Best Incarnadine Poems

After the summer sun, once the waves have had more than they can swallow,
a melancholic mood looms large, wherein the floundering victims wallow.

The sudden descent...

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Part 3:          AT HEAVEN’S GATES

To set Her free from destiny was far from my design,
but, though...

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Like a bridegroom crowned in crimson,
He rises out of his chamber,
Scarlet circlets round his person,
Bedecked in tangerine amber; 

With tears of joy* shed on the...

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Unhooking my bikini, I fall in
to Utah Lake; it’s thirteen years ago!
I’m naked, and the sun - incarnadine -
like me, has also slipped itself down...

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Beyond the distant saddened sight,
inside this lonely broken place,
I see the light that slowly fades,
the flame that burns like love's gaze
into this empty soundless space,
the...

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Sonnets XCVIII-CII

Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the...

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Haiku 107
	
	reading poetry...
	The Wasteland     Incarnadine
	winter afternoon
	
	
	
	
	
	01.13.2014
	
	
	Incarnadine, by Mary Szybist, is the 2013 National Book Award Winner 
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The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch

The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence...

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We met in rage, incarnadine fury,
meandered, then, became tenacious friends.
From wary circling hearts, we took the chance,
we joined our hands, we spun in place, we...

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Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like...

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LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating,...

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And if one could see me
If one could feel me
Inside their mind
Phobias arise in a soul

Recalcitrance done unto thyself?
Possibly futile claims of sanity
And you try...

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Timeless my breath
But for what insidious monstrosity?
Drivel this forms as it goes
Send for my resignation

Drain my thoughts
Feel these fangs dig into my heart
Claws shine bright...

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I am red as murder
I have done it again
Incarnadine and destructable
I have done it again
My hideous trick

The lids eclipse my hollows
Nothing. My body lies to...

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Starlight and Moonlight II

These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …




Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch 

for...

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