Ghost
...By Michael Parker
The winter storm has settled above me like a dark continent,
aubergine and gray, and has eaten the moon and her children.
The oracles, because of this, are choked and di...
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Categories:
cumbrous, 12th grade, pain,
Form: Free verse
Poems about Science 6: Evolution
...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 6: EVOLUTION
Singularity
by Michael R. Burch
Are scientists confounded like the ostrich?
Heads buried in the sand, they shout, *Preposterous!*
This universe, so magical, ...
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Categories:
cumbrous, earth, life, light, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Science 4: Birth and Evolution
...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 4: BIRTH/EVOLUTION
Simultaneous Flight
by Michael R. Burch
*The number of possible connections [brain] cells can make exceeds the number of particles in the universe. — Ger...
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Categories:
cumbrous, bird, flying, light, science,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of War
...In Memoriam of brave, lost souls during the First World War
Our insides churn, nostrils flare, with the pungent stench,
Order given to leave our sanctuary and trench.
Battle cry, whistle blown a...
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Categories:
cumbrous, world war i,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Symphony
...Written: June 26, 2023
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The morning's rising sun looms above the hills.
My breath catches in my throat and fulfills.
Wa...
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Categories:
cumbrous, analogy, appreciation, beauty, morning,
Form: Rhyme
The Shape of Wings
...Another day spent
in my throbbing head.
This day, a tightening noose,
a smothering sheath of
white, sterile gauze
once loose.
Moments I dread
are swirling around
in my head.
(I ...
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Categories:
cumbrous, bird, body, freedom, pain,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet For Winds of Change
...SONNET FOR WINDS OF CHANGE
Cross cirrus sky swift brush strokes paint mares' tails
Tree tops are in restless susurration,
While cumbrous clouds traverse in vapour trails
Mead grass is fanned in...
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Categories:
cumbrous, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Harbingers of Hollow
...Harbingers of Hollow
In my habitual haunting hysteria
I digress to an abandoned area
Voids of dimming dissolving glow
The hermetic harbingers of hollow
Landscapes of secluded ...
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Categories:
cumbrous, conflict, confusion, depression,
Form: Couplet
Sonnet For a Windy Day
...SONNET FOR A WINDY DAY
‘cross cirrus sky swift brush strokes paint mares' tails
O'er restless tree tops’ anxious susurration,
The cumbrous clouds traverse in vaporous trails
Below, grasses are...
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Categories:
cumbrous, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Chosen Colours
...Whoever claimed sorrow be blue
and crimson - rage would be
are not aware the darkened hues
that dwell inside of me
Sad - I'd paint in shades of gray
Ash scattered to the sea
Brown my ch...
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Categories:
cumbrous,
Form: Rhyme
A Butterfly Inside
...I feel a butterfly inside;
its wings are cramped within my breast.
The weight of flesh, o dull cocoon,
prohibits my free flight. At best
I only soar inside; my wings--
gossamer, light, remain un...
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Categories:
cumbrous, butterfly, death, freedom, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Sin's Benison
...It comes as something of surprise.
We need the broken figurines.
the malice we expressed,
the heart forever bound in cords
constricting its magnificence.
It seems
the pure, transcendant, holy orb
tha...
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Categories:
cumbrous, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Chosen Colors
...Whoever claimed sorrow be blue
and crimson - rage would be
are not aware the darkened hues
that dwell inside of me
Sad - I'd paint in shades of gray
Ash scattered to the sea
Brown my chosen ca...
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Categories:
cumbrous, art, me,
Form: Rhyme
Prologue To Eternity
...I draw into the artificial womb
and travel from the day upon my breath
until dimension fades, a silent shift
occurs, and there is no more self to pad
the absolute, yet from the depth emerge
the won...
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Categories:
cumbrous, time,
Form: Free verse
Thunderstorm.
...Tunneling deep into the eyes of one another
A channeling of a mutual respect and despotic hatred
High above nearly visible a clash between the two
Exploding in a power of light as the two blades c...
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Categories:
cumbrous, adventure, angst, visionary, engagement,
Form: Free verse
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