Paris la nuit
...The Eiffel Tower stabbed at a midnight
as blue as an old Muddy Waters track.
From a distance, its lace-iron skeleton
looked like a slick and oily spider-web
crowned with a glittering neon diamond...
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Categories:
grandeurs, boyfriend, fun, humor, night,
Form: Free verse
Spreading Happiness
...Sailing with you in this vast sea of existence
Participating in your pleasantness and pains
Reaching you out in your race toward righteousness
Eliminating each difference between us
Accepting you...
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Categories:
grandeurs, happiness,
Form: Acrostic
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:
grandeurs, break up, depression, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
D Is For Doggerel
...Oftimes I'm asked; “What drives you, Bro, to generate such verse,
the bulk of which is awful and the balance, frankly, worse?”
The dark side of reality fueled each chilling ode by Poe,
For Maca...
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Categories:
grandeurs, beauty, body, cute, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Nature's Play
...Warning bells had rung before
Nature may not like it anymore
the over exploitation of its store
but human greed did underscore
rules of coexistence as in folklore.
Our experiment with wild mea...
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Categories:
grandeurs, abuse, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Orbuculum
...Some moments are phantoms
Disappearing swiftly without a sound
Inaudible traces
In colourless, restless surround
Others are goddesses
Wise and beautiful reminders of light
Subtle, sweet grace...
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Categories:
grandeurs, happiness, heartbreak, light, lost
Form: Rhyme
See
...See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her e...
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Categories:
grandeurs, age, goodbye, life, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Mt Tai
...Mt Tai
How do I describe lofty Mt. Tai’s grandeurs?
Straddling Qi and Lu states, its green lingers.
The most gorgeous landscape the Nature has drawn,
The dark and light sides convert into dusk an...
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Categories:
grandeurs, analogy, metaphor, mountains, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Science Faction
...How far we’ve come
in this mechanized quantum
by silicon faction
the future held
our giddy and marvelous emporium
And if by chemical we could elevate
genetics design circumnavigate
such obli...
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Categories:
grandeurs, riddle, science,
Form: Free verse
Poem Written Near a Cemetery 1 of 2
...Poem written near a Cemetery 1 of 2
On 13th February 2012
While moving near the walls of a cemetery,
I saw the glimpse
Of a bunch of some tiny wild flowers,
Blooming in the golden Sunlight fallin...
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Categories:
grandeurs, history, people, lost, wife,
Form: Elegy
Take Me Away But I Promise To Sing a Song
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NOTE: I have placed this Poem as a Video Poem also on
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[ This Poem is dedicated to Freedom of Expression
and Tibetan Dharm...
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Categories:
grandeurs, freedom, imagination, inspirational, lost,
Form: Free verse
Summer Time Fantasia
...Sun beaming gumdrops onto the season's pixies of truth
Affectionately dancing to gingerly giggles upon my tingly skin
Cotton clouds of powder puff and gentle sweet breezes too
Tantalizingly chasin...
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Categories:
grandeurs, nature
Form: Rhyme
Arise!Africa
...Arise! Africa
Arise Africa and let the mills wheel along.
Arise Africa and feel the wills meal prolong.
Enclosed in the winds, the milks of nature endowed,
Enmeshed in the oceans, topogra...
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Categories:
grandeurs, black-african amerafrica,
Form: Imagism
My First Blueberry Festival
...Oh, fluffy delicious breakfast delight.
Fresh juicy fruit in each scrumptious bite
Blueberry pancakes started the day right.
Music, smiles, and candy led the parade.
Horses and old cars their g...
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Categories:
grandeurs, childhood, fantasy, children, people,
Form: Rhyme
Copyrights....
...Predacious paralogisms of parodies
Pantheans pantomiming
Their self indulgent songs....
Piping their illusions from realities
While the world crumbles about their feet
These axioms of ...
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Categories:
grandeurs, lifeself, self,
Form: I do not know?
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