Pollinator - May 12
...A while ago,—you seemed a fantasy—
and like a fragmentary apparition
or a flutter flitting past my faint cognition
—to my buzzing thoughts: you the rose, I the bee.
And though my hiving mind, ...
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Categories:
gayest, beauty, crush, flower, longing,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Errata I
...Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!
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Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
gayest, crush, desire, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Erotic Poems I
...Erotic Poems I
Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I d...
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Categories:
gayest, body, clothes, desire, love,
Form: Rhyme
Into Darkness She Had So Sadly and Swiftly Fallen
...Into Darkness She Had So Sadly And Swiftly Fallen
( A Very Sad Tale With No Fairytale Ending )
There in the dark cold room, emptiness and sorrow
Hung like a noose awaiting its next dying soul
L...
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Categories:
gayest, dark, death, drug, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Free Verse Iii
...Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
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Categories:
gayest, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse
Sammi - An Acrostic
...Sammi is a delicate blossom frolicking in gayest blooms,
Analogous to a fragile rose amidst world’s boring dooms;
Manifold lusters issue forth from her magnanimous heart,
Manifesting the rare gla...
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Categories:
gayest, friendship,
Form: Acrostic
Unbowed
...How would it feel having no single woe to bear,
In that sooty heart oft stung by ceaseless tear?
Wouldn't the sobs-accustomed soul court pain,
To save those melancholic rhythms in its stain?
It...
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Categories:
gayest, allegory, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Didactic
The Soul Errand and Other Poems
...The Soul Errand
To Sir Walter Raleigh Tomb.
Since my soul shall though go
Upon a thankless arrent too
I fear not to touch the best so
The truth shall be my warrant through
I went since I nee...
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Categories:
gayest, africa, beautiful, beauty, child,
Form: Ballad
Garment of Life
...Garment of Life
Will you choose
The threads of love
To weave your garment of life?
Perhaps you'll only see
The strands of grey defeat
Wretched with sadness
And weave a garment too heavy to b...
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Categories:
gayest, life,
Form: Free verse
When I Was Younger
...When I was younger I would wish my brother to death
Today, I love him to death
When I was younger God wasnt even a thought in my head
Now I think of him everynight before I go to bed
When I was y...
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Categories:
gayest,
Form: I do not know?
Awakening
...It's dark.
Even through closed lids I've perceived the
monotonous treachery
the day has in store.
I suppress a moan within my chest,
and my bones creak with illusory age.
Another dawn which is...
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Categories:
gayest, hope, inspirational, seasons, uplifting,
Form: Imagism