Calibration
...Here I stand, entirely symmetrical
with the longitudinal lines
that thrusts perfectly through
the balance of our planet
with not a moment of fluctuation.
Stiffly positioned in a direct sta...
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Categories:
seaways, 12th grade, blessing, care,
Form: Free verse
Galactic Ocean
...galactic ocean
elysian waves roar
roiling galactic ocean ~
a stellar fanfare
celestial shores gleam
with an astral signature ~
the cosmic heart beats
nebulas birth seas
from s...
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Categories:
seaways, ocean, sky, stars,
Form: Haiku
Early Poems Iii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a showe...
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Categories:
seaways, poems, poetry, poets, teen,
Form: Rhyme
This Man Is An Island
...This man is an island
uncharted in the sea
and many are the shipwrecks
that set their sails for me
Down along the shoreline
are remnants in decay
and others sank beneath the waves
while sear...
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Categories:
seaways, allegory, loneliness, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
England - Gleaming In the Distance
...across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
the mighty maw of an ice wall crunches, enfor...
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Categories:
seaways, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative
Love Off-Sprung
...futures cavort below the horizon
an expectant dawn glows, duly announcing the first born arrival
tomorrow then forward smiles, feeling good
half planned momentous moment, ordering fate, shap...
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Categories:
seaways, children, family, love, tribute,
Form: Verse
Beannchor Looks On, Fabulous Pivoting Place
...molten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
belly-belching landform
oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
land-bridging, submerging
any one place moving astride, stutter-...
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Categories:
seaways, future, history, ireland, places,
Form: Dramatic Verse
N'Iron
...strife riven island corner, rough hewn by rival visitation
vexed, looking in, looking out, on the edge of places to go
thrang in thrall of other realms, banners furling, batons flung
across ...
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Categories:
seaways, community, culture, destiny, history,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Wandering Rivulets
...Rain rivulets call my spirit
to wander, flowing with earth,
down to rough creeks and wide rivers;
united, we feed our soul-dearth.
Sample strange sights, sly sensations,
souvenirs of all that we...
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Categories:
seaways, adventure, beauty, travel, world,
Form: Rhyme
Charted Course,Occasionally Blown....
...Fits of fancy windrifts blow
tidbits chancy...abyss unknown
bellowing sails mushroomed force
following trails laid out in course
Navigating distant stars
alleviating lost afar
charted seaways...
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Categories:
seaways, adventure, life, sea,
Form: Free verse