Solitariness Poems - Poems about Solitariness

The Wanderer, Part I, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

...The Wyrdes were like the Fates, controlling human destinies.

The Wanderer
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
translation by Michael R. Burch

“The one who wanders alone
longs for mercy, longs for grace...

Solitude in the Shadows

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In a world bustling with noise and drone,
Where many voices merge into a single tone,
There walks a solitary figure, unseen,
Lost in the shadows, an outsider's scene.

Amidst the crowd, she st...

Poems About Icarus

...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli...

Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I

...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...


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Rejection Slips 1

...Rejection Slips

With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here ar...

Southern Icarus

...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace
you climb, skittish kite ...

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli...

Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy

...Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch

Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!



E...

Recalling Traipsing Thru Valley Forge National Park Under Full Moon

...Lunar radiance this small hour
June fifteenth thousand and nineteen
(very early morning errand
to fuel 2009 Hyundai Sonata)
at Zieglerville, Pennsylvania Wawa
found gaze tugged toward

infinit...

Searching For Solitude

...There’s just something about solitude that brings ease, 
sometimes seclusion is all my lonely soul requires.
When the suffering in silence brings me to my knees,
I feel a private escape is ...

And Let Us Now Silence That Intrusive Music So Ominous, So Banal, So Tinny and So Slight

...As rains and the torrentialest of snows plummet, 
Filling all the skies and the area interstitial to earth and sky 
With a frenzy of flying flakes;
As gusty winds doth blow and toss the flakes thi...

Moon Spoon

...It was a lovely sight gazing at the curved moon 
Spooning with the tumultuous waves of the sea
I was walking along the lonely beach when this
Moon spooning called me and arrested my look
The nigh...

Deeply Wisdom

...An oxcart can't move without a cattle.
A vehicle can't move without a driver.
An airplane can't fly without a pilot.
A gun can't shoot without a gunner.

Selfish chase more friends.
Brag invite...

A Painting For Humanity

...The vividness of the dazzling tones
of an Autumn's landscape is alluring,
making the beeches gleam when it rains;
it has captured me into the realm of fantasy,    
as I am taken onto a road walke...

When Nothing Makes Sense

...Uncertain future
Drearing solitariness
Wretchedness menace
Caliginous atmosphere
Perquisiting an answer














4-25-2016...

While I Was Waiting For Your Eyes To Find Me

...“This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.”
-Rod McKuen


This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me...
I was lost into not...

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