Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call
...Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call
by Michael R. Burch
(a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)
The hardest thing of all,
after telling her everything,
is reme...
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Categories:
sphinx moth, absence, children, death, eulogy,
Form: Villanelle
Starfish-
...'Starfish!' said I, 'thing of a moray eel.'
Be it black ocean space;
Or in the breathing coral seas;
Back into my memories squiding;
To warn me about the sea turtle;
The cetacean coral reef cr...
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Categories:
sphinx moth, analogy, appreciation, engagement, fish,
Form: Free verse
Primrose: Love's Sprite
...Love blossomed in the darkest night
Morn's gilding beams to spite
Night Primrose preened by tender blight
Sphinx moth soft tips caress; sugary nectar slight
Perfumed aroma doth prating, intoxicated c...
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Categories:
sphinx moth, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Infatuation
...Into the jungle, the realm of all hazards
With love and a tucked-spear armed
The infatuated sphingid his way bravely wended
Heedless, the hostile beasts all around scuppered.
In shady corners ...
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Categories:
sphinx moth, lovelove,
Form: I do not know?