Bitter Sweet
Late at night when I’m alone in my bed.
A soft feather pillow under my head.
My mind goes drifting down memory street
when we were together and life was sweet.
We meet at a wedding, we dance all night.
Your face all aglow in the candle light.
Your holding my hand, then, after a while,
holding again as we walk down
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Categories:
bitter sweet, love, memory,
Form: Sonnet
BITTER SWEET
To get pay
You must go
Through things
Things we face
Just for the pay
Things we can't say
Things that almost drive us insane.
So many
Pains and shame
We faced
But unable to tame us
We're always resilient
Onward and forward
Until we succeed.
Good life
Our destination
Never settled
For anything
But the best.
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Categories:
bitter sweet, africa, career, cheer up,
Form: Narrative
Bitter Sweet Words
A poem is a touch
When life is itchy
It ease a burden
If you read it by heart
The words are simple
No one get stuck
If you get the message
Just let it flow freely
To imagination relay
Sweet or bitter words
Are all therein if you wait
Till all the lines you read
You felt the emotions you get
Just don't pretend it hurts
Or smile
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Categories:
bitter sweet, emotions, poems, simple,
Form: Free verse
Bitter-Sweet Passion
I chose to love
Embraced bitter sweet love
My mind's patched
My heart's banded up
Yet it heals to be fibrosed
To never beat like before
All a consequence of loving
Loving has never been more difficult
But do I still will to love
You are damn right , I do
Cos it's my way out of a dystopian life
Love's hurts are
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Categories:
bitter sweet, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Bitter Sweet Thoughts
Loneliness seeps within my inner soul
I ponder of today and yesterday
Lost to the past my future ever-lasts
Alone, thinking I keep my thoughts at bay
How long will I stay in my room and think?
And now thinking, think good thoughts not bad ones
Excessive thinking, brings me to the brink
My thoughts gathering now dispersing; runs!
I
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Categories:
bitter sweet, beautiful, day, faith, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Birthday Poem to Myself
Birthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch
LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,
Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;
come dwell again,
happy child among men—
men rejoicing to have known you
in the familiar manger’s cool
sweet light scent of unburdened hay.
Teach us again to be light that way,
with a chorus of angelic songs lessoned above.
Be to us again
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Categories:
bitter sweet, birthday, dark, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
SINKING
These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...
Sinking
by Michael R. Burch
for Virginia Woolf
Weigh me down with stones…
fill all the pockets of my gown…
I’m going down,
mad as the world
that can’t recover,
to where even mermaids drown.
Door Mouse
by Michael R. Burch
I’m sure it’s not
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Categories:
bitter sweet, death, fate, fire, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Bitter-Sweet
The greatest gift a man could ask for in his life
Is being responsible for the smile his woman brings alive
She's already a goddess that was sent from heaven
That devilish stare she gives with her eyes
And a smile so rejuvenated like water it quenches your thirst
I walked by her many time
Side-eyeing
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Categories:
bitter sweet, birthday, desire, destiny, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Pomegranate
Arid, bony-shanked carapace.
Shiny, weathered patina
tells of desolation,
Belies any promise of richness;
Yet when inverted,
Becoming regal.
A tatty, crown implies
The ancient purport.
Tough, yet easily-torn in avarice.
Revealing, inner passion
Shrieks fecundity and blood,
Gleams with shiny liveliness;
Yet when sundered,
Serried jewels.
A secret, inner-order shows
The abundant warrant.
Red, a study of translucence.
Deep-hued, each perfect gem
Fades to stalk-umbilicus,
Foretells the unborn orchard;
Yet when
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Categories:
bitter sweet, desire, fruit, life, passion,
Form: Free verse
Close Your Eyes and Dream
Close your eyes and dream,
Deep in a slumber,
In solitude,
Peace and quiet,it's bitter and sweet,
Close your eyes and dream,
Forget about all the day's work,
Cool breeze,lay on the grass,
In the night under the stars,
Close your eyes and dream,
Lean on my shoulder when your scared,
Think of the moon,
She comes at dark,
Like a silver star in the sky,
In your
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Categories:
bitter sweet, anxiety, confidence, fear, freedom,
Form: Couplet
Bitter Sweet Memories
Early winter morning remembering
From the soft warm depths
Of an old man’s bed:
Walking through dark streets
Shivering with cold, thinking of
The soft warm bed she’d pushed me
From of with a final cuddled kiss
Before she snuggled back
Under the warm down duvet
So she was back asleep
Before I’d even left the room;
Stolen half nights with my Illicit
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Categories:
bitter sweet, first love, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Bitter Sweet
Surely time
will ease the pain.
This is the crap,
that can drive you insane.
Shot in the heart;
Remove the arrow.
What you hold today,
Could be gone tomorrow.
In these four walls;
I sit and stare.
I can feel betrayal;
crackling
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Categories:
bitter sweet, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
bitter sweet, america, childhood, racism,
Form: Couplet
Bitter Sweet Victory
they fell
for our freedom
far away from loved ones
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Categories:
bitter sweet, celebration, sad, war,
Form: Cinquain
Bitter Sweet
Dedicated to a special boy who was my foster brother for a while.
Bitter Sweet
Our memories are locked inside my chest,
Just knowing you, I am extremely blessed.
When you entered my life, you made your mark,
Your presence filled
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Categories:
bitter sweet, brother, love,
Form: Verse
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