Long Wholly Poems
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Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
wholly, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
wholly, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
wholly, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
BeckoningBeckoning
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:
wholly, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
wholly, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
CleansingsCleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
wholly, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
wholly, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
wholly, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Memories In the SandIf ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
wholly, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
wholly, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Prayers For All - the Minuet Style~ Prayers For All ~
(The Minuet)
Pray for All the Lost in this World
World needs Prayers
Prayers, Love, God
God can Save All
~0~
The Lost, ...
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Categories:
wholly, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - IWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
wholly, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xxix Hell TranslationSo many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.
But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...
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Categories:
wholly, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
My Best Friend - the Whispers Style~My Best Friend~
(Whispers Style)
There's a friend who is dynamite
Each day brings His Love, Light
Know Him for long time, yes I do
Hope one day you do too
...
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Categories:
wholly, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Love Whispers - the Triryu Style~ Love Whispers ~
( Triryu )
Pray for Love Peace now
Love always comes from the Lord
He can set you...
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Categories:
wholly, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw a ewe eat a yew.
I ate on the ait eight...
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Categories:
wholly, word play,
Form:
I do not know?
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
wholly, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 26From that day on and forward,
I began to see the wretchedness my God had warned me of
He cursed the Lord wholeheartedly, for inflicting yet another agony on him,
In his well he called The Prison of...
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Categories:
wholly, adventure, anger, beautiful, corruption, dark, inspirational, nature,
Form:
Epic
Coma Conversation: I Am In Your ComputerC:
I journeyed long upon the way, e-mailed through your router
hello "Henry", good to greet, I am in your computer
I am between him and her, so I am gender neuter
...
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Categories:
wholly, computer, creation, hello, imagination, philosophy, science, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Justice In the Quest For LoveI 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:
wholly, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form:
Narrative
Morning DevotionMORNING DEVOTION
Heavenly Father:
I lift up travelers to You.
I pray for peace for Jerusalem and safety for Israel. I pray that between one and all of Her children would come to a saving knowledge of...
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Categories:
wholly, christian, faith, god, inspirational, jesus, prayer, religious,
Form:
Free verse
An Oyster's RevengeThe Sun was acting rather strange
With the Moon and Stars concerned.
As it was not content to share the sky...
And not prepared to wait its turn.
So the sea was simmering and boiling hot
Without the night's return.
But...
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Categories:
wholly, funny, humor, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Comparison Between Byron and Me On FrancescaI was pushed to write this comparison after reading the poem on Byron by the souper poet Gary Bateman.
Wandering on internet I found the Byron's version of Francesca's words in CANTO V of Dante's Hell...
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Categories:
wholly, fantasy, poetry,
Form:
Terza Rima
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit,
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...
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Categories:
wholly, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Mobile In AlabamaThose were such happy days, for I had lately been deeded a farm,
My aunt and uncle were retiring, so tillage had lost its charm.
Since they were childless, and to a retirement community bound,
It seemed I...
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Categories:
wholly, beauty, dream, home, imagery, night, sleep, travel,
Form:
Couplet