Long Well worn Poems
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An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
well worn, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
well worn, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
well worn, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
well worn, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
well worn, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
well worn, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
well worn, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
well worn, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
well worn, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
well worn, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Medieval Poems IiiMedieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
well worn, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems VLOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
well worn, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Body bag or body of liesAfter numerous threats on our lives after
the domestic violence with my abuser after
I returned from Tampa testifying in a murder
trial I was finally healing several therapist home
visits my children and...
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Categories:
well worn, baptism, beautiful, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are
somehow more near
and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...
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Categories:
well worn, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Missed By a MileHaving been avid antiques collectors for nearly 4 decades, my wife and I met our share of rascals like this sneaky dealer -
Damp and chilly winds were blowing, leaves would paint the ground,
As me...
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Categories:
well worn, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
well worn, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Longing For the StarsMy mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...
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Categories:
well worn, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form:
I do not know?
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
well worn, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
The Book - the Narrative Style~The Book~
( Narrative / Short Story)
Shhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everyone...
Did you see what that young man did all this evening at the table while taking some of his notes?
Yes,...
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Categories:
well worn, beautiful, books, fantasy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Reunited -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationMany of us have a favorite possession from when we were young, and this
93-year old gentleman is no exception.
...
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Categories:
well worn, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Halloween Poems IiCompleting the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
well worn, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
The Angry Black WomanShe stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
well worn, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
Canto Xxi Hell TranslationSo bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next slit, then we stopped there
Malebolge to see and crying vain;
And...
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Categories:
well worn, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Of Winks and Wings - Part 1I have a little story to tell you ... it's absolutely true, of course, at least as far as I'm concerned, but you can take it as you wish - as a tale, a fact,...
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Categories:
well worn, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
8 Little EgyptsSomething strange
and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast,
some say, perhaps,
it has already arrived,
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us
we go about our...
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Categories:
well worn, easter, humanity, words,
Form:
Narrative