If Not For Love
...If Not For Love
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 18
The little child who cries,
brushing sleep from startled eyes,
might not have awakened from her dreams
to fill the night with plaintive scream...
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Categories:
crocodilian, child, childhood, children, cry,
Form: Rhyme
I Have the Best Snout In the Sea
...I can grow thirteen feet long if I want
I stay in the Amazon where I love to hunt
I am the biggest crocodilian in the present day
Yes, I am a black caiman, slithering in the fray
One woman guesse...
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Categories:
crocodilian, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Encounter With Murder of Crows
...I can grow thirteen feet long if I want
I stay in the Amazon where I love to hunt
I am the biggest crocodilian in the present day
Yes, I am a black caiman, slithering in the fray
One woman guesse...
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Categories:
crocodilian, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Guess Who I Am
...I can grow thirteen feet long if I want
I stay in the Amazon where I love to hunt
I am the biggest crocodilian in the present day
Yes, I am a black caiman, slithering in the fray
One woman guesse...
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Categories:
crocodilian, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Aurora Spills
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"Aurora Spills"
Aurora spills like a waterfall
light from the eyes
saltwater tears
crocodilian
scaled in the weight of worth
a drop in the ocean of fate
breaks the s...
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Categories:
crocodilian, muse,
Form: Free verse
Zebra At the River
...distinct call of zebras, to another,
a warning, not to move any further!
a long snort with a few more neighing sounds,
as they cross Mara between sandy mounds.
passing across the river from Kenya...
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Categories:
crocodilian, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Et and Other Poets
...The mind is a long walk home,
dinosaurs unnamable
litter the green turf
of our travels.
Reptiles shrink to birds,
the larger birds collapse like balloons
eventually running out of sky.
Lizar...
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Categories:
crocodilian, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Crocidillian
...Crocodilian
Mendaciously making sense.
Mealy-mouthed verbal evidence.
How many billion
More humans to bring it down?
Base hybrid . Reptillian brain
Alienistic ignorance
Secrets Veiled all ar...
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Categories:
crocodilian, power,
Form: I do not know?
Crocodilian Lullaby
...still water beckons
drink deep of my reflection
danger lurks elsewhere...
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Categories:
crocodilian, animals, death, funny, philosophy,
Form: Haiku