Don'T You Hate When This Happens
...You research choices thoroughly
until your eyes dim blurrily
The issues you're so familiar with
you know them like your kin and kith
You review the votes each candidate casts
project t...
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Categories:
blurrily, humorous, irony,
Form: Couplet
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
...Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
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Categories:
blurrily, dream, earth, flower, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Pablo Neruda Translations
...I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and des...
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Categories:
blurrily, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Visions In the Mist
...As dawn breaks across the rugged land,
vague shapes begin to blurrily appear.
images of mythical creatures now seen
briefly then brushed away they dissolve.
Is it these images that give legends...
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Categories:
blurrily, weather,
Form: Verse
Emerald Eyes
...In the grasp of green demons the dissolute lie,
Lost with phantoms of absinthe and smoke,
On an opium trail chasing dragons all night,
Stricken utterly wasted and broke;
When I look to the roofto...
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Categories:
blurrily, death, life, lost love,
Form: Verse