Call for Corn Awe
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I wanted to make something drawn from bosom
You & I gemini'd,
From the wells extract'd virginity untouch'd
by compounds—
Forgot to send it out, forgot to hit send,
Hello,...
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Categories:
alchemies, addiction, allah, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Ancestral Whispers
...Ancestral Whispers
In the depths of the earth, the roots of time stretch like pulsing veins,
Nourishing the collective memory with the fertile essence of our past,
And I, a poet wandering through ...
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Categories:
alchemies, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
SINKING
...These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...
Sinking
by Michael R. Burch
for Virginia Wool...
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Categories:
alchemies, death, fate, fire, grave,
Form: Rhyme
The Pleasures of Eating Pizza
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12/14/2023
Oh, since I was only a braided, wee bit of a thing,
Pizza was even better, than owning a diamond ring.
It was a taste of Italian camaraderie...
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Categories:
alchemies, food, joy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Moonlight and Proses
...Storyteller weaves his tales
throughout my mind and heart.
He alchemies my leaden days
into golden thoughts.
We soar above the shrinking earth
on word-filled wings at night,
glide on intellec...
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Categories:
alchemies, emotions, feelings, friendship love,
Form: Blank verse
Love Poems Ii
...LOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations...
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Categories:
alchemies, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
...Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
*
Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burc...
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Categories:
alchemies, desire, engagement, first love,
Form: Verse
A British Diary Passing Millenium
...The ask of cultures.
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics of the strategy to wrestles of communication. They...
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Categories:
alchemies, culture, time, travel, true
Form: Free verse