Rain Body Poems

bleeding
…out
gravity
…zero
orion desire
halo in knots - dream architect  
on earth we are weightless
eating the darkness
wings wayward whisper
death to the master
in the seam there is energy
bending...

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RED SEA

At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
        ...

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Limericks IX



Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch

The world’s first antinatalist limerick?

Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames may delight
In...

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Beneath the damn blood-stained sunsets, cold and red,
Where shadows crawl on fields of poppies dead,
Some poor soul walks, burdened by the grit,
Memories of a war,...

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Freezing in the midst of hostile ice monsoon
triggering aching woes beneath blood and bones,
I search for a quilt woven in sanguine rune
silken feathers of clementine...

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Twenty-twelve attached her to her lowest points. 
Twenty-twelve couldn’t help her body fight the silent killer in her Veins. 
Twenty-twelve made a dramatic change to...

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In a world where kindness finds its place,
Some souls illuminate life's grace,
Aiding others to find their joy,
Their presence, a light, they deploy.

For weeks on end,...

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Interstate routes
Endless road
Highway travel the threshold
On and off ramp
Distances being miles
Listening to music while
Once and a while rest stop
Sometimes rain could fall on car top
Highways...

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I kiss this cigarette and it's killing me
But I admire the beauty of its smoke
Like flying into space without a helmet
O hands tickle core and...

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The wind is sitting on the branches of time turning its head on every corner while the daffodils are jumping and prancing in the flower...

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I fly
Never to say good bye
A tear I may cry
No one does know
Where I may go
Or where I will be
Who I'll see
A ghost in the...

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I write my thought
In what time has wrought 
Doesn't mean I'm sad
Or mad
Just writing of the feeling of some point in time
About it I make...

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God the pain, 
The overwhelming pain, 
All you do is drain, 
Like your the water that is called rain, 
Down down you go down the...

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Fall into me like I am blurry and let me 
catch you like you are drowning.
Drowning in me, drowning in you, 
the love of my...

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Heavy rain and sleeping pain,
of all the men I've talked to, it still felt mundane.
Exhausted body and a drunken mind,
but if it's you, oh, come...

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