As a mortal man of threescore and five years
...As a mortal man of threescore and five years...
I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, o...
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Categories:
convulsive, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Poems about Science 5: Evolution
...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION
Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I...
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Categories:
convulsive, child, children, earth, life,
Form: Rhyme
fakery
...I can be a wretched fake, in private, intimate performance.
I’m an actress capable of imitating spontaneous pleasure -
by tricks of hesitation, convulsive vocal play and postures.
A mimicry un...
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Categories:
convulsive, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Debacle
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* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends with a moral lesson that humanity still hasn't learned, sadly.
In S...
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Categories:
convulsive, confusion, evil, history,
Form: Rhyme
Death of a Loved One
...In the Church, I met a woman quite old,
Bending under the weight of years.
I wonder what made her steal my attention.
Was it her struggle to hold back her tears?
Despite her frail stooping fig...
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Categories:
convulsive, death, mother, son,
Form: Rhyme
Euphoria
...Her evening gown was studded with opalescent sequins.
She had chosen the dress herself, deadlier than the male.
Why had she brought him there, when doubts could kill?
Why did she ch...
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Categories:
convulsive, desire, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Traumatizing
...Zafar Supari killer chemical Drink produces
numerous symptoms such as Pale urine,
Stomach swelling,headches,fainting,despair,
Palpitations,convulsive & psycho behaviour etc..
Note.1.Drink.2.Drugs...
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Categories:
convulsive, addiction, anxiety, body, depression,
Form: Tazkira
My Blood
...When my first Grandchild was born I loved
him from word go.I arranged my work schedule so that I could keep him when his mother returned
to work.I would arrive about a quarter to eight to his gummy...
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Categories:
convulsive, family, love,
Form: Free verse
Ghost-Written
...My poems are ghost-written.
I scarcely identify the visitants
Mingling with heedless shadows.
Poltergeists outfit my words.
Though we converse,
I hardly know them,
And seldom fathom
Their pr...
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Categories:
convulsive, metaphor, mystery, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mord Wraiths
...Elan's word?
Zulu's sword?
Heartsichordiums-convulsive-verb
"Anabantium", O wraith of mord.
So is it, it is for Hilerides-Dales,
which green-discourse,
Southeast of Wales
or some other pe...
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Categories:
convulsive, abortion, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Never Again
...Pulled together
by a magnetic avoidance of loneliness,
fueled by an insatiable ardor
to evade a shortage of love.
Mutually splintered souls searching
for a place to embed and
implement a façade...
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Categories:
convulsive, abuse, addiction, hurt, violence,
Form: Free verse
Lusus Naturae
...The dark lake only buoys its own natatory denizens,
it allows some to swim, some to glide, dip or delve,
but those sombre waters pull down children
seeing them only as the cloud spawn of alien sho...
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Categories:
convulsive, poetry,
Form: Free verse
This World Misplaced Me
...This world misplaced me long ago
From the bully to the bullied
I cris cross time forgot the past
Been lost for so long
The anxiety overwhelms
Distractions on my mind
Lose focus lost hope
I ca...
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Categories:
convulsive, depression, fear, identity, lost,
Form: Free verse
Beyond Real
...when Animal Farm is not a feeding manual
and Clockwork Orange strikes at midnight
Dali’s time piece warps under face value
and an eagle-eyed-cuckoo flies over its nest
beneath the cover...
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Categories:
convulsive, dream,
Form: Free verse
Free Verse I
...Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held...
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Categories:
convulsive, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
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