Long Welling Poems
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Matthew delivers his latest bullet tin
Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ready to be mortally wounded
courtesy notorious big headed
(and bigoted) infamous...
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Categories:
welling, absence, america, angel, august, courage, future, political,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
welling, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Fahr An' Ice
Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
welling, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
welling, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light 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:
welling, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen
“The Remaining”
PROLOGUE: “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”
"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"
Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...
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Categories:
welling, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 39
"The one thing that eludes me is if the throne is the one in the Council Chamber there are no windows for which the sun to shine through.”
“I agree with...
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Categories:
welling, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Someone To Love-Part 2
...cont
Always wanting to get the most from life,
one morning after a terrible snow storm
she rose from bed stretching
the most radiant, playful grin spread across her face,
"I feel incredible," she screamed,
"Let's have a picnic!"
"In this?"...
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Categories:
welling, loss, love, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Early Poems Ii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
welling, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Quest of the Heart: Chapter Two
Brave Shadow Mane
Falling free at a tremendous velocity
Cursing my decision for acting in haste
Through clouds and frozen rain I could not see the ground
Losing consciousness, in my mouth blood I could taste
Now this was indeed...
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Categories:
welling, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Stranger Than Fiction Part 4
I continued down the driveway and then came to a stop, damn, I thought I’ve come down the wrong driveway it must be further up.Then a man appeared from behind some trees with a...
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Categories:
welling, death, religious, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
Brief Flings: Epigrams
Sweet Centerless Sixteen
by Michael R. Burch
Inconsolable as “love” had left your heart,
you woke this morning eager to pursue
warm lips again, or something “really cool”
on which to press your lips and leave their mark.
As breath upon...
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Categories:
welling, first love, humor, light, sweet, woman,
Form:
Quatrain
Kindness and Resiliency
children look forward, adults look around, elders look back
looking back, I remember a long-forgotten accident I had. While riding my bicycle with no hands, I closed my eyes, daring myself...
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Categories:
welling, adventure, blessing, care, education, inspirational, remember, thanks,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Love Little No More
You said to me
"I want to be buried here
Under that little citrus tree..."
You smiled, decidedly
I looked at you perplexed
This was after your disdainful speech to me
I imagine queuing in the quiet, mournful strings
As a dim...
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Categories:
welling, appreciation, conflict, courage, depression, emotions, encouraging, friendship
Form:
Free verse
Squall
These are poems about storms, poems about squalls, poems about tempests...
Squall
by Michael R. Burch
There, in that sunny arbor,
in the aureate light
filtering through the waxy leaves
of a stunted banana tree,
I felt the sudden monsoon of your...
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Categories:
welling, anger, angst, marriage, relationship, storm, stress, women,
Form:
Free verse
Poems about Storms and Squalls
These are poems about storms, poems about squalls, poems about tempests...
Dark-bosomed clouds
pregnant with heavy thunder ...
the water breaks
—Michael R. Burch
Squall
by Michael R. Burch
There, in that sunny arbor,
in the aureate light
filtering through the waxy leaves
of a...
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Categories:
welling, anger, angst, conflict, relationship, storm, stress, women,
Form:
Free verse
A Mandrake's Gesture Vol. Vi
Nowhere now, Geinere
awaited her day of
unrightly judgment,
her only hopes of
victory brought thoughts
of remorse and
further difficulties
for herself and her dying
love. No embrace
could be made.
Her silence would
remain, for accusations
of such made, was...
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Categories:
welling, forgiveness, life, love, mystery, love, may,
Form:
Epic
Murder-Suicide
Standing at the fork in the road,
I don’t know which way to go.
I watch a girl stand there crying,
Running to and fro.
Her tears fall to the floor,
There’s nobody there to catch,
Her heart as it sinks...
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Categories:
welling, sadgirl,
Form:
Rhyme
From Whence Your Help Arrives 17
He awoke to the sound of the women working to prepare breakfast.He was so hungry he felt nausea welling up.Do you think I could have some more of that broth he asked.Not only was he...
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Categories:
welling, homework,
Form:
Narrative
Forgotten Voices
Petes Story
Pete was 27 when his life changed forever
An honest man he lived life with endeavour
At 18 working as an apprentice and carving a life
At 21 he'd bought his own house got married had a...
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Categories:
welling, health, life, sad, sociallife, family, wife, education,
Form:
Rhyme
San Luca
He walks, rosary in hand, up the steps.
His tread is broken, fragile, and the joggers
Might hear his breath, each sharp inhalation,
Each hissing exhalation, were it not for their
Own breathless haste, their...
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Categories:
welling, angst, lost love, love, me,
Form:
Narrative
The Storm
The storm comes less often now,
Come it does.
Cyclical… Circular… predictable in its pattern.
It’s been a while dear friend.
The sun so bright-
...
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Categories:
welling, bereavement, best friend, brother, death, imagery, missing
Form:
Ode
Pal
Bob had been a lonely man ever since
His wife of fifty years had passed.
“Lord, let me join her.” he would pray.
“Let this day be my last.”
Each day, he went to the cemetery,
Just a short walk...
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Categories:
welling, age, angel, animal, bereavement, best friend, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cabin-Beginnings
Sighing, he shouldered the old duffle bag
And followed others as they sauntered down the gangway
Free at last, from the ship's cramped and stench-filled quarters,
He smiled, at the crisp, fresh and bitingly cold, new day!
His feet,...
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Categories:
welling, adventure, cowboy-western, people, old, old,
Form:
Rhyme
The Witch and the Judge
A Witch must confirm the Powers in her possession
Before performing an anticipated condemnation
The guilty Judge, rendered immobile and speechless
Wets himself, cowering, trussed and helpless
As the Witch intones the Powers’ sacred Creed
That she has sworn to...
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Categories:
welling, lifeevil,
Form:
Rhyme