Song Hyperbole Poems

The Song Of  A Poet
(Dedicated To Amirah Akilu)

The song of the rain 
Preaching us to farm
And be workaholics!

The song from the stream
Administer us to...

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From the cold, damp earth I rise,
With a heavy heart and tearful eyes,
My mother lies in eternal rest,
But her love still beats within my chest.

With...

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Strings and reeds
Is what it needs
Bassy sounds
and a
Groovy beat
A conducter
to give
Direction
The right singers
to collaborate
So we can
do our thing
and 
Celebrate


Get it right
a classic
Composition
Been sung
Many times
In ever...

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hey pete
by Michael R. Burch
 
hey pete,
it's baseball season
and the sun ascends the sky,
encouraging a schoolboy's dreams
of winter whizzing by;
go out, go out and catch...

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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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The sacred power climax experience
of holy integrity
is more of a one time
of full-baptismal rebirth
into a depleting orgasmic fertility event
for horny patriarchs
of global monoculturally zealous redemption

Left-hemisphere...

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Mistake:
Watch me do
impressions of you.

Alcoholic:
Keen to sop
up every drop.

Alternative Realty:
Truth don't matter,
bacon don't splatter.

Discerning:
Only expensive wine,
when we dine.

Teetotaler:
Enjoy your beer,
just not here.

Politician:
I don't lie,
you're my...

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Turn up the lights
Fold up the bed
Turn up those voices
outside my head
Lay out for me
Feed me with lies
Just hold me up, your patron saint
Do matronize...

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It was amazing
When we first met
Sort of like Romeo and Juliet 
But I was quickly
Able to see
What she had in store

First the pictures in my...

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It starts as a caress;
Faintly carrying its song on the wind
A song that yields an infinite harvest

Of days and tales not yet come
Of two hearts...

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HYPERBOLE MODE
It's the secret you told 
never young never old
to her eyes when she wanted to see
and the deepest of you 
was a thing that...

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Written February 22, 2017


Motivation keeps us dream chasing
Those thoughts that you hold dear to your heart
Until the world falls apart from me missing you
These thoughts...

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With eyesight that is seeing two
I’m not quite sure what I should do,
my job needs vision that is keen,
if this gets worse what will it...

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We are the tintinnabulating trolls
To the rock rock bottom of our nonexistent souls.
Madder than the maddest hatter,
Hear us bellow, bray, and bleat;
And we prattle pitter-patter
In...

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the man who lied to me knew 
that immortality is the best kind of lie 
that pain is closer to the soul than happiness 
secrets...

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