If I Make It To Old Age
...If I Make It To Old Age
If I make it to old age, I’ll count myself lucky.
Not careful or clever, not courageous or plucky.
It’s all down to fortune at the end of the day.
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Categories:
implausibly, age, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross...
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Categories:
implausibly, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
...Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children e...
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Categories:
implausibly, bible, christian, creation, god,
Form: Free verse
Various Heresies 3
...Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordain...
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Categories:
implausibly, america, bible, christian, god,
Form: Verse
An Ostrich That I Am
...Trust an airborne Ostrich like myself with clean wings as the boar
I have seen the lion sing and the songbird roar
But I stood in disbelief behold the bald eagles fly
Above the firmament’s heights im...
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Categories:
implausibly, africa, allegory, courage, fear,
Form: Narrative
Confined
...Dare your undesirable escape of emotion
Cease your glances of reverse direction
Our entities are of unison
Undeniable is the connection
Unfathomable, how strenuous it’s to imagine
Experience past and...
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Categories:
implausibly, life, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme