Poems About Things That Break Ii
...Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every ...
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Categories:
triplopia, break up, depression, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
...Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between cle...
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Categories:
triplopia, art, grave, grief, life,
Form: Sonnet
The Octopi Jars
...The Octopi Jars
by Michael R. Burch
Long-vacant eyes
now lodged in clear glass,
a-swim with pale arms
as delicate as angels'...
you are beyond all hope
of salvage now...
and yet I would p...
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Categories:
triplopia, angel, animal, boat, nature,
Form: Free verse
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...
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Categories:
triplopia, day, love, memory, night,
Form: Rhyme
Distances 2: There Is a Small Cleanness About Her
...Distances (II)
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness...
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Categories:
triplopia, art, books, literature, love,
Form: Free verse
Helen, Troyless
...Helen, Troyless
by Michael R. Burch
"The face that launched a thousand ships..."
Helen, bright accompaniment,
accouterment of war as sure as all
the polished swords of princes groomed to lie...
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Categories:
triplopia, beauty, loss, paris, soulmate,
Form: Verse
The Peripheries of Love
...The Peripheries of Love
by Michael R. Burch
Through waning afternoons we glide
the watery peripheries of love.
A silence, a quietude falls.
Above us—the sagging pavilions of clouds.
Below u...
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Categories:
triplopia, allegory, allusion, analogy, boat,
Form: Free verse
The Composition of Shadows
...The Composition of Shadows
by Michael R. Burch
“I made it out of a mouthful of air.”—W. B. Yeats
We breathe and so we write; the night
hums softly its accompaniment.
Pale phosphors burn; the...
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Categories:
triplopia, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Loose Knit
...Loose Knit
by Michael R. Burch
She blesses the needle,
fetches fine red stitches,
criss-crossing, embroidering dreams
in the delicate fabric.
And if her hand jerks and twitches in puppet-...
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Categories:
triplopia, addiction,
Form: Free verse
To Have Loved
..."The face that launched a thousand ships ..."
Helen, bright accompaniment,
accouterment of war as sure as all
the polished swords of princes groomed to lie
in mausoleums all eternity ....
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Categories:
triplopia, anxiety,
Form: Verse
The Effects of Memory
...A black ringlet
curls to lie
at the nape of her neck,
glistening with sweat
in the evaporate moonlight ...
This is what I remember
now that I cannot forget.
And tonight,
if I hav...
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Categories:
triplopia, memory,
Form: Free verse