Long Truest Poems
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The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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truest, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
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:
truest, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
truest, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval PoemsMedieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
truest, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Arthurian PoemsAt Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
truest, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans TranslationsSpring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
truest, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
truest, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
OasisOasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
truest, marriage,
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:
truest, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
truest, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Room 123 Part 1Here I stand outside this door heart beating out of my chest, knowing that once I cross this threshold there will be nothing of me left
I got myself into this predicament I wanted this so...
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Categories:
truest, heartbreak, i miss you, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
truest, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiiJuvenilia: Early Poems XII
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly,...
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Categories:
truest, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
Form:
Rhyme
Desperate Hope
Placed First in:
This or That Vol 22 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh ...
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Categories:
truest, emotions, god, humanity, inspirational, men, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Legacy of HiphopAnd that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
truest, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
Health Predicts SafetyIn some primordial
wandering birth-canal way,
I imagine we all experience traumatic excommunication
An internal climate PanDemonic
cerebral yet narrowly competitive
win/lose health today or safety tomorrow survivalist
life or death revivalist
EcoFeminist MotherYang Warriors for GreenPeace Experience
or DeGenerative LoseLose...
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truest, education, health, history, integrity, light, peace, planet,
Form:
Political Verse
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five
Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings his dreams were all blurry in his head.
And what about...
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Categories:
truest, humanity, men,
Form:
Lay
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a TrilogyPredator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion
Part I
I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of...
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Categories:
truest, appreciation, art, birth, blessing, time, truth, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Highland LassieInspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.
(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure on the Highland roads;
Peerin' from the Highdown, breezin' through the...
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Categories:
truest, girl, mountains, sea, travel, wisdom, youth,
Form:
Lyric
Freed From My Shackles - Translation From TagoreThis is a poem (Original Title “Mukti” in Bengali, which means “Freedom”) by India's Nobel-laureate poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - a poet, writer, playwright, composer, social reformer and painter. He was a man...
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Categories:
truest, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Castle's Mysteries Nursery Rhyme
...
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Categories:
truest, fairy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Holy Spirit Comes Taking Flesh and Blood To Heaven Or Hell and InanimateThe "Holy Spirit has come to take us to "Heaven or Hell" The "Holy Spirit Created Flesh and Blood",and that which is "Animate,and that which is Inanimate" throughout the entire "Universe"!This is "Concrete"as I speak!...
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Categories:
truest, 10th grade, 1st grade, 8th grade, allah,
Form:
Concrete
Parts Two and Three Honoring Elizabeth Barrett Browning(4.)
As Midnight Hours Call In More Darkened Hosts
Slow flows a river of doubt and regret
foaming its swirling eddies and sad pits
cavernous echoes one can not forget
nor withstand jagged cuts and hardest hits!
As sun retreats and...
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Categories:
truest, appreciation, art, creation, poetry, poets, tribute, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Daughter's Heart On Mother's DayMother, sometimes memories are fraught
...
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Categories:
truest, emotions, hope, mother daughter, mothers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Healing Grandmother's EarthCould you more faithfully believe?
Your enemies
probably do not sacrifice their first born children
right before they eat them
And they do not worship
big
predative Jewish
and terrorizing Muslim
ruthlessly bought and sold
international pagan colonizing corporations.
Could we believe
in cooperative...
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Categories:
truest, allusion, earth day, environment, green, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse