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Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
tattered, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
The Back BurnerI heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I...
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Categories:
tattered, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
tattered, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Poems IiPoems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
tattered, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
tattered, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
tattered, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
tattered, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
tattered, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
tattered, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
tattered, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
tattered, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xvii-XxivSonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
tattered, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Modern Sonnets IMODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
tattered, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
tattered, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Love Poems VLOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
tattered, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
tattered, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Missed By a MileHaving been avid antiques collectors for nearly 4 decades, my wife and I met our share of rascals like this sneaky dealer -
Damp and chilly winds were blowing, leaves would paint the ground,
As me...
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Categories:
tattered, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Inner ChamberTHE 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:
tattered, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
A Dream of a Rainbow Coloured FamilyA dream of a Rainbow coloured family
In the ocean there is a raging storm
And a lot of boats
With rudders that are shattered,
Compasses lost, sails that are torn.
And dreams that are faded or tattered
With...
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Categories:
tattered, anger, conflict, humanity, inspiration, love, motivation, rainbow,
Form:
Rhyme
Hither, Thither, and YonOnce upon a time, there were two little villages, Rowling and Tolkien, that lived in peace with each other. Rowling and Tolkien had many, many children, some very young, others young, and a few...
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Categories:
tattered, children, conflict, family, fantasy, parents, peace,
Form:
Prose
Sophisticated Lady - Small Town Girl - Both Audio and Text Versions“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
tattered, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Reunited -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationMany of us have a favorite possession from when we were young, and this
93-year old gentleman is no exception.
...
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Categories:
tattered, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated Lady, Small Town Girl“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
tattered, loneliness, sorry,
Form:
Rhyme
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
tattered, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
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:
tattered, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse