Long Theirs Poems
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In the Middle of the NightI woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
theirs, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
theirs, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Battle Hymn of Covid19I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warnings. I hope...
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Categories:
theirs, america, death, health, inspiration,
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:
theirs, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
theirs, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
theirs, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
theirs, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Poems IiiPoems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
theirs, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
theirs, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
theirs, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Point of a GunYou are a 15 year old girl;
so young and able;
stature small , petite short not tall, they hardly see at the kitchen table;
And at school it's not cool;
you're chosen;
But not for love, just..
Lust;
you see...
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Categories:
theirs, angst, appreciation, blessing, children, depression, children,
Form:
Ballad
Megan's Quest Part 1of7Moon sprites dotted the sky like lilies at dawn
in a ballet meant to cause nocturnal delight.
While Fairies and Pixie Dust covered the lawn
in a dance that would...
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Categories:
theirs, adventure, courage, humorous,
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:
theirs, children, conflict, family, fantasy, parents, peace,
Form:
Prose
Essay: a Better Kind of Poetry Contest On PoemhunterCHALLENGE TITLE POETRY CONTEST FOR AUGUST ON POEMHUNTER.COM!
'WHY DO TURTLES CROSS THE ROAD? '
OK FOLKS! Please choose your favorite poem from those entered here and remember too to give your reasons for your choice....
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Categories:
theirs, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Exegesis of Original IntentThe ugly head of the Original Intent issue
co-arises with what were our ForeFather Patriarchal Patriots
thinking and feeling to leave out prohibitions against antiChristian degeneracy,
and to put in permissions for antiChristian degeneracy.
No.
Wait.
That's not right.
We could not...
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Categories:
theirs, body, destiny, earth, health, humanity, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 19
“It is time,” he said as he turned back to the others. “Andghul, you and DynDoeth, make your way as closely and quietly as you can toward the...
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Categories:
theirs, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Strangers In PeoriaI met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool to stool over very large burgers at a long mahogany...
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Categories:
theirs, break up,
Form:
Prose
Old Pharaoh - 1 of 2Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was the voice, for Moses talked real slow,
So he would wave...
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Categories:
theirs, bible,
Form:
Ballad
Categories:
theirs, imagination, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Maya 2Continued from Maya 1
At length, when the womens' screams had ceased
and the sound of the thunder had stopped,
he gathered his courage and withdrew himself
from his hiding place beneath the corn.
He left the hut and prostrated...
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Categories:
theirs, allegory, conflict, courage, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Beary Tales Episodes 1-6, Poet's Notes(Remembering Innocence)
Note 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 new tales, improvements to previous verses, and improved...
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Categories:
theirs, adventure, best friend, blessing, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
A Free-Verse EpicThus it begins—
A free-verse epic
Into the mind of
A writer and an idiot—
A romantic and,
Often a pessimist
Conjoined in arbitrary glory
Are the thoughts and words
Of one overly-worked mind—
Charismatic and, of course,
On the pushover, pitiful
And usually...
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Categories:
theirs, beautiful, confidence, conflict, courage, deep, freedom, love,
Form:
Free verse
Territory TrampleHeadlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
theirs, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
ProcrastinationThe invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...
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Categories:
theirs, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, work,
Form:
Free verse
ProcrastinationThe invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...
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Categories:
theirs, dedication, destiny, dream, fear, happiness, success, work,
Form:
Free verse