Pray For the Birds
...Pray for the birds,
Racing to survive the harshness of mother nature,
All in a desperate fight,
Yielding to relish the essence of life,
Forging emaciate energy,
Oh survival is hard,
Radically...
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Categories:
emaciate, beautiful, bird, health, history,
Form: Acrostic
Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the Sea
...This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantag...
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Categories:
emaciate, death, french, grave, obituary,
Form: Free verse
1859
...{1859}
there's more slaves now
than in 1859
slaves of the mind
slaves to entitlement
slaves to self inflicted failure and blame
slaves to ogres of division
who
only want to bracket the bla...
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Categories:
emaciate, addiction, truth,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
...Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children e...
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Categories:
emaciate, bible, christian, creation, god,
Form: Free verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii
...My most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a l...
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Categories:
emaciate, internet, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Poems Iv
...the Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us De...
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Categories:
emaciate, dark, death, evil, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Hero
...this morning
I sought to be
informed
to become a glutton
for sturm and drang
two dimensional facts
were tasteless
only wailing tears
realtime malevolence
and the correct color of blood
cou...
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Categories:
emaciate, anger, conflict, evil,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts of Holidays
...Why does my soul ache this time of year
hoarfrost on brown grass/icy chill in the air
feeling all should be calm yet filled with tumult.
Why are ghosts of Christmas’ past
still haunting when j...
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Categories:
emaciate, angst, childhood, depression, faith,
Form: Free verse
Valentines'
...Valentines Day is associated with a massacre,
Yet, somehow the day got translated into a holiday
for lovers,
The association seems vague and strange,
perhaps it is because love can become...
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Categories:
emaciate, loveday, love,
Form: Light Verse
Midnight's Keeping
...Awaken child to the summer feast
deceitful hearts to midnight's keeping
dreams born on tears given to the fragments
of eggshell youth which is as but a memory
born on the cause of righteousness
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Categories:
emaciate, fantasychild, night, child, night,
Form: Free verse
Autodafe
...The trackmarked pain on the televisions face raining out and cocooning his grave was not a
very good advertisement for reincarnation Wake up at last near the worlds end crescent in
fetal shape symp...
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Categories:
emaciate, confusion, death, introspectiontime,
Form: Free verse