Dark Charm Poems

A month without you
It hardly seems true
The days they just drag
Like some lingering flu

I miss all those chats
With the cheek and the charm
I wonder if,...

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I wanted to leave the world behind,
But she said, "I want our story to be romanticized".
So I buried us alive, side by side.
...

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Snowflake, glistening
Quivering close to my lips
Fluttering mystery, so beautiful
Whimsical – a graceful wish

In hope, I stick out my tongue
Licking the wonder as it runs from...

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She loved the bracelet, the charms, the bauble, the shimmer and shine.
She kept it polished, new, like when her father gave it
to her, too long...

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A girl but little trapped in fairy tale
Being scared of future she turned pale
 
Hid behind tall dark trees 
It doesn’t matter where she is
Smiling...

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Pandemic Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

I pray tonight
the starry light
might
surround you.

I pray
by day
that, come what may,
no dark thing confound you.

I pray ere the morrow
an end to...

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Helen, Troyless
by Michael R. Burch

"The face that launched a thousand ships..."

Helen, bright accompaniment,
accouterment of war as sure as all
the polished swords of princes groomed to...

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Hymn to Aphrodite
by Sappho
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor!
Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress and beguiler!
I implore you, dread mistress, discipline me...

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What dangers lurk
on the dark side
of one’s
imaginary world
what fantasy
will lure you
to your undoing
in such conniving ways
so innocent her smile
she will entice you
most beguiling charms
down an...

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POEM "NIGHT DANCING" by martin gedge

Beneath the shade of brilliant skies
like shooting stars around your eyes
you make a wish and hold it to your heart
a...

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Welcome my dear
what can I do you for? 
I offer spells and charms galore 

A love philter you say? 
I know just the thing
When I...

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In the streets of Nairobi
Is a hopeless place to find love

I walked with a rather slow pace
As I rummaged my eyes perplexingly through the parade...

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Will Thee walk with me tonight ?
Amongst the spirits of Twilight
Gothic verse we wilt recite
I wilt gage not to bite

Wilt thee with me slowly dance...

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Part 22

how can there be any absolutes
with the clock ticking like it does
it's hard to tell if you'll come to your senses
when it's one thing...

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any fool can be a philosopher
and it's not that big a deal
to be an Oracle either
we all notice more than we let on
so much is...

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