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Killick Dream Threads

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For you, I carry heavy issues difficult to bear;
varied themes with bleary depths as carved by you.
You want me to dismiss all darkness you name light,
to secure your pride’s weight in my oc...

Sailor

...We journeyed then as whim behooved,
Our lives were eddies, wind and play;
Great hearts were we, so far removed
Whence any mortal thought might stray.
And sunlight streamed upon our souls,
And st...

I Almost Tossed it Out

...Things sacredly sworn should last forever.
Wedding rings aren't meant to be removed
but love doesn't always end like a fairytale.
This is a rendering of what was forsaken,
in a painstaking tale t...

Be true to you

...“If you put a really small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." --Anonymous

Hi heels equals low feels 
They can be uncomfortable 
So what’s the deal

Ba...

Existentialism Emancipation Proclamation Manumission

...Existentialism emancipation proclamation manumission...

Flourishes amidst freedom 
once invisible (alice in) chains shucked
when soul no longer kept linkedin 
to jane's addiction 
with corpore...

I Yearn To Live For God

...“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself ...

Navigating the Pandemic

...It seems clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over,                                                                               and I'm hoping people don't become complacent and irresponsib...

Drive

...A day to drive,
Coolant sunned,
Last leaves scattered,
On a pedal-fly, 
Ignition lust,
On mother-piston,
Pointed beams like bone fingers,
I sit upright alone,
Dark storm racing,
Lightening s...

Doggerel Ii

...Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms wher...

When I Was Small, I Grew

...When I Was Small, I Grew
by Michael R. Burch

When I was small,
God held me in thrall:
Yes, He was my All
but my spirit was crushed.

As I grew older
my passions grew bolder
even as Christ ...

No Longer In Doubt

...Pushing his will against the status quo,
all time began to move

Scouring through each ominous lie,
veracity behooved

Giving with nothing left to give,
his soul turned inside out

Tomorrow ...

Hans Haacke's Gift Horse

..."Don't look a gift horse in the mouth", I question.
Research on this ancient proverb, of course
finally brought me to this aged suggestion:
"the longer its teeth, the older the horse."

Remember...

Keep Families Together and Intact

...A duty or responsibility requires someone to do something.
An action is both required and behoved.

Keep Families Together and Intact

From families children should not be removed;
And by Trump...

The Moon In Astrology

...Just what can astrology gain us?
The confusion surely must pain us.
Just how are you behooved--
Not to mention improved--
By knowing the moon's in Ur-anus?...

Trump and His Twitter Horn Trilogy Haiku

...Trilogy Trump and His Twitter Horn Haiku

Behooved and removed
His Twitter account should be
So no longer see.

Rid of forever
See ever again never
Thought very clever.

Trump and His Twitt...

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