Dark Intimate Poems

Beside the river flowing over smooth
Stones, dark and shadowy waters,
Healing me with hues of summertime truths…
Echoing past the whimsical blue, streaming
Alive like the music playing...

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In remembrance of that virtual dream,
clear impressions like a movie stream.
Time in different sphere filling impressions,
something of another mind expressions.
Living about in a world not...

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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch



Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
 
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...



Negotiables
by Michael...

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I was reading a dead man`s newspaper   
on the first train home     
    
Through the ink...

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No deadbolt here;
No bell informing
Of presence--
My echo returned,
Calling me
An awakening voice…

Enter, I beckon;
Child of mine
Long before conception--
Loving you
Even when still
and though heartless--
Infant Summation
yet to be...

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We met online
both from 
the same city
lovely dark skinned woman.

Eyes like black pearls
skin smooth as velvet
I went to her house
like magnets we clicked...

Later the next...

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"Intimate Strangers"


Sunset sleeps gently
Moonlight illuminates night
two hearts glow in dark.

Stars play peek-a-boo
Planets twirl to haunt essence
two souls firelight.

Dawn awakes flowers
desires and passions prowled
intimate strangers.

July 1,...

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and yet, to say that one's heart 
can never be broken 
is a disgrace to the one who holds 
their heart at the ready 
to...

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