Love Absurd Poems

("Untitled - The Eye of Jihad", 2019, original encaustic)

Love is Love - and other absurd truisms

“Love is love” is like “Follow your bliss”
a way to...

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In the vast expanse of existence,
Your world, I find, fails to captivate my senses.
Unfortunate days, like wayward wanderers,
Don the garments of absurdity,
Parading their disconcerting presence.

Each...

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In the expanse of purposeless existence,
We drift, untethered, searching for guidance.
Hope, a distant memory, elusive, unattainable,
No laughter escapes our lips on this path.

Days and nights...

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Sometimes I pray for my death as much I want to live, but it will not come ... 
I long for my childhood but it...

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Sea of such violent ideas,
why did you create the storms
and the winds... why are you shipwrecked
 my time to navigate you...?
Why did you rip me...

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Country named land of the absurd
             mix truth and lie
   ...

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Lithesome words like ‘love’, ‘loyalty’
And ‘liberty’
Lie, like mollusks on the sea
Bed; closed clam shut
Not revealing
Anything but
An unctuous feeling
And when prized open
By a devouring question
The contents...

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Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a...

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A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch

Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands...

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Take Wing
Take flight
Be weird
Be yourself
You're unique
You're kind
You are beautiful
You are wonderful
You're fabulous,
Unlike the others
Take wing
Take flight
Be yourself
Tonight
Let me unlock the gate to true paradise
Let me...

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(A poetic representation of this world unfolding before a child as he grows up to adolescence) 

He stood on a hill,
And saw a picture,
A silent...

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Godot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!

...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a...

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Art though my own and may I now love thee?
Art though my own and shall I  thy wife be?
As waiting long  lays waste...

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A  story   absurd   today  I  count,  hope  you  appreciate.
An  admirable   old ...

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Anyone can find the absurdity in life, 
But only the strong can make it their wife. 
Nay, not the strong in the arm or the...

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