How I Quit Jersey for Juliapa
...It’s tattooed lightly on my upper arm
“I love my mom, and she loves me”, it reads.
A squad from Space Force dragged me in the weeds:
“We’ve nailed you, boy. You’ll do no further harm.”
I woke i...
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Categories:
habeas, satire,
Form: Rhyme
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:
habeas, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Antinatalist Poems
...Antinatalist Poems
Habeas Corpus
by Michael R. Burch
I have the results of your DNA analysis.
If you want to have children, this may induce paralysis.
I wish I had good news, but how can I ...
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Categories:
habeas, baby, birth, child, child
Form: Rhyme
The Rose of Youthful Writing
...there is stain
stainless stain
none sees
stigma bin niche
in the heart of my rose
the youthful rose
road to road
lane by lane
the fragrance
comes with virginity
of wile
will-o-the-wis...
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Categories:
habeas, life, writing,
Form: Free verse
You Never Listened
...You Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the s...
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Categories:
habeas, baby, birth, children, extended
Form: Sonnet
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
...Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
*
Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burc...
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Categories:
habeas, desire, engagement, first love,
Form: Verse
Discombobulation Hammers Sic Kills Lacerates Peppers
...Discombobulation hammers (sic) kills, lacerates, peppers...
tuckered wayfarer
Blitzkrieg cacophony debilitates Earthling
spiritually, mentally, emotionally... castrates
analogous post traumati...
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Categories:
habeas, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Onerous Anus Complex Number One
...Pain in the ass devoid of dreck
inapropos poetic material what the heck
more unbearable than crick in neck
shiver me timbers, I feel like total wreck
the (see) Edmund Fitzgerald, si?.
Spasmodi...
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Categories:
habeas, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism
Suicide of Jeffrey Epstein Equals Pyrrhic Victory
...Rigor mortis cold comfort
defendant need not appear in court
diminishes attendant prosecutorial effort
habeas corpus made superfluous
courtesy just dessert morte
but deadman outflanked plaintiff...
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Categories:
habeas, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bitcoin Player In the Blockchain of Life
...As always when in the initial throes
of writing what I strive to concoct viz
pièce de ré·sis·tance,
which grandiose whim fizz
hills with utter futility, nonetheless this
nondescript husband und...
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Categories:
habeas, age, analogy, death, fate,
Form: Bio
Categories:
habeas, allusion, art, language, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Thirty-One
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Thirty-One
The Tent-Vendor’s son kept whining and wailing on the road
Such that none could even hear their own thoughts mocking aloud:
“Now what doth yon Sir...
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Categories:
habeas, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty-Six
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Six
Soon all the rooms at trysting hotel were for years booked through
By pilgrims from Mindanao and Minangkabau to Timbuktu
Saudi princes bought the ...
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Categories:
habeas, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty-One
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-One
Meantime the Faithful gathered for prayer sans delusions
His Holiness excused himself for the usual ablutions --
The Commandant backtracked to an ...
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Categories:
habeas, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
Habeas Corpus
...HABEAS CORPUS
My daughter writes
Where are you Dad?
When'll you come ?
Who builds walls between us ?
Even if you come , how will I
Recognisze you ?
Blood simmers-
I was safe in mamma's belly
The d...
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Categories:
habeas, passion, daughter, dad, dad,
Form: Prose Poetry
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