Right until proven otherwise
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At times I've been known to share with anyone who'll listen
my belief on what people might say as they meet their fate
you know... perhaps a piano falling on their head
or the proverbial bus abo...
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Categories:
in all probability, death, words,
Form: Free verse
Letter To My Unborn Child
...To My Darling Unborn Child
Today I signed papers that would allow you to be brought up by a loving family who desperately wanted a child just like you.
Please don’t think that I relinquish all ri...
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Categories:
in all probability, birth, child,
Form: Other
Dating 4 Fun
...Hey everybody it's
Saturday Night
And I am free and single
And what that means is
It's time to gather the boy's
And head downtown
In search of a crowded dancefloor
Full of fever hottie's...
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Categories:
in all probability, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Joke of the Hoax
...Believing Covid has to be
a plan hatched by humanity
hoaxing a deadly disease
To which we've no immunity
One to see our freedoms cease
or fraud shaping economies
controlling all within a...
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Categories:
in all probability, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Wild Hunt
...The Wild Hunt
by Michael R. Burch
(King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been reported as ghostly hunters, near Devon, around Halloween.)
Near Devon, the hunters appear in the sk...
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Categories:
in all probability, england, halloween, london, myth,
Form: Verse
The Pictish Faeries
...The Pictish Faeries
by Michael R. Burch
Smaller and darker
than their closest kin,
the faeries learned only too well
never to dwell
close to the villages of larger men.
Only to dance in t...
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Categories:
in all probability, fairy,
Form: Verse
Not Broken Open Family
...Some say they from a broken family
I’m not but nowadays its broken anyway
punished when in trouble had to take responsibility
picked apart by my troubles stripped of masculinity
punishment not...
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Categories:
in all probability, family,
Form: Rhyme
Forever Disarmed
...Oh, I can dream of you and toss and toss in my bed
And snap your crazy feelings with dizzying eagerness
And pump my ventricles for you in crimson red
Leaving me in a state of thorough helplessness...
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Categories:
in all probability, poems,
Form: Free verse
And Then I Wriggled Free
...Hooked on love
I wept for the serenity
I felt I could no longer have
In all probability for eternity
Conspired with Cupid led
Assailants my peace of mind to steal
As disfigured on my aching b...
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Categories:
in all probability, poems,
Form: Free verse
Hacked Into
...Stuck in the past, I lie awake
In my bed wondering why I let you go
When mad blood made the mistake
I could in all probability forgo.
Stripped of volition, I search every recess of my mind
For...
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Categories:
in all probability, poems,
Form: Free verse
Village Justice Or Legal Farce
...Village Justice Or Legal Farce
A developing saga of political intrigue and power play in the corridors of power...
With invisible puppet strings being tugged in a certain manner....
How else to ...
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Categories:
in all probability, abuse, allusion, community, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Love Poem
...She said
Last night I had an epiphany
I just know its serendipity
Perhaps written in antiquity
Our love in all probability
Will last till eternity
We have such magnetic affinity
After such ec...
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Categories:
in all probability, love, romantic,
Form: Light Verse
The Grey Man
...There were images the grey man could not see
Did not want to see, in all probability
Walking by the glass doors and windows of modern stores
No warmth of being within their cold crisp alloy fra...
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Categories:
in all probability, life, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 59
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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 59
Does Nature dispose at random by whim or wish
In all probability by set built-in laws
Part of free will which wills ill makes karma punish
...
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Categories:
in all probability, nature, rights, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Poetry Heaven
...oh what a wonderful group we make
as we pen our poems and take a break
our traits range from weird to strange
in all probability certifiably deranged
leaving legacies of genius in our wa...
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Categories:
in all probability, humor, poets, tribute,
Form: Limerick
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