Long Varnish Poems
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Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
varnish, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Vacuum
Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
varnish, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
State of the Art Iv
State of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
varnish, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
MONA LISA : Leonardo da Vinci : 1503
enigmatically enlightened
embodied essence of
o__live imperceptible
...
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Categories:
varnish, allegory, allusion, art, color, creation, extended metaphor,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Icarus, Resurrected
Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch
Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand
and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands
where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting
and Passion seems
like a wise bloodletting
and all I remember
upon awaking
is: to Love sometimes
is...
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Categories:
varnish, desire, dream, fantasy, flying, god, joy, magic,
Form:
Verse
THE ARCHITECTS OF LIES
They sowed chaos to claim their peace.
A few wars to realize their dreams.
They sell chains wrapped in freedom’s guise,
Spitting laws applied only to the weak.
They paint bombs in the colors of morality,
Parade mirages with a...
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Categories:
varnish, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The Princess and the Frog-Man
Long long ago there once lived a King
who wished that a child the stork would bring.
He and his Queen were very sad
at the thought of an heir that they never had.
The Queen walked beside the...
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Categories:
varnish, humor, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Southern Icarus
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...
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Categories:
varnish, adventure, america, angel, courage, flying, sun, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Mini Drama: Sturmabteilung 2
Nearly ten o'clock, Capitol Hill, inside the SCIF (specially designed for classified purpose): House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff was hosting an esoteric hearing featuring a deposition with Defense Department official Laura Cooper as part...
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Categories:
varnish, anti bullying, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
Polly's Bench
It's tucked beneath trees, as the leaves dwindle down
The varnish has faded, but the seat is quite sound.
Clouds cover the sunlight, that begs to pour in.
Others sit in the shade, forgetting the tears,
without giving much...
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Categories:
varnish, granddaughter, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Rainbow Garden
I Was off work not feeling too well
When covid 19 came along there was no time to dwell
I came back to work and sat in the huddle feeling nervous but I knew no hugs...
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Categories:
varnish, inspiration, poetry, rainbow,
Form:
Rhyme
Mirror of Peace
Looking through frosted glass of windows' sorrowed pain I who
Reflects upon the frozen condensation in the shelter of my mind
Delight that there are crystals on the panel which refract the joy
On the grace bestowed upon...
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Categories:
varnish, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Around the World In Eighty Days
His German relations would turn in their graves
This great gnome abduction is causing shock waves,
It reads like the spy who came in from the cold
They've held him to ransom and broken the mould.
The world's now...
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Categories:
varnish, character, fun, humor, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Bare Foot Joey Mcphearson
my buddy John's Bertram a wood antique
I fixed the engines while he varnish teak
so there we were Joe, John, and Kelly
with a cooler packed with bait so smelly
early in the morning waz headin out the...
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Categories:
varnish, adventure, friendship, funnyblue, fish, friend, morning, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Is Mad
He is an ant,nonentity and an entertainer,
He walks half naked in torn clothes,
dance openly in the market square
to music that is not there,
The crowd applaud with amusement.
He has no home
dump hill or underground tunnel serves...
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Categories:
varnish, life, satire,
Form:
Free verse
boeing whats ongoing?
BOING..?!#! Its off at boeing..' the wheels and doors have
Gone..planes just; over-drive the runways, they're rivalling
Sann-yong..They're rolling in inclusions, like its for a dare!!
People choosing flights right now, for boeing they don't care.' Thery're checking...
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Categories:
varnish, appreciation, blue, confusion, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
If This Table Could Talk
f This table Could talk
By: Tom Wright
5/24/99
You say,
It's only a wooden table.
While in a sense, I guess that's true,
but being laden with character and warmth.
It's a table that reminds us of you.
I should think
that each...
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Categories:
varnish, friendship,
Form:
Lyric
Grant Me This Wish
Where to start?
But asleep is the hope of mine
In the shadows of my dreams
The crimson curtains have collapsed
And are cemented to the floor
Entombed behind the stage of life
Petrified
Where to start
Ardently athirst
For this...
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Categories:
varnish, dance, kiss, moon, romantic, star,
Form:
Free verse
Fresh Catch-In Memoriam
Dust shrouds the peeling varnish on the old church pew as Noah
(first of his namesake, last of his namesake) thumbs an overripe
orange in his patchwork coat pocket. The preacher, made an obelisk
by distance and...
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Categories:
varnish, america, bible, christian, corruption, father, fish, fishing,
Form:
Free verse
Inside My Head- For Contest
Hello there, do please come inside- no need to wipe your feet
excuse the mess, I fear you'll find it isn't very neat.
This place is always untidy, victim of my disorder
from old hang-ups to memories, I'll...
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Categories:
varnish, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
The Blue Danube
The old upright piano sits flush against the wall,
has been hushed into silence, out on the sun porch
Ignored, neglected, but standing erect
I can imagine it was treasured in its prime,..polished, stylish, and new
But...
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Categories:
varnish, blue, childhood, mother, old,
Form:
Narrative
Night Travelling Prince
Beyond the scary valley
After the clean sacred alley
I carry my veiled vagrant self
Like a monstrous and fleeing elf
Through the evil forest
I realize my supreme and costly errors
On the deep oceans
With no protective vaccines
I sail my...
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Categories:
varnish, anger, conflict, corruption, pain,
Form:
Epic
Online Learner
Deliberating about something cool, ...
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Categories:
varnish, student,
Form:
Rhyme
Starry Skies Over Damascus
Starry skies over Damascus
Like a star chart for the
bomber pilots eating
Milky Ways and lives
Chocolate in the desert
for desert in consumption
The poem could stop here
its pretty clear not pretty
Petty lives perambulating
hiding hobbling around
on what was their...
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Categories:
varnish, war,
Form:
Free verse
Finally To Burn: the Descent of Icarus
Athena takes me
sometimes by both hands
and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands
where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting
and Passion seems
like a wise bloodletting
and all I remember
,upon awaking,
is: to Love sometimes
is like forsaking
one’s Being—to drift
far beyond any thought,
forsaking...
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Categories:
varnish, solitude,
Form:
Verse