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Likelier Poems - Poems about Likelier


Preposterous Eros
...Preposterous Eros by Michael R. Burch “Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga Preposterous Eros shot me in the buttocks, with a Devilish grin, spent all my money in a rush then left my heart......

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Categories: likelier, desire, love, love hurts,
Form: Epigram
Try It Again I Blow Your Brains Out
...It ca have been in Costa Rica Or much likelier God’s America… Perhaps in Europe’s calmer Britain But we know he fires shots: Briton… A female Nigerian car owner Had negotiated a road’s corne......

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Categories: likelier, death, prejudice, violence, woman,
Form: Rhyme



Audio Recording of My Poems
...High time i did their studio voicing To ignite a genuine rejoicing Over verses dismissed like Virus And by Sun Magaz The Mysterious, Poet making out as The Deleterious. For all he might seem......

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Categories: likelier, imagination, inspiration, poetry, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
The Sweetest Melon
...At the fruit stand, in a box, Were melons that, to me, Were unfamiliar, not the Ones I’m likelier to see. No cantaloupes? No honeydews? The fruit guy shook his head, But pointed to the box wh......

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Categories: likelier, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Eros and Cupid
...POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cher......

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Categories: likelier, cute love, desire, god,
Form: Epigram



Heat Lightening
...Heat Lightening by Michael R. Burch Each night beneath the elms, we never knew which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance, then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up like searchlight......

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Categories: likelier, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet
The Bridge At Abydos 1
...I There are two ways of being in this world, the eagle and the serpent, sometimes called: while one seeks boundless heaven, wings unfurled, the other through low dirt has always crawled, and see......

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Categories: likelier, history,
Form: Rhyme

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