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Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
vanishing, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaph For a Palestinian Child
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child of...
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Categories:
vanishing, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
Rip
R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
vanishing, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
vanishing, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations Ii
Chinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
vanishing, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Observance
Observance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
vanishing, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Cleansings
Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
vanishing, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
vanishing, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
vanishing, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
vanishing, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Dylan Thomas
These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
vanishing, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
vanishing, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
vanishing, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems I
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
vanishing, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Prose Poems
Prose Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
vanishing, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - I
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
vanishing, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
Perhat Turson: Elegy Translation
Perhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
vanishing, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Canto Xvi Hell By Dante
Already I reached the place where heard the sound
Of falling water in the circle next
Suchlike the rumble done by hives around,
When three spirits together changed their treks,
Running, out of an horde just passing there
Under...
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Categories:
vanishing, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Sandy Hook Poems 1
Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we may,
that the truth of our Love may be spoken;
then, when...
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Categories:
vanishing, children, school, student, usa, violence, war, youth,
Form:
Verse
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure
[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
vanishing, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
The Pain of Love
The Pain of Love
by Michael R. Burch
for T. M.
The pain of love is this:
the parting after the kiss;
the train steaming from the station
whistling abnegation;
each interstate’s bleak white bar
that vanishes under...
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Categories:
vanishing, age, bereavement, death, farewell, funeral, pain,
Form:
Verse
Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
I. Sighting
I saw you
through refracted light-
a prism of chance
splitting ordinary into spectrum.
Wind-tangled hair
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails
the scent of soil and...
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Categories:
vanishing, dream, innocence, journey, loss, memory, mystery, nature,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Double Cross My Heart
Selena...Sarah the Sorceress
Russell...the Ghost of Never-land
This year has not been mine
Death laughs at me as he steals my grandfather from me
while I plead emptily for him to take me instead
yet I fail to realize I'm...
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Categories:
vanishing, blue, deep, depression, how i feel, lonely,
Form:
Bio
In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained and Bound
In It, I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound
I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye"
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's, "War and Peace"
I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die"
Remember...
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Categories:
vanishing, art, imagination, inspiration, literature, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Nigerian Independence Celebration
As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...
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Categories:
vanishing, celebration, freedom,
Form:
Alliteration