Careening Poems

your eyes upon me

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love careening like molten honey



AP: Honorable Mention 2025
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Mother Bird Star Warmth

...Seems so surreal...billions of beings
held in place by invisible forces 
atop a giant spinning orb
dependent on the charity of
mother bird's star warmth.

It's a golden time for earth and manki...

Naked Greed Meets Raw Power

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    Electricity crackles in the air
    roller-coaster careening 
       off its track as silver trumpets blare

    Gangs teem and thrive in jungles 
    from Africa to American streets
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Shining Bright

...Shining Bright,

Filling the airwaves, 
Freeing the slaves, 
Digging up graves, 
Daring to misbehave. 
A brave ray of light, 
Illuminating whats right.  
Shining through a dark night, 
Clear...

Lighthouse

...A lighthouse stands firm,

Before the storm.

First to see its dark form,

The horizon no more.

Caustic clouds curl in,

The birds are now swarming,

Winds whirling, swirling,

Waves h...

Winter And The Night Sky Aflame

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In last clear winter night  
I saw red light like a phoenix
a light careening downward
against the canvas of aphotic sky.

Present were the planets 
which aligned among constellations,
passe...

Ode to the Beach

...Waves careening up
And down on the vast shoreline;
The sea’s melody....

Jeers and Cheers

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    The crush of reporters with mikes
       the security entourage 
    Autograph-seekers, well-wishers
       hand-shakers, selfie-fishers
  
    On stage 24/7... with luck, for years
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Deep Dust

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apocalyptic deity
wrestling with time bombs 
shouting in malicious mud
***FLAMING!Screaming!PIERCING***
bulletsdronesmissiles
!!!(((midnight --> noon)))!!!
!!!!X|\/|X!!!...

Adrenaline Junket

...The vague and the abstract turned into a contract,
adrenaline junkies, now joined in a dare.
With hands up, no screaming, they’d both go careening,
defying gravity at the State Fair.

W...

Shame

...ai is nothing but ghostwriters,
uses words of dead poets passed,
ai is nothing but ghost writers,
using the poets of the past.

and they say it is the future,
staring into their rearview,
good...

Macabre And Reflection

...The city, a diseased harpy, her rotting carcass a testament to the decay of civilization. I cut through her festering alleys, camera in hand, a Pygmy navigating the labyrinth of my own fevered brain....

Children's Poems IV

...Children's Poems IV

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Boundless
by Michael R. Burch

for...

Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories

...Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

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Rear View Mirror

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Careening down the freeway
   adjusting   watching
   my rear-view   mirror
Checking to see 
   if death
   be closing in
Lurking there
   in my blind spot
of a blinded   life.
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