THE ur POEMS
...THE ur POEMS
& GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE
to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!”
—michael r. burch
grave request
by michael r. burch
come to ur doom
in Tombstone;
the ...
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Categories:
disconsolately, angel, atheist, christian, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Old man's beard
...is it just my age?
increasingly I value
winter’s soft decay
those last few leaves
revealing tree branches
decorated with lichen
rays of the low sun
penetrating morning mist
shining in hoa...
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Categories:
disconsolately, autumn, nature,
Form: Haiku
Free Verse Iv
...FREE VERSE VI
Reason Without Rhyme
by Michael R. Burch
I used to be averse
to free verse,
but now I admit
YOUR rhyming is WORSE!
But alas, in the end,
it’s all the same:
all verse is u...
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Categories:
disconsolately, freedom, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Cicada
...I'm one of these billions out there
hallucinating wanting to be happy
we can't get away from it
the sun pulls us out of bed to fight
until the moon knocks us down to dream again
with the succ...
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Categories:
disconsolately, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Apostema
...in this dark nocturnal quadrant there would be sleep.
but you insist insomnia, thinking random things.
what other fun would you find in yourself?
I mean, something that would avoid the rest, pe...
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Categories:
disconsolately, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Free Verse I
...Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held...
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Categories:
disconsolately, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
U-Turn
...FROM THE ur POEMS
u-turn: another way to look at religion
by Michael R. Burch
... u were borne orphaned from Ecstasy
into this lower realm: just one of the inching worms
dreaming of Be...
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Categories:
disconsolately, angel, atheist, baptism, christian,
Form: Free verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
...Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn with the
Precious wealth of King Solomon's
Gold! ...
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Categories:
disconsolately, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Cellophane World
...cellophane world...
procuring accouterment
of this and that from hither and thither
the consumeristic narcotic
rages through our pulsing veins
as we desperately try to pull on the ever-loosening r...
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Categories:
disconsolately, life, love, truth,
Form: I do not know?
Morass of Anonymity
...I sit,
forming kisses on memories,
striking them from time, as it whispers away.
Recollecting venomous verbs
cast to empty shadows
Eradicating the spiel.
Adjectives of annihilation, blitzin...
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Categories:
disconsolately, social,
Form: Free verse