Best Uncross Poems

Uncross your eyes and stop thinking about it they told you in third grade  but you did not cry you had a faster mind...

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I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin'...

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I hate it that you leave me hanging
sat waiting for a word or smile
I tell myself you mean nothing to me
but I've crossed my fingers...

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Your eggrolls aren't dry.
Your eggrolls aren't wet.
You say they're just right.
like it's some sort of threat.

You hand me an eggroll
along with a plum sauce.
I can...

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Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch

for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba

Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones...

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- and, anyway, who breaks wind over double-M, a. k. a. Manson,

Marilyn?

I'll give a ride on my razor any day to

The-Second-Prime-of-Nine-to-the-Sixth,

who was around long before...

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The room was unusually dark that tinny night,
As music and laughter replaced the light,
Toasts were given for proud glories earned,
As horrors of war exploded and...

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A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so...

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1.A, cardinal of alphabets
deity is pre-eminent.
2.What use thou learned?
unless venerating divine
3.Captives of his flower-heart
long live on earth.
4.Devotee of fair nature
never faces hazard.
5.Admirers of nature never
suffer...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of...

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1.Virtue does not-kill; committing 
yields other sins.
2.Sharing, guarding, available bread,
succeeds collected wisdom.
3.Better not-slaying first,unique
truthfulness comes next.
4.Holy-books’ right path, unthinking
virtuous not-kill beings.
5.Among feared renounced, fearing
not-killing is...

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Fulcrum 

Listen to me sweetheart.
It is easy to be a fool.
It requires no intelligence at all.
You will always listen to those who speak
Words you personally...

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AS IF WE NEVER MET

Can’t go back and act if it we don’t 
When we do
Can’t act as if paths never crossed
Because they have
And, once...

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Looking outside, all I see is blue skies
Nothing but a fantastic feeling fills my thighs
This world is amazing
Causes spirits a-raising
But my Jockeys are so tight,...

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Burn, Ovid
by Michael R. Burch

“Burn Ovid”—Austin Clarke

Sunday School,
Faith Free Will Baptist, 1973:
I sat imagining watery folds
of pale silk encircling her waist.
Explicit sex was the day’s...

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