Halloween Poems
...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
be...
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Categories:
torc, children, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
The Wild Hunt
...The Wild Hunt
by Michael R. Burch
(King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been reported as ghostly hunters, near Devon, around Halloween.)
Near Devon, the hunters appear in the sk...
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Categories:
torc, england, halloween, london, myth,
Form: Verse
Arthurian Poems Ii
...Note: the "dd" in Welsh names is pronounced "th."
Merlyn's Birth
by Michael R. Burch
I was born in Gwynedd,
or not born, as some men claim,
and the Zephyr of Caer Myrrdin
gave me my name.
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Categories:
torc, england, literature, magic, myth,
Form: Verse
It's Halloween
...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
be...
...
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Categories:
torc, cat, children, evil, grave,
Form: Verse
The Pictish Faeries
...The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in t...
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Categories:
torc, fairy,
Form: Verse
Arthurian Poems
...At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
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Categories:
torc, england, romance, romantic, true
Form: Verse
Norfolk
...I love to march along the Icknield way:
Bretton Heath, Brickklin Covert and Caistor;
Fring Cross, Sedgeford and Swaffham still hold sway.
The sea sings with Terns and Oystercatcher
As we descen...
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Categories:
torc, history,
Form: Sonnet
Open Sesame
...Open sesame
An arm of Cern watch
Related to the eight pointed star
Sharing light
unto the mainstream
where no one
is even guaranteed a tomorrow
Truth never hides away
facts always...
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Categories:
torc, betrayal, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse
Summer Solstice
...SUMMER SOLSTICE
Queen Meabh stood beside the cairn, her velvet cape fluttered in the night air,
She called onto the Goddess Aine to return the moon safe to its hidden lair.
Braziers crackled as...
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Categories:
torc, celebration, ireland,
Form: Couplet
Irish Woman A.D. 100
...Timeless island woman,
I am the daughter
of the sons of Mil.
I am Badb, Derdriu, and
Medb queen of Connacht
dancing in our fertility festivals'
flickering firelight.
I watch my warrior go
n...
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Categories:
torc, history, people, places,
Form: Narrative