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Preposterous Eros

...Preposterous Eros
by Michael R. Burch

“Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga

Preposterous Eros shot me in
the buttocks, with a Devilish grin,
spent all my money in a rush
then left my heart...

Janus Face

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Written: November 10, 2023, For Edward Ibeh Contest 
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As if to atone, I gaze into the obscurity of my soul.
When I glance bac...

Party of Five

...Fielschgenuss erster Gute
They spoke of her as a bedswerver
words that only made it more difficult to
understand why I had become privy
to these conversation.
The Harrows and Quick Hitches were
...

Village Childhood

...He was the village blacksmith
To us children he was known
As our adopted Uncle Wilf
They’d no children of their own.
Six days a week he worked,
His hours long and physically hard.
Our cottage b...

My God, Thank You For Shielding Me

...March 10 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Samuel 22-24

Key Verse – 2Samuel 22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge,...

Purge

...I pour the source of my pain
down the drain
Doubled over I purge
the muck from my mind
stars spilling from my eyes
shining in the soapy froth
as I scrub the sink clean
of the remnants of ranci...

Faith Flies To This Heaving Breast

...Faith flies to this heaving breast in sorrows,
Strengthening its hope for brighter days
Will take up the position of valorous ways,
Prepare the journey for brighter tomorrows

Wise the soul that...

Poems About Eros and Cupid

...POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID

These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cher...

The First Valentine Poem, Circa 1415

...The First Valentine Poem

Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) has been credited with writing the first Valentine poem for his wife in 1415. Charles wrote the first Valentine poem in the first year of his...

Love Poems I

...LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfri...

Marital Covenant Chaste Away Errant Infidelity

...Yours truly shirked fidelity regarding faithful vows
bequeathed courtesy angel of mercy,
who pledged her troth
July twenty fifth nineteen ninety six
five months (not quite to the day) before

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My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I

...My most popular poems on the Internet (I)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lo...

Clinging Dresses: Sappho Translation

...Sappho fragment 22
loose translation by Michael R. Burch 
 
That enticing girl's clinging dresses
leave me trembling, overcome by happiness,
as once, when I saw the Goddess in my prayers
eclips...

Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood

...Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood

bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch

u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!

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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burc...

On the Other Side of Cobblestone Streets

...to my kindred soul
...i know you are out there
somewhere on the other side
across cobblestone streets
that scorn my feet, like hearts
on the pathways and wrong turns
of so called love

i've b...

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