Best Metamorphoses Poems

I am located in a park, where I am contemplating adjacent trees. 
One tree in particular has caught my attention. 
With each thought I feel...

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Intermingled in purpose,
hope, faith, and love
are the catalysts of life.
Undefinable, and yet
undeniable, they exist
in the realm of possibilities.
And though they remain
intangible and abstract,
they are the...

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We are but fleeting shadows
Upon the face of this earth
So solid,so tangible ,yet so ready
To slip through the hands of life
When we doff our mortal...

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My aunt was a weirdo: she talked to trees, walked around the house naked and used to read me “The Metamorphoses” by Ovid and “The...

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Each New Year, you make a resolution,
Nothing life-changing, just some small changes.
January first means a new start for
Optimist that wish themselves a better
Year ahead, vowing...

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My mortality,
I once deemed far away
For I was young and strapping
But winds of time cause thinking to sway
Bringing thoughts to bear of my eternal napping.
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What is Love?
MAN I don't know!
I mean girls say it to me all the time, but I just blow off their emotions like smoke.

What is...

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Haven where solicitous parents hover
		over sick little ones and dispense advice to
		mature ones; an emotional stronghold, not merely an
		edifice one enters for physical shelter.

		Sanctuary whose...

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Creatures

winds and wildlife
giving the evolution time
creatures big and small
are appalled
but are so tall
to evolve and resolve
the call
the lakes and mountains
raise little fountains
spitting out the unknown
thrown...

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Let Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch

Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.

Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.

Let me give her solace
for...

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Tis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon

Tantamount to...

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LOVE POEMS II

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

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SOMETHINGNESS
Ugly, shapeless, formless:
Amoeba metamorphoses 
into concrete images;

Dark, void, hollow-hearth:
Dim cave metamorphoses 
into residence of light.

Dungeon beggar hobnob palace princes:
Nothingness metamorphoses 
into somethingness

©Angel Simon 2013...

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Young girl
Playing with her dolls-
Pretending as her babies
Singing a lullaby
For them to silently fell asleep
Waking them up...feeding...caring...
Acting as a mother...
But,that was before
Now,a young lady
A woman
Only...

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exclamation, which does nothing to stem dead locked high tide   
     proliferation of high-powered assault bazookas 
  ...

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