Long Yearn Poems
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RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
yearn, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
When It Struck 11When it struck 11, I sighed in relief
When it struck 11, I haven't felt grief
The time kept ticking on and it wasn't brief
And I'm so… patiently shaking like a leaf
Vigorously feeling vital everyday...
Every minute...every second...come...
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Categories:
yearn, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Sappho TranslationsSappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...
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Categories:
yearn, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
yearn, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
A Taste of My Varied GenresA Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along with these titles:
The Sound of His Breathing (Written about my...
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Categories:
yearn, poetry, , cute, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
Mirza Ghalib TranslationsNear Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...
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Categories:
yearn, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form:
Verse
If I FalterIf I Falter
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
If I regret
fire in the sunset
exploding on the horizon,
then let me regret loving you.
If I forget
even for a moment
that you are the only one,
then let me forget that the...
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Categories:
yearn, desire, engagement, fire, for her, friendship love,
Form:
Verse
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
yearn, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
I Broke Your Heart and Mine(His Version of Break My Heart)
I have each piece, each shattered part of your heart that I broke in two, I feel every ounce of pain, every emotion, just as you
I would never take this...
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Categories:
yearn, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
10 Poems About PoetryBeing a “Poet” Can Be Painful!
I’ve likely told you, more than once, that poetry can be painful, and whined about the need for penning verse
That stems from deep inside my soul...fashions every word...and has become,...
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Categories:
yearn, poetry,
Form:
Verse
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:
yearn, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Brave New World(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
yearn, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks,
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps flapping, bright colors...
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Categories:
yearn, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
Life Is Like That Extent Live That Moto Full Extent -Life is like that extent
Live that moment
to full extent...
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Categories:
yearn, education, life, love,
Form:
Bio
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.
...maybe it's been a while since...
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Categories:
yearn, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
New Year Poems INew Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
yearn, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Phobia'sPhobias
A Bluto is not that Disney dog
It was when a mewling
that I would scream
Should they wet my body
And then apply cream
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Achluo the demon that lurks
In darkened...
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Categories:
yearn, on writing and words, hair, me, pain,
Form:
Free verse
A Poet of a Thousand WordsA poet of a thousand words
The pen garnished by the flame
Like a sea no desire knows
And love becomes the same
As poet to my love for thee
I confess between the lace
Of time and every sorrow made
I...
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Categories:
yearn, love,
Form:
Free verse
AwakeningFor the past thirty seven years, living for me was knowing that I do not know
I have been yearning for what I do not have a name for
The knowledge of the presence of this nameless,...
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Categories:
yearn, desire, destiny, emotions, freedom, friend, inspiration, passion,
Form:
Free verse
I'Ve Got To GoI’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...
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Categories:
yearn, cute, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 2I am appalled by the acts of atrocity in this world of eccentricity
How can you handle the rebellious transgressions of all children, women and men?
I want to serve You, master, with all I got…
I...
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Categories:
yearn, angst, deep, depression, desire, devotion, faith, hope,
Form:
Free verse
EzraThis is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...
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Categories:
yearn, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Fixated FreefallFalling away,
Away from your embrace
Day by day,
Washing away my face
In the mirror before me...
I ran the race with determination and fury...
I took the correction that God had in mind for me all along...but yet, I...
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Categories:
yearn, corruption, courage, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Think Twice***Part 1 of the series, Not Focused (written entirely by J.W. Earnings)***
Resurrect my hushed, pleading voice from the dead
Give me Your water and nourish me with serenity
Renew my rejoicing spirits, wholesome like bread
Wandering...
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Categories:
yearn, angst, betrayal, confidence, conflict, courage, emotions, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
ImaginationEvery second, every minute, every single thought about you
Wonders of this still could be too good to be true
Fluttering in my heart, palpitations go amiss
I yearn for the touch of your skin, and I constantly...
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Categories:
yearn, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme