Loosing my mind
...I used to hear words of pain
I’m used to hearing words of defeat
In this traumatic drama of my life
I realise they no longer need a body
The spill from lips wide open
Stained on my mind
From...
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Categories:
debited, analogy, anxiety, depression, how
Form: Free verse
Pass by slowly O Life
...Slide ever so slowly O Life,
I’ve many a debt to meet still,
Many an ache, pain to treat still,
To do some duties discreet still.
Some were upset in daily drill,
Some lost life's bet, some fee...
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Categories:
debited, life, time,
Form: Ghazal
Laughing Into 2023
...Laughter is the shortest distance between the joker and the listener:
My friend got robbed today, they took away his girlfriend Valentine's gift. Now, he rehearsing how he will explain to his girl...
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Categories:
debited, education, feelings, humorous,
Form: Burlesque
Bank Job No Longer Fantastic
...Can’t you for a moment be frank
About his being of higher rank;
That not once, not twice, your heart sank
And you’d wanted to yourself spank?
Nsofor whose sweat and robes stank;
The smell of air...
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Categories:
debited, business, career, image, money,
Form: Rhyme
Early Poems Ii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kis...
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Categories:
debited, poems, poetry, poets, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Being Proactive After Getting Hoodwinked
...(alternatively titled: tardy duff fender of assertiveness,
especially after adjusting following insanity clause
affixed with rubber baby-buggy bumpers)
Methinks I nearly got snookered
courtesy ...
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Categories:
debited, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Epigrams V
...Epigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip...
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Categories:
debited, giggle, humor, humorous, irony,
Form: Epigram
Epigrams
...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Bu...
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Categories:
debited, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Epigram
Simple Blessed
...SIMPLE BLESSED
I may not have a lot of friends, some say no one
I may not have a love in my life, a loving wife
and I may not have a lot of money
But I only,
Only I
Can tell my testimony..
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Categories:
debited, appreciation, blessing, confidence,
Form: Lyric