Long Thrall Poems
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Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
thrall, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
thrall, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
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:
thrall, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
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:
thrall, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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Categories:
thrall, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
thrall, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Doggerel IiDoggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
thrall, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
thrall, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
thrall, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
In My Beautiful BalloonWith summer nearly gone, we all wanted to do something special,
And decided it should be daring, rather than the usual and dull.
So, we listed the things we desired to do, but hadn't yet tried,
And we...
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Categories:
thrall, adventure, beauty, fantasy, lost, miracle, nature, prayer,
Form:
Couplet
A Poet of a Thousand WordsA poet of a thousand words
The pen garnished by the flame
Like a sea no desire knows
And love becomes the same
As poet to my love for thee
I confess between the lace
Of time and every sorrow made
I...
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Categories:
thrall, love,
Form:
Free verse
Very Fine ImageryI was touring the lovely countryside, once on a golden Saturday,
Lost within the raptures, of languid summertime's scenic display.
And I came into the vicinity, of a beautiful historic old home,
So being curious and interested, inside...
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Categories:
thrall, adventure, fantasy, house, imagery, mirror, places, world,
Form:
Couplet
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 1The Lay of The Best Man - Part One
I’ve seen men ‘good’, and surely, I’ve seen men ‘bad’
So jealous and so envious, I’ve seen men ….sad
Twisted, fuming with anger, and consumed with rage
Callous and cruel...
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Categories:
thrall, humanity, men,
Form:
Lay
Each Day of Our LivesEach day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...
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Categories:
thrall, humor, political,
Form:
Rhyme
A Good OutlookI was once something of a pessimist, and that fact did not concern me,
As violet birds are content, to spend their nights in different trees.
Still I had a happy and quiet existence, or at least...
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Categories:
thrall, dream, faith, fantasy, garden, growth, home, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Panic In the Panic RoomAt last I was a fruitful writer, and my new novel was selling well,
Like the stars of a moonlit evening, putting lovers under a spell.
I had ever loved self expression, the power and beauty of...
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Categories:
thrall, anxiety, books, fantasy, home, life, nature, writing,
Form:
Couplet
The Pasquinade of LifeI am the Mozart of my name
And I wait for you my Je’amour
To paint the parfai’d affair
And cross the fur elise of time
O vogue of vogues
Love is written in visions of glory
Even where the vogues...
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Categories:
thrall, freedom, love,
Form:
Free verse
Exsquisite MelancholyTime is like a shadow bright
It fades and never can requite
A lip, a shade, a palest kiss
The sorrow that my heart did wish
Clasped upon the rose and chain
When fate cannot...
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Categories:
thrall, love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel birth cords sinuous
sensing the ground seeking the...
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Categories:
thrall, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Rat-A-Tat-TatThe typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless crap
from the editor's yap
(spewing flimflamy flak, booming rat-a-tat-tat)
after gashing a...
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Categories:
thrall, society, violence, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Woodland SageIn a realm far and distant from our own, An ancient forest lay, its secrets unknown. A world where magic and nature entwined, Its spirits and essence not easily defined.
Tales spoke of a wizard old...
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Categories:
thrall, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way RightSolitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?
Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words
with great difficulty,...
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Categories:
thrall, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form:
Elegy
Never Land Part 5A lad is stopped by roving cops, who shoot in disregard.
His face is black, he’s on his back, a breeze is breathing hard,
he bleeds and dies, his mama cries, the screaming sky is scarred,
the sheriff...
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Categories:
thrall, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse ViLIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VI
On the Horns of a Dilemma (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Love has become preposterous
for the over-endowed rhinoceros:
when he meets the right miss
how the hell can he kiss
when his horn deforms her...
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Categories:
thrall, fun, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
A Mountain-Moving LoveRumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
...
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Categories:
thrall, analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form:
Free verse