Butterfly Abuse Poems

When silence speaks in broken dialects, to harmonize hurt, 
I ponder, would the sky unravel synonyms for serenity, 
amidst piercing thunder that strikes through raining...

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(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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Focused on the butterfly without wings 
A beauty that is yet to be realized 
Comforted by the cocoon wrapped in ridicule 
For only time will...

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“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped...

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Meeting a princess

It was, according to the old, the coldest winter
any could remember, the wise said it was because 
the war had disturbed the weather...

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She never got spoon-fed and started licking off the knives
But knives cut her tongue
Her home is in the white spaces but not the words
You claim...

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I beat my wings
At the moment of exhale
Unaware the air had grown stale
I was a white washed wasp
With no sting in my tale
Maybe because daddy...

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Another shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie,...

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a life


When a spawn meets an egg, it is totally by chance the egg, and the spawn has no say in 
the matter, in time...

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These are poems for the victims of the Nashville Covenant School shootings.


Nashville Covenant Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch

Our hearts are broken today
for our children's...

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She thought the door of felicity got opened...
With all the hopes and brilliance of a new marriage!!!
The butterfly of passion roamed all over...
And the instinct...

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cranial cocoon
caterpillar compromise
butterfly escape
perseverance frames our time
the mind's eye unlocks freedom....

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The sun sank into rusty chains
Ancient Mesopotamian constellations begin to spin
Shadows in the bushes
Sidewalks walking from the back
Cetoniinae trapped in glass
Your gaze runs through the...

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I ate today
not much
but enough
to taste the poison
of my narcissist
a recipe that
is always force fed
my beauty in
starvation
derived from evil...

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