See if I was Neo
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I would have made the Matrix
make the machines to rebuild the Earth
And wake me up when you are finished
So this is a sci-fi one
Fade to ray
Do you think there is a minus us
You know the co...
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Categories:
lien, poems,
Form: Free verse
Children's Poems X
...Children's Poems X
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Always
by Michael R. Burch
for Jer...
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Categories:
lien, baseball, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Varied October
...Crisp and chilly air pumpkins of the month
Greet the varied Halloween
No weird but a feast day on the soul's hunt
Celebrating the soul's kin
Autumnal dew smoke stirs up the night lien
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Categories:
lien, celebration, october,
Form: Quintain (English)
Auto-Pay
...Buying tomorrow
one day at a time
Each moment invested
in freedom sublime
The future remortgaged
all lien holders paid
The past earning interest
—on fortune today
(The New Room: July, 2023)...
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Categories:
lien, time,
Form: Rhyme
Edge
...Edge
The Edge,
or rather the Edgewood...
is a place, not a thing.
It is near the bridge,
but not quite under it.
It is quiet,
and full of only the "sounds",
that rarely choose to ex...
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Categories:
lien, butterfly, fantasy, first love,
Form: Free verse
Meandering Ode
...Old Bald Frog and a toad named Ander
saw Sally wander down by the road.
Said Frog, "Now Sally, me and Ander
been wondering where you do meander?"
Now, Ander was a three-toed toad,
had four befor...
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Categories:
lien, nursery rhyme,
Form: Ode
Not Alone
...Miss Lien I feel you have gone now
Through the doors to gods home
I hope when you took your last breath
You were not alone
You meant the world to our family
We loved you like our own
I hope w...
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Categories:
lien, friend, loss, miss you,
Form: Rhyme
Deeper Depths
...In deeper depths we strive to peek
through sharper optical technique
and glimpse beyond to sights unseen
with magnifying lenses keen
and special telescopic tweak.
Still here on earth with doub...
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Categories:
lien, earth, humanity, nature, space,
Form: Rondeau
How It Began
...It all began in a laboratory in Wuhan;
Shan Chi sneezed next to Li Huan,
And they both gave it to Sue Han,
Who spread it all over Fenghuang.
Shie Ming went to Taiwan,
And she wasn't the only o...
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Categories:
lien, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Lien Life
...limelight limericks
like long lofty lessons learned
lonely lean lives lived...
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Categories:
lien, class, encouraging, future, how
Form: Haiku
At All Things I Rush
...At my present in excusable age
I still crazily rage
In lien of acting The Sage:
Bold to open a wrong page
Upon receipt of a poor wage:
The Dry Look of one in a cage
And to my Boss “I’m twice y...
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Categories:
lien, addiction, anger, anxiety, character,
Form: Rhyme
Garth and His Mouse
...Garth was a cat with an attitude, and he was grayscale true.
He had a pet mouse. I did not dare chase him. Did you?
Other cats had tried to entice Garth to loan out his mouse.
Notorious bankers w...
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Categories:
lien, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Liaison Dangereuse
...
“liaison dangereuse”
Tear a thin line
along my skin
softly velvet
finger tips
no nurses gloves
down my neck
along my throat
with somet...
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Categories:
lien, addiction, senses, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Poems About Children Iii
...Poems about Children III
Miracle
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
The contrails of galaxies mingle, and the dust of that first day still shines.
Before I conceived you, before your heart bea...
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Categories:
lien, adventure, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
A Spiritual Brothers Love- -
...If I could love you;
I would
With just only sincere Brotherhood;
If I could pray for you I shall;
Openly lien privately withal;
I do my best I shall not digress;
With God for...
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Categories:
lien, brother, caregiving, character, friendship
Form: Free verse
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