Long Variations Poems
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Haiku 1The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
variations, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
variations, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
variations, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
variations, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Variations On a HarmonicthemeChildren are Fundamentalists
Children are literalists,
fundamentalists.
When they hear
“You’re filthy and you stink!”
the younger they are,
the less likely to hear as a mature adult might,
“You have a sour smell on you.
Please go bathe,
and use some soap and...
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Categories:
variations, health, love, peace, philosophy, political, poverty, power,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Traditional Solitaire potential combinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly
single handedly trumped computer,
for umpteenth time,
which saw...
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Categories:
variations, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Variations On a Cultural ThemeIt was sometime back in the 70's,
my later 20's,
I woke up one morning to realize
EgoSelf as an often dissonant nest
of natural systemic TaoEarth,
a mindbody bicameral treehouse
in some way that felt socially
and economically
and perhaps even...
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Categories:
variations, beauty, earth day, light, paradise, political, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.
While in the midst of...
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Categories:
variations, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, birth, computer,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes of Mom's Great Earth DayA transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow and anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with Earth’s more kosmic garden of naturally wild and domestic spirits.
Remember to ask permission...
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Categories:
variations, beauty, community, earth, humanity, humor, love, mother,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A New MythologyThere is a new mythology emerging,
Howling from the hind end of the pack,
Scorching the composted leavings
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame
Showing the way for true rock & rollers.
It’s...
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Categories:
variations, allegory, mythology,
Form:
Blank verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (today June 13th, 2021) single handedly
While in the midst of playing solitaire
(with losing outcome foreordained
after a couple moves), I became gripped
with combinations predicated on thirteen...
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Categories:
variations, adventure, america, fun, heart, history, imagination, literature,
Form:
Free verse
In Our TownIn my town
the spiritual warriors conjoined our nature conservancy advocates,
our homeless entertainers
mystics and muses
incarnated all the green organic dreams
of the food righteousness brigade,
Eternal EarthDay worshipers
began pilgrimages with gardeners
and pet-owners
and parents,
to establish...
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Categories:
variations, community, culture, environment, health, political, poverty, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Canzone Poem Form ExamplePoets Collective multi-site network
Canzone
The canzone is an Italian form with strong similarities to the sestina. There are no rhymes; instead there are five keywords that determine the structure of the poem. Every line of...
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Categories:
variations, poetry,
Form:
Canzone
Bedlam and Mayhem In the Mistress's BoudoirBedlam and mayhem in the mistress's boudoir
Nsync with variations on a theme:
of drool worthy Reuben Sandwich
(consisting of corned beef,
Swiss cheese, sauerkraut,
Russian dressing between slices
of rye bread that is grilled
until the bread...
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Categories:
variations, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, desire, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Kate and Isobel*There are only two damsels in this tale; all variations were simply for ease of writing.
Once Kate and Isabella went
To see the pretty fields of Gwent
And traipse through forest shade
They packed a picnic lunch for...
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Categories:
variations, character, friend, girl, hero, history,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Virtue… as I child I heard these words by Immanuel Kant from my late Dad
over and over again …’you must act in a way that if everybody did it
your thinking and deeds could be the...
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Categories:
variations, character,
Form:
Free verse
Flying Manual For PoetsThis is meant to be a manual, a set of sober instruction
that you can use, once you get past this lengthy introduction,
as a “how to” for learning to feel what it feels like when you...
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Categories:
variations, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Haiku VariationsHaiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch
This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:
Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch
Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!
How will you tidy your hair
this near
summer?
Leave to each still night
your lightest...
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Categories:
variations, autumn, farewell, seasons, snow, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Daylight Savings Time Ends November 5th 2023 MeansDaylight Savings Time Ends – November 5th 2023 means...
discombobulated, harried, and lobotomized
state of body, mind, and spirit triage.
Onset of dark shadows signalling edge of night
occurs earlier as the world turns
beckoning, hinting, robbing passage...
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Categories:
variations, autumn, business, confusion, dark, father, light, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Variations On a ThemeVariations On A Theme...
of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.
Ach'n (ache Ken and burn'n)
kickstarting existential and proverbial struggle
me species classified as generic muggle
analogous to entertainer
with namesake of yours truly
starring an...
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Categories:
variations, abortion, absence, abuse, age, allusion, appreciation, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
God of Playtime LovesI know nothing brighter than disdain
for algebra’s insane fascination with irrational outcomes,
dissonating my natural empathy
with harmonic blends and rhythms,
patterns of fore-giving symmetry.
By contrast,
the only math I take to,
warm wet compost
transforming into well-fed root system,
more than...
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Categories:
variations, earth, earth day, god, humor, love, math,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Old Chris Kringle Halloween JingleOLD CHRIS CRINGLE HALLOWEEN JINGLE
Did you know that Santa always had a secret desire,
To explore and experience the holiday known as Halloween!
This jolly spirit whom brought the world of mankind such joy,
And wonder on the...
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Categories:
variations, adventure, christmas, halloween, holiday, humorous, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Timeless Love
Sometime, I want to spend some time
Listening to the love that has always been mine,
Love, written in the eyes – of a mother,
Her heart is so kind – oh, my, she is so kind!
Sometime,...
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Categories:
variations, time,
Form:
Free verse
RicochetMy old life seems monotonous to me now, but I allow it was fine then,
As cobalt skies allow warm butterscotch rays, to linger in the glen.
I worked through those golden days, but most evenings stayed...
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Categories:
variations, beautiful, color, happiness, life, magic, nature, sunshine,
Form:
Couplet
Swtor Enthusiasts Strike Along With Signal Mistake WorriesBioware custom Bill Wallace (incredible! ) offers simply set up the warm article detailing (within excellent fine detail) a few forthcoming mechanised ramifications for that Aged Republic's Heritage Program. For individuals who are not within...
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Categories:
variations, computer-internet, people, may, people, perspective,
Form:
Free verse