The person I want to be
...Is one’s destiny written on the winds?
When a seed is buried; is it set free?
Do ciphers resonate within the bends
of limbs; or are they rooted with the tree?
I’m reaching for the stars I am s...
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Categories:
ciphers, deep, destiny, dream, extended
Form: Sonnet
An Illusion
...We are a species gnawing at the roots of existence, hellbent on self-immolation, our every endeavor a funiculus of futility. The argent legacy of our forebears, squandered by imbecilic hands that mol...
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Categories:
ciphers, dark,
Form: Free verse
I could not whisper the story
...Tongue touched,
a diaphanous zephyr of ephemeral desire,
rustles the parchment of our sepulchral scripture,
where our connubial covenant is inscribed,
in the cryptographic ledger of the damned...
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Categories:
ciphers, appreciation, beauty, confidence, courage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
CIPHERS
...ciphers of the unknown * A MIRO EKPHRASIS
red dots,
a frog
blue
coins
a violet fish
in the deep blue
rain falls
breathes
in black
& love with rainbows
spiral down
to car...
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Categories:
ciphers, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
MIRO titlista 39-41
...dew falling
awakens
shadowed
figures
firmanent
lights
in
the morning
rain
irridescent
ciphers
revealing
the
unknown...
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Categories:
ciphers, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Emagi Ciphers
...Joan Miro 'CIPHERS'
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____
____
S -> S
•))). °
S -> E. /
°\
°
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Categories:
ciphers, poems,
Form: Shape
Undo Unmake
...But breakfast’s subject beckons:
the booster affair effect in Tumblr-
land? The digital map surveillance
co-sponsor the soccer mom sauce
minivan project, relay & speech
to cell battery fiasco....
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Categories:
ciphers, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Invictum
...Against wild dogma and feathery wit,
Shall your sound idioms and wisdom
Outshine fickle folios of mortal sages;
Proving verity in its irrepressible form.
Your arresting dictums shall outshine
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Categories:
ciphers, allegory, allusion, destiny, devotion,
Form: Didactic
No-Some-Thing
...Nothing to say
do beyond robotic routines
…beyond eluding erosion
Something to say
do beyond repetitive rituals
…beyond evading entropy
Nowhere to go
hide behind cacophonous clowns
…behin...
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Categories:
ciphers, anger, angst, dark, social,
Form: Alliteration
Beauty Briefs
...Image of Spring Flowers Colorful Flower Bed provided by Pixabay
Beauty Briefs
Tulips escaping kisses
Yardbird noses ciphers scent
Poppies aim none are misses
Views gave letters of ...
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Categories:
ciphers, flower, imagery, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Images Coalesce
...a snail licks
red dots
a frog
blue coins
a violet fish
in
the deep blue
Seine
rain falls
breathes blue
in the
blac...
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Categories:
ciphers, art, poetry, tribute,
Form: Imagism
Second Sight Ii
...Sonnet: Second Sight (II)
by Michael R. Burch
(Newborns see best at a distance of 8 to 14 inches.)
Wiser than we know, the newborn screams,
red-faced from breath, and wonders what life means
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Categories:
ciphers, baby, birth, child, kid,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
...Sonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows...
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Categories:
ciphers, books, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Emptiness
...I am full
Of emptiness
I long for longing
Crave contentment
The insensate pain
Of intangible touch
Indecipherable ciphers
Choreographed madness
Craggy comfort
Of blunt condolence
The de...
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Categories:
ciphers, depression, loneliness, longing, lost,
Form: Free verse
Prognostication
...Most rigorous astrology can hardly divine
Why flamy galactic orbs often burning fall;
Or the calm pull behind shiniest meteorites'
Hurtling lower from their neat nestlings tall.
I own that ap...
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Categories:
ciphers, christian, destiny, god, heaven,
Form: Didactic
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