Long Wastelands Poems
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FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
wastelands,
Form:
Abecedarian
Poems of Recanted BachelorhoodPoems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
*
Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
wastelands, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
wastelands, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
wastelands, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Love Poems ILOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...
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Categories:
wastelands, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Urdu TranslationsLast Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...
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Categories:
wastelands, desire, hindi, longing, love, nature, passion, urdu,
Form:
Verse
Femme FataleFemme Fatale By A Wishing Well
(In The Wastelands Of War)
Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...
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Categories:
wastelands, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
wastelands, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"
Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are scattered, stuck in Go Nowhereland,
semi-solid, immovable coagulating gelatinous, turning dark...
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Categories:
wastelands, angel, muse, mystery, romance, sensual, symbolism, word
Form:
Romanticism
Abominable AllianceThru horrendous acts of lore within the aperture of the Earth’s core
Lays Evil of a wrathful whore to which you find stimulating and abhor
Within frozen fear, you do attest as you suckle on the beastly...
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Categories:
wastelands, dark, evil, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute Documentary Zimbabwes Forgotten ChildrenNew draft Zimbabwe’s
Tribute Documentary Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
Mama will be left behind when I die
I’m too sick to survive
My education was put to an end
When papa had no more to spend
We walk over sewage water
And...
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Categories:
wastelands, death, education, health, hope, leadership, poverty, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the MissusWhen vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus
Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside from countless
(approximately seven) other
prescription medications kept
stashed in a plastic tray
until one or...
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Categories:
wastelands, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, color, creation, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Tree I AmBrave people
I grow...on...
Weeds surround me...
Beads falling playfully...
Rivers, like vines, entwine...
Roots of moist seep in so fine
Because I cried
In this wilderness
I grow, I grow (x2)
Happily, I glow,
You know? You know?
This tree I am
Never a free...
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Categories:
wastelands, betrayal, change, deep, depression, earth, emotions, hope,
Form:
Free verse
When death had nestled, a lady overwhelmed by sleepWhen death had nestled, a lady overwhelmed by sleep,
Between the chasms of my being, like a butterfly in a cocoon,
I embraced her to my chest that whispered seraphic tales,
And...
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Categories:
wastelands, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Queen of BabylonWhen I came upon the ancient temple
it was in a howling storm of a sand
arid dust blinding me to everything I am
I had staggered across the thirsting deserts
while dreaming of the water
I held within my...
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Categories:
wastelands, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Pride, and PrejudicePRIDE IS HOW IT BEGIINS:
He comes once around in my lifetime - take note,
He will turn everything upside down and on its head,
He will show you how pure it feels to make love to him,
He...
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Categories:
wastelands, hurt, life, loss, lost, love, prejudice, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Ahmad Faraz TranslationsThe Eager Traveler
by Ahmad Faraz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Even in the torture chamber, I was the lucky one;
When each lottery was over, unaccountably I had won.
And even the mightiest rivers found accessible refuge in me;
Though...
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Categories:
wastelands, urdu,
Form:
Verse
Symphonic Quiescent Overture Maestro Kant ImitateSymphonic Quiescent Overture – Maestro Kant Imitate
(alternately titled: a retrospective review
randomly selecting an outdated poem
stored within Apple icloud queue
methinks ye might might savor preview
regarding general overview
how yours truly dabbled
with words where new
sense...
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Categories:
wastelands, 12th grade, adventure, happiness, imagination, joy, paradise,
Form:
Free verse
The Fallhysterical laughter in eternity
still crying out at the hypocrisy
of life lived under the thumbs
of the oppressing ones.
Freedom they said they would give us
If we asked the king to forgive us.
and if we agree to pay...
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Categories:
wastelands, angst, confusion, history, introspection, life, petsworld, children,
Form:
Free verse
Eden ReturnHysterical laughter in eternity
still crying out at the hypocrisy
of life lived under the thumbs
of the oppressing ones.
Freedom they said they would give us
If we asked the king to forgive us.
and if we agree to pay...
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Categories:
wastelands, angst, dedication, devotion, faith, health, history, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Lost Love Deliria - Part 3 Part 3
9th Delerium: Emptyness
Water wheels in wastelands... turning,
drowning relics in the slum
Rumpled rags of fashioned burlap... burning,
lit by bandits blind and dumb
Pastured prisons, ponies bridled ... yearning,
forest fairies under thumb
Sounds inside of cauldrons coughing......
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Categories:
wastelands, lost love, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul of BeautySoul of Beauty
Through the dirt and grime of centuries
Bloody carnage of hate and fickle fate
In mediocre destinies
With shattered and reviled dreams
...
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Categories:
wastelands, hope
Form:
Free verse
A Spiritually Wilted Wild FlowerLife has thrown dirt on me, and I grew a wild flower.
A demon's knife cuts into my spirituality, and I watch my soul be devoured.
Open Bibles lay on my night stands, I keep crosses hanging...
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Categories:
wastelands, fantasy, imagination, life, mystery, religion, slamme, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Tonight I Met Memory's GhostSuns fading across this sky while the clouds weep to noone passin by,
And still I think of the days we made out of dignity, grace, and pain,
and it never seems to speak the...
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Categories:
wastelands, absence, break up, emotions,
Form:
I do not know?
The Pavane
"The Pavane"
Autumn leaves
whistle nonchalantly
along the left-behind
paths of serendipity
hesitantly touch fingers
lightly for a while, tipping
lost in the wastelands
winter beckons
love unconditionally
magic listens
and arrives
in the laps go-lightly
of racing hares
tossed salad years
and marshmallow dreams
of servile tortoise
pleasantville sown...
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Categories:
wastelands, autumn, muse, winter,
Form:
Free verse