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Argosy Poems - Poems about Argosy


Erotic Poems I

...Erotic Poems I

Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch

Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.


Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to love you; if I d...
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Categories: argosy, body, clothes, desire, love,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Poems V

...Poems about Poems V

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommo...
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Categories: argosy, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Sonnets V-Ix

...Sonnets V-IX



Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch

The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel t...
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Categories: argosy, love, moon, night, star,
Form: Sonnet

Pointed Art

...Pointed Art
Michael R. Burch

The point of art is that
there is no point.
A grinning, quick-dissolving cat
from Cheshire
must have told you that.

The point of art is this—
the hiss
of Cup...
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Categories: argosy, art, death, life, nature,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberSomber Times Brightened

...As the storm clouds of unforeseen gloom hover low
with the shattered sky’s diffused light of uncertain future,
I gift my soul sinking within the abyss of dire darkness,
glints of lingering hope fr...
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Categories: argosy, beauty, inspirational, nature,
Form: Free verse



Sonnets V-Viii

...Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
 
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse: warm, p...
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Categories: argosy, for her, light, love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberThe 42 Inch Hallway

...The 42 Inch Hallway

We’re stepping along the musty hallway now.
I am taking us on a fast-moving memory ride;
A mind-bending groovy slide to 1965,
When Dylan music was seeping loudly like a germ...
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Categories: argosy, memory,
Form: Free verse

Voyage

...The argosy moves along the mystic sea
The air mephilic to the nose
The sky is foggy and gray
The ernes are circling about looking for finny...
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Categories: argosy, adventure, mystery, sea,
Form: Prose Poetry

War and Peace

...Some consecrate the carnage
Of war and infantry;
Or the argosy of navy’s
Crusading far at sea.
Battles have their triumph
When the gun is in the glove,
But the pageantry of war
Can't replace t...
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Categories: argosy, love,
Form: Rhyme

Tribute For Stone

...(Dedicated to the memory of my mother Catherine who died June 3, 2011 and was 
buried June 24, 2011)


Sleep. Wake. Sleep
Sleep on empty stomach
Food and liquor make the journey
Eat, make Epic...
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Categories: argosy, funeraljune, men,
Form: I do not know?

Tribute For Stone

...(Dedicated to the memory of my mother Catherine who died June 3, 2011 and was 
buried June 24, 2011)


Sleep. Wake. Sleep
Sleep on empty stomach
Food and liquor make the journey
Eat, make Epic...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: argosy, funeraljune, men,
Form: I do not know?

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