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Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
cheeked, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
cheeked, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
cheeked, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Ivthe Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
cheeked, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems VLOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
cheeked, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 1Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
cheeked, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
New Year Poems INew Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
cheeked, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Her Son NathanielShe is searching for the son taken from her arms
simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to stand up to her parents’ wishes -
those GOD fearing upright...
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Categories:
cheeked, baby, cute, sad,
Form:
Narrative
The Plagues of Our DayThe blind man waited,
at the intersection, for someone
to help him cross the busy boulevard...
and he was accustomed to live in twilight,
fumbling for a hand on his right;
and he finally found mine!
Judge humanly...not pettily,
you could...
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Categories:
cheeked, baby, family, grief, home, sad, home, light,
Form:
Narrative
3 PoemsSy Roth - 3 Poems
12/17/20130 Comments
Picture
Silence
I’ve dreamt often that she crept deep
Into my cellular structure,
Some time in the nightfall of my being
And planted deeply into my mitochondrion,
A magical silence pill,
Drowning the kittens of...
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Categories:
cheeked, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
cheeked, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
cheeked, 10th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Tea Is ServedGathered in the shade of her quaint little garden,
where a trellis was woven with rose climbing vines,
something enchanting, had been deftly designed,
on an ordinary...
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Categories:
cheeked, autumn, death, friendship, happiness, love,
Form:
Narrative
Shogun Series Collab Richard Pickett : Bill Side 8(cont from Richard Pickett's side )
You alright? Hang on I got a bus coming . I got your piece. Bill pulled Brick
up to a half sitting position as...
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Categories:
cheeked, adventurehate, car, hate, me,
Form:
Narrative
CornpuffShe wasn't a stray, but a sick yellow cockatiel,
with speckled gray on her feathers.
The pet shop was giving her away,
I was in elementary school when I got her,
she was a lovable bird and I enjoyed...
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Categories:
cheeked, family, petsschool, me, light, bird, bird, light,
Form:
Free verse
Found Hound 14The black dog stood out in contrast to the snow drift Arlis found her half buried in.Emaciated she was a light load as he hoisted her onto his shoulder.She appeared to be a Irish wolf...
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Categories:
cheeked, family, good morning, good night,
Form:
Narrative
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
cheeked, 10th grade,
Form:
Ballad
2012I dedicate my 2012 to the one I love most...
Ouch! I shake my hand and stare at the door knob in disbelief.
I open the front door and wince as the scorching late morning sun...
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Categories:
cheeked, confusion, faith, fantasy, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, imagination, life,
Form:
Free verse
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 4And remember the sun never really sets only on covetousness
no greater co-prosperity sphere is there than inner contentment
...
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Categories:
cheeked, inspirational, brother, old, brother, old, sun,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The NarrowingGlowing days that were once red-cheeked and ripe with promise,
Are narrowing like tall candles in a church window,
Tapering from the golden stand and the sturdy base,
To the glorious flame and the ever fading light.
The final...
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Categories:
cheeked, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily:LxxxivIf ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily : LXXXVI
[Note: 216,000 cases of pedophily, perpetrated by the clergy, have been recorded by the Catholic Church in France since 1950.]
If ever I had to...
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Categories:
cheeked, america, child abuse,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Anytime Is Good For LovingAnytime is good for loving .
...
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Categories:
cheeked, inspirational, love, time, love, time,
Form:
Free verse
Conqueror of DeathO death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1 Cor. 15:55
1 Dread conqueror! Destroyer of all,
Thou---the king who conquers every king
Thou---restrained by no wall
Thee a captive none shall bring
2 Swords 'gainst...
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Categories:
cheeked, bird, christian, death, jesus, sin, symbolism,
Form:
Quatrain
A Kiss of Sunshinetaking an early walk along the shore
awaiting for the royal entrance of the new day
through His Love Divine---
I hear the whisper of the cold and gentle wind into my ears saying:
the arrival of your majestic...
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Categories:
cheeked, beauty, kiss, love, me, nature, universe,
Form:
Free verse
You Resemble MeFace framed ornate, or curl corner blu tacked up
Childhood fanciful daring must softly be contained
Dispicable hovers inside cherub cheeked adorable
Challenge for enamoured to create correct shape
Administer discipline with compassion entangled
Potential beckons infant innately...
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Categories:
cheeked, age, baby, child, class, culture, for her,
Form:
Quintain (English)