Beauty has an expectation
...Beauty has an expectation.
It can be damaging and filled with infactuation.
Growing up in a world of a certain dedicated beauty, It can be confusing.
Beauty is defined at first in a home.
It is i...
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Categories:
alchemized, allegory, beauty, culture, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Fortune Teller Conclusion
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You wanna know sumpin sumpin?!
In the garden of life's relentless seasons,
bloom and wither,
don't ask me, for WHATEVER REAS...
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Categories:
alchemized, art,
Form: Other
Alchemist Vs Manifestor
...I am an Alchemist, not a Manifestor - I am grateful I realized the difference.
I would know in my mind, and wait my due time, and nothing would even be seen in the distance.
I remembered when I c...
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Categories:
alchemized, 12th grade, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Cinnamon
...Unfurling the matrix of poetry,
unfolding it's meaning and nestling it in the womb,
the cradle of universal form,
breathing in the meaning of words like censors of cinammon,
playing upon the musi...
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Categories:
alchemized, meaningful, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Poems About Children Ii
...Poems about Children II
On Looking into Curious George’s Mirrors
by Michael R. Burch
for Maya McManmon, granddaughter of the poet Jim McManmon
Maya was made in the image of God;
may th...
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Categories:
alchemized, child, childhood, children, grandchild,
Form: Rhyme
Catching Pisces
...Catching Pisces
He peddles alchemized wood
Along the outdoor corridor,
Milk-crate mounting as students skim by,
Heeding not his lifelong stock.
Sweat leaks from his palette.
He searches t...
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Categories:
alchemized, art, desire, dream, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Why Poets Dance
...Why Poets Dance
spending divers days walking through
once dormant delusions of my mind,
nights dancing in hold with ol' luce
his familiar minions cheer from the
periphery,
se...
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Categories:
alchemized, boat, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Silver Lady Lost
...I dreamed a dream
from within a dream
of a madcap search
for the Silver Lady.
Silver Lady lost and found
Silver Lady lost…
I heaved and cry-cried bitter tears
'til time became an ash.
Thr...
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Categories:
alchemized, love, lost, lost, silver,
Form: Free verse