Long Writhes Poems
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Poems About Poems IPoems 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:
writhes, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
writhes, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
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:
writhes, 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:
writhes, 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:
writhes, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Precious Priceless ProgenyPrecious priceless progeny
Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...
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Categories:
writhes, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
writhes, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
In the silky night, dotted with mysteryIn the silky night, dotted with mystery,
Where the moon's thread weaves shadows on the paths,
The heart, a thin garment, a flash in the ether,
Listens as the time from the hourglass seeps away,
And its rhythm, a...
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Categories:
writhes, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Rain ShowersThe Earth dry and bare; waiting eagerly for the drops of care;
Caught in the hot, steaming summer’s snare;
The flowers and creepers decorating window sills; all look desolate and ill;
As the nature withers...
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Categories:
writhes, nature, life, rain, summer, water, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
One Most Dramatic Change In My Life(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to
fatherhood for first time).
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of Edenic Joy
Twenty one plus years ago
faux...
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Categories:
writhes, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, baby,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Barnabas Oral's Sightless GameHe plays throughout the house at night
a braille touch for his lack of sight
and dreams of all the crippled things
with broken legs and shattered wings.
The bandage on his wounded eyes
will be there...
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Categories:
writhes, dark, games, humorous, psychological, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Class Story Exercise At University In 2008You were standing with your face held to the warm air. The sea licking your feet and your thoughts were all of her. For back at the apartment she would be lovingly cleaning your clothes...
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Categories:
writhes, abuse,
Form:
I do not know?
Living In the Middle EastYou put him in a cage
That pilot you shot down
Pour gasoline on him
And set him ablaze
And the world is silent...
That seventeen year old girl
Writhes on that soiled bed
As you let all those other men
Rape her...
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Categories:
writhes, violence, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
In the embrace of the unseen moment, love bloomed humblyIn the embrace of the unseen moment, love bloomed humbly,
The cosmos writhes in ecstasy, beneath the unconstructed gaze of mastery.
Gathered around it are emissions of time, transmissions of ancestral eternities,
Reveries in water strokes, heavenly reflections,...
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Categories:
writhes, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Learning How To Live CourtesyLearning How To Live...Courtesy,
Sans Priceless Paternal Experiences
Bequeathed To This Papa From Precious Progeny
The greatest gift cherished, garnered, lamented...,
yet simultaneously recognized as utmost prized
constitutes mine declaration, that both benevolent
daughters (now metaphorically inflight) took wing
to...
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Categories:
writhes, absence, age, angel, anger, cry, daughter, father
Form:
Ode
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture like a burning man in Dante's InfernoSoul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture (like a burning man) in Dante's Inferno
Self immolation as sacrificial bleating lamb
promises eternal martyrdom
awaiting voluntary die hard protester,
where countless vestal virgins provide blissfulness
(think Playboy mansion on steroids)
synonymous with...
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Categories:
writhes, abuse, allusion, america, anger, anxiety, atheist, fire,
Form:
Free verse
A Stationary Bicycle26.
A stationary bicycle
Never travels very far.
Nor sniffs the meadow flowers
Or sets the evening star.
It is far from me to criticize
The direction that you ought...
But it seems a hellenic tragedy...
Being tied to just one spot.
...
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Categories:
writhes, angst, solitude, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
The Queen of All HeartsEvery love begins with a simple story.
A dreamy fairy tale, a mutual playing of cards.
A hundred silent kisses thousands of miles apart led us into victory.
A batch of red-painted roses, hold them close to hide...
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Categories:
writhes, love, war, love, me, time, war,
Form:
Free verse
Damsel In DistressHeartbroken lass bereft of eminent beau
papa doth vicariously experience her
(mine daughter's) grievous woe.
Unfair a budding promising relationship nought
going to incorporate wedded bliss,
when for all the world
the strong humble lad
absconded to Puerto Rican his homeland.
Thus pained...
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Categories:
writhes, absence, boyfriend, depression, emotions, family, first love,
Form:
Free verse
In magical verses weave your fated heart's requestIn magical verses weave your fated heart's request,
With metaphors holding the shy choir of light abreast,
When hearts corroded by hatred in barrenness rest,
And chains of thought whip gently the gentle flight's zest.
If you are to...
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Categories:
writhes, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A Blind SunsetHe glances out the window,
And watches the sunset,
But he doesn’t see the beauty,
Nor the warm rays which,
Pierces through the glass,
Only the anticipation and,
Anxiety of a long night,
Carefully, he watches,
The colors change,
First the...
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Categories:
writhes, death, family, forgiveness, life, mystery, sad, sympathy,
Form:
Narrative
Martha Graham, a MaverickHANDMAIDEN OF MOON DANCING
fly me to stars in the thrill of one swan night
over a crescent arc to feel a flame of sighs,
teasing dreams so silent yet ever wild
and like a neon light, speak through...
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Categories:
writhes, art, inspirational, me, age, age, me,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
writhes, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of light pass agonized cypresses, schizophrenic concussion.
On and on, the wind...
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Categories:
writhes, lovegod, light, god, life, light,
Form:
Sestina
YellowFumbling through a sheen of yellow
the land and sky merge as one.
and earthly song goes silent.
The stage is set for death to breed,
tendered by phantoms, catching the unwary
these purveyors of men’s souls
The rats...
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Categories:
writhes, war, words, yellow,
Form:
Free verse