Long Torch Poems
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Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
torch, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
torch, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Limericks Iii - Grab BagLimericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
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Categories:
torch, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
torch, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
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:
torch, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Athenian Epitaphs IiAthenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
torch, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
Adam and Eve - Part OneYear One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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Categories:
torch, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
Heat LighteningHeat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
torch, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
torch, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
8 Little EgyptsSomething strange
and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast,
some say, perhaps,
it has already arrived,
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us
we go about our...
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Categories:
torch, easter, humanity, words,
Form:
Narrative
Of Winks and Wings - Part 3"You see this here spot on the bench, where it's all worn away?" Clarence asked.
"Yeah, I've noticed that a few times, and wondered why they didn't paint it again." I...
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Categories:
torch, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
torch, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
torch, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan PoeOn the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose at the...
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Categories:
torch, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One, ContOf Ghosts and fiends in Twilight, Cont.
A thought flashed in my mind from the old tales told
The lore of the beast and I had felt his foul breath
I had seconds to act or be devoured...
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Categories:
torch, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For Sam CookeDecember 14, 1965
"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You a long way from Chicago, son?"
And Sam said, "What happened
Where...
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Categories:
torch, america, celebrity, devotion, music, sorrow, sympathy, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Car Club Meeting Lament - Text - Part 1 of 2This is the 1st half of a pretty long piece, the 2nd half, as usual, is @ "poems by Mark Stellinga" on the Soup...
OK everybody…could I please have your attention?
I’ve got some real important...
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Categories:
torch, car,
Form:
Rhyme
I Was Framed - Both Audio and Text‘Twere me an’ Ol’ Dan, on a cold winter night - whilst ridin’ the streets o’ McGiven
Who noticed a couple o’ fellas ride off from the house where the preacher was livin’!
Far as...
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Categories:
torch, betrayal,
Form:
Narrative
If Your Reflection Could KillI don't know what to say to you...
I'm sorry Juliet
my once proud Juliet do you need an explanation
to why I'm struggling to find a solution to the question
'Why should I bother to talk to you...
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Categories:
torch, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Dear VeronicaHow can something be amazing and terrifying at the same time?
I have a wife and three kids
no, wait that's my imagination running wild
I have a girlfriend, my world of a month now
but I've chased...
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Categories:
torch, anxiety, beautiful, best friend, fear, marriage, ,
Form:
Free verse
Secret Love - 2nd Place Contest WinIf you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...
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Categories:
torch, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Accomplice - Both Audio and TextThis is a very sad tale, indeed. Does anything hurt more than a shattered heart?
You asked me for a story from the days of long ago, of unrequited love…of broken hearts…and love betrayed.
This brings...
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Categories:
torch, anger, gothic, hurt, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
John and Jody Play JoyfullyScience is Fiction
Sir Popper popped the answer to the question of and whether science
holds truth and where and when for how long facts remain value’s
...
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Categories:
torch, kids,
Form:
Free verse
Two Hearts One LoveReflections
Though our love nurtured well in passion's fire
Aroused now as a lamplight on life's road
This ember's torch burns still from our desire
With gleams of memories from love bestowed
as we journeyed in wondrous enchantment
I've kissed you...
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Categories:
torch, life, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Please Michelle ObamaPlease Michelle Obama...
can you save American democracy?
I highly hugely grant
Barack Hussein belated kudos
what with his wizardesses
in tow wrought wonders
to one nation analogous
while an under dog
sweeping in like...
It's a Bird... It's...
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Categories:
torch, 12th grade, america, appreciation, beautiful, freedom, health,
Form:
Free verse