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Heir on Fire
...Heir on Fire by Michael R. Burch I wanted to be Shelley’s heir, Just fourteen years old, and consumed by desire. Why wouldn’t my Muse play fair? I went to work—pale, laden with care: why wo......

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Categories: aspired, homework, poems, school, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant bred within the survival instinct of hungry hordes of prey, when Earth in the balance against an uncomfortable truth smug smurf like scavengers. Pun......

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Categories: aspired, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse



cold day and blue sky
...Cold Day and "Bluesky Social"   This morning, pale sunlight entered didn't stay left behind on a cold day in a blank a bedroom that has never seen sexual activity or a hidden ******** under the ......

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Categories: aspired, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Blank verse
Flute and Citole
...Her sound functioned in the chorus of onlooker in my defeat. Might the Strumb of Kokopelli danced to the songs of Shiva and Bragi. I smiled days later that my retribution might silence the cele......

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Categories: aspired, appreciation, celebration, culture, encouraging,
Form: Ballade
Register Call
...A skeletal smirk at the school door - the greeter-teacher; 50 years later, I feel his gimlet eyes at my back, that leer is now plugged with dirt, yet it can still be traced in the brown water sta......

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Categories: aspired, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Ink of insecurity
...A poet I aspired to be, Yet words that mattered were in opposition with me. A pen I could hold, a book I owned, But the feelings were never my own. A writer's soul is a shattered vase, Tired f......

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Categories: aspired, art, courage, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Mississippi Mystery
... How many grave sites should be prepared for me? Just one. For Robert Johnson, there were three, all in the Mississippi Delta: Morgan City, Quito, and (near) Greenwood. Which is right? Do we KNOW......

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Categories: aspired, mystery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member TIRED--Andaree
... Extreme cleaning my house is wearing me out, but I’ll get through. There can be no doubt. Straining and scrubbing’s required. Buckets, I’ve perspired. I’m beyond tired. Though ......

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Categories: aspired, home, pride, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Grain of Sand
..."The World is smaller because the people are closer," ... by the Poet. There's something singular needs to be said, mind the conduct or stature -- latter's best, the subject at hand ......

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Categories: aspired, allusion, analogy, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
NEGLECT
...Strangled into the ropes of death An undeserving figure took the role finely Tears were my favorite pal Scribbling manifested my parallel reality Overthrowing seemed an eminent long journey Warm......

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Categories: aspired, absence, age, care, cry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am
... Written: February 22, 2024 _______________________________________ Divine dole of daytime, distinct as it came. Fetch forward in finding your felicity flame. A gap in the ......

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Categories: aspired, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Every Man's Challenge
... A man of modest mien and means his genius hidden ‘behind-the-scenes’ The Rebbe of Lubavitch in NYC was the address for those who aspired to success For over forty years, ‘til ......

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Categories: aspired, encouraging, jewish, leadership, success,
Form: Couplet
Forest Wildren
... Oily sky, weightless portals of slipstream bubbles in a fluid - superhighway of a different means. Effortless, my travel, everywhere at once, like a cat after a string. A sc......

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Categories: aspired, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tiger Notwithstanding Closing
...Cage a soul Cage a tiger Tiger has claws Tiger had claws Claws leave a mark Claws create echoes through time Time occupies thoughts Time thoughts empty time away Away to where I could chase ......

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Categories: aspired, confusion,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Rock Star
... Determined to succeed He'd play that guitar 'til his fingers'd bleed Once, Kyle aspired to be a rock star ~ 'til sped to the manicurist in an ambulance car......

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Categories: aspired, music, star, success,
Form: Couplet

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