Long Understood Poems
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Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
understood, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' Out
A special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
{intro}
I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
understood, deep,
Form:
Lyric
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
The Sun Is a Liar
It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...
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Categories:
understood, childhood,
Form:
Prose
Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...
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Categories:
understood, america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
M Y L I F E
Grow.Heal.Prosper
M Y L I F E !
I feel like my life is like a boat , the boat is my life everything I’ve worked...
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Categories:
understood, black love, deep, sorry,
Form:
Free verse
The Only Northern Northern Star
As winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
understood, africa,
Form:
Ode
Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
understood, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
State of the Art Iv
State of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
understood, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems Vi
Poems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
understood, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
understood, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Villanelles
Villanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
understood, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
understood, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
This Is Feminist Us
It's peaceful here in my backyard.
The crows sound happy
with warm October sunlight.
I just read about a deadly gathering in Las Vegas.
Absence of sun-drenched peace.
Inconvenient this time of lost loss.
Death is always inconvenient,
even when invited.
A veteran,
about...
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Categories:
understood, anger, fear, humor, integrity, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
Salat Days
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
understood, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Gaia Out Speaks
Queen Gaia
of Earth's Shabbat
is here to speak today.
Unfortunately,
she can only sign,
and the only way she can see
is through our DNA/RNA fractally-balancing syntax,
so she has asked if she could respond to your questions
as she understands them
within...
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Categories:
understood, earth, gender, god, health, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
unaware
the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,
"beware, beware"
barefoot softly
the Supernaturalist
transfigures instead
from under shine
she bares...
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Categories:
understood, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Warrior
“Warrior”
When the Argonauts, came across
the abandoned Starship, they
found within the wrecked
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message.
It took several attempts to
reactivate, but when opened,
the following was translated: ...
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Categories:
understood, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis,
When I was twelve and he fourteen,
It took away his ambitions,
To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam.
I understand being born with...
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Categories:
understood, atheist, cancer, health, prayer, religion, rights, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break I
Poems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
understood, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Gangster Disciples gang threats from Mexican Violent Offender behind bars Ciro Gargano Scum
I will not apologize for wearing
wires pregnant for the Fbi buying
weapons and drugs from corruption
and taking down gang leaders who
migrated to Wisconsin under queen
pin cocaine heroin hard drugs
manufacturer Mexican...
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Categories:
understood, allah,
Form:
Kyrielle
Doggerel Ii
Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
understood, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Christian Evangelical-Charismatic Republicans
I grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...
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Categories:
understood, beauty, christian, gender, health, political, rights, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Song of Amergin: Translation
The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
understood, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Longing For the Stars
My mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...
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Categories:
understood, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form:
I do not know?
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1
[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
understood, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme