As Time Walked By
...These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled...
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Categories:
irradiating, 10th grade, boy, child,
Form: Free verse
Tethered To a Moment
...A juicy nectarine
sparkles through the dove-colored limbs
of the fully flushed trees
as the light seeps
around the edge of the cool morn’,
yesterday.
Today the dayspring's lemon-cream...
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Categories:
irradiating, allusion, beauty, color,
Form: Free verse
As Flies To Wanton Boys Are We To Th' Gods
...66 Million years ago
Fireball from the sky hits
Echoing life-planet,
Snuffing almost all in darkness
Mouse like burrowing under the inferno.
1750
People harvested like wheat
Strong men, ch...
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Categories:
irradiating, environment,
Form: Free verse
Angels Danced
...My Blue Angels, illuminaries of incandescent light for they frolic between non-existence and temporal time. As they prance amidst the spatiotemporal stars I can see through them fo...
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Categories:
irradiating, angel, birth, home,
Form: Haibun
Irradiating Shine
...D-awn
E-vades
N-ight
N-eeding
I-rradiating
S-hine
Topic: Birthday of Dennis Deocales (April 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
irradiating, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
The Hyena
...Cackle cackle friend or foe
Four legged creature after a doe
Carnivorous lusting flesh and bone
Cackle cackle lustrous loud tone
Front legs long back legs short
Pointed snout hunters' snort
Und...
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Categories:
irradiating, identity,
Form: Bio
Life Through a Thousand Deaths
...Here life waits
with a thousand little discontinuous deaths, again,
right here in The Evolving Self's
sixth principle of preferable options for more humane revolutions
of evolution,
lurking behi...
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Categories:
irradiating, blessing, freedom, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Money Where Your Mouth Was
...Jesus help me,
cried Mother Earth
to Adam's Sacred Son,
I can't be birthin' all these ego-dominating babies,
gettin' on,
you know...
Makes me sad.
From "Mother Earth's Laboratory Journal", pos...
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Categories:
irradiating, earth, humor, money, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Caught Up In a Fairy Tale
...from Juniper’s Daughter:
War Is Obsolete – Futility and Hope
By Nick Armbrister
Caught Up In a Fairy Tale
My dreams haunt me as does the music, drunk I dance to the mesm...
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Categories:
irradiating, anger, death, fantasy, history,
Form: Verse
The Queen of All Hearts
...Every love begins with a simple story.
A dreamy fairy tale, a mutual playing of cards.
A hundred silent kisses thousands of miles apart led us into victory.
A batch of red-painted roses, hold them cl...
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Categories:
irradiating, love, war, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Alone In My Mind
...Have you ever cried?,
Felt your mind go loose
As you lose sanity.
The people around you
Slowly shrinking until
They vanish into thin air
Silence screaming in your ears
Then solitary you fin...
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Categories:
irradiating, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
No Title
...My blood sugar drops./ No longer in tip top shape. In a dazed state, I underrate the truth in
every word./ I wish my song was as beautiful as that of a birds./ And my connection to the
earth, was...
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Categories:
irradiating, introspection, naturelove, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse