Long Wrecks Poems
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Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
wrecks, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IiPoems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
wrecks, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About ChildrenPoems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
wrecks, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
wrecks, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
wrecks, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
wrecks, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Xvii-XxivSonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
wrecks, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Modern Sonnets IMODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
wrecks, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
wrecks, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...
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Categories:
wrecks, dark, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IMY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
wrecks, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Beware the Ides of March 2023Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
wrecks, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
New Year's ResolutionsJim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O'Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the homes...
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Categories:
wrecks, new year,
Form:
Prose
Categories:
wrecks, god, inspirational, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
I Felt the EarthI Felt the Earth
There in the valley reaching for the sun
Our younger days were such fun
Though the struggle to be
Was so much for me?
The valley walls were so tall
That I would fear they would fall
Then...
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Categories:
wrecks, culture, growing up, history,
Form:
Free verse
Breakfast At TiffanysI watched “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” last night - we’re going to be reading Truman Capote’s book after the break and I wanted to start thinking about it. The movie rewrites Truman Capote’s story, turning it...
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Categories:
wrecks, class, school, society, student, teen, women, write,
Form:
Free verse
The Firethe fire
He didn’t die straight off…the flames seared his flesh and burned his hair. The Nomex flight suit he was wearing melted in spots as the fire grew hotter. They held me off as...
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Categories:
wrecks, war,
Form:
Free verse
Thick Mist - WujueRHYME SCHEME abcb
Thick mist / sharp rocks cut
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast drought / weak build folds
Trade boon / graft wrecks ships
RHYME SCHEME aaba
Thick mist / sharp rock strips
Dense rain / strong wind whips
Vast...
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Categories:
wrecks, analogy, nature,
Form:
Jueju
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part IIdes simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 issue
url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-
the-ides-of-march-8664107/
top ten reasons to
beware the...
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Categories:
wrecks, adventure, celebration, conflict, death, eulogy, fate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Uss LindaThe Seven Seas of Rhye
A mythical destination for all those that do wrong.
This write sang to the tune of
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, Hurrah, Hurrah
...
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Categories:
wrecks, dedication, peace,
Form:
I do not know?
The River Mersey and the Black Pearl New BrightonThe River Mersey and The Black Pearl New Brighton
Let the Caribee and sultry sea call to the pirates bold.
But on this shore, with its tales of lore, The Mersey keeps its hold
For merchants,...
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Categories:
wrecks, adventure, beach, boat, imagination, river,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Poets ViPoems about Poets VI
beMused
Michael R Burch
Perhaps at three
you'll come to tea,
to have a cuppa here?
You'll just stop in
to sip dry gin?
I only have a beer.
To name the greats:
Pope, Dryden, mates?
The whole world knows their names.
Discuss...
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Categories:
wrecks, poems, poetry, poets, words, world, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Souper NovaNow listen,
you called me a Souper nova missing the pun,
being clever with words ain’t for everyone,
you comment mindless and tough
I laugh cus you're a spineless pup
do you ever think.. umm..
no you...
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Categories:
wrecks, slam,
Form:
Rhyme
Beneath Vanilla Sky‘Twas unsettled light which greeted me
this morning first when after slept alone,
As though moon ascended too timidly
and left no space for sun to call its own;
From nearby cars exhausted music played
beneath...
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Categories:
wrecks, love,
Form:
Ode
Children's Poems IThese are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same...
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Categories:
wrecks, child, childhood, children, family, father, mother, mother
Form:
Rhyme