The Bearing To Focus
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Pains are supposed lifetime teachers,
Teachers that connect mind to soul.
Soul, mind connects unto preachers,
Towards time... life lessons made whole.
Pains are pieces of peaceful storm...
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Categories:
dreamlands, career, dark, growth, hope,
Form: Verse
Howling Wilderness
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Gnarled trees yawn under a starless sky
As a swift coldness mixes with the "howling wilderness,”
Crescendos until pure silence strangles the macabre atmosphere.
Preparing for the imminent j...
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Categories:
dreamlands, beautiful, deep, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
In a labyrinth of time, every second is a grain of sand scattered
...In a labyrinth of time, every second is a grain of sand scattered,
everything hurts: old age is a veil of shadow over my thoughts,
and death, an old acquaintance, draws closer with every tick of th...
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Categories:
dreamlands, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
My Heart Became Decrepit
...Share your empathy of unbridled dreamlands
my dear friend
and help me heal my abandoned, decrepit heart
with its peeling, dangling memories
in my troubled mind
Give me faith for shatte...
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Categories:
dreamlands, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Dreamlands
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A parade of floating, verdant fields
appear within a clouded dream
idyllic islands in the sky
a tranquil vision, peaceful sigh
of heavenly serenity.
Yet now, the scene is set adrift
by om...
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Categories:
dreamlands, dream,
Form: Ekphrasis
In a boundless night, under the sky where the stars burn like the lost thoughts of a sleeping god
...In a boundless night, under the sky where the stars burn like the lost thoughts of a sleeping god, I feel suspended between worlds,
in a silence that sings echoes from unseen universes, where time f...
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Categories:
dreamlands, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Dreamlands
...See you in Dreamlands,
Where your thoughts transform into actions,
Where your imaginations transpire,
Where your mind just goes off,
And where your heart just pours out...
Where your creations m...
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Categories:
dreamlands, angel, deep, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
A Childish Muse For a Child Mind
...ntoward are the ill-starred,
unto death is the road.
Unto all is charity.
Unto life is wine.
The merry sing unto sleep
then unto dreamlands
they must go, I and you,
each of us the king...
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Categories:
dreamlands, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gentle Chord Symphony
...In the prolific dainty world of Angel's dreamlands
I rule with the boundless mercy of God's dominion!
From the rosy haze of a million viable heathlands,
Out of the disorientation of a ...
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Categories:
dreamlands, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, creation,
Form: Pantoum
State of the Art Iv
...State of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
dreamlands, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Asylum Blowup
...AsylumBlowup
Deep purple and pink Floyd you have colour in your valium _yellow like sunlight inside this hole place of evil minds come to bare_a-trolley a-cometh to your table lots of goodies and yo...
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Categories:
dreamlands, adventure, allegory, analogy, angel,
Form: Acrostic
Poems About Icarus
...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli...
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Categories:
dreamlands, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
I'Ve Moved To Hong Kong
...~I've moved to Hong Kong where many brave souls dwell.
A million Davids slinging stones of democracy and peace.
At the empty-headed ogre who will forever loathe the free.
To let loose his hell ho...
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Categories:
dreamlands, abuse, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Southern Icarus
...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace
you climb, skittish kite ...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli...
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Categories:
dreamlands, adventure, america, angel, courage,
Form: Free verse
Icarus, Resurrected
...Finally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch
Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand
and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands
where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting
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Categories:
dreamlands, desire, dream, fantasy, flying,
Form: Verse
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