Three Lights
...first night—
the soul’s fringe still shining hazily
the last night—
as though knowing time has come
morning comes—
a firefly spends all its light
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Categories:
hazily, insect, nature,
Form: Free verse
Under the Ocean
...Swimming under the surface of the Pacific
Past the border of the ocean
Where the two meet, brown and blue.
Met by tiny swimming jewels here,
Living within the tall crystals,
The ecosystem of cry...
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Categories:
hazily, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Happy Days
...Happy Days
Each is given breath,
above soil, toil and glory,
mouths expel a tirade,
behind a masquerade.
Each born pure in heart,
soon shattered; broken
jagged pieces maybe scattered.
Ea...
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Categories:
hazily, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Happy Days
...Happy Days
Each is given breath, above soil, toil and glory;
mouths expel a tirade,behind a masquerade.
Each born pure in heart, soon shattered;
broken jagged pieces maybe scattered.
Each fee...
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Categories:
hazily, happy,
Form: Rhyme
identity
...It’s a searing, wordless pain to be unsure of my own identity
Lost in the day to day, shackled by the ins and outs of my stoic life
Mirrors look back at me, a hazily dreampt structure of a face wi...
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Categories:
hazily, angst, deep, feelings, how
Form: Free verse
The Collector
...Pens, and pen knives,
minor gadgets and gizmos,
chopsticks
old zippo lighters,
motheaten books
that crumble an old-fashioned wisdom
into the mush of a quaint twaddle,
words to muddle over
on ...
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Categories:
hazily, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Anxious Prone
...Crawling on my floor.
I stare hazily at the intricacies of the wood grain and realize slowly all the messes in my way.
Curl up, holding myself, prepare yourself darling life is a beautiful maze...
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Categories:
hazily, abuse, anxiety, cool, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Sex Obsession
...The Sex Obsession
He was in his middle years, a retired seafarer living far
from the oceans of his youth and dreams had drowned
in swells of a restless, life.
He lived a slow life, walking his...
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Categories:
hazily, anger, blessing, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Resident Souls
...Echoes through the hallway
Of this dilapidated ruin
A stone house made with devoted hands
Ladened once with the life and love of humans
Soft whispers can be heard
An occasional silho...
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Categories:
hazily, grave, home, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
An Impossible Fix
...AN IMPOSSIBLE FIX
I journey through the woodland
Hazily I gaze at the shadows of an-
intangible reality
There I love roses and hate thorns
Its a Journe...
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Categories:
hazily, age, courage, encouraging, future,
Form: Free verse
Wild Blue Yonder
...At the shoreline
the sea meets the sand
in transparent kiss
then draws back to itself
in divine cycle
the endless push/pull
of ocean rhythm
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Categories:
hazily, beach, blue, sea,
Form: Free verse
Summer Is Here
...Clouds in the sky drift lazily
Sparkling patches of blue linger,
Mind daydreaming so hazily
Songbirds chirping a moodswinger,
Summer is here
A time for cheer.
Evening sounding so ...
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Categories:
hazily, summer,
Form: Rhyme
A Pensioner
...A Pensioner
An octogenarian - he moved to the retirement home
which promised all-year sun, blue sky, and sedate sea.
A grey, balding, and stooped figure,
his gait is far from firm as he walks....
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Categories:
hazily, appreciation, retirement,
Form: Blank verse
Searching For Words
...Where have all the words gone?
It has been more than ten days,
since my last write of a one-liner poem.
Here I am lost, searching, searching
for words for nothing comes to mind.
My spirit is l...
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Categories:
hazily, words,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
...Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
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Categories:
hazily, dream, earth, flower, moon,
Form: Sonnet
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