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A Gray Light Sparkles

...
Branches thatch a spackled sky.
Snow lays itself down
to sleep lightly.

An airborne coyote-itch addles
drops of sunlight
until they drizzle.

Splatters of graying-green
on the hairy chops...

Categories: addles, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Letter To Santa From Looby Loo

...Dear Santa,
As you may well know, 
it's tights and not stockings that are all the go.
So, with no stockings to hang on the bedstead, 
would a pair of my bloomers be OK instead?
I'll ...

Categories: addles, christmas, desire, fun, giving,
Form: Rhyme

Hiroshima Poems I

...Hiroshima Poems I

Let Us Be Midwives!
by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Midnight...
the basement of a shattered building...
atomic b...

Categories: addles, child, children, eulogy, father,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

My Craves

...Desperation travels my marrows,
still breath stealing all my tomorrows
the blessing of your love I couldn't show
whirling and coiling me up like tornadoes

dispirited in my shadow
come save me ...

Categories: addles, blue, break up, confusion,
Form: Lyric

Him Above

...I wish he would let me
Look upon his face
As I wish to bask in
The glory of his grace

Him above confuses me
The multiplicity of names
For the one god
Addles my sometimes unbelieving brain

...

Categories: addles, god,
Form: Prose Poetry

Rebel Yell

...In the sunken hollow a gray mass 
addles
A silhouette of swaying muskets 
shadows
Braying horses the silent vigil 
rattles
A curdling breeze across feted 
expanse prattles

The stilled pagea...

Categories: addles, war
Form: Rhyme

Lonely Heart

...I enter an ad on the internet
that I hope will get 
me a call: "We found you a girl; 
a pretty girl.  We'll fix you 
up.  Hey, she picks you; 
so, give her a whirl."  

I open my 'In Box,' 
and midst...

Categories: addles, computer-internet, funny,
Form: Light Verse

Addled

...This that addles the brain
is not of opium or some such stuff
It has a special recipe :
Stardust and cuckoo eggs
slowcooked in the bile that rose in Cain
flavored with Phoenician almonds
chille...

Categories: addles, sad
Form: Free verse

Rhymeantic Struggle

...Oh that I could break the chime that addles my brain constantly
That implanted seed of rhyme that worms in my subconscious 
That causes me to live and dream in my restrictive literary world
Courte...

Categories: addles, confusion, on writing and
Form: Free verse