My Blooming Rose
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Alongside me in rain and shine
she walks her life on her own terms,
setting the course on the pathway she likes to pave.
Probing nameless people uncalled, she may descry
break the fence of he...
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Categories:
inarticulate, appreciation, character, wife,
Form: Free verse
Self-esteem Attributes
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This is how one of my friends describes
my character attributes.
In many blood-shot blazing eyes he sees
they seethe inside in the inferno of anger,
throw out raging words from the venomou...
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Categories:
inarticulate, analogy, character, self,
Form: Ode
Pearls And Cigarettes Rime Couee
...Massaging me with body oil,
I am now your woman to spoil.
My hair’s become ringlets.
With an arch in the jacuzzi,
I lay back let you taste me.
String pearls and cigarettes.
There is an absen...
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Categories:
inarticulate, lust, passion, romance,
Form: Other
The Inflection Trimeric
...He said ‘With relish.’ like a soft light,
erasing the line that never existed.
Pulsating with what was uninhibited,
the phrase exasperated her hunger.
Erasing the line that never existed,
an ...
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Categories:
inarticulate, emotions, feelings, romance,
Form: Other
I Don't Care
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Inspired by Iron Maiden song " I live my way"
I walk my life at my own pace I set,
create the course on the lone pathway I pave.
I see unwanted faceless people
probe me at their ...
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Categories:
inarticulate, freedom, identity,
Form: Free verse
Magnified Myself
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An inarticulate artist,
I wanted to paint
the lone life’s landscape,
effervescent,
the construed course
of a river called desire
unrestrained,
meandering its way...
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Categories:
inarticulate, analogy, emotions, introspection,
Form: Free verse
crippling anxiety
...I feel as if I am the only one. I stand, my feet planted in the sand, and look ahead of me; a vast ocean appears. It’s beautiful, yet that is not what my fixated being chooses to look on. I see death...
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Categories:
inarticulate, analogy, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Sister's Account Of Me
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We spent twenty two long years together
under the same roof, so, I know him better than others,
for he’s my only brother.
On his own terms his life he walks brave,
setting the course on the...
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Categories:
inarticulate, analogy, character,
Form: Bio
In the Twilight of Her Tears
...In the Twilight of Her Tears
by Michael R. Burch, age 19
In the twilight of her tears
I saw the shadows of the years
that had taken with them all our joys and cares ...
There in an ebbing ti...
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Categories:
inarticulate, care, city, death, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Pulse of the Poet's Abyss
...In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
I ruminate—
no longer a singular entity but a disjointed duality
my qui...
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Categories:
inarticulate, emotions, gothic, halloween, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
In the shadows of a fractured consciousness, where words fall like shattered glass
...In the shadows of a fractured consciousness, where words fall like shattered glass,
The man, unable to articulate, to express with clarity, retreats into action.
His thoughts, like wild horses, gal...
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Categories:
inarticulate, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Gemini Garden-Silent One
...“birds care not for whom they sing” - Silent One
The Gemini Garden stays close to mountain springs.
In this magic garden, countless flowers bloom and wither,
With pruned trees, shrubs and spraw...
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Categories:
inarticulate, appreciation, bird, garden,
Form: Free verse
After the Surgery
...These blatant lives we lead
with our guts hanging out
between pretty words.
I remember (after the failed gastric surgery),
when gore spilled out of my prone body;
that slow unwinding of blank ...
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Categories:
inarticulate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
coagulation
...the words coagulate, stuck
in the back of my throat, I choke
on the words I cannot seem to
acknowledge, articulate, remember.
aphasia commandeers my body as her vessel
inarticulate and mute
and...
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Categories:
inarticulate, grief, hurt, words,
Form: Free verse
ITS ALL GOOD
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Inarticulate as the morning air when it flows to and there
this cognitive essence of rebirthing, is a true blessing
this knowledge that perhaps didn't come easily
is lodged...
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Categories:
inarticulate, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
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