Best Xxi Poems

Donald's faithful to his red star
Putin loves the Don from afar
Bizarre it may seem
It's been Vladimir's dream
To have an American Tsar...

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(I)
I am the palatine oil
the astral gift
rumbling your
skeletal tree’s
truncated trunk,
each reverberation of
your sacral chakra
pleading you
to unfurl your
dormant wings
and soar above
animalism’s aridity

(II)
I am the
shamanistic secretion,
the nascent...

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So bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next...

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Unquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI

The pupil, the ***** and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days,...

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Pluma, 

A tip so delicate, so smooth, so sweet
caressing blank pages of my need

indelible, 
creating tattoos of trust 
thrust
where blood flows 

you save me 
with...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXI

IF you pull a long Moon face
Watching our Earth clad in sparse swirling white sarée
Her aqua-marine waters...

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IF ever I had a country : XXI - XXII

" I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I...

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EARLY POEMS XXI - JUVENILIA

Dance With Me
by Michael R. Burch

(circa age 18)

Dance with me
to the fiddles’ plaintive harmonies.
Enchantingly,
each highstrung string,
each yearning key,
each a thread within...

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SONNET XXI 
GRATITUDE

For He is Good
His Mercies endures forever.

Days have turned to Weeks,
Weeks to Months and Months counting.
Redemption we yet anticipate
This Land of Misery and...

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It was such a fight I did not expect, 
she didn’t know the strength of intellect; 
Fable was bent on controlling my mind
there’s no way...

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It was two ways to go
And two ways we went
The tears they wrung from us
Until gape the cracked faith wide
The blood we surrenderd to the...

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Testing each other's faith
At an open window—the air is still,
People seem dead with indifference, 
And yet—the world breathes heavier

Hearts thumping in rhythm
To each other,
Hands clasping...

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Ever since the hour when first we met
your dearest memory my silhouette
the face of my greatest triumph

enamored by the pleasant elation
‘twas the brush of your...

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                      I
 Remember when...

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I fear not the day when you’re not near when in dismay,
          for you have given...

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