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Epigrams V
Epigrams
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:
caveat, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Poems About Poems I
Poems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
caveat, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
The Making of a Poet
The Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
caveat, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
State of the Art Ii
State of the Art (II)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...
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Categories:
caveat, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
caveat, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx
Sonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.
Because you...
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Categories:
caveat, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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Categories:
caveat, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
Poems About Poets I
Poems about Poets I
The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
for Leslie Mellichamp
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...
but...
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Categories:
caveat, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: I (810 of 1487 words)
#1: A Day...
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Categories:
caveat, analogy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Once Pawn a Time
Once pawn a time...
About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.
While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...
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Categories:
caveat, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Is There An Exclusive All-In-One Principle
‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. ‘
...
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Categories:
caveat, philosophy, death, art, dark, art, dark, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Many British thermal units later
Many British thermal units* later
Vice linkedin to carnal flesh this writer,
(a married heterosexual doofus, –
whose alter egos
named and highlighted courtesy
Gallant and Goofus) attones
to heat these lovely bag of bones
amazingly graceful human...
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Categories:
caveat, 12th grade, appreciation, blessing, change, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Yet More Than a Brother
Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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Categories:
caveat, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother, character, feelings, friend,
Form:
Bio
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
I led a boring life.
The end.
All joking aside, now the epilogue.
As a bookish fellow born January 13th,1959
he attended school and got promoted
as a...
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Categories:
caveat, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance
Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur wannabe
(thinly veiled cover as yours truly),
whereby his antagonistic doppelgänger
donned as a frotteur trumpeting
animalistic, chauvinistic, egoistic,
averse to gradualistic, individualistic...
narcissistic, opportunistic...
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Categories:
caveat, adventure, age, america, appreciation, humorous, inspiration, writing,
Form:
Free verse
We Are All Nameless
We are all Nameless
What else is there to do
but to tell you who I am,
but most of all,
what I wish to find.
I am not the cavalier of the sun,
but the caveat of phantasm.
I do...
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Categories:
caveat, introspection, world, light, light,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxix - Bang Bang Who Shot Me Down Like An Un-Licensed Dog
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXIX - Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Dog !
IF ever I had a country, a country certainly
not subject to the whistle of a...
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Categories:
caveat, america, fantasy, firework, humor, power, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Friendly Affection and Love
Friendship is....?
The warm feeling inside, we always get
when an old acquaintance is unexpectedly met:
the sound of a familiar voice on a telephone line,
that sincerely asks: “are you well and keeping fine?”
We seek information after ill...
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Categories:
caveat, friendship, love, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Regarding Merit
Regarding merit: absent, missing, void
Of all redeeming qualities, save one,
The apple of His eye, His "very good.”
Was He, in pleasant garden, much annoyed
When they His one divine decree did shun
To taste forbidden fruit because they...
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Categories:
caveat, creation,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
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:
caveat, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Virat Kohli
Virat..never ersatz..fat cat with the bat
Look at record book stats in every format
Kerching bling King of tats
Vicious & pernicious in the ring
Kohli kidology methodology thing
Tit for tat..spit for spat
Bit of chit chat
Never ending..mind bending
No caveat..rat...
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Categories:
caveat, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Karma In Mark 7 - Christian Karma -Exxxplossssionnnnn
Religion is a way of THINKING, and critics of RELIGION (from root, "to bind" or tie up) had it right. They went a bit overboard & declared, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." In...
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Categories:
caveat, bible, imagination, irony, jesus, jewish, relationship, religion,
Form:
Prose
King of the Dogs
Asphalt pours into road under melting rubber tires-
A horse with ribs like bars on a prison cell walks lazily under the suns oppression.
Many people work for peanuts, unhinged cringes at the laughing ones working...
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Categories:
caveat, angst, city, culture, environment, imagery, society, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
The Odyssey Redux - Part Iv - Helios To Ithaca
So once again, with grim countenance, the ship sailed on with all bemoaning their woes
Till calm seas prevailed, with balmy sun, sweet zephyr song, they came to Helios' shores.
Helios, calm god of the day, smiled...
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Categories:
caveat,
Form:
Epic
Magical School
When I enrolled in magical school
Ma said good luck
Dad called me a fool
He always thought with my IQ
I’d fix people up,
Not saw them in two.
But I had a vision
And my self esteem
Hung on the balance
Of...
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Categories:
caveat, education, father, school, son, day, may, me,
Form:
Ballad