White Wilderness
...I recall the yelling but silent voice of winter
that broken December when the lights from
lanterns shot up from their wicks with the
fading strength of departing glows abroad.
Twilights hastene...
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Categories:
froths, christmas,
Form: Ode
I Drank from an Hourglass
...It has long ceased to rain here.
The embers of drought are fanned by the merciless
Hands of hell.
The air is stifling,
The heat insufferable.
I cringe from a long wait on a queue in the narrow
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Categories:
froths, allusion, community, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Brexit
...I hardly brew coffee alongside the metaphor of
English mornings blended with summer’s febrile breath.
But, on this occasion, I did....
It was a stifling moment on television.
The social media was...
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Categories:
froths, political,
Form: Free verse
White Wilderness
...I recall the yelling but silent voice of winter
that broken December when the lights from
lanterns shot up from their wicks with the
fading strength of departing glows abroad.
Twilights hastene...
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Categories:
froths, christmas, life, winter,
Form: Free verse
IN THE EBB AND FLOW OF LIFE
...Conflict bears messages
to be discerned;
revelation lies in the spirit.
The soul is the gatekeeper
of the spirit; bear your soul
and let the spirit of love flow.
Forgiveness does not requ...
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Categories:
froths, analogy, conflict, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Before they go
...Catch the waves
Before they go
Catch the waves
Gentle, quiet.
Catch them quick
Dabble, ripple in them
And set asail –
On your journey afresh
Before they rage
In mountainous forms
Of dar...
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Categories:
froths, allusion, imagery, meaningful, sea,
Form: Free verse
Nursery Time--Fantasy
...
Soap bubbles float through August
breeze
as children sneak in hushed delight, where fables reel 'neath maple trees
to glide away like jewels bright.
Now listen...elves and wizards hop
thei...
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Categories:
froths, children, fantasy, summer,
Form: Quatrain
The Dance of Waves
...Written: October 11, 2023
As I Watch The Waves Crash Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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As I wait with anxiousness on the edg...
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Categories:
froths, analogy, water,
Form: Rhyme
Watching Them Cringe - In Trumps Own Words
...Assailed, maligned, hounded and betrayed
And all for why, simply for the game I played,
My aim to win but of course the lefties don't agree,
Their views alone are all they ever want to see.
Con...
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Categories:
froths, america, anger, conflict, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Meditation On Harm
...The blood boils and froths
Vapour sears; scarred and worn
Shame left, pain chronic...
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Categories:
froths, angst, introspection, sorry,
Form: Haiku
With the Passing Clouds
...Charming flowers on the wings of passing
Clouds where crystal froths flying like the dove,
Lone I’m walking behind the passing cruise
Holding your hands in mind on the green mat,
The bouquet of w...
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Categories:
froths, life,
Form: Blank verse
Early Poems Xiv
...Early Poems XIV
Am I
by Michael R. Burch
Am I inconsequential;
do I matter not at all?
Am I just a snowflake,
to sparkle, then to fall?
Am I only chaff?
Of what use am I?
Am I just a f...
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Categories:
froths, 10th grade, age, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Despair's Drunkenness
...In a moon landscape, aloof night sprays of light.
A child's eyes well up! Beams of luminescence cling.
Angel marvels and ponders the modern World's blight.
The wispy style of savv...
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Categories:
froths, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, confidence,
Form: Terza Rima
Starlings In Flight
...After peppering a tower of light
the flight froths over.
A bloom of wings falling,
then,
the dark shower
turning as one.
Puddles of sky splash open
speckled by black flint heads.
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Categories:
froths, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Ravening
...The land suffers too much greening;
luxuriance froths to fever and glut,
birds cannot consume all the insects,
nor serpents eat the thronging flocks.
The soil hogs on the swill of decay,
drey an...
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Categories:
froths, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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