Long Catacombs Poems
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Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
catacombs, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
catacombs, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IvJuvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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Categories:
catacombs, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire PoemVampire 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:
catacombs, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
Vampires Are Such Fragile CreaturesVampires
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:
catacombs, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form:
Verse
The Light of Reckoning -2The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I presented the poor
I told the onery...
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Categories:
catacombs, creation,
Form:
Epic
Abominable AllianceThru horrendous acts of lore within the aperture of the Earth’s core
Lays Evil of a wrathful whore to which you find stimulating and abhor
Within frozen fear, you do attest as you suckle on the beastly...
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Categories:
catacombs, dark, evil, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
A Prodigy In PiecesA boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado,
the chessmen championed his ego
wickedly warring to a visionary's voodoo,
those soldiers of black and...
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Categories:
catacombs, america, heart, history,
Form:
Epic
Sugar MansionAfter picnicking in a pretty meadow, on a warm and sunny day,
I relaxed upon my soft blanket, and fell asleep where I lay.
When I awoke I took a walk, through the grass and flowers,
Lined on...
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Categories:
catacombs, adventure, fantasy, friendship, imagery, memory, nature, sweet,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
catacombs, appreciation, career, celebrity, image, vanity, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Description Deciphering DescriptionsPig plop at eighty degrees is a synonym of doubt but double octave sploosh is a great interjection into the bowl. Wow. Flush flashing fakery freely framing frogs fingerspelling forged formats. And a deliberate rake...
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Categories:
catacombs, animal, anniversary, appreciation, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala
"At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala"
"...the curse ruled from the underground down by the shore
And their hope grew with a hunger to live unlike before..." The Curse
Violet Black the night is...
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Categories:
catacombs, daughter, imagery, journey, loss, love, mother, mother
Form:
Free verse
Chameleon DogasaurusThe basement Trolls were helping my Hubby clean up it’s watery Lake.
The rain falling outside, was too much, for our basement walls to take.
Moving boxes, saving things; they were a lot of help, for one...
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Categories:
catacombs, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, imagination, uplifting,
Form:
Light Verse
Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With James FraserRAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH
The darkening skies in choir of wrath;
The wind brisk banging blows;
The withering of trees;
The falling twirling leaves;
The branches sudden irate tweak and split.
Giving way to the rushing threat of death
Will another candle die...
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Categories:
catacombs, holiday, horror, imagery,
Form:
Verse
Vagaries of An Unknown Methacton High SchoolNineteen Seventy-Seven Alumni
Some conspiratorial and malevolent force
must be fast at work
cranking chronology dial
an extraterrestrial force
donning, housing, loosing,
...
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Categories:
catacombs, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, angst,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With Olive Eloisa GuillermoRAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH
The darkening skies in choir of wrath;
The wind brisk banging blows;
The withering of trees;
The falling twirling leaves;
The branches sudden irate tweak and split.
Giving way to the rushing threat of death
Will another candle die...
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Categories:
catacombs, angst, dance, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror,
Form:
Verse
Homo Sapiens In Earth To Homo Martians In MarsHomo sapiens in earth to Homo Martians in mars
Helios’ children craved
But only Gaia had life in her fate engraved
With waters lashing oceans and tides
And lushy green lands to live by the sides
Her children were the...
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Categories:
catacombs, change, memory, symbolism, technology,
Form:
I do not know?
Nun In Friar Small-Bro's Grave---Yard Part 2Continuation
With ghouls, unlearned, no stone’s unturned
to burnish blame with Nun’s proud name
and leave the midnight sky... scarred.
They raise their hats to copy cats
in FRiar Small-Bro’s grave...yard.
While rumours spread amongst the dead,
Nun stays the...
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Categories:
catacombs, daughter, fantasy, mother, sister, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
Eclipse 2Mother's womb panged to be delivered.
A rift awakened, once asleep in roost,
but 4alarm crowing on steeples of burning roofs,
the foundations gone missing, on sabbatical
crowning of burning man both in and not in the news.
...
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Categories:
catacombs, absence, crazy,
Form:
Rhyme
The GnatThe spider Queen, aloofly vain!
She rules a silent ruthless reign,
with black-bead eyes like pearls of rain
that damp the depths of her demesne.
.
...
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Categories:
catacombs, nature, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Rain Upon Shadow DesertThe wind blows through the ocean between waves and the sky
Through the islands where dragon of Komodo lives it will fly
Wild tiger the soul of India it will pass by
While arctic wind with it is...
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Categories:
catacombs, adventure, fantasy, journey, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
A Comb-edy of Hair-ersMy dear brother Butch,
Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or dye trying"
When the interviewer said "I mustache you a question..."
I...
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Categories:
catacombs, hair, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Comb Your HairDear sister I have been mistreated but surely not defeated
The fit are unruly and those who rule unfit to wear their minds along their brow
Pitted and fallen are we claimed she
Uproot all the timid, surely...
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Categories:
catacombs, art, bible, black african american,
Form:
Ballad
But Nobody CameAs the final child of the catacombs fell
your plastic knife driven into their heart
as they evaporated into the wind
you didn’t stop.
you kept searching desperately for a new toy.
someone to slice
someone whose fragments you could scatter...
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Categories:
catacombs, games, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Rabbit Don'T Run
My shy moth eyes
were attracted to the beauty of your flame
The pleasure of knowing you
was worth the risk of me feeling the pain
From the hurt burn of you leaving ...
a house of mirrors with...
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Categories:
catacombs, allusion, angst, dark, sad love,
Form:
Ode