Fictional Caper
...This feels too much like deja vu,
the days and nights of a biblioklept.
It’s what the book-bosomed must do,
taking in every chapter as you slept.
Being such an omnilegent person
it’s hard to...
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Categories:
bosomed, books, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Poems about Storms and Squalls
...These are poems about storms, poems about squalls, poems about tempests...
Dark-bosomed clouds
pregnant with heavy thunder ...
the water breaks
—Michael R. Burch
Squall
by Michael R...
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Categories:
bosomed, anger, angst, conflict, relationship,
Form: Free verse
White Wine And Feather Boa Dreams
...I wrap myself
in feather-boa-fantasies of his dreams
sinuous pinot-grigio-me;
X-rated and never sated
dancing to rock ‘n roll— 80’s dated
...my floorshow our foreplay
welcome to the conjuga...
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Categories:
bosomed, age, beauty, marriage, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Hibernating Muse
...Delightful muse, end for me
your dormancy in twenty-three.
Inside myself the churning gusts
of winter thoughts on paper must
be released, un-bosomed, loosed.
So, wake up beloved muse!
Continued...
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Categories:
bosomed, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Art
...The selfsame page echoes wordlessly like barren lord
To write in characters of light, Oh! bucket headed bard
Understand, art-like slumber must set-the soul free
Beyond time's fabric walls, in boun...
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Categories:
bosomed, art, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Gypsies
...They set up tents by their big ol' cadillacs
Up the road a-piece from our little house
In a vacant lot where nothing but weeds grew.
Momma said, "Don't you go up there and stare
At them. They mi...
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Categories:
bosomed, culture, discrimination, kid, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Poems About Things That Break Iii
...Poems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old ha...
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Categories:
bosomed, break up, farewell, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break I
...Poems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old habi...
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Categories:
bosomed, break up, depression, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Grand Old Scribe
...grandma bare bosomed and barely covered by frayed crocheted pants
looked like a mixture of parakeet and paragon in a fairy tale’s garment
under cover of darkness she would bare her wickedness and e...
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Categories:
bosomed, art,
Form: Free verse
Haiku 1
...The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Mich...
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Categories:
bosomed, family, heart, love, mother
Form: Haiku
Essential Service During Lockdown
...There was a girl at the height of her youth
Big bosomed and slim and yet quite uncouth
Then a virus took hold
She had been quite controlled
And then developed a rather sweet tooth
Wi...
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Categories:
bosomed, appreciation,
Form: Limerick
Essential Service During Lockdown
...There was a girl at the height of her youth
Big bosomed and slim and yet quite uncouth
Then a virus took hold
She had been quite controlled
And then developed a rather sweet tooth
Wi...
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Categories:
bosomed, appreciation,
Form: Limerick
The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
...The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved...
and yet I hold her close within my thought...
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Categories:
bosomed, desire, hair, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Takaha Shugyo Haiku and Tanka Translations
...These are my modern English translations of Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka...
hatogata horarete ichiju haya mebuku
A single tree
with a heart carved into its trunk
blossoms prematurely
—Takah...
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Categories:
bosomed, animal, beauty, heaven, nature,
Form: Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
...Zen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael ...
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Categories:
bosomed, age, autumn, bereavement, death,
Form: Haiku
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