Long Untarnished Poems
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The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
untarnished, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Operation Money Jump
Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
untarnished, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*
In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...
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Categories:
untarnished, books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
The Adverse World
I sing my songs with rageful joy in mind,
Forgetting the past struggles, aches and sorrows
That intertwine with my mind’s eye, leaving all of me behind
Forgiving others of their wrongs for better tomorrows
You know who comforts...
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Categories:
untarnished, angst, emotions, endurance, feelings, pain, passion, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Embrace the Lines
Embrace The Lines
Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water
marks engraved...
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Categories:
untarnished, life,
Form:
Free verse
Harbinger of Time
Written: March 4th 2024
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Whilst waiting patience is a probity,
swifter straddling startled savvy scare
strong for people enduring anguish
trope for enthusiastic...
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Categories:
untarnished, analogy, time,
Form:
Free verse
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue,
Will always remain in a dead language for degenerate times;
And we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line,
Conjecturing a broader...
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Categories:
untarnished, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
listen to life -
have you not heard me?
borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
still, you descry not my utterance? Listen, yet, for all is precious...
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Categories:
untarnished, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Life In a Flash
Born into this World, clean in both heart and soul
Untarnished except for God’s pure hands
Sitting up by myself, consuming more and more
A language starting to form in my head
My cries in the day and night...
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Categories:
untarnished, family, growing up, life, day, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
In the depths of my wandering thoughts, I turn back to 1989
In the depths of my wandering thoughts, I turn back to 1989,
A time of uninterrupted innocence, a veil of unknowing that covered my mind,
Floating in a sea of uncertainty, where understanding was but an echo,
For...
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Categories:
untarnished, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Naive Faith
Dripping wet weeping gold droplets imaginatively spun on elm trees,
a less than poetic splatter on saturated loose grit plain ground overtrodden
to stun the half asleep swooning sapphire riser to allegiance without pietism,
...
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Categories:
untarnished, appreciation, august, beautiful, beauty, character, color, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Forest of Lost Memories
My thoughts drift...back
...to days-long ago...
like faded photographs...
the sun is
bright...
the day is brilliant and crisp...
I stand among the forest of lost moments
like, dear, that run and play...forgotten...memories
...the hunting grounds of my
youth...
Images of love vanished
...victories...
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Categories:
untarnished, adventure, allegory, america, analogy, angst, art, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
In the depths of the translucent dusk
In the depths of the translucent dusk,
I think of the dream of our independence, now a distant echo,
For the era in which we were masters of our own fate has faded,
And we awaken to find...
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Categories:
untarnished, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Who Am I
Who am I?
This is a question that unable, I am, a definite
Answer to give
For
Buried I find myself, under layers upon layers of
Beliefs and prejudices that centuries past, have
Deposed upon my helpless and...
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Categories:
untarnished, creation, introspection, life, prejudice, universe, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Sacred Drops
Forth from the heaven, from the misty moorlands of all sacred woodland greens,
drop by drop by striking the pebbles and untouched vegetations oozes,
the intoning hallowed water of evergreen woods' crystal cascades, brooks and streams.
to...
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Categories:
untarnished, beauty, journey, nature, philosophy, romance, senses, solitude,
Form:
Romanticism
Early Poems Xvi
Early Poems XVI
The Beautiful People
by Michael R. Burch
They are the beautiful people,
and their shadows dance through the valleys of the moon
to the listless strains of an ancient tune.
Oh, no ... please don't touch them,
for their...
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Categories:
untarnished, 12th grade, age, animal, boy, child, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme
Under the endless mantle of infinity, where ancient times hide their secrets
Under the endless mantle of infinity, where ancient times hide their secrets,
History is a nightmare shrouded in veils of dark mystery,
A tapestry of shadows and lights, a labyrinth of untold destinies,
In which my wandering soul...
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Categories:
untarnished, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 5
And take the tasks in your own hands the tasks of your own fate
do not let the helper from elsewhere tell you what is best
...
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Categories:
untarnished, inspirational, words, age, age,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The World of Expectations Words
The world of Expectations
Expectations, do – in all likelihood – become frustrations.
They, in their painful anger, do become manipulations,
of both – both the aching heart and the fragile soul
and of the one’s you seem to...
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Categories:
untarnished, words, planet, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Tonight the Heavens Sing a Melody
Part Three of Ancient doubles poems
(5.)
Tonight The Heavens Sing A Melody
Bright heavens are sewing new stars tonight
While earth churns its deep seas and pauses not
Sleep the children, all tucked in so tight
We thank...
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Categories:
untarnished, appreciation, art, creation, dedication, life, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Autumn Harvest
Golden leaves transcend autumns harvest, contrasted by
Blazoned reds burnt offerings of summers final sacrifice to
The changing of the seasons, oh what a palette of magnificence,
Is nature set to the rheum of our universe!
In the chilling...
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Categories:
untarnished, adventure, autumn, beauty, creation, imagery, imagination, international,
Form:
Free verse
Together In Spirit
Together in Spirit.
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine, we are forever together in love, heart, mind, and spirit. Their love was sealed upon each other’s heart’s as their eye’s glimpsed into the...
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Categories:
untarnished, death, dedication, faith, heaven, hope, inspirational love,
Form:
Lyric
For Them
For them.
To her the word love refers to a boy.
Something she yearns for and misses dearly.
The day they met was cold and fraught with January chill.
“Oh, that does seem so long ago.”
That is the untarnished...
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Categories:
untarnished, inspirational, life, love, day, dream, home, day,
Form:
Ballad
The Last Day of Laurie Jeanne
O! Laurie-Jeanne, Laurie-Jeanne! Belle of my Heart!
Why did you have to fly?
From me who sang you a lullaby,
From the hospital room, ‘neath the thundering sky,
Beneath the thundering sky!?
O! I love my Laurie-Jeanne...
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Categories:
untarnished, death, loss, love, marriage, sad, spiritual, trust,
Form:
Lyric
Antithesis
Antithesis
In May, the lion’s ear blooms immaculately,
As if the night sky is on fire.
It excretes a ravishing untarnished beauty,
A mesmerizing compelling beauty
Only the mad mystics and poets can discern.
Here, put on these rubber sandals;
The pair...
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Categories:
untarnished, love,
Form:
Free verse