Best Accouterments Poems

...Stuff

The paraphernalia of life,
Memories collected,
Emotions rejected,
Gathered over time

The appurtenances of life,
Possessions collected,
At times rejected
Accessories thought necessar......

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...Epigrams

Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.

Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If we strip......

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...Do you sometimes see a Zulu Warrior
Staring back from the mirror in the morning!
A nasty fierce looking bad-tempered dude
Obscenities flying out without warning

Crabbing bout having to ......

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...Tick...Tock...Tick...Tock...

(Aye apologize for straying way
outside thee usual canon -
     a poetic souffle,
boot desperation
     finds me cent less,
     Thus i pray
for divine intercess......

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...Dictionary in hand Bobbies
     manned state of the spy craft created
strategic peripheral outposts
     a comma dated,

(sans syntax garnered monies) equated
justifiable to build galley ma fre......

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...Bare feet step onto the cold black and white mosaic tiles.
A few tiles are missing, revealing beige glue embedded with purple lint.
An inconveniently small black knob, striped with old toothpaste
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...Betrayal my love, lift high the laterne
Face Venus in retrograde traverses
Translucent on corners remote curses
Born black, myriads of stars find Saturn

Accouterments of time form a pattern
Em......

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...Observance
by Michael R. Burch

Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

By dying leaves an......

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...April fools' occurs first day of fourth month

Ordinarily all manner 
of tomfoolery doth abound,
celebrated for countless centuries 
by different cultures, 
though exact origins remain 
shroud......

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...Such Times are Here
                    51.

There be utter madness
That pervades the world today.
It's enough to cause a troubled soul
To just up and melt away.

Such times are here to try u......

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...Carrot Tops His Dill


sandwich between two pieces of bread
were the accouterments of a red head
rich carrot tops spree
as pickle springs glee 
seconds ado as he wears on his spread

connie ......

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...Drowning 
 
Cold creation has bequeathed him progress
Useless and torn from his children
A mockery becomes less than human
 
Casual use his habitual life buoy
Disconnection from his own cultur......

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...COVID-19 pandemic analogous how indigenous peoples got felled...

Woebegone, enraged spirits
holographic images taciturn
journeying somberly aghast
at their stolen sacred lands... mourn
dead so......

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...No matter unseasonably
blustery March like weather
prevails across my neck of the woods
(Southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)
and across the main body
of these United States of America
......

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...Spring is in the air at last.
Cold and damp are in the past.

The evenings now stretch out.
After work we think about

walks along the shoreline
or woodlands before we dine.

The breeze is s......

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