Lyric Romanticism Poems

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...

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Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart...

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Instruction
by Michael R. Burch

Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.

Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset

of night is...

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Safe Harbor
by Michael R. Burch

for Kevin N. Roberts

The sea at night seems
an alembic of dreams—
the moans of the gulls,
the foghorns’ bawlings.

A century late
to be melancholy,
I...

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She passed me by
In a wing of light
A stream of glory
A beaming delight

A dreamy brightness
Like starry seas
An honorable aura
Aureately

A bountiful tree
Of wondrous leaves
The poem she...

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She is crawling day and night
in the bushes of faraway land
the call of national duty
heavy on her shoulder

But a hero she is on earth
she has...

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If you find me 
I'm yours 
A soulmate forever more 
For the love that be eternal 
My heart beats just once more

But first

I am an...

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Are you sure you want to be my naughty girl tonight...
are you sure that your lips can handle
the heat of my love head sweet woman,
Take...

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A
vineyard
for harvest-
metaphors of
love.

Inspired by Song Of Songs 8:12 and 6:3...

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What melody is that which I hear? Is it the notes that a maestro directs his 
orchestra to?
Is the sounds that a tenor flute emits...

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