The Turn of an Unfriendly Card
...Turn of An Unfriendly Card
(Tarot 3 of Swords)
I cannot empathize with a shattered heart.
That image of a fragile, breakable baby pink orb
Is insulting to how I feel.
The turn of an unfriendly...
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Categories:
dismembers, endurance, grief,
Form: Free verse
Children's Poem VI
...Children's Poems VI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Springtime Prayer
by Michael R. Burc...
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Categories:
dismembers, baby, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Wake
...wake
rousing
November's
tenacious earth
subject~surrenders
protected hues
dismembers
sublime
wake...
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Categories:
dismembers, autumn, change, imagery, seasons,
Form: Ninette
Culture
...Culture is not what was written
ten thousand years ago,
nor is it a godly dictate from
the 7th Century AD,
It is not what Buddha spoke
from under the Bodhi tree,
nor the harsh enforcements
of ...
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Categories:
dismembers, culture, devotion, god, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Darkest Lies
...Darkness peeks beneath the shadows
Melancholic doubt, dread
From silent sensation, built by depression
Falling down from up on high
Where there is grace, where there is chance
Darkness drive...
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Categories:
dismembers, angst, anxiety, christian, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
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Categories:
dismembers, angel, animal, bird, flying,
Form: Free verse
Sleepless In Whereis Part 2
... Continued from Part 1
The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
– mock my lonely ...
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Categories:
dismembers, fantasy, lonely, me,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Contest
...Poetry allows for the soul to fly free,
Opening one’s eyes to capture more then what they see,
EVENTUALLY saturating the core of one’s heart,
Tying together whatever has fallen apart,
Reinventing wor...
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Categories:
dismembers, art, inspirational, on writing
Form: Acrostic
Song's Reason Be the Season....
...Woowhew....is the whistlestop,
our journey to slow
Christmas train revelries,
nearby choir they sing.....
Harkest as Angels
dawn morning noel
sweet blissfull voices
their story to tell....
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Categories:
dismembers, faith, hope, seasons, time,
Form: Free verse
Intimate Fear
...anticipation burns holes,
cigarette butt pennies,
edge-flared with embers
alight and undying;
and the juice underlying
the peptic wrack belly
wells up and explodes,
almost dismembers.
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Categories:
dismembers, confusion, life, passion,
Form: Verse