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Ode to St Korvin

...“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” (Galatians 1:10)


In exile ‘midst the southern timbers’ walls,
M...

Pixie within the pink

...Pixie within the pink
let me swirl your tyranny into the high-octaved melody of my earliest endurance
Right as the clock ticked to six, the creaking sound of my mother’s war cry made me bury myself...

Early Poems XXI

...These are my early poems, or juvenilia.

Stars
by Michael R. Burch, age 22

Though night has come,
I'm not alone,
for stars appear
—fierce, faint and far—
to dance until they disappear.

T...

iMan - Apr 13

...Observe the modern generations walk
on by; they suckle from the plastic teat
of coffee cups, and stumped by stamping feet
they shamble unaware from flock to flock.—

infant adults—if earnest I m...

Flying kiss

...My purse shows barest of bottom,
The returns, never so handsome,
What a Valentine Day
That would never well pay--
A flying kiss is all to me hast come!
Dear Valentine, vague kiss
Can’t do what ...

The Hobbit

...There once was a dwarf. Yes a dwarf, you heard right!
Whose homeland was captured by a mean old sprite,
One who breathed fire, ate folks just for pleasure,
Who dreadfully wanted this old dwarfs tr...

All in a Winter's Night

...Between the howls of the wind,
there is a stillness,
a pause that speaks
in a voice too soft for the hurried ear.

The world contracts,
folding into itself beneath the weight of frost,
and in ...

Mr Slim

...
He was a born teacher
From birth destined to be
You'd know by his phene.

In capitalist-run schools
He's taught for many years
Earning pennies for labour.

Three years a beneficiary
On sti...

Ode To The Lake

...Feet of barest integument
Bounding, chasing infinite woods, primal
Unscathed by this immaculate earth
Swallowed by puddles seeping through my spirit
Overflowing, casting majesty, and so I ruminat...

What Time Is It?

...WHAT TIME IS IT?

A shadow crosses my mind
And stops.
An old familiar figure
Sent to me in this place
From memories
Long ago forgotten.

A lonely basket
Of a girl with no age
In a room cry...

Love As It Is

...What is love,
but a fragile
promise
held together
by the barest 
thread.

So easily broken
if not carefully 
looked after.
So humbly rewarded
if treated with care.

Shown not through wor...

Two Guys

...It’s a fine summer’s evening
for your annual wine tasting shindig;
home-grown fruits in home-made fermentations.
We stay up half the night
washing down the terrible wine with weak beer
doing wha...

Fear Stalks From behind Frightened Skin

...I
In haunted house she’d lived with all her scare,
Lived all alone but with her barest bones, 
With monsters chasing her in a nightmare, 
O amidst company of groans and moans. 
One of which once...

His Eyes They Saw Raindrops

...Cackle like hens
 might the fox
 find you
he spoke. 
that those who
feedest thee sowest not
but sprinkle grains to fatten
might the fox
spoil the harvest
there labors shall be in vain!


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Ships Upon the Ocean

...Mythica wishes me to curse her
might she tell the tale of our
troubles to find make script for the 
fools of Olympus. She then shall
become pregant that the Gods of mortals
shall see her troubli...

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