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Halloween Poems
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch

If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;

if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads

uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!

If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;

if birds give...

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Categories: benediction, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form: Rhyme



Fahr An' Ice
Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch

From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...

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Categories: benediction, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form: Light Verse
It's Halloween
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch

If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;

if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads

uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!

If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;

if birds give...

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Categories: benediction, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form: Verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii
My most popular poems on the Internet (II)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...

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Categories: benediction, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Peace Prayer
These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...

Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

for Jim Dunlap

Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.

Be one with the...

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Categories: benediction, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form: Free verse



Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
Poems about the Coronavirus II


This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...

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Categories: benediction, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iv
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV



Neglect
by Michael R. Burch

What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?

What good, the warm...

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Categories: benediction, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form: Rhyme
What Good Are Our Tears
What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch

What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?

What good, the warm benevolence...

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Categories: benediction, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Today Is Different
Today is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.

Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacred
happy secular "Amen!"

Our nearly fearless Editor and Chief
calls for political "ACCOUNTABILITY!"
like...

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Categories: benediction, america, health, integrity, prayer, spiritual, spoken word,
Form: Political Verse
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire Poem
Vampire Poetry

Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
 
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
 
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
 
dreaming of...

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Categories: benediction, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form: Verse
Vampires Are Such Fragile Creatures
Vampires
by Michael R. Burch

Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.

Centuries...

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Categories: benediction, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form: Verse
The Daily Star Thursday issue
The Daily Star Thursday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun 
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This...

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Categories: benediction, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june, star, summer,
Form: Free verse
The Daily Star Tuesday Issue
The daily star Tuesday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings

Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates

most daylight hours of the year for
people...

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Categories: benediction, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, creation, england, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pulse of the Poet's Abyss
In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
    not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
    I ruminate—
        no longer a singular entity but...

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Categories: benediction, emotions, gothic, halloween, imagination, muse, poets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
First Love
Oh, where on earth do I begin….Twenty years ago…

There he was. Standing by the door of World Literature Class in 1996. 
There I was. Walking past him in the hallways of high school.
Our eyes met...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: benediction, beautiful, desire, love, passion, , literature,
Form: Narrative
The Daily Star Announces Summer Solstice 2022
The daily star announces Summer Solstice 2022

Tuesday, June twenty first
at 5:13 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates

most daylight hours of the year for
people living the northern hemisphere.
Just shy...

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Categories: benediction, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, creation, devotion, june,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Echoes of the Angel Fallen Part 2
Book 2
“Next we will use and abuse, the wedge of doubt.  To place a misgiving, a slight of hand, an apprehension into the day,  to mold the day thoughts of these apes, these...

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Categories: benediction, allegory, angel, faith,
Form: Epic
Absolute deafening silence
Absolute deafening silence...

during and after a moderate snowfall
today January 19th, 2024,
within Southeastern Pennsylvania
and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard,
whereby blanket of whiteness
muffles sounds of civilization.

I hate a spoiler alert
regarding weather forecasters prediction,
especially when meteorologist
wannabe spouse doth...

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Categories: benediction, adventure, age, angel, appreciation, beauty, humorous, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Kundalini Awakening
Part-1: Preamble

God loves us, so He split Himself in two
Motionless as space, kinetic as time
Shiva and Shakti; truth known to but few
As the word of God - Om sounded life's chime

God's vibration caused a ripple...

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Categories: benediction, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves
"The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves"




In Theta waves 
tumbling to 
The Land of Dark Dreams
Trees will capture and save
the falling Princess and Queen
An Bee Cailleach
invisibilia simulacra viro
An Bee Cailleach scries heroes 
incarnate falling in 
The...

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Categories: benediction, dark, daughter, fantasy, journey, light, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Call It What You May
Call it what you may
But I will not go back the other way
Call it what you may
I did not come here to dance or play
I have the keys to the golden box
And I would like...

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Categories: benediction, anniversary, betrayal, character, conflict, courage, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dusty Box of Memories
"Photographs escort us to hidden recesses of memory and bring before us rare moments lost in time"... By Poet

Flitting through the pages of an old album,
Picked up from an abandoned dusty box, 
I saw a...

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Categories: benediction, home, i miss you, memory,
Form: Free verse
Another Ministry of Truth Caught Then Lies volume 3

The National Science Foundation outsources to Colleges, today's mental assassins to secretly 
censor you using "wisedex" 
among other things. 
"Wisedex" is
in the shadows of academia, 
a deep state melanoma
with digital mitochondria and an mRNA soul.

Mental...

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Categories: benediction, art,
Form: Free verse
The Greatest Affliction
Addictions, restrictions, afflictions, decisions,
A needle, a bottle, step down hard on that throttle!
Disaster, no more laughter, destruction for years after.
Placate, eradicate, fornicate, masturbate,
Addiction.  Restriction.  Addiction.

No more art, no more heart, another false start.
No...

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Categories: benediction, addiction, body, corruption, health, humanity, life, lost
Form: Prose Poetry
Roomeight



In Elysian Heights, Room 8 stands strong, 
as a blessed place for a furlong purrloin whisk-along a ride-along comforting face,
where memories of childhood days belong,
a classmate, a friend, roommate_in our youthful race, ("Room 8") was...

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Categories: benediction, 6th grade, adventure, america, angel, baptism,
Form: Rhyme

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