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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:
tart up, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
tart up, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The JourneyOnce upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
tart up, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"
He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.
She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....
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Categories:
tart up, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form:
Narrative
Memories In the SandIf ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
tart up, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Jacqueline TrestrailOn this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...
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Categories:
tart up, mother, tribute,
Form:
Prose
Xenophobia Pt 1TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
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Categories:
tart up, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Drunk Tank ShankI once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank
……………………………………………………………………….
It used to...
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Categories:
tart up, drink, joy, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
Life's Fading Light-Part 1-Heroic Crown of SonnetsYouth
When orchids bloom in beauty life's aglow
to hold emotions locked in deep repose
in young desire and love warm thoughts will show.
Affection holds its ardor as it grows
to burn inside young hearts in evening tide.
In darkest...
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Categories:
tart up, age, death, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Unwoven MemoriesI grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.
The boxers outnumbered the...
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Categories:
tart up, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Iridescent With Affection~~~Here's another verse written by me! I hope you cherish my 500th poem I've written on this WONDERFUL poetry site!!~~~
*dances merrily and goes to Disneyland*
I wish the sun can keep on shining like candlelight reflection…...
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Categories:
tart up, adventure, appreciation, change, confusion, deep, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
The Utmost For the Legacyeach of us gives in from a faithful friend,
Watch through the beaten tower
We give in way to soon...
This Newest piece, "The utmost for his highest."
covers all known bases to fuel the fan in
look deeper in...
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Categories:
tart up, appreciation, art,
Form:
Free verse
ArtYou were my work of art
From the start, from the start
Then, you threw me away and I knew from there on, you had no heart
You were my drug of delight
From the morning to the night,
But...
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Categories:
tart up, angst, emotions, endurance, feelings, love hurts, strength,
Form:
Lyric
O' BaobabO' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn,
Against the fire, the desire for sigh
Haughty, you stand, before the...
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Categories:
tart up, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Lifeboat the Atheist's DreamPart 7
The Atheist was a Man who thought much of himself
And would not brook any measure of social compliance.
So no matter the 'who,' he would not suffer their views,
...
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Categories:
tart up, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Free FruitsGreen light means go ahead
Make your choice
Here’s a list of the Green light or free, fruits go, go, go and eat them up
Apples, dried: Dried apples make a great snack food and are easy to...
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Categories:
tart up, fruit,
Form:
List
Ode To the End of WarSharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No flag of truce waved, or friendship offered as token
Nothing was...
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Categories:
tart up, friendship, war,
Form:
Epic
bistroPeter (my bf) and I were in Paris, about three weeks ago (I was on Spring break, he was on vacation from work).
‘Headstart for Happiness,’ by ‘the Style Council,’ was playing low somewhere.
“This is the...
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Categories:
tart up, boyfriend, humor, paris, student, travel, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Your Love Is LikeYour love is like a river peaceful and deep,
like a secret I just can’t keep, like the shearing of a sheep,
like taking a leap, like my hand falling asleep, your love is like
the...
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Categories:
tart up, crazy, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Hell Translation Canto Xxxi Part 2(continue from previous)
We walked then a farther site to reach,
Turning to left; and at leaf spring far throw,
We found other larger, fiercer to breach.
In binding him, whoever did it though
I cannot tell, but he just...
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Categories:
tart up, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Lady In Green POTDI was a zealous fashion designer, whose elegant styles were ever in vogue,
Like the rainbow time of cool, damp evening, that elegant colors go rogue.
Lost in my work, I took it seriously, for creating something...
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Categories:
tart up, beauty, fantasy, fashion, green, imagery, mystery, nature,
Form:
Couplet
A Rational Ethics With Pickles On the Side"Imagination is as imagination does."
-- a poet of a truly handsome imagination
* * *
On every "Help! Oh, help! I'm in a Pickle!" Pickle Day,
Ms. Superhero Fancy one true super-duper fay
along with...
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Categories:
tart up, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Fat ManI like to eat stuff
I'm not very buff
I think i'm pretty tough
My doctor says my health is pretty rough
My girlfriends name is muff
I hate her
She always calls me fat
Even though her face looks like a...
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Categories:
tart up, baseball, bridal shower, cat, chocolate,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks Viii - a Bit RisqueLimericks VIII plus one Lead-In Poem
Updated Advice to Amorous Bachelors
by Michael R. Burch
At six-thirty,
feeling flirty,
I put on the hurdy-gurdy ...
But Ms. Purdy,
all alert-y,
kicked me where I’m sore and hurty.
The moral of my story?
To avoid a...
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Categories:
tart up, hilarious, humor, humorous, romance, romantic, sexy, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Love's Last HeartbeatIn the moorlands of desires,
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs,
In the dream of retracing their
scintillating season of beachy spring.
'Hope' had...
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Categories:
tart up, angst, metaphor, sad love, sorrow, true love,
Form:
Free verse