Long Thereon Poems
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Visit To Antietam
Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
thereon, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
thereon, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Apocalyptic Poems I
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
thereon, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Retribution
In sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...
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Categories:
thereon, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Rhymes For Shared Times
RHYMES FOR SHARED TIMES
Maintain shared possessions - clean, tidy and in working CONDITION
Share responsibilities, or allocate them in a fair and balanced PARTITION
Keep your promises and earn TRUST
Be as truthful as possible and do not...
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Categories:
thereon, life,
Form:
Rhyme
It Started with a Blank Canvas
Placed second in:
It Started With a Blank Canvas Poetry Contest:
Sponsored by Silent One
...
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Categories:
thereon, art, creation, extended metaphor, god, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Love and the Chinese New Year
Dragon was hatched in the year of the Dragon, on the Chinese Zodiac.
But, then so was I. Yep folks, that makes me so very, amazingly wise.
Because I was born in the year of the Dragon,...
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Categories:
thereon, adventure, fantasy, fun, humor, imagination, love,
Form:
Light Verse
Moon
Moon
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Once night Gretta Foster sat in the backyard,
building a rocket ship that ought to take her a-far,
she had been working day and night - tirelessly,
hammering, programming, all so...
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Categories:
thereon, adventure, allegory, beauty, fantasy, children, imagination, journey,
Form:
Narrative
Surfing Life
The world had caved in on me once again and I counted the pressure
looked outside and felt sad unbalanced restless and torn from myself
Wild winds were brewing and surfing the waves seemed out of question
sand...
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Categories:
thereon, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
The Corpus Christi Carol translation by Michael R Burch
The Corpus Christi Carol
anonymous Middle English poem
translation by Michael R. Burch
He bore him up, he bore him down,
He bore him into an orchard brown.
Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!
The falcon has borne my mate away.
In that orchard...
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Categories:
thereon, bird, girl, heart, hurt, joy, light, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
John Audelay translations by Michael R Burch
John Audelay translations by Michael R. Burch. John Audelay was a medieval English poet who died circa 1426.
Dread of Death (excerpts)
by John Audelay
translation by Michael R. Burch
Lady, help! Jesu, mercy!
Timor mortis conturbat me. [The fear...
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Categories:
thereon, brother, death, fate, heart, love, lust, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Mary In Holy Quran Part2
(22) And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the palm-tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this and had become a thing of naught, forgotten! (23) Then (one)...
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Categories:
thereon, hope, religion, religious, day, me, allah, prayer,
Form:
Verse
The Dragon Walkie
I was out walking my dragon, when I came across a Dogasaurus Rex.
It really wasn’t so bad until; they got into a real life-pissing contest.
My dragons’ roar was way less than his, and spitting fire,...
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Categories:
thereon, adventure, fantasy, fire, funny, humorous, imagination, old,
Form:
Light Verse
The Ways
"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,
in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His...
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Categories:
thereon, encouraging, inspirational, motivation,
Form:
Free verse
Landed Thereon
I awaken after said storm thrown weakened am I
In awe in wonderment as to where I espy
Fervent to silent as I witness this breathing space
As I slowly rise my tall in this seeing succulent heaven...
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Categories:
thereon, absence, adventure, age, beach, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Couplet
Apostate
Waves of thought to the innocent mind come
if form of work is religion
why there are differences real fake
why someone is Hindu and Muslim is someone?
Why is there so much difference between the temple and the...
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Categories:
thereon, anxiety,
Form:
Prose
My Name Is Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand all over Sea and land,NEWS
On blood bath of Kiwi ever since her birth,1856
On killing 50 lives settled to fight their bellies battle
“Land of long white cloud” mean New Zealand
How truth this? 50...
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Categories:
thereon, blessing, character, creation, emotions, feelings, inspiration, people,
Form:
Blank verse
The Creepers First and Second Part
"The Creepers", first part
She has humiliating lives have been exhausted in repenting
countless of her contribution is of no value , even sacrificing
humiliation hurting her heart as like as knife again and again
she is deadly silent...
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Categories:
thereon, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Incarnation
The soul of an woman is bigger than the sky and the sea
radiance of her heart is much more sweet than moonshing.
There is no limit to her glories
abundant compassion to nourish,
in every corner of world...
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Categories:
thereon, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
The Creepers Second To Third Part
The Creepers second part
Her mind ached at the thought of having to fight with her own man
the trumpet blows in the blink of her eye to destroy then.
She is not able to win his heart...
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Categories:
thereon, anger,
Form:
Free verse
To Fell Fear Quell Anxiety
In the crowd the anxious feeling was contagious.
There was a general feeling of disquiet.
A foreboding loomed, that something pending, might happen.
Cornered eyes darted around fleeting expectant.
Then, someone yelled: "Fire!", "Fire!"
The crowd panicked, instant stampede for...
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Categories:
thereon, angst, fear, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Bilocation
Bilocation is a term that pecks at my mind's tree
Seeking to make a hole and create a nest of fables
Laying eggs of verity and hatching belief
Whether a person can be at two places at the...
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Categories:
thereon, allusion, analogy, philosophy, poetry, science, spiritual, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Witching Hour Minstrel
Whatever happened to the twelve o ‘clock rambler,
nocturnal venturesome brushstroke sort,
they paint sound and city pastel,
never at a loss for inspiration,
weather neither bar nor barrier,
in the face of whirlwind snowfall,
freezing ice, torrential downpour,
within themselves,...
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Categories:
thereon, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, color, night,
Form:
Free verse
Suzie's Easter Adventure
There once was a gray cottontail rabbit.
All of her brothers and sisters were brown.
The gray one, named Suzie, had a habit.
She would hide when the family went to town.
One Sunday they were on their way...
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Categories:
thereon, animals, family, fantasy, children, mom, family, sweet,
Form:
Quatrain
Final Thoughts
While strolling through the graveyard the other day, I was drawn,
To a host of stones with creative and pithy epitaphs etched thereon!
Such flowing poetic verse is deemed worthy of recording for posterity,
Due to its peculiarity,...
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Categories:
thereon, funny,
Form:
Rhyme