A Short Rain
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A practice kiss with her hand
Misses body, heart
The droplets like her fall —
She amasses their death
Even inside, outside
Let rain go no further....
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Categories:
amasses, care, dark, kiss, lost,
Form: Blank verse
hollows
...In the hollows of the night
I lie and face the stars, the things behind the veil
In dreams, I turn from things afar; I feel my soul quake
In the hallows of my night, there in a bar
The shadows m...
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Categories:
amasses, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Man Who Learns Mauve from Chartreuse
...The man who learns mauve from chartreuse
Is rendered quite gay by the news.
For courting sweet lasses
A man means amasses
That too many colors confuse.
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Categories:
amasses, color, confusion, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
Contentment
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Sky merging with earth
An illusion called horizon
Life merging with pleasures
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Categories:
amasses, happiness, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Dust
...I followed the dust particle floating across my room;
more interesting than the flickering TV it passed,
rising rapidly from the heat the screen generated,
swirling for a heartbeat, captured in so...
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Categories:
amasses, butterfly, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
Open Word Classes
...Open Word Classes
In language there are classes, we are told,
Of words both new and old.
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs too,
And among them, open word classes few.
Nouns, the names of thi...
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Categories:
amasses, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Didactic
Cul-De-Sac
...the good
The doors to my mind and heart
circle as revolving doors.
A peek inside and you see
happy memories and joyous events,
the loves, and lifelong friendships
A cul-de-sac, tho...
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Categories:
amasses, anger, dark, hate, life,
Form: Free verse
Weight of Prosperity
...WEIGHT OF PROSPERITY
Just as water is sucked by plant,
The rich greed eats like an elephant
But inconveniently discharge like a cow.
Time of release so as to accommodate more is now.
Open...
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Categories:
amasses, 1st grade, blessing, giving,
Form: Rhyme
To Establish Justice, Will God Nod
...Is peace of mind for all the souls possible?
Can the happiness of the World we double?
These questions are totally unanswerable
As the loving part of human heart is feeble
Man is supreme among ...
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Categories:
amasses, anger, corruption, heart, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Two Quarters
...A young boy walked into our bookstore…browsed a minute…then in a gesture beautiful and grand…said, “I just want to thank you…here’s a tip.” Then he put two quarters in my hand.
He saiid, “This is ...
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Categories:
amasses, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Early Poems Xv
...Early Poems XV
Ambition
by Michael R. Burch
Men speak of their “ambition”
and I smile to hear them say
that within them burns such fire,
such a longing to be great ...
But I laugh at th...
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Categories:
amasses, 12th grade, age, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
What Is Justice
...What is justice to those who are not apart of society?
I say this with a clear mind with no need for a test of sobriety
A society works by each have a need
An agreement is formed by each willing t...
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Categories:
amasses, poetry, political, poverty, power,
Form: Rhyme
Conformity
...The herd amasses together
The numbers provide the semblance of societal norms
It's a collective value system called conformity
Like bees to a bee hive - they swarm
Non-compliance is unacceptabl...
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Categories:
amasses, america, cancer, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Alliance
...When God forged Man,
He made an angle for every clan.
He didn't vacate him solitary,
But created his soul and core benefactor.
This is nature's irony,
Two souls tied concurrently i...
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Categories:
amasses, family, marriage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Hector
...his hair
blown
back
by
the
wind
section
which he
had
doubled
like all the
other sections
no mic
rophones
back in the
day but wood
made
strings
that would
abundantly
ri...
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Categories:
amasses, muse,
Form: I do not know?
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