Long Vested Poems
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Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
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:
vested, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Dylan ThomasThese 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:
vested, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, 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:
vested, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Windstorms of NeglectDearest Sons
and dearest Cinderella StepSister,
I regret ways I have failed each of you.
From today's view of memory clips,
frames as farms of teaching-learning times,
my Great Lover Eldest, yet perpetually unfulfilled,
AfricanAmerican urban male Thug,
driver of van repurposing...
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Categories:
vested, culture, family, happiness, health, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Neigh say being corralled and cult shodNeigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified,
yet vilified...
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Categories:
vested, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form:
Free verse
A Memory From The Past
AN ANECDOTE FROM THE PAST...
Names of places and persons have either been changed or omitted to protect identity.
It was a late summer’s night warm and balmy,
Camping we were high in the lofty mountains;
I was lying...
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Categories:
vested, confidence, conflict, friend, hero, lost love, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
Earth Day VoicesVoices of creation speak Type A and Type B,
and polyglot dialects through Z,
somehow under what lies in shadow
from B through Z,
anyway, Type A conscious I am alive
in this indoor moment
awake but not directly sun-absorbing...
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Categories:
vested, culture, earth, earth day, health, language, light,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly knights; encased Great-Helm:
Thus maketh the pale maidens meek pulse
To so...
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Categories:
vested, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
The Otherwisethey disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
......
retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
fresh slants on shadowy delight
the foreboding, ominous,...
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Categories:
vested, community, psychological, sleep, voice,
Form:
Verse
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question RegardingI ask myself a rhetorical question regarding...
the durability, longevity, and tenacity of Homo sapiens,
after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity.
How did the human species manage to survive
with many means
of self destruction at their disposal?
Atomic...
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Categories:
vested, africa, america, anger, april, black african american,
Form:
Free verse
Holy SaturdayOn wooden cross, The Christ was nailed;
His Spirit tossed, painful death sailed...
The centurion's lance pierced His side;
In sure fashion, blood water strides.
The Christ was gone from the grim earth;
Limp body forlorn waiting new birth.
His empty...
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Categories:
vested, faith,
Form:
Couplet
Dream CatcherThe skipper had sailed quite a few storms and survived
Strong as a cross hanging over an apocalypse’s altar he
Had weathered all seasons and crossed heaven and hell
Tempted his fate and good fortune at times but...
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Categories:
vested, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Vitale's Fantasy Part Onetry me if you please as you are out spreading the disease
plagued by thoughts of granduer with affectionate melancholy
sparkling array of blissful care through the air
my very soul permeates a reason for being amidst the...
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Categories:
vested, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
Shame Full Travesty Regarding Fourth of July CelebrationSham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.
Fast forward two hundred and...
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Categories:
vested, 12th grade, america, anger, appreciation, betrayal, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Quiet Time With God a Collaboration With Curtis Moorman--Viv Wigley-- James Edward Lee SrQUIET TIME WITH GOD
A COLLABORATION WITH Curtis Moorman--Viv Wigley-- James Edward Lee Sr.
In the quiet time of the evening at the end of the day;
I hold communion with God while I kneel...
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Categories:
vested, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form:
Pastoral
Weird Fake NewsWeird "fake" news
This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close
to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...
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Categories:
vested, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Humid ThermosI see us
cowering within
our safety walls
of sterile
nonorganic comfort
I feel us,
almost smell us,
struggling
vacillating between pungent stink
of fear inside
and acrid
acidic anger
about life sucks outside
Emerging toward viral hate
directed against entitled Others
unwelcomed emoting immigrants
encroaching on our safe home space
It...
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Categories:
vested, culture, earth, health, humanity, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Ireland - a Divided Island Part Threekaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
militarisation of memory and folly
an Irish nation half-wrenched from a bloodied and wearied empire
...
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Categories:
vested, community, history, ireland, time,
Form:
Narrative
Recollections From the Golden Cree II know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods
By which...
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Categories:
vested, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Disabling Corporate CultureDynamically spiraling fractions
of potentially integral energy
win/win cooperative
and win/lose disruptive
Against peaceful eight octaves
of eight
is one hundred per day
full-octave spectral revolutions
during bilateral peace-sentry nights
DoubleBinary
for fractal 4 = NonZero ReGenerative
indigenous spacetime dynamic
century sensory wisdom
Integrity's sacred RightBrain ReWeaving Potential
to...
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Categories:
vested, culture, education, health, integrity, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Indian Independence - 75 YearsBorn after freedom; I witnessed
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over
Years went by: I grew bigger
I witnessed the 50th too:The Golden Jubilee
The country...
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Categories:
vested, beautiful, celebration, devotion, happiness, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Indian Independence - 75 YearsBorn after freedom; I witnessed
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over
Years went by: I grew bigger
I witnessed the 50th too:The Golden Jubilee
The country...
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Categories:
vested, beautiful, celebration, devotion, happiness, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
TheAs an attempt, in the most philisophical sense.
A line was drawn in the sand yet filtered;
Through its etched silence within hand...
Amidst twilight with adjective faith will break the mends,
It is my hope that someday we...
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Categories:
vested, adventure, art, depression, faith, family, fear, food,
Form:
Free verse
An Unlikely DuoWatching her board bathed in fog at the station
Spectacles slide down the bridge of his nose
Usually a blur, not in this situation
Smudges can’t hide every beauty she shows
Lugging a satchel in high heels and cotton
In...
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Categories:
vested, adventure, fun, imagination, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
I Wax Poetic As Lifeblood Imperceptibly Doth WaneI wax poetic as lifeblood imperceptibly doth wane
Mine body electric analogous
to Google map pronounced
with arteries and countless varicose vein
visible popping blood vessels
leeches haven grand old time
at expense of poor sucker...
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Categories:
vested, adventure, anxiety, body, character, december, farewell, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme