Howling Wilderness
...High winds have come to a land remote and wild.
Oak leaves tremble in the black of night
While critters to the underbrush for the present are exiled.
Like a giant thras...
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Categories:
ince, wind,
Form: Acrostic
My Miracle Original in Turkish, Mucizem
...**Original in Turkish**
Mucizem
Levent, bir rüzgâr gibi esti dünyama,
Esintisiyle savurdu karanliklari.
Bir adadaki isik gibi, yolumu aydinlatti,
Oksijenim, havam—nefesim oldu varligi.
G...
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Categories:
ince, feelings, light, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Unstoppable Force
...One foot in front of the other,
Listening to the Mother.
Rumbling and tumbling,
Through the water.
And thought about,
The path it sought.
Since it began,
A trickle in the sand.
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Categories:
ince, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Merry Christmas!
...Mince Pies for sharing, I’m sure you’ll agree
Evergreen festive lights are a-glowing
Repeats aplenty, our Christmas TV
Recycling bins are all overflowing
Your d...
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Categories:
ince, 10th grade, children, christmas,
Form: Sonnet
Army Soldiers: Army of the USA
...America's bulwark, strong and true,
Resolved to defend, the red, white, and blue.
Mighty warriors, brave and bold,
Years of service, stories paroled.
Since ...
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Categories:
ince, career, dedication, hero, history,
Form: Acrostic
SEPTEMBER FALLS
...Sun’s rays have weakened lately. Cool winds blow,
Effectively allaying summer heat.
Perhaps fall lovers should be patient, though.
There’ll be more hot days. Summer’s n...
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Categories:
ince, autumn, september, summer,
Form: Acrostic
STOICISM
...“Strong and silent” well defines a stoic person.
They try not to let things take them by surprise.
Owning their fate, they endure without complaint.
In fact, they don’t...
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Categories:
ince, people,
Form: Acrostic
Justice
...I
Justice from heaven: low threshhold
Evidence on earth, different!
Spirit witnesses against unbelievers
Unless Jesus is the one we KNOW
Since the Cross made P...
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Categories:
ince, analogy, creation, forgiveness, heaven,
Form: Acrostic
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till...
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Categories:
ince, boy, child, childhood, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Afghanistan
...A faraway place
Frequently forgotten
Given to much social unrest
Hardly known, never understood
And
Never completely tamed
In spite of decades ...
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Categories:
ince, conflict, international, perspective, war,
Form: Acrostic
Hind Sight
...M- oment by moment the hours tick by.
I- n each one I wonder and ask myself why,
S- ince you have left me I feel so alone,
S- o utterly empty when I should have known,
I-nviting you into my heart...
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Categories:
ince, i miss you, introspection,
Form: Acrostic
Candy Crunch Saga Number 6999
...God allowed us to invent them: chess, mancala, Ludo, CC-saga;
And Candy Crunch Saga claims to be played everywhere
Methinks "On all seven continents, including Antartica."
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Categories:
ince, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: Acrostic
Life's Mysteries - Revised Yet Again
...Live and learn; that is what all humans do.
Illumination of the mind may not
Flow quite as much as we would like it to.
Enlightenment forever man has sought.
So...
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Categories:
ince, mystery,
Form: Acrostic
Ince St Child
...Ince St. Child
by Michael R. Burch
When she was a child
in a dark forest of fear,
imagination cast its strange light
into secret places,
scattering traces
of illumination so bright,
years...
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Categories:
ince, abuse, atheist, child, child
Form: Verse
Since You Were a Child
...S-ince you were a child,
A-lmighty God did send
L-ove and care to your life
I-n His mercy without
E-nd.
F-rom your mom's womb,
E-ternal God had given you
R-ight elements of a human,
R...
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Categories:
ince, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
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