Airless Poems

When Ash Remembers Flame

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Written: May 20, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Karen Jones
Inspired from Prince Song: When Doves Fly
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I slipped the mirror mournful cry,
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Beneath the Rubble of Hate

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Written: May 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Michael Fulkerson

Quote: “Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what...

Sixty-six years and six months

...My people set out sixty-six years and six months ago
Give or take; sure, liberties taken, but I'll give her back,
And if you want, they got a machine with occasional fact,
But back to forbodingly ...

Dreamer and the Dreamed

...I remember the tossing and turning,
the airless breaths-
aching my body with desire.
I remember the pleasure of my vexed lips
whenever I'd utter your name.
And while the parting sorrow of our la...

Victoria has a law to hate'

...Hate is on the screen and page, satan is seething in righteous inversion at this
This stage; of our age.' In paroxyms with contortiions Another abomination he parades, will you bow down to the
Stat...

If only that was me

...I don’t know who I’ve been today,
But I wish she’d come back- 

Her confidence, astonishing 
And her ability to live so weightlessly 

I wish I had her airless capabilities-

Who was she agai...

Too Close To The Edge

...“Stay in your lane and do not veer”
A warning that I’d always hear.
With guarded glances, signals shown, 
I steered my way, no danger known.

But fate, it struck with sudden might, 
Sideswiped,...

Poems about Science 5: Evolution

...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION



Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch

Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I...

There May Be Sadness

...At the end, when time is a skinless finger,
drawing thin lines in the dust.
You may look at all the once acquired,
you might recall all the mislaid.

There may be sadness,
or a mold-tinged nost...

Persecution of Richard Vobes

...Richard Vobes, a gentle man with measured tones
Helpful content broadcast to many, inventive mind
Makes often light; on 'you tube' of dark designs palpable as night
Airless, almost we feel, and he...

Contributions An Open Form

...CONTRIBUTIONS
  airless
yesteryears
egregarious
 wearisome
 awaits
credulity
enthroned
to
 convey
a
populust
niche
as
floating
dross
 enamelled
&
replicated

a
pedestrian
 precu...

Ballad of the Harecastle Tunnel

...The moon shone on the water
Dyed ochre by the iron mines. 
Centuries of men have toiled 
In trenches and in chines. 
Carving through the sheer rock face
To tunnel under hills
Canals to link the...

April Fools

...I wanted to pen this verse from yesterday but the temperature kept rising all day; I wanted to pen this verse from yesterday but the traffic kept flowing my way. Hundreds of cars flooded the street f...

When

...When those we send back to the moons surface,
those we dispatch to those lifeless planets
that hang dead-boned and airless
in our small corner of space;
when they who reach and explore,
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Out of Their Depths

...Mind has got deep -
lake deep, the kind of depth
that is too dark for shallow eyes.

There are bodies yoyoing
up and down in that deep
you can see them
by the light of a full glass of moon.

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