In My Deepest Fantasies
...Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled ra...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, celebration, character, confidence, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Paarthanox Pink
...Paarthanox Pink
There was once a man
who made a deal with the devil,
losing both limb and mind.
Whose thoughts once ventured uncharted dreams
to discover and to find.
Paarthanox Pink...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, beauty, death, fantasy, grave,
Form: Narrative
Pantheons Burn
...Hot the lost lovers rage
Walk within pantheons of gilded brigades
The passions roar as idolized lost sages
Of some immense meaning
In supernatural things
Without rhythms or reasons
Of a fath...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Matter
...dark matter
in distant places odd
facades hang on vacant faces
walking the endless maps
across forgotten nations
as feet bleed crimson
as angels weep
as dark matter collects
on ancient...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, color, creation, dark, dream,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poems Iii
...Poems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his ...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, poems, poetry, poets, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
...Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?s...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, heart, night, spiritual, wife,
Form: Sonnet
The Composition of Shadows Ii
...The Composition of Shadows (II)
by Michael R. Burch
We breathe and so we write;
the night
hums softly its accompaniment.
Pale phosphors burn;
the page we turn
leads onward, and we smile,...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, art, internet, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
Oracles of the Abyss
...Oracles of the Abyss
...I shed a single tear, and as it fell to the ground, like a nuclear bomb...an ocean was born...
Serving somniferous solitudes from ejaculate embryonic con...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, love, mystery,
Form: Alliteration
Don'T Go Near the Edge
...Don’t Go Near The Edge
Rumblings of battle
resound weakly
muffle
fear’s
labyrinthian lunacy .
“Don’t go near the edge!”
Rules change
shadow’s lie
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Categories:
labyrinthian, allusion,
Form: Free verse
The Bench In the Labyrinth
...Deep in a silva of the Emerald Isle there hides a peculiar coppice,
Shaped in a spiral labyrinth which is seen only on the summer solstice.
As the sun rises to its highest of tides and the day o...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, adventure, fairy, grandfather, ireland,
Form: Couplet
The Dirge of Sylvia Plath
...Having succumbed to suicidal insouciance,
From which mellifluous melted words dripped,
She fought the nemesis of the inner annoyance,
Who beleaguered her with languishing lips.
The lithe lips...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, death, dedication, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Labyrinthian Day
...The trees
extrude themselves
along the low resistance
pathways in the air.
Nature abhores such vacuums and
fills them with wood.
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The birds who
inhabit the trees
ride sunlight trails,
slip...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, nature,
Form: Free verse
Labyrinthian Path
...God kissed the path he gave to me.
Do I see the beauty
That surrounds all senses fully?
His footprints are my company.
Earth and Son's energy
Promises life eternally.
Spirit resides ...
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Categories:
labyrinthian, devotion, faith, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme