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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:
thrush, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems IThese 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:
thrush, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow heads in silent paean,
while polished trucks stand...
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Categories:
thrush, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
On Noms-De-PlumeJustin Von Depathos strode across the ballroom floor
To sit with Carlton Vishizwa and Charlotte Genivieve,
While I watched, in silent fascination, from the door,
The “major players” waltzing ‘round the room that Friday eve.
Thurston Beaumont...
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Categories:
thrush, funny, humor, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Wildmoor SymphonyFIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
thrush, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Poems IiiNo One
by Michael R. Burch
No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...
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Categories:
thrush, angel, dark, eve, evil, fear, gothic, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...
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Categories:
thrush, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
The TurningThe year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the strengthening light,
In its deliberate and unconcerned ...
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Categories:
thrush, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
A Dashing BladeIn a house high on a hill an old man grows weak, many years have gone, he lays in his old bed,
Back in the day, a dashing young officer with a brilliant red uniform he...
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Categories:
thrush, nostalgia, beautiful, old, sweet, beauty, summer, beautiful,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sun Setting Over the Dark Green Fringe of a Shivering LakeSun setting over the dark green fringe of a shivering lake on the last day of winter
An old man still unbent sits on a deserted wooden bench
with the load of his cares...
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Categories:
thrush, bird, loneliness, song, spring, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Nostalgia, Those Were the DaysWe all think that when we were young
The sun shone for 23 hours a day
Not altogether true
But it seems that way in hindsight
But things always look better looking back
They were more innocent times
More naïve...
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Categories:
thrush, nostalgiatime, time,
Form:
Narrative
A Country Park, My King“Life is like a country park”, the peasant said to the King.
The King so sure of his profound answer,
Looked coldly into the peasants eyes
and without a murmur burst out into laughter,
Tell me peasant why would...
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Categories:
thrush, earth, life, loneliness, nature, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Mariah of MagdalaPart IV: FORGIVENESS
“Rabii! Rabii! Rabii!
What suppose you of this woman?
Caught right in the act of sin
Our society's outcasts such
She must be thrashed to the non-living
So demands the laws of the land
Rabii! Rabii! Rabii!
Grant us your...
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Categories:
thrush, blessing, character, conflict, endurance, forgiveness, satire, true
Form:
Narrative
The End of MankindTHERE IS NO MUSIC
There is no music, I hear no more song.
Is it really true that we are all gone?
Yet life does continue without any rush,
And the music now heard, is the song of a...
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Categories:
thrush, destiny, earth day, future, humanity, planet, time,
Form:
Free verse
Not Like a FigwortNot like a figwort but not an aster, either. Could he be a buttercup
with sepals, no petals, but sepals like petals? Alan is a bluebeech,
an ash if his books sell. Quick shake hands. Zach's bald...
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Categories:
thrush, blue, books, flower, fruit, life, rose, tree,
Form:
Verse
A Warm Summers DayAfter many years I paid a rare visit to the woods from my long ago childhood days,
Things have changed since boyhood, the bees are silent, the landscape has changed,
Gone, honey-laden scented flowers of the old...
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Categories:
thrush, nostalgia, old, summer, blue, life, old, summer,
Form:
Prose Poetry
One Square MileIn one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one square mile, northeast of Noojee.
A Whipbird crack through ti-tree scrub,
a...
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Categories:
thrush, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Having Felled ItThe warmth no longer comes
it seems to only leave.
The furry ones, all
caught in hypnotic disbelief:
hardening ground's
taken root
where once
gardening grounds
(forsaken, mute)
were once and again
makin' fruit.
Each beast, shaking
like a leaf
(though, truth be told
I've only ever
seen 'em...
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Categories:
thrush, autumn, philosophy, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Allegro OuHe knew he had rubbed against some big shoulders.
Some like him and other were anoyed. What bothered him was they all existing relationships of there own. Some were ones you didn't wanna get involved with,...
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Categories:
thrush, creation, engagement, fashion, inspiration, introspection, jobs, music,
Form:
Bio
What Have We Left Behind the Great WarWhen I joined and wore my khaki uniform girls lined the streets, they kissed and hugged me,
I was six inches taller and so very proud, my dearest wish was to be in France at the...
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Categories:
thrush, war, me,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rolling Back To MossIt is a peculiarity of Love’s mossy light
that once, hapless rocks drowning in their days
would be overthrown by Love’s destructive plight
and smooth-whiskered words its song to soothe
in the belly of the whale its secrets brew.
In...
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Categories:
thrush, happiness, introspection, life, loss, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Alone on the MountainThe desolate perfection of solitude. The shiver of recognition that there is only one being on the mountain, and that’s you. The pine trees watch, the boulders brood, but there is no one there. The...
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Categories:
thrush, environment, loneliness, lonely, nature, sad, silence, solitude,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Trip Through WinterEven in our winter season the soul of the coming year bursts through hard thick frost,
Even in high piles of purest white snow, buds grow for our future of the next summer,
Blow flowers stir and...
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Categories:
thrush, nature, old, winter, snow, flower, flower, future,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Give Me Courage the Great WarSitting and waiting for the whistle to blow again twice in just one day,
I sat and watched the various signs, the returning spring across fields,
In a copse there was a wood lark singing also in...
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Categories:
thrush, adventure,
Form:
Blank verse
Please Give Me Courage the Grate WarSitting and waiting for the whistle to blow again twice in just one day,
I sat and watched the various signs, the returning spring across fields,
In a copse there was a wood lark singing also in...
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Categories:
thrush, war, snow, snow,
Form:
Prose Poetry