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Undismayed Poems - Poems about Undismayed

Premium MemberThe Consequences of Stealing

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When you steal, it’s more than an object you take—  
You sever a thread in the soul you forsake.  
That bracelet? A gift from a mother now gone.  
That wallet? A dream that someone leaned on.

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Categories: undismayed, anger, betrayal, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLove at Eight

...I waited and I waited just in case she’d been delayed
I stood there feeling foolish, though I acted undismayed 
A movie and some popcorn might have won her pretty smile
And I was very keen and so ...
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Categories: undismayed, boyfriend, childhood, girlfriend, innocence,
Form: Rhyme



The Corpus Christi Carol translation by Michael R Burch

...The Corpus Christi Carol
anonymous Middle English poem
translation by Michael R. Burch

He bore him up, he bore him down,
He bore him into an orchard brown.
Lully, lullay, lully, lullay!
The f...
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Categories: undismayed, bird, girl, heart, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member MY BELOVED

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    MY BELOVED 

     Accomplished affirmative aggressive all along ambitious.
     Bright brilliant blooming bubbling.
     Courageous competent courteous classy
     Dedicated devoted dulcet...
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Categories: undismayed, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberMelody of Lonely Angel

...Written: August 19, 2023
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In the world where shadows dwell,
A tale of woe I shall now tell
Of hearts that wept both nig...
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Categories: undismayed, analogy, angel, appreciation, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Bold-Lit Lamp

...Bold-lit lamp, rained on, snowed on
Undaunted; undismayed.
Even of tree's fleshy torn strips
What is splattered for leaf.

Constant standing in one place
With this one fixed purpose;
Courage, ...
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Categories: undismayed, light,
Form: Rhyme

Be Most Afraid

...We should all be most afraid
Since they’ve abolished Roe v. Wade
For legislators won’t be swayed
Despite the nation’s ire.

Women feel we’ve been betrayed
By those whose actions have displayed
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Categories: undismayed, abortion, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Stephane Mallarme Translations

...These are my modern English translations of sonnets by the French poet Stephane Mallarme.

The Tomb of Edgar Poe
by Stéphane Mallarmé
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

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Categories: undismayed, eulogy, extended metaphor, french,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberThink Big, Worry Less

...*Image of Animals Noah by Pixabay.

Think Big, Worry Less

The day hath appeared as all creatures met,
they hath parted themselves by groups of twos,
as they slid, cra...
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Categories: undismayed, animal, boat, character, voyage,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberTaurus

...TAURUS
                                                                                         
  Truthful, Talented, Talkative, Trustworthy, Me in Taurus, always Transparent.
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Categories: undismayed, 12th grade, appreciation,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberJabb Her Vaccsee

...'Twas slightly scary in terms doctors know
did nurses nimble who would pass this way.
Prickly plied do glories go
so soon alas undismayed.

Long time in fact she thought
jabbed her vaccsees as ...
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Categories: undismayed, heart, onomatopoeia, poems, sick,
Form: Rhyme

Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv

...Sonnets XVII-XXIV

Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch

The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows...
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Categories: undismayed, books, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet

Abc Poem: a To Z of Life

...After all was said and done
Before I’d reached a clear conclusion 
Could It ever be the same
Down the years of trial and error
Estimation of the future
For the best determination
Going over and...
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Categories: undismayed, life,
Form: ABC

Epitaphs

...Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.



Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It's n...
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Categories: undismayed, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Epitaph

You Never Listened

...You Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
 
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
 
You were not watching,
though each night the s...
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Categories: undismayed, baby, birth, children, extended
Form: Sonnet

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