Long Willows Poems
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A CRYSTALLINE COLLAGE
A.COUPLETS
IN SIGHT'S EYE
Ideas with nowhere to hide
An eureka moment inside
Indistinct ,then becoming clear
Words & pictures coming near-
A passage of light to my soul,
Inspiration to make me whole.
LOVE'S STORY
Can a letter break a heart
Like the look...
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Categories:
willows, appreciation,
Form:
Crystalline
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
willows, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Instruction
Instruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
willows, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Poems About Poems I
Poems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
willows, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vi
Juvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
willows, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations Ii
Chinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
willows, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
Juvenilia: 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:
willows, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
willows, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
willows, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
GenieUsGenusPlan
In the darkness of the night,
a ruby gleams
to contrast a slumbered eye awakened
to feeling,
reflection, light,
Lady "Genie", eyes aglow
like a beast, in mid-stride,
lost in her midnight dreams is clothed in a...
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Categories:
willows, april, art, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Reservation
Back in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
willows, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The Forge
I remember the beach sand and swing
when you and mother were still something
I remember the ducks in the lake
you held my hand watching their wake
I remember the sheep dogs when the day was through
and the...
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Categories:
willows, abuse, angst, emotions, life, recovery from, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication Series
Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...
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Categories:
willows, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 41
Several days passed as DynDoeth awaited a response from Seileach concerning his request for a private audience. He checked and re-checked the argument that he would make to have the throne replaced back into...
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Categories:
willows, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Scare Me Good Poetry Contest
I crept into the pit of hell all alone. Contingent upon my lifestyle I knew this could be my last day alive…
She haunted me in my dreams. She terrorized me in the sunlight but through...
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Categories:
willows, dark, deep, fear, scary,
Form:
Narrative
The Calming of Her Storm
"The Calming of Her Storm"
My mother gave me solace
I fell into her deep hollows
to kiss the wisdom of her
breath chanting quietly
I still hear her
nightingale birdsong caressing
the soft fluttering
of her tireless...
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Categories:
willows, love, mirror, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part Three
Again the alarm is set.
Strawberries, date squares…Yum, Yum.
The alarm rings again. The tea party is over.
She returns to her perch where her wings are immediately clipped by the Bald Eagle who...
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Categories:
willows, satire,
Form:
Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote a long time ago and I thought I’d just put...
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Categories:
willows, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
willows, body, death, fantasy, kiss, love, me, morning,
Form:
Ballad
Game of Cricket Is a Game of Life
Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...
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Categories:
willows, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Ghetto Conversation
Hey bruh,
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...
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Categories:
willows, culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form:
Verse
In the Minds Fixed Eye
VIII
In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate"; ...
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Categories:
willows, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Seeds
"Seeds"
Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy
opens the light
inside me
cracked eggshell
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind
in the smallness
of me
something
quietly blooms
ragged yet refined
a gecko...
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Categories:
willows, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Searching
He finds me quietly inviting the light
To fall over my dreams, my prayers, the silence
Surrounding me with blankets of memories,
Lifting my thoughts from their wistful reveries,
Delicious darkness, so delicate, tempting me to see
Life is sometimes...
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Categories:
willows, appreciation, blessing, christian, encouraging, god, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Oft From a Distant Echo, It Is Heard Fifth Poet In My Dedication Series
(1.) Honoring John Keats
, fifth poet in my dedication series
Oft From A Distant Echo, It Is Heard
At the start comes just a solitary word
oft from a distant echo, it is heard.
Imagination steps on into...
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Categories:
willows, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Sonnet