Long Wren Poems
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Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to EntropySalvation 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:
wren, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Poems about Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
wren, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets XLII-LISonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
wren, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
wren, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
InstructionInstruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigree 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:
wren, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Poems about Things that Break IPoems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
wren, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems about Poems IVPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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Categories:
wren, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems about RegretRegret
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 . ....
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Categories:
wren, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
When Three Cousins PlayedThree cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more and more
Three of four empires lay upon that map
As they...
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Categories:
wren, war,
Form:
Verse
Mine Nightmare With Social AnxietyMine Nightmare With Social Anxiety,...
Now Mostly Purged
Decades removed when body electric
felt tortured reverberated, and quaked
with MegaDeath repercussions tattooing,
piercing, foisting, ensnaring, drubbing
drum beat indelibly 'pon psyche NON
MEMORABLE years gone bye felled
psyche with...
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Categories:
wren, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, fate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
True FAKE Story Of A Vita Man JunkyTrue "FAKE" Story Of A Vita Man Junky
(any resemblance between this poem,
and living persons...iz purely coincidental.)
Ruthlessly abuzz in my mind
loosed another idea
for a poem asper
(wren)...
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Categories:
wren, 12th grade, 9th grade, magic, men, smart,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Forgive Your EnemiesVicar Tynan sat amongst his roses in a Friday morning sun,
that shone in beams through willow branch and leaves,
where it’s time to think of Sunday and what sermon must be done,
when he heard squabbling coming...
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Categories:
wren, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace PrayerPeace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the buffalo cropping the grass to a safer height.
Seek the composure of the great depths, barely moved by exterior storms....
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Categories:
wren, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
O, Terrible AngelEnigma
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
O, terrible angel,
bright lover and avenger,
full of whimsical light
and vile anger;
wild stranger,
seeking the solace of night,
or the danger;
pale foreigner,
alien to man, or savior.
Who are you,
seeking consolation and passion
in...
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Categories:
wren, angel, beauty, engagement, for her, love, lust,
Form:
Verse
Ancient ProphecyThe tender, torpid sun floats bored and heavy over vines
And casts his gentle, crimson rays upon the Apennines.
Above the calm and golden hill, Agrippa’s villa stands:
A marble mansion reigning firm atop the ripened lands....
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Categories:
wren, destiny, history, mythology, patriotic, slavery, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Come Closer, Look AgainSmaller than a dinosaur,
But bigger than a bear,
A boulder’s tucked back in the woods,
Forever, it’s been there.
It’s wondrous in its natural form,
A nursery, home, and den.
You may not notice at first glance,
Come closer,...
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Categories:
wren, 3rd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
A French Narrative Poem, Translation of Narration Francaise by Rene EtiembleA French Narrative Poem: A wren comes to rest on a reed after the storm – Dialogue between the bird and the shrub. Translation of Rene Etiemble’s poem: Narration Française
(The very first poem composed by...
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Categories:
wren, symbolism,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Work: Summer Solstice, Avebury
Across the land this morn, a roll of light
Gave birth to shadows, cast from chalky hills
The larks ascended, sang away the night
Vibrated sky to waking with their trills
‘Tis Summer; round the circle swirls the...
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Categories:
wren, love, mystery, mythology, nature, summer, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
I Write Wits Psalm Burning DesireI Write Wits Psalm Burning Desire...
Why?
To escape livingsocial,
and negate mine birth
figuratively, knowingly,
and precariously,
I nightmarishly perch
teeter tottering atop - dearth
of financial...
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Categories:
wren, angst, blue, dad, fate, goodbye, grave, love
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Harry the BreakerHARRY THE BREAKER
Harry galloped through the Mulga (13% protien animal tucker)
On a game horse Bunga Din
The Brumbies galloping on Tolga
Were yarded with a grin
Every station...
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Categories:
wren, warbody, me,
Form:
Ballad
spring equinox 2018this middle aged rue stirring bummer
haint no stranger to cold,
when dark hen stormy wintry days
eggs hit from Arctic portal en fold
ding Atlantic Seaboard
in a blizzard of...
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Categories:
wren, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation, dedication, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Ah tis nothing greater thanAh... tis nothing greater than...
malfunctioning heater on brisk winter day!
Thee particular date being
December twenty eighth,
two thousand nineteen, I saith
the Jack of all trades
maintenance technician
Kevin Blank said he would notify
HVAC expert in good faith,
yet to compliment...
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Categories:
wren, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Circa January 2010 Bell Tower And CarillonTwittered Via Chilled Wren
At Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Prior carte blanche to confessing illicit
extra-marital affair
I embolden tomb ache
elicit, and baldly bare
faced laid out some
...
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Categories:
wren, 12th grade, animal, beautiful, humor, love, true
Form:
I do not know?
Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and The Incandescent Must Win - part 1Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and The Incandescent Must Win
(part 1)
By: J.R. Wren
A wilting flower and a blade of grass
No presumptions of the way things ought to be
Feeding plenty on...
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Categories:
wren, america, farm, muse, political, race, rap, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems about Flight, Flying and Birds IIIPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (III)
Songstress
by Michael R. Burch
Within its starkwhite ribcage, how the heart
must flutter wildly, O, and always sing
against the pressing darkness: all it knows
until at last it feels the numbing sting
of...
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Categories:
wren, animal, bird, extended metaphor, flying, nature, song,
Form:
Rhyme