Slab City Crisis Tamed
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Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest
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City hum drifts through spurious ways,
teeming in a wild, woody w...
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Categories:
crabgrass, angst, city,
Form: Free verse
Indicative VEGETABLES-
...Constipated onions
Immaculate cantaloupe
Collard, mustard, turnip greens
crabgrass eating artichoke distant
Are the carrots potatoes fried display?
But the watermelon
Praise on the t...
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Categories:
crabgrass, adventure, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Unlikely Mike, for Michael Jackson
...Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch
I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.
I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my face and changed its conno...
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Categories:
crabgrass, blue, divorce, dream, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Sophers
...From the memoirs
he smiled
laughing evil
might his cohorts
agree
an evil smile
upon his burlapped
face he opened
his eyes to see
he offered
Crabgrass and Brier wreaths
with ragweed pollen ...
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Categories:
crabgrass, adventure, atheist, autumn, christian,
Form: Bio
Un-Fairie Queen
...An un-fairie queene
from an unchivalrous tale
lumping and clumping
off beaten tracks
down beaten ones
so beaten
that they click and crack
criss-crossed with crabgrass
so tall that it looks
l...
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Categories:
crabgrass, hope,
Form: Free verse
Traverse the Course Where Reality Is Going-
...In my systematic dreams dissension
As gargoyles front and flank In deception, Oh! did I mention
Floating in the skies those lost balloons
Those non frequent flyers poise to rise toward...
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Categories:
crabgrass, allusion, analogy, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Faeries Are Still Outside
...The Faeries Are Still Outside
Trying to cheer a garden up from the clay,
But the crabgrass won’t part
And the trees are snickering
At the art-
Less way the faeries
Sway while chanting,
Cas...
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Categories:
crabgrass, fantasy, fun, garden, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Raining Down Commotions
...Raining down emotions,
darkly enlightening
interior memory re-experiences
of exterior impassioned imagination events
Nonviolent win/win images
enlightening darkness
of win/lose competitions
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Categories:
crabgrass, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form: Political Verse
Sustaining Health
...Who said?
Health isn't about politics!
Health shouldn't be about politics!
Health should be above partisan politics!
Healthy systems
are not about unchanging purity
and safety
and traditiona...
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Categories:
crabgrass, earth, health, history, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Spring Awakening
...The first monarch butterfly,
Just flitted by.
Lazily drifting through stark spring sunlight,
Seeking any blooms to alight.
Daffodils cheerily glow before front fence,
Oval ridged petals in bre...
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Categories:
crabgrass, daffodils, flower, garden, rose,
Form: Sonnet
Homeless Heather
...Homeless Heather
Lived in yet more so outside of a rundown tenement
She would wash her hair in the toilet
She would eat bread thrown in the yard for the birds
She wore to mix map pairs of...
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Categories:
crabgrass, analogy, change, community, thanksgiving,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Renewed Beautiful Life In Heaven-
...Fly walking on the grounds of the garden of Eden
Shane visions of peaceful coexistence animals engaging
A new world where there's no sin
In an environment where there's little wind
In the...
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Categories:
crabgrass, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, heaven,
Form: Light Verse
Mother May I
...Mother May I
Go outside into the light
Shuttered windows and doors
I can not breath
Inside this house
The Sun light is on my mind
Flowers and trees and spring like weather
It should be boy m...
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Categories:
crabgrass, anxiety, betrayal, endurance, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Dream House
...Dream House
by Michael R. Burch
I have come to the house of my fondest dreams,
but the shutters are boarded; the front door is locked;
the mail box leans over; and where we once walked,
the pa...
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Categories:
crabgrass, children, divorce, dream, house,
Form: Verse
O What a Vision-
...O WHAT A VISION-
Picture this you and I alone with God and Jesus
Imagine just us walking along heavens wake
Just you and I God and Jesus
Stepping on those golden streets of gold;
Nib...
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Categories:
crabgrass, analogy, appreciation, celebration, devotion,
Form: Free verse
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