Les Cirque des Morts Collab with B J Fitz
...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—
bloated a...
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Categories:
fitz, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Pro Life Chop Shop
...Pro life chop shops
sanctity botched
chain your baby makers
inspect your baby’s crotch
laws ban
lives hang
hangers wrought and bought
the worst of how we’re natured
belts
you’re just anot...
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Categories:
fitz, abortion, gender, introspection,
Form: Free verse
You might be Irish
...This was written a few years ago for St. Patty's Day and posted:
If your favorite color is green and of the Emerald Isles you dream,
you might be Irish..
If you believe in leprechauns and fairies ...
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Categories:
fitz, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Earthly Thoughts Shimmer
...Jewel layer templates
gilded upstream sigh
winsome eyelet skimmed
scorning dawn orb
Delphic mustard sketch
on sapphire sequins
Appalachian awning
bearing flimsy nuggets
surreal slender st...
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Categories:
fitz, celebration, city, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse
Trump Poems and Epigrams Vi
...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI
Poets laud Justice’s
high principles.
Trump just gropes
her raw genitals.
—Michael R. Burch
Dark Shroud, Silver Lining
by Michael R. Burch
Trump cares so...
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Categories:
fitz, america, christmas, political,
Form: Rhyme
Trump Poems and Epigrams Iii
...TRUMP POEMS AND EPIGRAMS III
Trump's real goals are obvious
and yet millions of Americans remain oblivious.
—Michael R. Burch
Our awful unlawful "president"
will soon be a jailhouse resident...
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Categories:
fitz, america, confidence, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Prose Poems Ii
...Prose Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (q...
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Categories:
fitz, poems, poetry, rose, roses
Form: Prose
You Might Be Irish
...If your favorite color is green and of the Emerald Isles you dream, you might be Irish. If when you kissed the Blarney Stone you knew at las you were at home, you might be Irish. If you believe in le...
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Categories:
fitz, 1st grade, holiday,
Form: Light Verse
Even Steven's
...Every year for seven now I’d helped me mate Tom Cooney out,
along with Laurie ‘Fitz’ and Barry Dore when asparagus did sprout.
We worked our shifts ‘til knock off time, then off we’d quickly dart,
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Categories:
fitz, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
...The Great Lakes Engineering Works built a new boat
S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald, t'would soon be afloat
The people that owned her needed a name
President of the company was given that fame.
One ...
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Categories:
fitz, memorial, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Friends
...Sanofi now and then
Friends I’ve made so many
Working so hard saving every penny
First guy on the scene
Angus he was great
Made me feel welcome
That I appreciate
Joan and Annette
Tom and D...
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Categories:
fitz, friend, future, work,
Form: Rhyme
Interplay
...I am interplay; Scottish-Irish
Interchange of loved-up time
With kilt and shamrock soft
And folds of flowing name:
I am he who drew his name in
Unknown place, where O’ and
Fitz, Campbell an...
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Categories:
fitz, identity,
Form: Rhyme
On Gloucester
...Welcome to Gloucester, a city of once great traditions.
A city where our heroes were once the brave fishermen are now our drunkard sports captains.
A city where art was once seen as the great w...
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Categories:
fitz, age, change, corruption, deep,
Form: I do not know?
Skunky Beer
...why am I so different?
am I?
I'm beginning to think
that I just have a blown up ego,
metamorphisis metabolic
untrancible genetic
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Categories:
fitz, angst, on writing and
Form: Free verse