Unsprung Poems - Poems about Unsprung

Lost in Thought, A tribute to Poe

...Reluctantly I sat abusing
Some old and sad familiar musing
That for some reason kept refusing
To lie quietly

A thought that in a moment read
Was understood and put to bed
Now prancing once mo...

Shades of Azimuth

...

        On a misty mountaintop, 
where eagles guard the skies, a priestess awaits, 
like a pacing dragon,
her lover's gaze to stair upon like a tiger from a pit, 
her wait become but shadows ...

Tempest 2

...Seagulls cast aquarium swirls
Translucent panacea coats the day
Cloudy church  ammonites lear
A child within a Man
has choices to make
he is hastened by the wind
Cold Waterfalls
with Autumn Wh...

Aunt Eartha's Winter Interview

...What are your most winterish
critical trauma events
in these most recent
three millennia?

Why 
just my traumas?
Why not their corresponsive
therapies
for restoring EarthJustice?

Please g...

Love In Every Field

...those of us who caught or chased our love in every field
knew her best by memories that we caught.

anvils that we stood upon gave grain to find our shield
leave our stain upon the earth with eve...

Ballad of Unsprung Spring

...The winter time has had its day,
Was what we all believed,
As signs of spring were everywhere.
But seems we've been deceived.
Evil April brings Arctic blast
Now more snow has arrived.

It seem...

Modern Sonnets Ii

...MODERN SONNETS II

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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State of the Art Ii

...State of the Art (II)

These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. 



What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch

What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer 
~~~...

Sonnets X-Xvi

...Sonnets X-XVI


Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes'...

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...

Vacuum

...Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are...

In Praise of Meter

...In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch

The earth is full of rhythms so precise
the octave of the crystal can produce
a trillion oscillations, yet not lose
a second's beat. The ear nee...

Plumb Line Hoisted Deep

...Brainstorm cometh, damning frontal hemisphere
jamming lookout, noggin perched, roiling thinking
uber wayfaring zealot, drills legendary phalanx.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
...

Determination and Grit

...I slipped on a teardrop and landed upright, 
With no tigers or werewolves to scare me, 
In the long silent night so salient and tight, 
Where there was no hunger and travesty.

Desiderata mounte...

The Sorrow of Human Nature

...Like Broken strings from unsprung cords we fade away as rusted swords that know not the blood shed that lies in their use.
Deviating from our dreams to blindly pursue purpose is our greatest ambitio...

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