Long Woolen Poems
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Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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woolen, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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woolen, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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woolen, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Dylan ThomasThese are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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woolen, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
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Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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woolen, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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woolen, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation With Commentary of On Est Les Oublies By T WignesanTranslation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and disarming airs has been...
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Categories:
woolen, 4th grade, anger, children, city, school, song,
Form:
Free verse
Fabrics Finding FabricationsA prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...
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woolen, animal,
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I do not know?
Remorseless Sweaty PalmsRemorseless sweaty palms
despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.
Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and indecent wracking wrath of mental illness, that even as a middle...
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Categories:
woolen, 12th grade, anger, blue, care, crazy, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Poe's Untimely Demise*Note
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been edited many times over the years. I consider it to...
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Categories:
woolen, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Spirit of ChristmastideBeneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette, in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where chimes of crystal laughter, stream.
Amid the yuletide glow, memories take flight, a morning dove...
Cinnamon-kissed balsam and...
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woolen, christmas, december, joy, love, nostalgia, winter,
Form:
Narrative
ProseShane walked to the back of the bar and found the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the bar and the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two...
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Categories:
woolen, brother, dark, money, woman,
Form:
Prose
SeasonsSeasons
Scorching Dark clouds ...
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Categories:
woolen, seasons,
Form:
Footle
My HairMy hair has always
had a mind of its own
Stays doing whatever
it wants whenever
it pleases
Just never bothers to do
any of it, at my convenience
Will take its sweet time
to grow
When I'm most...
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Categories:
woolen, africa, beauty, culture, hair, nature, race,
Form:
I do not know?
Drifting On a CloudDrifting on the clouds I lie
With my head pointing
To yonder skies
In a sea of dreams
Where mind and spirit
Igniting natures prize
To feel like you are heaven bound
But feet standing firmly
On hallowed...
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Categories:
woolen, beautiful, nature, nature, time, beauty, heaven, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
ShaneShane walks in, hurries to the back of the bar. He finds the door opened to an alley littered with the garbage of the restaurant beside it, the one whose neon sign has two lights...
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Categories:
woolen, anxiety, best friend, betrayal, brother,
Form:
Prose
Life Through a Child's Eyesfinding shapes in clouds
or four-leaf clovers in fields . . .
the child’s eye searches
What does it mean to view life through a child’s eyes? For me it means searching for things of wonder to revel...
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Categories:
woolen, child,
Form:
Haibun
Is Aranjuez a Pining After the Composer's MotherIs ARANJUEZ a pining after the composer's mother ?
(Joaquin Rodrigo - 1901-1999 - who composed the " Aranjuez " concerto on piano in 1938/9 and which later was destined for the guitar and orchestra, turned...
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Categories:
woolen, how i feel, longing, loss, memory, mother
Form:
Free verse
Shy Julie - Part 1Shy Julie - A Punters Nightmare Part 1
They fancied themselves "Gurus of racing", this Ron and his best mate John
So they sat down one day in an easy relaxed way
And mused on the pros and...
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woolen, anxiety, for him, giggle, poems,
Form:
Narrative
Nightingale - Part IDour gray granite monolith,
the tower rises, stark, against the velutinous grenadine
of the dusk filled evening sky.
As the god of night draws his opaque cloak
across the world in his eternal battle
against the god of light.
Ever vigilant,...
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Categories:
woolen, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Schizophrenic PortraitWritten: May 09, 2024
...
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Categories:
woolen, analogy, scary, sick,
Form:
Free verse
ScarI had seen the train leave the station.
I had said goodbye, for the last time.
A cold day in autumn, I decided to do some cleaning.
Putting summer away, preparing for winter.
I found a grey woolen hat,...
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Categories:
woolen, emotions, grief, lost love, perspective, psychological, sad,
Form:
Free verse
William Blake Poemsdark matter(s)
by Michael R. Burch
the matter is dark, despairful, alarming:
ur Creator is hardly prince charming!
yes, ur “Great I Am”
created blake’s lamb
but He also created the tyger
and what about trump and rod steiger?
The Echoless Green
by...
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Categories:
woolen, brother, children, creation, dark, day, night, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
SeasonsAt First Dawn,
The curtains part.
The sun gently peaks over a distant horizon as its rays lightly stretch over the sky.
What was once the darkest blue speckled with small jewels is now an abstract mural...
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Categories:
woolen, autumn, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Free verse
A Woman of Her Times, Part IShe was born as Holly Clarkson
in the year 1993,
and for most of her early days
she lived life uneventfully.
She grew up outside of London,
went to uni and married well,
had her first kid at twenty-six,
you would not...
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Categories:
woolen, adventure, age, children, history, mystery, science fiction,
Form:
Epic