Jilted
...a shiver in the night
beckons at the moon
yet never an answer in the wind
slowly most insipidly
a silence takes over from within
reaches deep leaving its touch of bitterness
while drop by dro...
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Categories:
insipidly, heartbreak, lonely, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poems Vi
...Poems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
a...
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Categories:
insipidly, extended metaphor, heaven, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Mothers
...Poems about Mothers
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more...
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Categories:
insipidly, child, children, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Rejection Slips 2
...Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the mon...
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Categories:
insipidly, beauty, death, desire, life,
Form: Free verse
The Poet's Condition
...The Poet's Condition
by Michael R. Burch
(for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)
The poet's condition
(bother tradition)
is whining contrition.
Supposedly sage,
his editor knows
his brain'...
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Categories:
insipidly, mother, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Pity Clarity
...Pity Clarity
by Michael R. Burch
Pity Clarity,
and, if you should find her,
release her from the tangled webs
of dusty verse that bind her.
And as for Brevity,
once the soul of wit—
she f...
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Categories:
insipidly, life, love, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Understand Where I Stood
...Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
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Categories:
insipidly, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Do Not Mess With This Rude and Crude Dude
...DO NOT FEUD WITH THIS RUDE AND CRUDE DUDE, DUDE
Damn dude, there ain’t even a remote possibility
Because anyone who knows me understands I don’t possess that particular ability
Until you’ve gott...
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Categories:
insipidly, angst, me, me, smile,
Form: Monorhyme
Praise
...Hell belches out more black-hearted ballads
than the accord of heaven that releases
only the innocent and wafting
lofty dreamings of a...
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Categories:
insipidly, warfire, fire,
Form: I do not know?