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Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
unreadable, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I Remembered
For 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:
unreadable, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
unreadable, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
unreadable, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 17
Erlenkönig pulled the chair out beside Aisling's and sat on the side of the table. A large, luxuriant and ornate chair headed the end of the table,
several places down from where he sat...
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Categories:
unreadable, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Glenn Hughes: God of Money
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Welcome to the land of
...
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Categories:
unreadable, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character, imagery, music, song,
Form:
Lyric
The Father I Lost
Memories felt after so long repressed
Now burn like a fire inside of my chest
They flow now as ink from the tip of my tongue
For the father I lost when I was too young...
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Categories:
unreadable, death, father, loss,
Form:
Elegy
Pointed Art
Pointed Art
Michael R. Burch
The point of art is that
there is no point.
A grinning, quick-dissolving cat
from Cheshire
must have told you that.
The point of art is this—
the hiss
of Cupid’s bright bolt, should it miss,
is bliss
compared to Truth’s...
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Categories:
unreadable, art, death, life, nature, poetry, poets, time,
Form:
Verse
Defender of the Wastes
What makes a speech out of words,
I have just washed the tombs of lords.
Oh, what’s my knot?
What’s my knot?
You can judge the theme not.
Words, trickle of the destructed thoughts
Shaped in a dim light.
No matter what...
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Categories:
unreadable, art, life, parody, world,
Form:
Free verse
Zen Death Haiku Xi
ZEN DEATH HAIKU XI
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Above the garden
the camellia tree blossoms
whitely...
—Uejima Onitsura, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Moonlit hailstones:
the night hawks return.
—Uejima Onitsura, loose translation...
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Categories:
unreadable, age, analogy, angst, animal, anxiety, august, autumn,
Form:
Haiku
Broken World
Broken World
When the lies were injected
into the veins of innocence
blue feathered quills
dipped their nibs
into the ink of golden stories
stalked by trolls
dragging their fountain tips of liquorice
like shining razor blades
blunt remarks stinging...
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Categories:
unreadable, dark, journey, light, love,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Going Crazy
I can't expect to wake up everyday and do something I hate before I'm even part of the rat race.
How am I expected to cope with that as a human child....not a that human...
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Categories:
unreadable, 11th grade, allegory, religion, school, solitude, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Dancing on the Edge of Desire's Ledge
To wallow in the fires is a tempting
surrender.
A swan dive into the maelstromic implode
of mushroom clouds, return to
sender....
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Categories:
unreadable, art,
Form:
Ballad
Sun Poem
Sun Poem
by Michael R. Burch
I have suffused myself in poetry
as a lizard basks, soaking up sun,
scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light
he understands—when it comes, it comes.
A flood of light leaches down to his bones,
his feral...
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Categories:
unreadable, poems, poetry, poets, summer, sun, sunset, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
Paternal Grandmothers Headstone Beth David Elmont Long Island
Paternal grandmother's headstone - Beth David, Elmont, Long Island
Shaindel (Sadie), variant of Shana Harris
died May 13th, 1959 exquisitely chiseled
alphanumeric characters legibly engraved
sepulchral casket entombing lovely bones
deoxyribonucleic acid repurposed into me
Matthew Scott Harris patronymic protector,
when I...
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Categories:
unreadable, absence, america, death, fate, grandmother, heaven, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Professional Psychology
I can see it in your eyes
your brain ticks over
search supplies
the lie with fall cover
Because mother always used to say be aware of those around you
their reaction to your actions...
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Categories:
unreadable, psychological, smart,
Form:
Rhyme
Phoenix Wings
"Phoenix Wings"
Suede heart turns tin star
wears the shining part
on the outside stitched up
blue silk now
glistening
tears in time forgotten
justice in the frozen cut glass
criminal, wasted memories
clairvoyant signs
electric lines writes and
truth...
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Categories:
unreadable, imagery, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Volcano
Volcano
The mistress of the unknown covered with a strange material
Residues of what's left after an erruption, looks like surgical
Reaction of the unwanted visits, the peace of a ' criminal '
Leaving behind the rests of a...
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Categories:
unreadable, time,
Form:
Free verse
Premonition
Premonition
by Michael R. Burch
Now the evening has come to a close and the party is over ...
we stand in the doorway and watch as they go—
each stranger, each acquaintance, each unembraceable lover.
They walk to their...
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Categories:
unreadable, eve, fate, moon, night, stars, visionary, wine,
Form:
Rhyme
A Freak of Literature
A freak of literature
Designed by those mad poets
But escaped the lab:
the English classroom,
Its me G the hybrid word:
With added punctuation and
bold character so im strong-
Arial be my font family but...
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Categories:
unreadable, deep, image, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Verse
A Faraway Bouquet
Written: September 23, 2023
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In a faraway land, as the sky hits the field,
Amidst a land of shades, a country concealed,
Realms of anguish wrapped around the woods,
As the idioms of conflicts to value their goods.
In...
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Categories:
unreadable, analogy, angst, appreciation, conflict, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Innocent Omission of a Lower Case M
Top notch legal scholar Erin Go Braw
(less concerned about being fair versus
abominable, irrevocable, and execrable
unforgivable oversight most holy "M" &...
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Categories:
unreadable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Writing Under the Stain
in an
angst- saturated
...
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Categories:
unreadable, poetry, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Mother's Day
I bought my house for its mirrored walls
in the master bath from which you could fancy
yourself as a forties' film star, your flawless
body soaking in billowing suds, or stepping into
a glassed-in...
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Categories:
unreadable, funeral, house, grandmother, house, cancer,
Form:
Ballad
The Wanderer, Part III, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
The Wanderer, Part III
The wise man contemplates these ruins,
considers this dark life soberly,
remembers the blood spilled here
in multitudes of battles,
then says:
“Where is the horse now? Where, its riders?
Where, the givers of gifts & treasure,...
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Categories:
unreadable, loss, sorrow, time, travel, war, winter, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse