Long Tempts Poems
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Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
tempts, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
tempts, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Come Down, For Harold Bloom
Come Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
tempts, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes
"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"
“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”
This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...
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Categories:
tempts, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Lord Is Coming - the Linked Style
~ Lord Is Coming ~
( Linked )
~O~
Lord Is coming
L
Coming again
O
Again to Earth
R
...
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Categories:
tempts, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Harvest Quartet of Subtle Harmonics
Spring's Excitement
There are rhythms of Nature that no one controls
that farms use to advantage! Time's fishermen sailed
both with tides and fair breezes offshore in their boats
at each dawn and dusk's onshore brought home each day's...
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Categories:
tempts, farm, love, science, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
My Pentagram Poppet Pt 2
Almost a month now and the emotions honeymoon-surfaced fast
Plagued by the invasive thoughts of which one of us will prove to last
Anxiously waiting to see if our Jenga game will wobble, fall and crash
We're each...
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Categories:
tempts, girlfriend, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Kingdom of My Embrace
"Years” and “Distance”, phantoms of the dark that do their evil
in the quietude of the everyday, coming and going without so
much as a footprint or a whisper, and taking the most valuable
possessions of the heart,...
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Categories:
tempts, absence, appreciation, children, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
Promises of Vows
I'm so tired of waiting for the baby witch I'm destined to bind
In this witchy tradition of old, the young goddess/princess witch is mine
She's the youngest and the most beautiful heiress to the Silken Rose
She's...
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Categories:
tempts, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon hunger;
their dewy eyes blurred by the sawdust of stardust
pseudo-princess-pleasure-seekers
—drama daring...
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Categories:
tempts, age, beauty, lust, moon, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To Mother
Ode To ‘Mother’ Creator ©
Not only is it a marvelous happen chance in being able to have ‘shares’ in Mother Nature’s flora creations 'first hand'---
But, we are then granted to sit before her, these ‘set...
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Categories:
tempts, art, autumn, caregiving, change, character, desire, encouraging,
Form:
Ode
Letter To My Son
I know you're sick of the cussing and fussing, idle discussion, and running from Hell's suction.
Spending all day doing nothing but stressing.
Just know, every question turns into a lesson, manifested into a blessing.
And even though...
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Categories:
tempts, black african american, blessing, conflict, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
A Halloween Tale
A Halloween Tale
By Lee Bragan
Darkness creeps across the land,
The midnight hour is close at hand.
A night of evil awaits us all
On whom will Death choose to call?
There’s no place to hide till...
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Categories:
tempts, scary,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Wonderment at existence mine
Wonderment at existence – mine
a sixty four year old married bloke
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign in general,
and January 13th in particular
who dons online personage
with custom (think
swiftly tailored harried styled)
made poetic raiment cloak.
With...
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Categories:
tempts, adventure, age, animal, celebration, character, creation, identity,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Sonata
Like the breathless air of twilight,
As the moon softly rises and tempts the stars
Into the quiet revelations, admissions
Grace, splendor, magnificence…
Painting the dreams with a quivering ink,
Spilled upon the emptiness beneath the still, white page,
Simplicity at...
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Categories:
tempts, love, romance, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Open Plea
Open Plea
Lord, please forgive me, but the devil constantly tempts me. You gave me a body full of life, but at times, my soul feels empty.
These demons are relentless. Life's a and a...
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Categories:
tempts, angst, confusion, emotions, evil, god, prayer, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas Thoughts From My Friend
when I went through the living room they had turned the lights off on the tree, all but the star, sitting at the very top of the tree above all the ornaments, still shining brightly...
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Categories:
tempts, fate,
Form:
Free verse
The Bomb III
For life and death were caught within a race
to destiny – and all the world awaits.
His despot realm would falter from the pace
and thus, awaited fire from Heaven’s gates.
As mighty legions faded on the fields
of...
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Categories:
tempts, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Barbarossa I
When giants hide their heads beneath the sand,
the body lies unshielded from the Sun.
‘Tis but a hedge to seemingly withstand
the winds of war that nothing will out run.
‘Tis opportune for those that seek to rise...
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Categories:
tempts, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Wonderment At Existence Mine
Wonderment at existence - mine
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign.
With my scrunched
and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder precise circumstances
that linkedin yours truly to be born
tracing back lineage of self
or arbitrary individual...
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Categories:
tempts, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal,
Form:
Rhyme
Elegy To Lost Child
Elegy to Child Lost
...
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Categories:
tempts, allegory, baby, birth, care, child, daughter, introspection,
Form:
Elegy
Shadows
Song of Solomon 4:6 (KJV) “Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.”
The shadow of a smile,
reflecting hope, joy,...
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Categories:
tempts, appreciation, creation, heart, inspirational, jesus, love, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Blood Bath
Finally my blood began to coagulate
a graceful gel, gently thickened,
so – whatever I might feel, the settling of the wound,
has begun…
in sensitive silences, the shadows echo the fear,
felt by a heart who knows the starkness,...
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Categories:
tempts, blessing, christian, faith, god, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Born to Rage
I woke with blood in my mouth
and no memory
of the scab that sealed the rasure.
I’m cat-spitting
dog-growling
peregrine-divebombing
rooster-flogging
badger-flipping
hornet-stinging
wolverine-ripping mad.
I fired the sun for showing up late
cursed the fridge light until
yogurt soured in terror.
God called
I let it ring...
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Categories:
tempts, anger, animal, childhood, grief, mental health, pain,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Wonderment At Existence
With scrunched and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder the precise circumstances
that any thing 2 be born this way
as a poker face
Tracing back lineage of self or
...
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Categories:
tempts, allegory, allusion, analogy, celebration, crazy, fate, imagination,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme