Blessed
...Rest is no cure for tiredness, the more you rest, that expands double the score
Dull, steady, boring bulge weary every second more and more
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Categories:
unscanned, dark, emotions, heaven, memory,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poets Vi
...Poems about Poets VI
beMused
Michael R Burch
Perhaps at three
you'll come to tea,
to have a cuppa here?
You'll just stop in
to sip dry gin?
I only have a beer.
To name the greats:
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Categories:
unscanned, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Rhyme
Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
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Categories:
unscanned, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Poems About Poems Ii
...Poems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are no...
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Categories:
unscanned, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
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:
unscanned, books, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
The State of the Art
...The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their word...
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Categories:
unscanned, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
The Making of a Poet
...The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it my ars p...
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Categories:
unscanned, art, love, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
No Mark
...No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
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Categories:
unscanned, break up, change, divorce,
Form: Verse
Discrimination
...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
of hologramic CDs, ...
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Categories:
unscanned, poetry,
Form: Sonnet