Just a glimmering astral spark births in the gloom a crest of day
...Just a glimmering astral spark births in the gloom a crest of day,
A solitary thread of wax dancing its aura
Scatters the night -
In a delirium of gleamings that chase phantoms of fear away,
Shak...
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Categories:
candelabrum, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Candelabrum
...MY body floats within effervescent veins and blooms of fields by gold
to fullest fields of flowers; by consciousness barely touching
the art of your essences; i have only known a radiance of
thi...
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Categories:
candelabrum, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Composition of Shadows
...The Composition of Shadows
by Michael R. Burch
“I made it out of a mouthful of air.”—W. B. Yeats
We breathe and so we write; the night
hums softly its accompaniment.
Pale phosphors burn; the...
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Categories:
candelabrum, writing,
Form: Sonnet
To My Love Part 5 Tbc
...As the odyssey in the skiff continued a more sentient being begun to appear,
At times feeling as a eunuch who was unable to change anything,
In zenith of toxicity as miasma on a cold misty morning....
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Categories:
candelabrum, life,
Form: Free verse
Five Second Vision
...Cloaked in black she sat
with covered eyes from a broad rimmed hat.
Encircled in a wispy shade of cerise
that dripped to fade into the fleece.
Lines that linger on the chair
follow her finger li...
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Categories:
candelabrum, allegory, dream, imagery,
Form: Free verse