Happiness Hyperbole Poems

For crying out loud
Due to the outcome
I was not particularly proud
For more than two centuries, election days go and come
At a similar season, every four...

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I had leaned on the bar of the balcony, when suddenly
My eyes and my mind have captured, from far away
A silhouette creeping down the steps...

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Your yellow leaves make my morning happiness 
Circular movements giving rhythm to the phases of my life 
in my dance twirling and senseless...

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I will dust your body dripping with fruitful pollen 
from golden buttered sunflowers tall and towering 
painting the sky filled with choirs of yellow canaries...

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Instruction
by Michael R. Burch

Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.

Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset

of night is...

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I ran than jumped high
into the upper atmosphere
like a young frisky
buck naked and bare
no matter weight of world
and personal woes oppressive,
yours truly shrugged,

(she loves you...

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Only to live for a drank
Alcohol helps me to think
For only my life is on the brank
I'm about to sank
For living for love, I'm about...

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A sullen sadness saturates my heart and soul
nothing outside of death warrants a smile.
           ...

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DEFINING LIFE
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Anomaly... abnormalities that can and... do confound us all...
Avant-garde... new words... alive with meaning prance across the page...
Baroque... words... can they but allude to...

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Misrule
Misappropriate
Mass-grave...

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It grows
beneath the surface
It grows
Behind the curtain

It grows
And when it is seen
It’s too late
It’s there to stay

It is like a gas
Hovering 
Following
Enveloping those

In its Smokey...

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It was time, for my audition - a nice renditition,
I came armed, nothing too predictable, with ammunition;
this offered my chance for fame, only I was...

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since the beginning
-perhaps even earlier-
we became two dots on a circle,
you and I, 
on the circle of like souls, 
both vicious and virtuous,
but never once...

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for karma nurisha wa kupenda lowe
(poem for a letter too long to write)

cosmic gem of the universe
exploded celestial beauty
princess of the milky way
poured into 
the...

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Rain made no apologies to sun
as it satiated a whetted appetite,
opined it was the right of nature
unconditionally given dispensation
by Mother Earth's nurturing favor
of life-giving creative...

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