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Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
twenties, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
twenties, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Early Poems IiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
twenties, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Last Call
We sat at the end of the bar in a seedy place on Seventh street. Nursing our drinks, we both had a bit too much that night. My...
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Categories:
twenties, passion, sad,
Form:
Prose
Photographic EvidenceThe guy slipped in around 8 p. m....the place was fairly packed...and wearing what they call a ‘hoodie’, quickly took a seat
Just inside the window, and I guessed - by how he looked - having...
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Categories:
twenties, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Territory TrampleHeadlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
twenties, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
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:
twenties, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
Form:
Rhyme
A Friendly GoodbyePoem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano
he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes
that inhabited the clean air
that once use to live there.
he made...
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Categories:
twenties, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Follow the Bouncing BallShe dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal
Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special touches and then flee
they decorated the mountain peaks
using all their...
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Categories:
twenties, cheer up, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 144 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Offspring and Desharah's BirthdayDate: October 2050
Cool October afternoon. Damali
Damian Sidney Amadeus Dolly
Molly and Holly planned a sort of
small birthday celebration for Desharah
and Sedanah both would soon be in
the beginning of...
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Categories:
twenties, 11th grade, allusion, best friend, child,
Form:
Alliteration
Lament of My LifeLament of My Life Contest
Sponsor: Casarah Nance
~My Bereaving Eulogy~
Time seemed to pass so much faster than I expected,
All the love, loss, passion and things I have neglected.
How many times have I lost a...
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Categories:
twenties, bereavement, blessing, death, eulogy, heaven, life, loss,
Form:
Verse
Strawberry SweetSTRAWBERRY SWEET
Strawberry scent
At the picnic place
Late in the afternoon
Birds singing up in the trees
With the joy of spring season`
The basket half empty all the pies gone
Red wine from one glass, but we had...
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Categories:
twenties, love, romantic,
Form:
Narrative
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvii Highlight of February 12th, 2023Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023
Above title attests
how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
twenties, 12th grade, abuse, adventure, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
Love My JhansiWarriors in us,
When time comes, we fight our fiercest battle
...
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Categories:
twenties, courage, love,
Form:
Free verse
Blood Stained On Market StreetThere must have been several of these incidents
Occurring in towns and cities all over the country
From month to month and from year to year
But to experience one at such a close range
Was enough to cause...
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Categories:
twenties, anger, bereavement, city, death, environment, farewell, heart,
Form:
Narrative
Seeing SpiritsFor years, Tim had the visions
Seeing things that no one could
If he spoke of them, he's crazy
He kept quiet, like he should
Just normal, little, visions
Of people who were dead
Just wandering in places
He knew weren't...
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Categories:
twenties, america, conflict,
Form:
Epic
Let's Go To RobotvilleI have the greatest of the great ideas!” My husband said.
“Best one I have ever had!” He uses this line weekly
Since he is in sales, and we have been married a long time...
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Categories:
twenties, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Narrative
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvi Highlight of February 13th, 2022Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022
Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
twenties, adventure, cool, devotion, farewell, happiness, heaven, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Shopping BagsShopping bags
In a concrete building, there lives a man.
He has not moved in many days.
There comes a knocking upon his door,
And he returns to his reality once again.
He has been floating in a land of...
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Categories:
twenties, art, death, friend, life, metaphor, mystery, people,
Form:
I do not know?
Ben Franklin and SonIt was not yet noon
when Ben said
a host of lovely things.
As far as we know,
no one accused him
of being publisher shy,
or sleeping in.
Ben said,
Early to bed
Early to rise
Makes a man,
and perhaps women and children more...
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Categories:
twenties, america, freedom, health, humor, patriotic, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Drugs and Sex Come With PainA typically depressing inky dark night
He sat at the corner waiting for the light
His mind as usual not fully engaged
His pounding psyche had him enraged
As if on cue she opened the door plopping into...
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Categories:
twenties, addiction, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stricken CorridorFall tumbles relentlessly on our door steps
young winter birds inducing provoking sounds scamper in trees
Watching winter crawling slowly under our feet.
The night rain wet the ground with sadness
washing away the environmental stench
purging...
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Categories:
twenties, dream, education, environment, water, weather, wedding, winter,
Form:
Free verse
The Tired Working ManOne more time, I must reiterate one more time
that I'm not complaining
I'm for once trying to find the bright side
of this inflatable balloon called life
with a glass half full point of view
but my...
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Categories:
twenties, work,
Form:
Free verse
My Contingency Measure In Case of GotterdammerungMy contingency measure in case of…götterdämmerung
A scenario unfolds
more abominable among
any previous warring factions,
his wicked weltanschauung
charred effigies futilely hung
against regime of brutality
considerably more unbearable
than infestation of fruit flies brung
about courtesy evil monster sprung
shortchanging restless and young.
Seconds...
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Categories:
twenties, angst, anxiety, bereavement, conflict, crush, grave, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Roaring TwentiesRoaring Twenties
Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs,
With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast;
And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink,
And a memory in-between to rethink.
The day begins with boring...
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Categories:
twenties, america, culture, education, history, perspective, society, usa,
Form:
Verse