Amos
...How utterly shocking it was
To see his smile fading like a flower
Withering in summer's hot sun,
He who with his ‘Good Morn' would pause
‘Pon delivering office papers
And daily supply of go...
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Categories:
sprung rhythm, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy
Poems About Dylan Thomas
...These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I have written t...
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Categories:
sprung rhythm, poems, poetry, poets, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
...Juvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and th...
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Categories:
sprung rhythm, boy, poems, poetry, student,
Form: Rhyme
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
...Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
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Categories:
sprung rhythm, earth, light, love, poems,
Form: Sonnet
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
...Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the...
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Categories:
sprung rhythm, autumn, faith, grief, life,
Form: Verse
A Prayer For Father Hopkins
...Pray for Margaret you Jesuit priest,
who wept for falling leaves but cast no blame.
Her soul, as leaf-meal lies, is now the same
in Heaven she can now confront her beast.
Oh! Grief, not s...
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Categories:
sprung rhythm, faith, life, loss, light,
Form: Sonnet