, africa, animal, baby, creation, miracle, race,
Form:
Free verse
Seeds
"Seeds"
Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy
opens the light
inside me
cracked eggshell
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind
in the smallness
of me
something
quietly blooms
ragged yet refined
a gecko...
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Categories:
tangle, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
HeisenbergI’ve been cutting Peter’s hair for a year. When covid lockdown occurred, I learned to cut my brother’s hair - and yes, he still has two ears. When I first met Peter, he had a...
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Categories:
tangle, boyfriend, conflict, fashion, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Anomalous Poetic Contrivance EvokesAnomalous poetic contrivance evokes...
googling inept kickstarted lame outré jaunty hokum
(alternately titled:
Random screenshot within me noggin
instantaneously transforming,
née devolving into gobbledygook.)
I got born with poker faced physiognomy,
no matter yours truly doth not play cards
though self same...
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Categories:
tangle, 12th grade, adventure, character, dream, fate, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
The Infinite Grace of Light and LoveThe Infinite Grace Of Light And Love
Although gone from this sad earthly plane, love may yet embrace,
for within Light's truest of gifts, Love brings its infinite grace...
Weeping tears falling into her coffee she mourned...
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Categories:
tangle, beautiful, deep, devotion, love, passion, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Cycle Of ExistenceOn reflection, a shining mirror lays my core ethos bear,
inkling etched on mien can’t escape deep probing,
tilted jaw, gleaming eyes, vivacious aspect,
express an ardent quest for exponential flourish,
in this life of mine, and its...
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Categories:
tangle, birth, celebration, character, courage, deep, future, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
tangle, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoatBully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...
who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linkedin with social anxiety)
chose the fork less traveled
aye pucker with...
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Categories:
tangle, anger, bereavement, child abuse, family, innocence, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Wander-LustEroticism -
a supple spine in a wanting curve
and a foolish fever simmers a scarlet heartbeat...
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Categories:
tangle, beach, betrayal, desire, lust, metaphor, night, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
my little bookworm -
home again, jiggety-jog
oh, how kindly my castle welcomes me!
the pungent loves of earlier meals and my dear one's perfume
Je Reviens and Acqua Di Gioia
like manna for the sensual senses
a weary man dripping from a weary...
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Categories:
tangle, analogy, appreciation, books, fun, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
To Have a HomeTo have a home was always something I dreamt of growing into.
But it seemed to be out of my reach.
Each time I'd get close enough to reach out and touch it,
It would crawl back and...
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Categories:
tangle, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Realm of Silver Linings" Perhaps, life is just a disaster
wrapped in fairy-glow fragments ~
shimmering with stars of death... "
O' beloved moment of time,
take me where I belong,
in the henna haze of scentless leaves
draped in doves of lotus,
I'll whimsically...
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Categories:
tangle, butterfly, dark, death, gothic, memory, metaphor, stars,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience dark and gray a never-ending war!
A giant cyclone of a...
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Categories:
tangle, birth, change, conflict, death, eulogy, life, longing,
Form:
Ballad
Ordinary Love, a VillanelleOrdinary Love
by Michael R. Burch
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
"I love you," in the ordinary way
and tug the coverlet where once we lay,
all suntanned limbs entangled, shivering,...
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Categories:
tangle, love, marriage, relationship, wife, woman, women,
Form:
Villanelle
The StormThe boat,
smooth sea,
tight sail,
...
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Categories:
tangle, courage, faith, fear, friend, sea, soulmate, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse