Defunct Poems - Poems about Defunct

Eagle’s Challenge

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meet me on high in limpid luminescent sky
from whence you’ll catch my twigs perhaps
there I cloudless am guided to harlequin horizons
precision ...

The Wheels Go Round and Round

...Existence, existing and then
the emptying out, the exit.
X marks the spot
where dots are always laid to rest.

I have been pulling a little red meat wagon
existing just before
its hard rubber ...

A Gallery of Passing Clouds

...These thoughts we frame and title
hang now from long defunct dendrites,
made branchless by the passé and pointless
now all strung-up upon threadbare strings.

Ones or twice the hanged are molest...

A Flowerless Corpse

...Snowing-- a hiemal, deathly air
 Their frigid, frostbitten fingers hold nothing
  Uncomfortable silence washes over all there
   A petalless, thorny rose someone is clutching

   Her corpse,...

Discontinued?

...Eventualities don't apply to me
     (I can dream)
no matter their presence
in the mirrors of reality

Always one step ahead
though the shrinking distance 
     haunts
like an early frost - t...

Sprawling in America

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Trucks hauling away defunct Malls.
One city has been transported to another,
until superimposed, only the name are different.

Freeways chase endless miles,
looking for more things to shift,
...

Poems about Science 1: Climate

...Climate Change Haiku
by Michael R. Burch

late November:
climate skeptics scoff
but the geese no longer migrate.



The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct
by Michael R. Burch

Th...

Medical

...I am in that basement ward,
the disused one,
the one they park you in
on the way to the morgue.

The usual clutter of broken wheelchairs,
torn screens,
long defunct electrical equipment.

I ...

Sit it Out

...Dark, heavy clouds hung low
I wanted to continue but I just couldn't go

My vision was blurred and nearly defunct
Rising winds began to harpoon my wheels, leaving
me feeling stumped

Then a su...

The Great Riddle

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“The Great Riddle” 

Humanism became a new religion
in a world where romancing gods
at war sanctifying acts of violence

for their own levels of commandments,
became defu...

Mocking Dance of the Dead

...Written: September 19, 2023
Mocking The Dead Poetry Contest           Sponsored by: Silent One 
"Do not be afraid of death. Death transforms to something wider. Death is where it all...

Gift of Benevolence

...Written: September 09, 2023
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In a world where boons often fade,
And kindness can be obnoxiously betrayed.
There is a sp...

My Father's Garden

...It was summer time, a time for planting and reaping 
and when it came to my dad well he could make that garden sing 
He spent hours nurturing his plum tomatoes, while I his offspring
could only ad...

Defunct Night

...Afore the dusk
My soul's frail, lone, and goner
Sadness cover' me like a busk
Concern' who's  to be the new coiner?
While only nix available was flunk
Onset of the defunct night.

I falter in ...

Blurred Anaemic Edge

...The urge to travel,
to spread your wings and fly away,
never rooted to one spot.
never spotted on  a route.
signpost now defunct,
map a feeble pointer,
direction only by one’s nose.
Intuition ...

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