The Tempter
...
(A seductive voice, smiles as it looks over New York. While the sun rises)
So my old record plays
As the early morning mists slowly
Drift in
And herald the new dawn of those beguiled by...
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Categories:
irreducible, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Web of Maya
...The way we diminish
the irreducible
is by drawing a veil
of ignorance on soul ~
dark fear forms that assail.
The way we diminish
divine omnipresence
is by conjuring thought,
plunging us in ...
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Categories:
irreducible, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Lost Connections
...LOST CONNECTIONS
the
irreducible
with a
deep intemotiit
in
the
contemporary
sometimes
explored
with
a satisfying
singularity
the serious&
complex
&comprehensive
yet
unheed...
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Categories:
irreducible, poetry,
Form: Other
A Muffled Pillow Speaks To Him
...He awoke, though he could not tell
if it was the middle of a long night
or the middle of his life.
The years before were sodden with autumnal leaves
and so he remembered much.
The mechanics ha...
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Categories:
irreducible, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poems I
...Poems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless ...
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Categories:
irreducible, creation, god, muse, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
...Sonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows...
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Categories:
irreducible, books, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
The State of the Art
...The State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their word...
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Categories:
irreducible, art, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
No Mark
...No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
...
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Categories:
irreducible, break up, change, divorce,
Form: Verse
Symmetrically Stunning Simplicity
...Simplicity seduces stunning symmetrically salivating stimuli
Complexity confounds controlled curiosities calculating clarify
Ambiguous ambitions amplify arousing academics admirable
Me...
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Categories:
irreducible, conflict, imagination, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
The Forge
...The Forge
by Michael R. Burch
To at last be indestructible, a poem
must first glow, almost flammable, upon
a thing inert, as gray, as dull as stone,
then bend this way and that, and slowly ...
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Categories:
irreducible, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Emerging Yellow
...When I look at the charred plasma
of a bare knuckled wind
I forget yellow
I forget the smeared tone
of skunk cabbage
rising through fog and mulch
or how in Chiang Mai
the river at sunset
...
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Categories:
irreducible, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Loneliness: Poem By Miss Aliza Kashmala Kiran
...Loneliness:
https://youtu.be/ZkwaiIGoyT4
There is Lonliness everywhere.
My fate, I have faced failure on the road of my real love content.My dreams are broken,there is a disappointment all over.
...
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Categories:
irreducible, abuse, anxiety, depression, lonely,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Irreducible
...Irreducible
What is it
that we can say is
irreducible..?
This has been
science's quest over
the centuries:
to locate the illusive
irreducible..
Atoms in ancient times
seemed irreducibl...
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Categories:
irreducible, endurance, freedom, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse
Palimpsest
...Beneath the graffiti littered by the years
and the fatigue signed by a thousand cares
Through the scratchings of so many tears
that were summoned or caught you unawares
Under the mottles by d...
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Categories:
irreducible, age, journey, life, lost,
Form: Free verse
What Am I
...
No human concept defines me
No human concept binds me
Only God's precept binds me,
as his unconditional Love outlines me
My form is a simple dimension,
of the God of love's compr...
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Categories:
irreducible, blessing,
Form: Didactic
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