Long Undreamt Poems

Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds



Flying
by Michael R. Burch

I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...

and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;

but when at last...
I soar the...

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Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?

Only a...

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China Tour Diary Moment #2
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AZURE MOUNTAIN GORGE



Mile after mile we take the China roads;
Highways beckon now as our tour meanders;
Vistas speak beauty as coach bears our load;
Silence fills endow as wind blows plunder.


Springtime in China...

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She’s a painting, conceived in tinted strokes
Smooth as the feather’s tips, drifting through canvas,
The alchemist’s wand waltzes in curls, 
Enraptured in pacific zephyr, her entire universe unfurls
An abstruse domain of love, artist’s exaltation of philosophical...

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You say you used to dream but now you’re old
and have no more dreams in you?
and you say you have no more gas in the trunk?
that life has not been good to you

That your arthritis...

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In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought,
Youth sheds at dawn like dew entwined on strawberries,
Weaving a veil of dreams and hopes, the storm is but a hushed song,
The greatest gift—a mystery...

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Aerospace Grade Materials

There is both fear and defiance in this horse's eye, but why?

The horse was NOT scared
I’m a war horse and nobody messes me with me
Not even aliens who think they’re big and hard!
Or...

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Her words were mumbled unprovoked and put him through the grinder
minced they were tearing apart they hurt like a dagger so he finally knew
where his heart was dismembered as it stood still one sentence then...

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Take things easy in journey air,
Seize moments calm where silence heals;
Wonder sets free that vital flair,
Feel that sure balm that soothes and fills.


There are worlds here beyond mere sight,
Look deeper then to inner realms
Let wonder...

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his youth was stolen by undreamt dreams,
growing old and always wanting one more
his white hair once dark chestnut, now gleams
for his quiet nature is not as it seems-
no, he’s my baffling father, whom I adore

sober...

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                     I can no longer touch you
        ...

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Your melody whispers, "Stay,"
Grazing me all the way deep to my depths' deep,
Breathing closely, closer into my blues, a clever wheeze.
Like a callow breeze, I feel it deeper in my soul,
Caressing my heart in every...

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The ebon hair cascaded untamed, 
some swirled in the stream of longing squall, 
some laced the enticing lattice of lust 
on your forehead of ivory canvas,
engraving the contours of the evanescent mind, 
configured in the...

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The Return!
 
Echoes resonate - in vast empty streets
Confining humans with apps and with tweets
Papers flutter down dark hollow caverns
Shops now closed - and so too the taverns
Cats stroll their beats – midst mice and...

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I, Ram, breathed in this world
In the town once ruled by Lord Krishna 
Ever since I have counted his blessings 
And with His grace have kept on stepping.
Though born in a family of a teacher
...

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Grace in Falling

I have moved through the three ordinary sounds of life
to find you waiting next to
all the unspoken words and 
undreamt of understanding you longed for.
So we Walked the long mind of winter to...

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Too busy wrestling 
with our own demons
to bring an innocent soul into
the hell of mourning
an innocence lost,
I now grieve
for the loss of a life
never conceived

Dear one, I ask
you to forgive 
those obsessions
that ruled the hearts...

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Please purpose pure
Loiter lost lure
Embrace each end
Apt aim attends
Sense something still
Use urge until
Rouse real refrain
Etching explains


Prompt primal play
Line limpid lay
Etch empathy
Ask actively
Shout screaming sham
Unfurl undreamt
Reach rude recoil
Endings embroil


Piquant pleasure
Lively leisure
Endowments ease
Answers appease
Sensuous success
Union undressed
Respite reeling...

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Long-time neglect morphs into degradation

     A sad sight of a deserted dwelling; a burning eyesore

  Tantamount to sown seeds of dreams forgetting to sprout

      ...

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An unwatered seed is simply a dream undreamt
   Quench the seed's thirst, and a dream will sprout
     Water the soil, lest your dream rots in the dirt
  ...

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The icicles that grow for years
and slowly cry then drop and die
in liquid pools of frozen tears.

The pain that builds within a lie;
lives that wait for want of love
and slowly cry then drop and die.

Prayers...

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unabashed anticipation
    unblemished appreciation
unbridled exhilaration
    uncensored imagination
unceremonious recreation
    unchartered exploration
uncomplicated communication
    unconfined aspiration
undreamt creation
    unfading veneration
unfathomable exaltation
   ...

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In ignorance, bliss!
This bottom rung,
we speak as we choose
and that gets the job done.

Yes, ignorance mired
in language unkempt-
the parlance of paupers,
ill-regarded, undreamt.

In tolerance, wise!
This highest rung-
we speak as the learned
and get the job done.

Where lofty...

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we gently pray upon our desire
or maybe our desire preys upon us
recoil in disgust at the muck and mire
only to answer, "what's all the fuss?"

life's joys and private hells undreamt of
scale's fulcrum tipping the balance...

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In the drowse, a blinking street lamp 
watchful eye of sort. 
Once half seen flame, the beacon flickers 
amidst the cobbled slumber. 
Awakened by one ray of hope, 
the sleeping nation rose. 
In perfumed glory,...

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