Mystery Elegy Poems

“Dreams Coercing Memory” 

You want cherries jubilee
with a little Krug champagne
but soft custard is just the same
when reality plays its game
by the spoonful
morphine comes 
to...

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What name can I give 
To a dream that is uncertain
To people who are unclear
To a feeling I am unsure of
To a message that is...

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once a life
I lived
filled with amusement
but a fool I was
till fate opened the door
to show me the carcasses
of my joy...

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Switch inline in the wake of light,
The Illumination engulving our ray,
Bringing rain of no self ignite,
The perpetual light we all do pray.

Oh! Pa Emmanuel Abiodun...

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It hasn’t been easy
That you left is still a mystery
I never knew you but from pictures
Are you one or not of heavenly creatures?

From a far...

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Oh Lord above the Greater skies 
Prayers stand before your face.
Heads bow, and tears in our eyes,
We grieve in solitude and silence.

Leave home and go...

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Please edit my story he whispered 
It's the story of an orphan child 
Who lost his way home in the noon 
On the lonely road...

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A portrait of you

When I wake up in the morning
From the night shadows yearning.
And the final star going out of sight
I saw a portrait of...

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Epigrams/Epitaphs

Childless
by Michael R. Burch

How can she bear her grief?
Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight
of one fallen star.

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Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch 

Because life is...

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Doppelgänger
by Michael R. Burch
			
Here the only anguish
is the bedraggled vetch lying strangled in weeds,
the customary sorrows of the wild persimmons,
the whispered complaints of the stately...

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 to my son, Tito 


A handful of sand in the angel's palm,
how often you strummed and sifted the metaphor 
of Long Beach (since you...

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A hundred years have come and gone
 to what wonder and tragedies 
  have you belonged?

My father:
Born in the aftermath of a world at...

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On Mission in South Africa, I am missed in Virginia
Only the CHRIST family I belong to, can match with stamina
The love of my sister Maureen,...

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Panegyric praising phantasmagoric, albeit...
unseen prophets providing perspicuity...,

Who commune with yours truly
within state of mind between
sleep and wakefulness
methinks disembodied spirits
infiltrate mine consciousness
while suspended within trance.

Meditation invokes...

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March 8th - International Women's Day The World Over

Down to the wire, before this
calendrical occasion doth expire,
though arbitrary twenty four hour
time set aside for guide
ding...

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