Long Wane Poems
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CurrentsCurrents
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:
wane, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
wane, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
wane, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiJuvenilia: 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:
wane, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Awakens My CareWinter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
wane, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
wane, society,
Form:
Quatrain
The Rhyming Poem - Part IThe Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem
Old English Poem (i.e., Anglo-Saxon Poem) from the Exeter Book, ca. 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who granted me life created this sun
and...
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Categories:
wane, england, literature, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rhyming Poem - Part IiThe Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem and The Riming Poem - Part II
anonymous Old English Poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
He who granted me life created this...
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Categories:
wane, england, literature, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Gallon of Gas On Earth - At AuctionGiven the astronomical amount of gasoline consumed world-wide every single day…could this scenario not be all that far off?
...
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Categories:
wane, cry,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 67The half elf watched as Lumi spoke with Chroí; then, in the center of the circle the soil began to move and from it appeared the Garden Elf. He said nothing, he never spoke....
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Categories:
wane, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Temporary TravellersNA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Ink Empress
Temporary Travellers
...
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Categories:
wane, faith, god, humanity, inspirational, men, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
GREEN DAY revisited GREEN DAY – revisited
Although the following poetic/prosaic material written January eighteenth two thousand and eighteen, I came across these encapsulated, enclosed, encoded, and encrusted with barnacle clad body electric of...
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Categories:
wane, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Mooku: Haikus On the Moon: With Cliff Notes1. Lunar Perspective #1
month long day and night
also sees earth wax and wane
no season penchant
2. Lunar Perspective #2
moon's sun mimics earth's
earth pirouettes on star stage
sun’s smile Cheshire Cat
3. Lunar Perspective #3
moon turns once per month
lunar...
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Categories:
wane, life, love, moon, science, perspective,
Form:
Haiku
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 69Chroí awoke early the next morning, disoriented and a bit frightened. This was not her bed . It was so big. She was tired and felt drained. Closing her eyes, thoughts...
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Categories:
wane, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A Season In the SunAfter swimming at Cherry Beach, I had been returning home,
With some very cool memories, of the sand and green foam.
On the drive back I had resolved, to take the scenic route,
Like the pathway down Magnolia...
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Categories:
wane, beautiful, fantasy, flower, friendship love, imagery, magic,
Form:
Couplet
She a Dream Raven, Ghost of Ill Repute(1.)
Beware, Nightmarish Dreams Are Oft By Raven Sent,
(In Tribute To Edgar Allen Poe)
When incantations stoke fiery embers,
eerie nights, their sounds roust to remember
ghosts of yesteryears, so birthed to dark play
within nightmarish dreams, as monsters slay.
Around...
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Categories:
wane, appreciation, art, creation, dark, fear, humanity, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 88“Lumi, what food do we have left in the sleigh,” Joulupukki asked the elf.
“A good deal of it, dried meat, bread, jam, nuts and most of the dried fruit. ...
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Categories:
wane, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Emerged RationalismThey tell us once there was a crow.
Wavering alone in the peril zone
The feeble is not straight on a clue.
It has been winging since the era of stone.
The crow saw the cost of the...
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Categories:
wane, adventure, angel, bird, character, depression, fear, prison,
Form:
Free verse
A Day In the ParkIn the park, I’d been all day
Reading all my time away
On a park bench did I sit
Until the sky became twilit
As light for reading began to wane
I heard the tapping of a cane.
And looking up,...
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Categories:
wane, dark, evil, fear, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Philosophy of IntegrityIs also a metaphysics of integral co-relationships,
which would make an even worse title
for drawing you into
our shared land of bicameral consciousness.
Philosophy of scientific method
could also become
Philosophy of Beauty and Humanity,
You never know
this negative bipolarity
could turn...
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Categories:
wane, community, environment, health, philosophy, political, science, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
For YearsFor Years !!!
Four years have been on the run, on the wane
and yet, I still feel your beauty, still feel the pain
that came with – an end – the end you made me aware,
of, we,...
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Categories:
wane, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Speechless Part 1As scented air aroused my misty mind,
her shadow broke the early morning sun.
Aromas wafting from the morning grind
seduced a thought that she may be the one.
I sensed her very essence from afar,
unnerved, I sought the...
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Categories:
wane, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Trump's 'Win' 'Hey, Fore' - Now, Five MoreTrump’s ‘Win’ “Hey, Fore!” (Now Five More)
Trump’s ‘Win’
Trump’s ‘Win’ fades (but for lives that it cost)!
Think he cops to the fact that he’s lost?
Fake News’ swill! Be prepared
for a varmint (once snared),
can be vicious as...
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Categories:
wane, abuse, anxiety, corruption, family, hope, political,
Form:
Limerick
Battle for the Atlantic IWhen anarchy consumes a barren soul,
the hatred overwhelms the beating heart.
It sickens minds and steals the body whole
then rips the cloth of empathy apart.
Existence lies between what evil craves
and what your world may...
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Categories:
wane, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Control: Echo Poem 10-ThI Will Always Love
Darkness greets this unwelcome day,
Dreams of happiness fade away,
They're gone before the sun's first ray;
Tears are all I'm capable of.....
Yet, I will always love
At times, lacking the will to...
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Categories:
wane, depression,
Form:
Rhyme