Long This evening Poems
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Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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this evening, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Honey Bee Flying Around In WinterI have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't understand what it was all about
I have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't want anyone to get hurt
Morning comes and evening...
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this evening, angel, blessing, business, community, freedom, mythology, people,
Form:
Narrative
That Long Evening
When you came to me...
Not that you wanted me. Oh, no! It was I who wanted you,
Your comfort... your caring... your
... compassion, your compassion...
Your body, beautiful and young, perhaps that as well at...
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Categories:
this evening, feelings, lost, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About the Coronavirus IPoems about the Coronavirus I
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote...
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Categories:
this evening, absence, anxiety, bereavement, caregiving, death, depression, fear,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About FlowersLady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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this evening, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
this evening, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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this evening, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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this evening, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween PoemsIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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this evening, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
It's HalloweenIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
this evening, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
this evening, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
this evening, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
this evening, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Ivthe Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
this evening, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
this evening, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
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:
this evening, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
this evening, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Where Does the Butterfly GoWhere Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
this evening, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Free Verse ILozenge
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 lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
this evening, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
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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this evening, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
this evening, remember,
Form:
Free 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:
this evening, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
this evening, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
this evening, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
this evening, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet