Short Resplendently Poems

restless rambunctious
ridiculous rhetoric
riddles repeatedly
rhyming resplendently
rock-'n-roll, really?

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don't know whether to roar or purr.......

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The hourglass becomes resplendently empty

As the sand flows through with their kempty

Grains, dry as a corn shuck, flow

Seemingly they know

Time's reduced

Woe!

Earth lost boost

It's feeling the throe

Of miseries which will show

Drawing to close times where there's plenty

The hourglass becomes resplendently empty    

Made up form: Andaree...

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Crystal tears of sapphire hues drawn infinitely inwards
Resplendently into those eyes so true, not yet clearly
Yearning for the blue, I'm falling beneath your surface
Sailing the sea for a glimpse of you dear, surely
Time won't stop for me, until I find you there
All this time, waiting patiently on the blue
Longing for a drink of waters untouched
Spirits leading me on my mystic journey, soon my love....

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The Harvest of Roses
by Michael R. Burch 
 
I have not come for the harvest of roses—
the poets' mad visions,
their railing at rhyme ...
for I have discerned what their writing discloses:
weak words wanting meaning,
beat torsioning time.
 
Nor have I come for the reaping of gossamer—
images weak,
too forced not to fail;
gathered by poets who worship their luster,
they shimmer, impendent,
resplendently pale.

Originally published by The Raintown Review...

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When winter trees are bare of leaves,
Each branch is clearly seen,
No longer hidden by the summer
Blanketing of green.

And that is why I sometimes see,
Resplendently arrayed,
A hawk or falcon on a limb,
Exposed but not afraid.

Most patiently it scopes things out
And glances all around,
In hopes of spying something scurry
There upon the ground.

I never see it swooping down,
Abandoning its perch,
But knowing what’s to come, I’d rather
Be left in the lurch....

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