stones
...stones
by michael r. burch
i.
far below me lies a village
with its houses hewn from stone
and though Everyman who lives there
bravely claims he’s not alone,
i can tell him, yes u are!
for...
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Categories:
geode, fire, heart, house, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Trigger Warning
...("Contagion III", 2020, original pen and ink and oil)
Trigger Warning
From the safe space of my hardened little heart
I send out my love
In waves of conditional bliss
To all who are j...
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Categories:
geode, psychological, society,
Form: Free verse
Largest Geode Coffee Table Please
...I want the biggest geode coffee table I can get he told the geologist.
Better backtrack I said to my cousin, knowing who he was speaking with.
It is going to be pricey, the geologist warned him, an...
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Categories:
geode, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Imagine
...Imagine juicy diamonds on our fingers the size of nickels
and old polaroids on ourselves, hungry for some fresh film
for capturing moments like the ones we have down by the river
and...
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Categories:
geode, allusion, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Drought
...Today like tremors having broken
a boulder free sending it toppling
from a cliff in the clutches of gravity
plunging toward the ground
encountering my head on its way down
splitting open my ...
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Categories:
geode, analogy, care, giving, how
Form: Free verse
Stones
...As I walk
through growing dusk
cold wind blows
scattering dry leaves
stones do lie
about my feet
hidden secrets
that I could see
if I would stop
and pick one up
what hidden treasur...
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Categories:
geode, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Natures Offspring
...warm spring day dipping toes in the cool creek I spot a geode; a large specimen, of crystals that I will clean and admire as it rests between my favorite amethyst chunk and the twin cryst...
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Categories:
geode, nature, poems, poetry, water,
Form: Haibun
Self Reflections
...SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image...
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Categories:
geode, identity, image, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break Ii
...Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every ...
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Categories:
geode, break up, depression, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Rip
...R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is ...
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Categories:
geode, death, dream, funeral, grave,
Form: Verse
Resemblance
...Resemblance
by Michael R. Burch
Take this geode with its rough exterior—
crude-skinned, brilliant-hearted ...
a diode of amethyst—wild, electric;
its sequined cavity—parted, revealing.
Find i...
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Categories:
geode, metaphor, passion, simile, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Quartz Colors Our World With Beauty
...Herkimer diamonds
Amethyst, rose, agate,
One of the most well known
Minerals on earth, occurring in every locale
Quartz countertops
Quartz crystals
Quartz geode
Smoky,
Yellow
Pink,
Quartz
...
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Categories:
geode, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Quartz Coloring Our World
...Quartz Coloring Our World with Beauty
Herkimer diamonds
Amethyst, rose, agate,
One of the most well known
Minerals on earth, occurring in every locale
Quartz countertops
Quartz crystals
Quartz...
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Categories:
geode, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Intimations of My Late Mother As a Bachelorette
...Attempt to shine
flickering figurative klieg light
with the help of hyperbole
on poverty wrought
debutante material, this predicated
on my own unbiased thought
initially related ...
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Categories:
geode, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ballad
Wracked With Ratiocination When Writing
...no shortage of familiar metier real
(material) aye attest
welling up within thy breast
merely a predicament how to winnow
junk bonded barnacled
accretion encrusted
amidst ...
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Categories:
geode, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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