My Inner Voice Told Me
...A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enj...
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Categories:
eschewing, care, character, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
...Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegratin...
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Categories:
eschewing, break up, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse
B S P '
...Bulgaria...Well done.' Sweden scored a hole in one.'
Papua New Guinea.' You got me stunned.!! Three great
Examples.!! As I see.!) Eschewing the con-vid intent of
A rabid W H O decree..No pop up te...
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Categories:
eschewing, confidence, courage, drug, education,
Form: Rhyme
My Thing Is This
...As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in sha...
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Categories:
eschewing, corruption, education, environment, extended
Form: Free verse
Jamal Hussain and friends
...January twenty first, 2024 the above thugs burst.'
Into a shop in Wallsal town, two with axes smashing
Windows to the ground' then six of them stormed into this
Store, a multicultural vist.? I wil...
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Categories:
eschewing, analogy, career, education,
Form: Rhyme
My Future Self
...Shame is a feeling I do avoid.
Too often, something like it has me, destroyed,
and yet, to be a better man,
I must look at myself as best I can,
and that may entail shame.
I look at myself, no...
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Categories:
eschewing, self,
Form: Rhyme
Whispers of Angels
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Eschewing the catastrophic world
towards a tranquil place, I headed;
The heavenly aroma spread around
transported my soul into a place astound
A place where the music wa...
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Categories:
eschewing, angel, beautiful, beauty, earth,
Form: Free verse
Ability And Desire
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Ability And Desire
Miracle Man
3/15/2024
When in his youth he was filled with desires,
now sometimes his age causes him to digress.
To do youthful things he no longer aspires,
but...
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Categories:
eschewing, age, desire, military,
Form: Quatrain
Grab Bag Poems
...Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams
POEMS
Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch
Every corona has a silver lining:
I...
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Categories:
eschewing, allegory, america, analogy, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Facial Recognition Blues
...Facial Recognition Blues
Physicists speculating about a cosmic hologram
Anarchists debating about the next message from Uncle Sam
The archaic ageing of the technology of the Telegram
An innoce...
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Categories:
eschewing, angst, beautiful, corruption, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Infatuation
...I will sing to you in Russian
Recite to you in Greek
Converse in any language
That you deign to speak
I will follow you through Hades
Protect you from its fire
Look at you adoringly
Object of ...
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Categories:
eschewing, beauty, feelings, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Four Cafes
...January’s snow flows stealthfully through my fifth-floor apartment window, flung wide open to welcome in the new year. The half-drawn curtains bellow with brisk salt air blowing in from the North Se...
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Categories:
eschewing, character, perspective,
Form: Prose
Morning Hike
...I love returning to the vale;
I feel recharged, hearty, and hale.
It lifts my spirits without fail,
bringing a joy that’s not for sale.
It keeps me lighter on the scale
while still eschewing all...
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Categories:
eschewing, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
Right On, Liz Cheney
...I still believe all politicians are not liars and dishonest
Though it is difficult to find those are consistently so
Those who will face harsh realities on election day
Dishonest peers...
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Categories:
eschewing, perspective, political,
Form: Political Verse
Soupercilious
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My Favorite Things comes to mind...
a random assortment, a jumble of words
a quotient of portions, quotidian served
quixotic strivings of the great deca-dense
obscur...
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Categories:
eschewing, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme
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