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Come Down, For Harold Bloom
Come Down
by Michael R. Burch

for Harold Bloom

Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...

and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...

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Categories: benito, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and War
You can feel it spinning
                              ...

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Categories: benito, culture, environment, farm, future, history, peace, water,
Form: Verse
Mayflower 2017
The hearts of white men are silently fuming
The spirits of  angry widows steadily   grow bitter 
The bosoms of weeping mothers  open wide
While the relics of the past kept washing upon our...

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Categories: benito, abuse, betrayal, community, conflict, environment, immigration, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Poems For Poets Vi
Poems for Poets VI



Caveat
by Michael R. Burch

If only we were not so eloquent,
we might sing, and only sing, not to impress,
but only to enjoy, to be enjoyed.

We might inundate the earth with thankfulness
for light, although...

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Categories: benito, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Poems For Poets Iv
POEMS FOR POETS IV

PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of...

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Categories: benito, poems, poetry, poets, political,
Form: Rhyme



Poems About Poets Viii
POEMS ABOUT POETS VIII

PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of...

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Categories: benito, class, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is the Picture
What is the Picture ???,

the tapestry that man has weaved,
before and throughout recorded history.
Of what ?, have we been lead to believe ?
For me, it is, it has been an insane mystery !!!,

as rivers of...

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Categories: benito, nature, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Saga of 81-82 Part Iii
World Cup Finals Spain 1982

fate had decided New Zealand would be tried
when drawing the hardest group in everyone’s eyes.
First is Scotland related to a few but it’s the adopted
country these lads will defend, next the...

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Categories: benito, sports,
Form: Free verse
My Ode To Benito Mussolini
Mussolini saved Italy
from a possible Nazi conquest,
he saw an alliance with Germany
as an opportunity to avoid
another horrible Holocaust!

This truth was never told
for fear that the Italian people
would have declared 
Il Duce the savior of Italy;
wasn't...

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Categories: benito, betrayal, death, fate, history, nostalgia, people, sorrow,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun was a kindly old soul
He raped and plundered the land
With the aid of his murderous henchmen all
A truly psychotic man 

The kind of man you'd like as a friend
If you love to...

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Categories: benito, humorous, tribute, me,
Form: Quatrain
Boungiorno
hello! hey! boungiorno! what is the date?/
this world of dimensions created duality/
no letters/ no words/ are enough to express/
someone like you/ in reality/

i filled all your emptines/ MY still quiet bay/
as Jhon opened world in...

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Categories: benito, adventure, april, autumn, baby, beach, beautiful, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Failure
I am not a player
But a hunter 
penetrating your soul like an American vampire sucking your blood, am no Adolph Hitler
destroying a civilization
creating the Aryan nation. 
I’m not like the bomb in Hiroshima 
but my...

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Categories: benito, africa,
Form: ABC

Book: Reflection on the Important Things