Best Brined Poems

Blackberry bushes barricade the background
of your immature stature.
Braided chestnut hair rests gently 
on weakly shoulders
as your hazel eyes beam a child's rippling wonder.
Bee-glazed berry juice...

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Tossed into the stormy ocean
when life struck another blow
brined, devoid of all emotion
lost child from Land of Goshen
drowning in the ebb and flow
dragged to depths...

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Diminishing virtues stripped away
From the flesh
By the fierce brined rods that freely 
Course thy hot crimson blood; 
Dry cracked lips attempting to
Fashion broken words of...

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Sanskrit sweeping bronze and spine
riddled there when you were mine
underneath the spice and sun
cinnamon skin and sleepy rum

Now the wind has blown the words
riddled once...

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Who shall purge the earth
O vernum purgatio
Love delayed its birth

Spring lit us with fires
Shooting messages like leaves
Winter wipes away

When the dross is gone
Nothing shall be...

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No bash so far, beats the one in the jar
Emcee DJ Green spins for the jarstar 
No ill will to spill, just dancing on dill
When...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch

In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch

In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to...

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Ring-bound journal waiting fond writes;
Feel warm thermal as words now cite.

Small square box lines guide and align;
Sexy thoughts brined in sensuous signs.

Word follows word in...

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Brined voids surround my already bounded vision, throwing me headlong into confusion and disarray. 

Hesitation in what may be the next correct course is what...

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Do I see what I see?
Or can the truth find me?
I sit here with fond cites,
Loiter and linger writes.


Do I know what I know?
Or can...

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HE KNEADED MORE
SHE WAS THOUGHTFUL: THINKING
AND DELIVERING WHAT SHE SAID
WAS THE CHIVOLOGY OF MINCE
WORDS TO DECRIBE THE
SWEETNESS
THE INTISIPATION OF
BEING PLEASED
SUM WON, WHO LARD ME
SUM WON,...

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She bragged about
Enjoying the embarrassment
Of being rich
She spoke of
Opportunities
That were available
To her thru those
Trends that complimented
What she already knew
And wasn't nervous
About doing
Her strengths were
The Reas...

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She bragged about
Enjoying the embarrassment
Of being rich
She spoke of
Opportunities
That were available
To her thru those
Trends that complimented
What she already knew
And wasn't nervous
About doing
Her strengths were
The Reas...

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She bragged about
Enjoying the embarrassment
Of being rich
She spoke of
Opportunities
That were available
To her thru those
Trends that complimented
What she already knew
And wasn't nervous
About doing
Her strengths were
The Reas...

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My heart knows
How love feels,
A warm glow
Syncs clear thrill.


My soul dwells
On wise hint,
A touch tells
How love mints


My mind crafts
A clear lot,
Words I draft
Via strange thought.


My...

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