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My Pen Is Weeping Blood

...My pen is mourning the agonies and the sufferings
Of my people, who are drowning in the sea of misery.
My keyboard' strokes are shadowing the slow rhythms
Of the wandering beggar, who's...

Categories: defaces, abuse, baby, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Rhyme

Xenophobia

...“Let not narrowness of ego decoy ~
Every delusion, seek, search and destroy”
~ quote by poet


Defined as dislike of foreign races,
xenophobia retards growth of soul,
for we look a...

Categories: defaces, judgement, prejudice, racism,
Form: Ottava rima

The Imbalancing Ruse

...Fresh and serene droplets rest in galore
As the dawn smiles on them to adore 
The tiny prettiness in spectral mode
Downs from out of the heavenly abode ;
In dainty drips and drizzles   the elixir...

Categories: defaces, nature,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Outlaws

...The best artists are outlaws
Vandalizing our sanctity,
Our sanctimonious freight trains,
Our parsimonious neglect.

The best artists are culprits
Chiseling our school desks,
Scraping our bathr...

Categories: defaces, allusion, art, bible, extended
Form: Didactic

Poems About Poets Iv

...Poems about Poets IV



The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch

for June Kraeft

Here was a woman bright, intent on life,
who did not flinch from Death, but caught his eye
and dre...

Categories: defaces, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Sonnets Lxi-Lxx

...Sonnets LXI-LXX

Erin
by Michael R. Burch

All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,

her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?s...

Categories: defaces, heart, night, spiritual, wife,
Form: Sonnet

The Princess and the Pauper

...The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch

for Norman Kraeft in memory of his beloved wife June Kysilko Kraeft

Here was a woman bright, intent on life,
who did not flinch from Death, but...

Categories: defaces, age, angel, beauty, bereavement,
Form: Sonnet

Addiction

...A quintessential graven image
A bunkum to this present age
Destructive and repulsive
Crisps grips with hands sieve
Pismal dismal for this mar,this mar.
Dictative,will never mind your scars
Disg...

Categories: defaces, art,
Form: Blank verse

Night Calls

...In guiltless slumber she dreams
The stillness of night is broken
Cold hands smother her screams
As reassuring words are spoken

Feeling safe she lets down her guard
His hands touch private plac...

Categories: defaces, abuse, child abuse, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Dead

...Dead


Dead person does not harm 
Or love any one
Why people scare of them!
After death

Surgeon knows dead person 
Does not oppose
While dissects corpse

Difference between the dead
And...

Categories: defaces, art, future, grave, irony,
Form: ABC

Tick Tock , Tick Tock

...Tick tock…tick tock
tick tock goes the clock

With each stroke of its hand
robbing me of youth and vigor
scarring the skin, discoloring the hair
and causing me suddenly to wither.

Just when ...

Categories: defaces, age, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Fears

...Dreaded fears
shake you everyday
Sting like poison
Runs in your veins
Eats you up
Slowly ,slowly
Bit by bit
Fears that can’t
be shared
Fears that are itself reared
Fears that reside
in the back of th...

Categories: defaces, faith, introspection,
Form: Free verse

My Fate

...Raped dreams,
Tacit screams,
Youth stolen from behind,
Warped ideas in a mind,
Drinks drown,
Every frown,
That erases the positivity,
Defaces the liability,
One feels,
Film reels,
Could play this lif...

Categories: defaces, depression, life, recovery from...,
Form: Free verse