Seijaku
...Navigating through my life journey was not easy.
It was quite a ride going through dead-ends, detours,
slippery roads, winding roads, road hazards in forms
of emotional struggles, discrimination, ...
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Categories:
remindful, peace, silence, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Our Greatest Hour
...The midnight seashore breeze come’s calling….
With it’s subtile perplexities intertwined with lure
Remindful of days and moments once frittered
Climbing and straining our way to grand future ...
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Categories:
remindful, age, introspection, remember, success,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
...Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shive...
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Categories:
remindful, poems, poets, teen, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
The State of the Art
...The 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 word...
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Categories:
remindful, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
The Making of a Poet
...The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it my ars p...
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Categories:
remindful, art, love, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
Poetry: Ars Poetica
...Poetry
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
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Categories:
remindful, muse, poetry,
Form: Verse