Do You Really Think We're Made for Each Other?
...My love for you is like a crashing plane:
exhilarating pace, without control:
you’re equatorial around the pole.
Why meet my sunshine with torrential rain?
My heart is Dealey Plaza, you’re on Mai...
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Categories:
feebly, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
Mortal Souls
...Donning my Sunday best,
I glance in the mirror—
a twinkle, a gleam in my eyes.
A special day today.
My eyes lift to the heavens,
a miracle in a way.
The stairs to the big blue sky
inviti...
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Categories:
feebly, heaven, home, space,
Form: Free verse
New Years Old Wishes
...Old lies remote, yet they find a way
Though it does not shine like New Year's day
It wakes hope to raise it to the top
Ask past and present for them to swap
It's the age that will soften their he...
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Categories:
feebly, new years day, old,
Form: Couplet
Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...
who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linke...
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Categories:
feebly, anger, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Pronounced side effect upon my dreams
...Pronounced side effect upon my dreams...
courtesy Fluoxetine hydrochloride -
the hydrochloride salt form of fluoxetine,
a diphenhydramine derivative
and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
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Categories:
feebly, america, blessing, character, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Glorified Street Nuisance
...GLORIFIED STREET NUISANCE
Fumbling fingers falter, failing to fasten firmly.
Fine fabric falls, flapping feebly for all to see.
Trousers tumble, torn from their trusty tether.
Tumbling to the t...
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Categories:
feebly, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories:
feebly, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Shadows and Darkness
...These are poems about shadows, poems about darkness, poems about shades in the form of ghosts and spirits...
Shadows
by Michael R. Burch
Alone again as evening falls,
I join gaunt shadows...
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Categories:
feebly, dark, evil, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.
Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen...
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Categories:
feebly, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Transplant
...These are poems about shadows and shadowy things...
Transplant
by Michael R. Burch
You float, unearthly angel, clad in flesh
as strange to us who briefly knew your flame
as laughter to disea...
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Categories:
feebly, angel, dark, daughter, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Talk to me soul
...Glenn Hughes Poetry Contest- RJL, Inspired by Glenn Hughes - BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION - BCC V (2024) RESTLESS (Hughes/Bonamassa)
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Categories:
feebly, appreciation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
America at a critical political crossroads
...America at a critical political crossroads...,
nevertheless hope springs eternal,
especially after listening
to Vice President Kamala Harris
and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
speak at the The Li...
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Categories:
feebly, abuse, america, angst, august,
Form: Rhyme
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the p...
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Categories:
feebly, abuse, adventure, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
While attempting going to sleep after midnight
...While attempting going to sleep after midnight...
December 27th, 2023,
the missus pounded mine posterior
(she played paddywhack
on me blimey buttucks)
not only causing contusion,
but flayin...
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Categories:
feebly, blue, cry, father, games,
Form: Free verse
Jack Frosdt and the Ice Queen
...It freezes
my breath back against my face
back against the wall;
stiff as cardboard
like frozen washing dragging on the line
my skin ignores my bones;
icy slush
slithers round...
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Categories:
feebly, winter,
Form: Free verse
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