Metaphor January Poems

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
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Another sleepless night,
I watch the snow fall. 

Furious flurries in a heavenly jailbreak,
they pile up in the window corners anonymously.

One itinerant catches itself on the...

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Grey skies make me smile
Autumn's chill embraces me
Winter's on the way

Now I feel alive
Heat and humidity gone
Summer's oppression

Trees disrobe for sleep
Pray, winter bring your snow
To...

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Cold winter's breath blows
Icey fingers decorate
Dark clouds forebode snow

Chance climate holds thus
Dancing white will soon alight
The god's magic dust

Colorless earthscape
Snow maiden weave thy blanket
Fair comfort...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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In december we sell smiles
           in january we reap joyfulness...
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Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are...

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Vocabulist nonalcoholic punchdrunk stupor January 1st, 2020

Unlike the vast population swath,
with painful hangover
average celebrant merely
doth confusedly blink,
who devoutly pledge
new year resolution
to give up drink
immediately fall...

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Strokes after midnight
received a distant sad news
a swallow has flown

Watch over us dear
I kept my prayers for you
frosted in flowers...

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