Long Tribute Poems
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A Taste of my Varied GenresA Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along with these titles:
The Sound of His Breathing (Written about my...
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Categories:
tribute, poetry, , cute, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
- 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:
tribute, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
tribute, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Rilke Translations IICome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
tribute,
Form:
Verse
Oft in My Thought: Charles D'Orleans translationOft 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:
tribute, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
tribute, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
Jean LAPRESLE: The Solitary Oak on Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Categories:
emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Essay: A Better Kind of Poetry Contest on PoemHunterCHALLENGE TITLE POETRY CONTEST FOR AUGUST ON POEMHUNTER.COM!
'WHY DO TURTLES CROSS THE ROAD? '
OK FOLKS! Please choose your favorite poem from those entered here and remember too to give your reasons for your choice....
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Categories:
tribute, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Remember When
Remember when you were very young, ...
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Categories:
tribute, fun, games, life, love, remember, today, youth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*
In homage - dedicated to the...
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Categories:
books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
I Want A DoggyOh how I want a doggy,
a bundle of love and fur. ...
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Categories:
tribute, dog, friend, love,
Form:
Narrative
2 Versions of 4 SeasonsThese 2 different versions are separated by nine years
Part 1
MUST BE SPRING
Small speckles of wild grass
Looking like tiny green drops
That had fallen to the earth
Were the very first sign
Waving in the...
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Categories:
tribute, lost love, seasons, time,
Form:
Prose
CLASSIFIED PART FOURI was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
tribute, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Categories:
tribute, car, kid, red, snow, vacation, weather, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Film NoirFilm Noir
By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...
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Categories:
tribute, remember,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
A Most Courageous American President for the AgesA Most Courageous American President for the Ages
I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take a moment to
share some of my reflections on the life and distinguished public
service of the late 41st...
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Categories:
america, celebration, character, inspiration, patriotic, political, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
The Dance of SalomeThe Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
tribute, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Film Noir Film Noir
By the lamppost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...
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Categories:
tribute, forgiveness, i love you,
Form:
Ballade
Bending Nature's BowThe way of Heaven, and health,
for that matter,
Is it not like the bending of a bow?
The top comes down and the bottom-end goes up.
The extra is shorted, the insufficient is expanded.
(Laotse, "Bending the Bow," pp....
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Categories:
tribute, culture, earth, games, garden, nature, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
tribute, crazy, dream, humor, sister, tree,
Form:
Free verse
My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute PoemNelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.
As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”
I had...
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Categories:
tribute, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination, inspiration, motivation, strength,
Form:
Couplet