Winter Human Poems

Saw it in your eyes, and your pale façade, 
the laughter that turned to silence
still left you smiling. 

As I listen, you speak my name..
humanity...

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The Conditions of Living

Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation 
Instead of chronic devastation 
Process the abject consternation 
From contrived over-saturation 
And...

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Before

Before the world was made from space
Before the creation of the human race
Before the planting of the very first seed
There was the emotion of Love...

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Frosty Nights, Warm Hearts: The Allure of Four Cafes in the North

The night was frigid and desolate as I stood by the window of my...

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Find your fiercest and gentlest passions,
make them shine more than any stars
of the nocturne and mysterious sky;
is there a prodigious star of your destiny?
Whichever name...

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Tonight I stayed at work until 7:00.
It was dark when I locked the front doors.
Winter approaches again, soon the great coat
huddled like a rug around...

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somewhere between light and a dream
I arise
to a time
neither dead nor alive

between winter and spring

a fresh fall of snow after
a warm day
but now the sun...

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again the dawn is ugly around here
winter in the streets and in us installed
cold pupils stare into the void of eternity
the miniature elephants on the...

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Comes Autumn, follows Fall,
Brown leaves begin to fall,
And when it snows in winter,
Trees look like skeletons that can't stir.

And when warm winds blow forth,
All the...

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As winter weather worsens so the stranger worries for his plight 
Taking hot drinks to him daily, knitted hat to wear at night 
One cold...

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FLUNG
against the drab ashen phonon sky
WEIGHTED
with the ghostly iron clad jaws
of bitter winter's grip
BITING
the feather-flared Doves
gravid with
FATIGUE
in the ill-laden onerous air

The rough coated dog
with ice-tipped...

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Rejection Slips 3

Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch

Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present...

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Spring is like childhood
Time to grow
Develop roots
Experience the warmth of the sun
And bathe in the soothing rain.

Summer is like youth
Grows stronger
Roots sink deeper
Heavy rain and...

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Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed...
Murderously Skewered, And Torturously Zapped

Directv linkedin to accentuate
piddly money crisis, tis zen uneasy fate,
I imagine dragons gyrate
ting, and licking chops,...

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I touch you 
your eyes invite me 
true loves way 
-
true loves way 
your eyes invite me 
I touch you
-
the owl hunts
silently seeking
sounds of life
-
winters...

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