Parnassus Poems

Poetry Spoke Truth, and Truth, Poetry

...I.
Like arrows swiftly launched on bleeding wings,
  space and time flew to shape our foretold fates.
Parnassus glorified supernatural beings,
  birthing grand songs too vast to narrate.
From Pi...

Loss of Faith

...If Muse can strengthen faith by her Parnassus,
     then whisper, thou, thy love's labor (and call 
the messiah!) to author my soul's Damascus,
     to blind my eyes and convert me as Paul.

If ...

A Phantasmagoria of Nonsense

...I searched in vain for inspiration.
I even climbed the sacred Parnassus
Where all the muses reside.
I danced with them
Engaged in endless discourse.
All in vain.

Then I resigned to my fate.
...

Errata I

...Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!

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Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch

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On Youth, Love, and the Muse

...I.

What delight is there, when the wine of youth
     runs out and just the dregs of life remain?
When childhood flowers, and love's fire becomes truth,
     the lusts of adolescence touch the ...

The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist

...
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"


The Sleeper
shone as she walked 
through the Woods

shining alive 
like nothing
natural could

caught 
in the moonlight 
una...

When Melancholy Drowns My Interests

...When melancholy drowns my interests,               
all seem lost; when black bile's ooze then molests,           
I travel through the valley of this death,
lacking life, hope—even desire for bre...

I Long For Your Truant Inspiration

...I long for your truant inspiration,
     O Muse, for I've felt your absence too long;
     empower me to sing a gay, new song,    
that with pen I may still bring creation!
Reappear, Muse, to my ...

A Bard's Self-Reflection On Life

...None can share in full the loss You have known;
     from innocence to experience, You,
fair child, were never meant to be alone;
     to be betrayed by saints who were untrue;
to know the sting ...

An Appeal To My Muse's Inspiration

...I long for thy truant inspiration,
     O Muse! (I feel thine absence for too long.).
Restore to me the gift of creation
     once more,—that I may sing a new, gay song.
Reappear soon to my great...

This and Other Things I Write

...By God
of Earth and Eden
In this life
I have a pencil
Bitter and sweet
Heavy and light
I will ink for a while
but then I must buckle
for my boat to set sail
into the Island of Light.


I ...

Short Stuff: Epigrams

...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch



Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
 
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...



Negotiables
by Michael R...

Prayer For the Makers

...Our pages' dearth decrees our need for death
     when, from time to time, we invoke the Muse
     and she doth not reply (but doth refuse!)
as our quills run dry while we fail for breath
of insp...

''Where Art Thou, Muse''

...Where art thou, Muse? I seek inspiration!
I have endured your absence for too long:
restore to me the gift of creation
once more, that I may sing a new, gay song.
When you return I'll feel great ...

Crushed

...To Lesley do  I owe a big debt
No more over verse will I ever  sweat
Reading her nuanced advice between the lines
My motivation  to versify  sharply declines
It has become clear to me that my rot...

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