Best Desiccate Poems

I climbed over trepidation
poverty's barbed wire night
torn by your prosperity
my one change of clothes
thirsting for a drop of civility
on a deserted desert road
Scorched by hell’s kitchen
fed to death’s desiccate dawn
I swallowed shards of sunshine
pride's perilous knives
for one chance to be an American
to provide for my...

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In the depravity of the neglected wasteland 
obscure tufts of subdued slender grass 
struggle to rise through the cleavage of stony destiny,
the frail faces shaping the artifacts of cruel fate, 
flicker with the fading smile of residual innocence,
borrowed from the remains of the sun,
already sunk...

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Inevitable Transformation



                            Despite human lust to remain human in all

        ...

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Shed on that certain kind of warmth
You give the waters that washed away our footsteps

Illumine the dark leaves of our past
Blown away by the indifferent breeze.

Desiccate the grass that invited conversations
But leave the roots unscorched. 

I prayed to Autumn to blow away my pains
But Winter...

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Do you think that I mince my words
like one preparing a pot of soup—
dice it up and roll it in!—
the more floating fragments, the merrier,
no matter the mishmash to the tongue?
And how attractive to the eye
a carrot sliced to bright orange shreds,
seasoned with a dash...

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pale desiccate strand
solemn dirge of the Pharaohs
shrouded by tourists...

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LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and sweetheart, marriage, a significant other, and an old flame. 



Sappho,...

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Eternal Bliss


                                    Aging leaves predestined to fall

   ...

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Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood

bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch

u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!

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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch

Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...

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What Goes Around, Comes
by Michael R. Burch

This is a poem about loss
so why do...

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The wilderness is always beautiful,
whenever one stumbles upon it
and everywhere one looks, it's blissful  
to spend an entire afternoon exploring it!

Sit by that small pond loved by skylarks and observe frogs
leaping while a golden retriever watches them and barks,
and pulling them out of the...

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Fish dewatered delicious
is sucked dry with salt 
its flesh assaulted
rung out, and dried stark stiff.

Wishes like fishes rise in expectation
that hopes and dreams will flourish
but knock-backs, rebuffs and rejections
desiccate dreams with onslaught of salt,
shrivelling wishes, wizen to salt wish....

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Always too late
Letting go of all the hate
Never letting them see how bad it hurts
Stuck in endless Deserts
No one to believe
Heart Burnt passed any degree

Always hiding pain 
They look past time and time again
Running away to the south
Into the deap blue monsters mouth
Never to come...

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Rhapsody of rainbow morphs to morose mélange
Bleeding colors bleached from the twilight cloud 
Rainstorm daubs as blemish on the broken heart
The shades of grey paint the frayed linen of love.

Requiem of roses resonates in melancholic medley
Petals pine for dripping tear drops of mourning dew 
Desiccate...

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With stars for eyes
And an armored heart,
I allow myself to desiccate slowly,
Into the tender arms of Mother Earth.
Her embrace may carry me to hereafter,
Or let it hold me until my remains are simply skeletal.
I aim to give back to my mighty planet,
For it has given...

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Rendered seed concealed in Love's nest
Tendered sapling fondling mother's breast
Adolescent twig fluttering with pubescent zest
Immature leaves on mating quest
Maturing frond passing coupling test
Cherished branches sprout; hearth's bough dressed
In due time, seasoned fruit; perpetuity's crest
Stale, desiccate limbs; vitality's inquest...

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