When my Life Changed
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When my Life Changed
In midst of my journey of life
Starkly I was shattered by f...
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Categories:
fleeced, change, fate, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Excellent marksmen women set his her sites
...Excellent marksmen/women set his/her sites...
I can hold out for upcoming mental health therapy until Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
Yes, and you (like I) will probably presume me deservedly cursed for...
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Categories:
fleeced, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Heaven's Harpsichord
...Harpsichord in heaven?
Cubic or spherical?
Bread, O baker? Leaven.
Just flicker as you fall...
Dancing lights apace in space?
Watch them in her face.
Ghost, vanish without a trace!
Gold, cas...
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Categories:
fleeced, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025
...HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025
No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025
even converted from skeptic to ortho...
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Categories:
fleeced, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
This path
...The path is clear
But the intentions are blocked
Will wait for an answer
Before the question is thought
With all my being
Ive been torn and rought
My blades are sharp
To sharpen them tho i ...
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Categories:
fleeced, anger, mental health, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Harvest of Osyter Pearls
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her ethereal gaze tucked me into nirvanic waves
tore me asunder amid quixotic abyss and seraphic throe
I harvest pearls from mollusks in swimming oysters
strip it in kaleidoscopic...
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Categories:
fleeced, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture like a burning man in Dante's Inferno
...Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture (like a burning man) in Dante's Inferno
Self immolation as sacrificial bleating lamb
promises eternal martyrdom
awaiting voluntary die hard protest...
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Categories:
fleeced, abuse, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
More n nine months on
...More'n nine months on...
and still I feel infuriated at myself
concerning squandered funds
passively, senselessly, and willingly
surrendered nest egg
to computer hackers
(imposters, jackknifi...
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Categories:
fleeced, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Easter as interpreted by one
...Easter as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted,
and rebuked courtesy
one ill shod Unitarian atheist,
who means NOT to affect
any sacrilegious fallout
nor offend devo...
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Categories:
fleeced, adventure, bible, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme
What The Roses Don't Say
...What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch
Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...
They sway, bem...
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Categories:
fleeced, angst, fear, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
...Neigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowd...
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Categories:
fleeced, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Battle for the Atlantic II
...With lone intent, all freedom it will wrest
if obstinance you let these wolves deny.
As tonnage sinks beneath the torrid crest
your struggles for survival magnify.
Each flailing ship that ferries...
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Categories:
fleeced, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
FROM SANTA CLAUS XMAS 2011
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written twelve years ago
when yours truly about two score
and twelve years old,
and fishy financial fiasco
about twenty six weeks
before being scalloped
courtesy villainous fraudster
otherw...
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Categories:
fleeced, 7th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Finis Sing Touches Touche
...The finis sing touches touché
Knead dull brows knitted;
belief system I cogitate
gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid
acquiesces to deck the halls
of the mountain (dew) king with boughs
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Categories:
fleeced, 12th grade, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44
...Booby trapped within apartment unit b44
Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings,
so please do not hashtag me
as worse than an ingrate
or o...
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Categories:
fleeced, adventure, anxiety, confusion, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
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