The Ledger of A retired Nurse's Life
...Tapestry of Life**
In the intricate tapestry of life, vibrant memories weave their threads, each one shimmering with its own hue. The echoes of past workplaces linger like faint, nostalgic perfume...
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Categories:
elusively, anti bullying, encouraging, giggle,
Form: Narrative
Silent Lucidity Soul Speak
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I Am as I Am complete
Though ego opines otherwise
Invoking grace, we feel God’s heartbeat
What else does there remain for us to realize
—Unseeking Seeker
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Categories:
elusively, feelings, forgiveness, freedom, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
...Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpi...
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Categories:
elusively, 12th grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Timorous Creeds
...Dancing to the tune of iniquity,
Deviously artless in their silent retreat,
Elusively lashing out unjustly,
Pelting out timorous creeds;
A casualty in their vapid beliefs,
Brought upon by dilig...
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Categories:
elusively, character, conflict, endurance, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Quest For Wisdom
...Where does wisdom reside?
Where does understanding hide?
Not in the land of living souls,
Nor depths of seas, where vastness rolls.
Hidden from eyes, from all living things,
Even birds in the ...
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Categories:
elusively, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Starry Fabric
...All nature’s linked, the heavens with the earth,
in star formations, gas, galactic dust,
elusively in roles of death and birth
however random seems their wanderlust.
We peer in space with telesco...
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Categories:
elusively, earth, nature, poetry, space,
Form: Sonnet
Stimulus Checkup Visited Mine Local Gastrointestinal Economy
...Stimulus check(up), visited mine local gastro-intestinal economy
Around high noon
today March 19th, 2021
fecal impaction I did plaintively croon
until effect courtesy amitiza, which
prescripti...
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Categories:
elusively, abuse, betrayal, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
In a Moment
...i wish
i could be a bird
owlish in my dismissals
giving chase to not one fleeting memory
while turning my gaze ahead
eyes and focus fixed
wings extended wide
winds lapping
upon my soaring ...
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Categories:
elusively, bird, freedom, life, philosophy,
Form: Suzette Prime
Love Poems I
...LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfri...
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Categories:
elusively, friendship love, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
...Sonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows...
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Categories:
elusively, books, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
...The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved...
and yet I hold her close within my thought...
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Categories:
elusively, desire, hair, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
For All That I Remembered
...For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnis...
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Categories:
elusively, desire, dream, memory, remember,
Form: Sonnet
1148 Greentree Lane
...Circa: 23rd of Tevet, 5760
to 15th of Tevet, 5770
in accordance
with Hebrew date
(converted, asper Gregorian
Calendar) courtesy of Google,
which place of residence i.e....
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Categories:
elusively, absence, atheist, grief, jewish,
Form: Free verse
Genesis of Thoughts
...Narrow and shallow shining laser focus
into chasm while teetering on brink
akin to scurrying thru microcosmic burrow
of microscopic Manhattan skyscrapers
wink'n nod and blink,
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Categories:
elusively, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ennui Sets In
..."Ennui Sets In”
Whenever pen is placed
Between purloined phalanges,
When my mind unfolds and tears along the seams,
I know it’s time to move my thoughts,
Through the underground;
That dark cr...
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Categories:
elusively, city, life,
Form: Free verse
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