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Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...

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Categories: vines, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form: Verse



Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.

Shock
by Michael R. Burch

It was early in the morning of...

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Categories: vines, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form: Rhyme
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch

For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...

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Categories: vines, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form: Sonnet
Modern Sonnets I
MODERN SONNETS I

I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.


Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch

A poem...

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Categories: vines, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form: Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VII

These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.

The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch

The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.

The weak implore Fate;
bold men...

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Categories: vines, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form: Rhyme



Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII

Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch

I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.

Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...

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Categories: vines, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form: Sonnet
Love Poems Ii
LOVE POEMS II

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...

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Categories: vines, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.

...maybe it's been a while since...

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Categories: vines, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xii
Juvenilia: Early Poems XII

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly,...

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Categories: vines, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
Love Has a Southern Flavor
Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...

Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...

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Categories: vines, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 58
When they came to a side hall Joulupukki stopped.
     “Do you feel the magic?”  He said to her.  She nodded.  He stepped around the corner, on the far...

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Categories: vines, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Justice In the Quest For Love
I saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...

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Categories: vines, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form: Narrative
Bitter Wind - Page 1
Bitter Wind 

With the winds beginning in the autumn season, the Soul seems to be a leaf falling towards new pain. 
In the heat of the fire flying with the wind, it inhales us with...

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Categories: vines, literature, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Is Christmas


What is Christmas?          
Written: By Tom Wright
1999

A time of many sights to see, 
Of tinsel, garland and wreath's so fair.
Of hundreds of bulbs upon a tree,
With...

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Categories: vines, christmas, god, how i feel, jesus,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Vacation In New Orleans
Walking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves.  The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses.  My luggage...

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Categories: vines, dark, evil, scary,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part One

Our Year Of Months (January - July)

1. Intro

Divided into months is our Earth year;
fixed firm in space to meet with climate change,
relation with our Sun makes it so clear
we will be blessed with seasons that...

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Categories: vines, daffodils, earth, seasons,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Long Way Home
It was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.

As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric designs,
Like the...

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Categories: vines, fantasy, home, magic, people, school, spring, time,
Form: Couplet
Stubbornness
Original poem below...after the definition, found on www.google.com: 

"Full Definition of stubborn. 1a (1) : unreasonably or perversely unyielding : mulish (2) : justifiably unyielding : resoluteb : suggestive or typical of a strong stubborn...

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Categories: vines, character, deep, desire, devotion, sensual, words,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Westward Bound
The past was locked in with very little 'right of passage'.                        ...

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Categories: vines, childhood, home,
Form: Narrative
Laughing Pines, Part Two
Will you, won’t you join the dance,
We like to dance here every night,
Moving slowly at the speed of light.
Won’t you give yourself half a chance,
Even two left feet are alright.

The Bipolar Coaster is an excellent...

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Categories: vines, adventure, allusion, analogy, imagery, imagination, metaphor, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healthy Leadership Climates
My goal isn't so much to win the wars of property management,
self and spouse and family governance
as it is to enjoy this struggling with Earth's nature/spirit properties,
and my own and others' humane properties of integral...

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Categories: vines, community, culture, earth, love, political, psychological, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member This Is Unfinished Feminist Us
So I was feeling badly,
sad,
because I share our mutually complicit status
for my compatriot's difficult terrorizing
chronic stress disordering
time.
I too have been there,
lost there,
to a more moderate extent.
I just walked away.

I wish I had done more at...

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Categories: vines, anger, culture, education, fear, humor, military, stress,
Form: Political Verse
Ooniversal Oo
OOOniversal oo

Frightened tepid antisocial ant was football training avidly but failing to attend a fragrant tailor army. Oh dear. That was sure to be put forward to the sacred sanction ship and the sacred sanction...

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Categories: vines, absence, adventure, angst, anti bullying, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: I do not know?
I Could Never Be the Rain
My life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk, 
sheltered by a makeshift roof and 
a border of trees.
The...

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Categories: vines, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form: Free verse
The Village On the Water Vi
But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
    His impassioned lusts -- his...

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Categories: vines, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse

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