Reckoning
...Painting the music on a bow
The lure fashioned a form
The engine and a circuit
A pinning of a crucial phenomenon
A policy by allowance
A permission into wheat
Each probable wind opportunity for...
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Categories:
indiscrete, absence, beauty, corruption, creation,
Form: Free verse
That Was Then, This Is Now
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That was then….
When the tapestry of contentment enveloped
the enthralled expanse exhilarated,
of the sensuous sky called life.
When the fervent flight was friendly
for the esoteric essen...
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Categories:
indiscrete, analogy, life, time,
Form: Free verse
The Noon Hour
...Hot, humid, burning sun rays
it's the noon hour smack in the light of mid-day,
the random moments of a Monday deluge of renewal
back to work to the tied-down, set-in-place routines do all
pu...
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Categories:
indiscrete, day, time, work,
Form: Grook
Silent Opera
...Notice
in silent anticipations
softening distinctions
empower fluidity,
blending Language
Culture
Communication,
symbol recreating systems.
Consider
how apparent differences
between discr...
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Categories:
indiscrete, community,
Form: Political Verse
Driving Through the American Dream
...Streets are long,
here where the town shifts into
linear ranks of commercial blocks
out-pacing the moving cars.
This is America most everywhere.
All that can be seen from a car screen
lays it...
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Categories:
indiscrete, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Octavia - a Haunting
...What’s left of Octavia glides down the hall
Past the portraits she painted in life,
Now framed in mahogany, rosewood, and oak,
And they’re hers for the haunting tonight.
She looks for the canva...
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Categories:
indiscrete, allegory, art, gothic,
Form: Lyric
Random Play
...I'm so done
with 2021
it's a leftover of promises empty
from 2020;
words indiscrete
ever on repeat
same old same old
fortune does not favor the bold...
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Categories:
indiscrete, america, angst,
Form: Political Verse
Love Poems Iii
...LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
On...
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Categories:
indiscrete, desire, devotion, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Tonight's Dream
...Slip into your comfies to warm your mind and tummy,
fleece-lined flannel warm nirvana,
sip your tea and honey
while old movies become a panorama
of memories and wayward dreams
when youth was ...
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Categories:
indiscrete, cute, silly,
Form: Blank verse
A Shattered Peace
...A Shattered Peace
(as a privileged white man searches his soul)
A shot rang out that gave a fright
and shattered peace in dark of night.
For just a while I gave a pause
then ventured o...
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Categories:
indiscrete, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Mind Talk
...A cacophony of images flow
past and future dreams on the go,
thinking two things at once
focused on lunch,
twirling lights and jingled tambourines
paint a picturesque magical dream.
All is q...
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Categories:
indiscrete, allusion, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Dance
...A melody
unlike any other message we bring
played on the depths of inner heartstrings
riding on the bow of a soulful violin;
notes beating along tight drum skins
rumbling in the trees upon th...
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Categories:
indiscrete, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Return of the Heron
...I watched as she dropped down
that full six-foot wingspan graced the air around
that slipped in quiet, somehow silenced in the cold gray steel
and suddenly again, she was here, looking for anoth...
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Categories:
indiscrete, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Sadness
...It must be written on the wind,
those ancient prophecies
of time immemorial and its hymn,
repeating the rise and the fall
of spring rain and summer dew
floating in the fallen leaf hues;
h...
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Categories:
indiscrete, autumn, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Trying To Forgive
...The past few days have been okay,
However, I anxiously await the day,
That the other shoe will inevitably drop.
That your love for me will eventually stop.
You tell me I am silly, yet I someti...
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Categories:
indiscrete, forgiveness, relationship,
Form: Heroic Couplet
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