Metaphor Desire Poems

Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my...

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A hot sweltering sticky humid evening
Heat clings and hangs in the stagnant air
Almost too hot and stifling to bear
Floods of silver wet ovaline beads
Perspire and...

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Those wide mahogany eyes, 
I cannot help but cling to, 
like goosegrass clings on,
too dear, may I hang out here?
just for a little while longer,
you...

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I think I'm in trouble, watching morning's,  
dance of light, across the crumpled pillow,  
noticing a fleck of amber in your eyes, ...

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Sweet toothache
Undersigned pen names
The name of lilac and it's feels
The nature of drumbeats 
Unplayed games
And how our heart, it heals

Squeezed oranges
The texture of velvet
Seldom singing...

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Time turns on wrinkled canvas,
winter spider in twilight hour 
weaves senility web, 
empty eyes wander in wasteland. 
Hedonist psyche refuses 
to gauge the grief of...

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The bass line slips,
in melody of you,
rhythm’s eclipse,
control askew, 
glass mouths cling,
to every line,
whispering, 
sublime, tipsy light,
in our eyes,
of crescent bright,
lullabies.
...

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We tell ourselves, 
of rituals and rights,
man made excite,
creating rotten cores,
righteous in wander,
studied still the corpse,
with a thirst as mine,
considered beauty,
would never sate,
my appetite.
...

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I. 

Fold, crease, unfold, sheets
of paper thin as possibility,
a crisp white plea to gravity.
Forty-five times, a cosmic origami
building bridges from table to the moon.
The mind...

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Magnolia hearts need not be brave,
For their tickets are only one way,
Routes unchallenged, straight to the grave,
I’d rather chase the vermillion fray. 

Though, that is...

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From roses to peonies, from peonies to lovers
im swinging on the bench during the deepest Halloween night like a crazy cicada enamorada wrapped around the...

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A Joining Created Colors of Human Faces
All is the power of the power Elohim creates
Beauty beheld baste the provisions shore
Creative forces share creativity case…
Declared declaration...

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A flood of thoughts
I find myself thinking them over 
Rather religiously

They get caught up in the flood sometimes
And spill out without a warning sign

And it...

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I look around for beauty
trying to step out
locked in a castle
castle I built of my mind with ice
to stop the flowing of emotions
I had to...

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