Trees
...Try to look around and see if there's something new.
Revisit the old-time scenery that you're used to.
Ease the qualms and queries in your mind.
Enervate yourself with more hope and smile in your ...
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Categories:
enervate, august, beauty, dream, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
Sun Poem
...Sun Poem
by Michael R. Burch
I have suffused myself in poetry
as a lizard basks, soaking up sun,
scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light
he understands—when it comes, it comes.
A flood ...
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Categories:
enervate, poems, poetry, poets, summer,
Form: Free verse
Letter To a Girl Friend
...My beloved girl friend, I only have
poetry...
I don't even know if it's a fool's delight
or scholars....
I don't know whether to enrapture o...
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Categories:
enervate, allusion, analogy, girlfriend, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Mak...
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Categories:
enervate, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Love Poems Iv
...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
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Categories:
enervate, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
...Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between cle...
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Categories:
enervate, art, grave, grief, life,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Xlii-Li
...Sonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now floodin...
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Categories:
enervate, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Sonnet
Limericks Iii - Grab Bag
...Limericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
enervate, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Mother of Cowards
...Mother of Cowards
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"
So unlike the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land,
Spread-eagled, showering gold, a strum...
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Categories:
enervate, america, discrimination, freedom, independence
Form: Sonnet
What Good Are Our Tears
...What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
Wha...
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Categories:
enervate, child, child abuse, children,
Form: Free verse
Redolence
...Redolence
by Michael R. Burch
Now darkness ponds upon the violet hills;
cicadas sing; the tall elms gently sway;
and night bends near, a deepening shade of gray;
the bass concerto of a bullfro...
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Categories:
enervate, women,
Form: Sonnet
Ten Percent Brain Myth
...Medical and/or scientific experts
doth now corroborate,
promulgate, validate...(wait
don't go there's much more)
linkedin with falsehood
that requires me to terminate,
an average...
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Categories:
enervate, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful Fall
...BEAUTIFUL FALL
Brisk the breeze that shivers the pines,
Excites the mind, in throes of daydreams,
About escaping from the tests — that litter of
Untimely pop quizzes of consequence.
Thrust the...
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Categories:
enervate, autumn, school, sports,
Form: Acrostic
Confession of a Lover
...Your love was comparable to summer,
As if I was sitting around a hearth,
Ere this curse,
You plundered my heart with your pretty deceitful smile,
You could hear its cadence,
But it seems to ...
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Categories:
enervate, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
Said the People of Paris
..."SAID" the people of Paris,
"Let's pray for those who died,
Lets pray our arms never enervate from good,
Lets pray against evil incites,
Let's pray GOD grants us the serenity we need,
to forge o...
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Categories:
enervate, devotion, evil, forgiveness, god,
Form: Free verse
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