Art Verse Poems

                    
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    The familiar face and form,
    slight and elegant.
    I hold you close,
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Keeling
   epode masts
       tilt horizon’s sun
          collecting crimson

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Every tree has its sprite,
a living deity ever vigilant of its needs.

Great Yggdrasil 
ancient tree of life
holds her sprite within
her wending, winding arms;
a caress of...

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“The Drawing”


The lines set rapidly upon the page
In a rush previously unimaginable to
My wrist.  Possibly quadrupling my pulse.
A scratching.  I even hear the...

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There is an art to gardening 
and it begins with a plan
a plan written in a note book 
and created in my mind all winter...

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The fact that his David is in the nude
is no call for moral turpitude.
After all, Michaelangelo was no prude,
yet his tastes in art were never...

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I dare to challenge
the source that sustains life
to show a pure reflection of myself, 
of a face not ravaged by time.

I may look younger and...

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Love So Stated 


Mother said uncounted times,
“Sally, I know you better than you know yourself,”
But, if that were true she wouldn’t have said so,
For it...

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in throes of death we come alive
conceived
a commutation  
strapped to the sins of no other
but us
 
swords held taught
bitten we bleed
from ravenous jaws
of long...

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          I'm looking for rare verse
          to...

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EIGHT


A deliberate surprise 
A shove from the back
while creating artwork 
in my second-grade class
Perhaps an ocean scene
A distant angry memory
of my eight-year-old 
consciousness


The broken waxy...

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                   At the window,
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Inspiration, Revelation, Adaptation, Within Poetic Verse

Sonnet I

I saw morn's soft hands stretching to touch bright moonlight
Tis but a fleeting blink betwixt man's death and birth
Dark...

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Poems about Poems IV

The Toast
by Michael R. Burch

For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate...

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