Pronouncements Poems - Poems about Pronouncements

Isolation

...I

It is dawn.
Brother, rise.
Let us give vent to the rising sun, and with claps of the
Mind, welcome its waking ecstasy.
Distances prevail — measured on the sun’s distance
From the soils.
Ep...

Mark Murphy Moments

...(Snapping fingers rhythmically) Vocalese with ease... yeah... moments… improv… Off the top, breath bubbling, a spontaneous combustion of sounds, to be boppin' the melody/
 Jazz popping vocal notes o...

Extraordinariness

...Not in the flash of gold or diamond's gleam, 
Nor in the roar of crowds, a fleeting dream, 
But in the quiet whisper of the breeze, 
That dances through the leaves of ancient trees.

Not in the ...

This kind of love

...His lanky arms around her waist,
Grey orbs focuses its attention on her
The corners of his lips tilts just slightly upwards 
She notices his legs are shaking 
His hair sitting still,not messily 
...

Love of Nirmal Hruday

...In Calcutta's heart, a symphony of need,
A chorus of coughs, a symphony of pain indeed.
Not music of strings, but of souls in despair,
Yet a love song hums, a love beyond compare.

Frail hands c...

On Learning To Become a Guru

...On learning to become a guru...

The following artfully crafted back in the day
(actually poetic endeavor presented below
written a few scant years ago) in response to
unexpected positive feedba...

Hey Mr Politician

...Hey, Mr. Politician, look,
Just look, what you’ve done
Stuck me back in combats 
And carrying a gun,
Bayonet, spare mag,
Primed stun grenade
Sent to sort out the mess 
You bastards have made.
...

Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser

...The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of t...

Spent

...Spent
By Sy Roth


Her ears still tremble with the sounds
Shocked into somnolence gasping to make sense.

The giddy bassist a rue of flapping gums missing the flats,
The drummer’s lips moving...

Overcast Sky God Manifestation

...Overcast sky,
brings a rainy sky
to earth ...
In pronouncements of
gray and silver the leaden voice
call us all to
the contrition prayer showing that
the tenderness of the Lord
is manifested ...

Real Solid Ground

...I'm trying to find a way to confront ignorance and hatred
that will have some real impact.
So far everything I've tried gets diverted 
into confusion and madness.

There's no solid ground. We're...

Re: the Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

...It's inauguration day, January 20, 2021.
I could be at home, watching the TV presentation
pomp and pageantry. But old, achy, onerous and 
anxious, bladder full with no toilet near, I wait 
in a c...

State of the Art Iii

...State of the Art (III)

These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work. 



Come ...

Poems About Poems Iv

...Poems 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...

Wordingtane

...Beyond the trembly weald to glassy glane
beneath the wooden breath where thoughts remain
'twas a harkened land called Wordingtane.

The Wizard of Words ruled this land
in grips vernacular he had...

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