Song Desire Poems

Drifting in silence, no haven in sight,
Alone in the crowd, under the pale moonlight.
Whispers of home, now ghosts in the wind,
A solitary journey, with no...

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I can steal the gold in ole Fort Knox
Steal the loot in a pirates box
I can steal a stone from Stonehenge site
Steal the cape from...

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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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SIREN CALL

After she opened her door to me
She said she’d sensed me from afar
Was this actually some kind of ESP
Or could she have been an...

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Yes, blame the chick,
Rocker or hick,
Burning here,
Hands appear!
Witchy fire, 
Doomed desire,
Blasted, didn't care,
She's a don't care bear,
Guess she felt good,
Blasted the whole 'hood!...

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Let our demons dance together
Watching the world burning
Embracing the darkness forever
Not waiting for a happy ending
Just take my hand and walk
Away from the pain of...

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Even now, despite the time
that's gone by since you were mine,
I find at quiet moments in my heart -
that you never left me for
in my...

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He defied tragedy as he rowed
His sturdy boat towards the middle
Of the cursed lake where once
His wife fell into the icy water
And drowned.  He...

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In sun-scorched dunes, beside a weathered sentinel, 
a glint ensnared his weary gaze.
A tarnished lamp / grazed / its secrets unknown / 
a genie unbound,...

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Crimson pulse beneath the skin,
Whispers in moonlight, secrets within.
Brushfire crackles, fingers yearn,
Hungry canvas, shadows burn.

Ink bleeds, a siren's song,
Cracked clay whispers, where longing prolongs.
Chiseled stone,...

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What if fruitless should grow a goodly deed, 
A pleasant song is tuned with poignant lilt, 
A buoyant theme, on notes of bathos' built, 
If...

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Spring, lifeless in palm
Rendered inarticulate
By winter held hard
~the~
Erroneous truth
Breath of light traces the mind
Opens eye upward
~wayward~
Icon, tomb of flesh
Buries the heart, withers love 
Weeping silence...

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They past is another country
But as life moves on
It’s good sometimes to recall
Once good times long gone.
I called her my Pretty Flamingo,
The current Manfred Mann...

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I watched the shadows move and the curtain rise, and the moon suddenly appear from underneath the star lit skies, the clouds drift slowly and...

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Charmed by her exotic glance
She enchants a sexy dance
In costumed display of art
Strumming rhythms of joyful heart
Choreographing slow grooves
In graceful, musical moves
As gestures paint passion...

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