Transplant
...These are poems about shadows and shadowy things...
Transplant
by Michael R. Burch
You float, unearthly angel, clad in flesh
as strange to us who briefly knew your flame
as laughter to disea...
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Categories:
skalds, angel, dark, daughter, earth,
Form: Rhyme
What Lays Between
...white capped peaks appear then go
cresting mountains blue and green
with prayers that triton’s spear won’t show
we cross what lays between
old skalds tell of the tempest’s wrath
this realm ...
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Categories:
skalds, allegory, beauty, faith, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Epigrams
...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Bu...
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Categories:
skalds, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Epigram
We Were Skalds
...We were poets and hymns
were so vital and proud
Our beautiful dreams
As I see haven’t found.
We have lost our Cult
Our poems have died
Let me say you are Skald
We won’t stop our fight.
Our ...
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Categories:
skalds, allegory, emotions, feelings, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
A God Thing
...Fairhair’s youngest son the good, for peace trickery repaid, by hawk upon the knee Norse blood raised an English king, hid from the bloody axe until his reign A C...
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Categories:
skalds, christian, conflict, culture, england,
Form: Free verse