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Wonderland
Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
 
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...

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Categories: comet, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form: Sonnet



Roses and Lilacs
Winter
by Michael R. Burch

The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.

The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.

Published...

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Categories: comet, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form: Verse
See
See
by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...

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Categories: comet, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI

The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch

She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...

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Categories: comet, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form: Sonnet
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...






Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch

“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats

Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...

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Categories: comet, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form: Rhyme



Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: 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: comet, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Poems Ii
Completing the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch

Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...

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Categories: comet, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
Starlight and Moonlight II

These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …




Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch 

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

The night is dark and scary—
under...

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Categories: comet, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Early Poems Ii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch

Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...

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Categories: comet, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Starlight and Moonlight
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …



Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch 

Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?

And will she find...

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Categories: comet, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form: Rhyme
The Crow Ghost of Haunting Footsteps
Break my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...

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Categories: comet, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Love Poems I
LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfriend and...

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Categories: comet, friendship love, inspirational love, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet of a Thousand Words
A poet of a thousand words
The pen garnished by the flame
Like a sea no desire knows
And love becomes the same
As poet to my love for thee
I confess between the lace
Of time and every sorrow made
I...

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Categories: comet, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Conceits
"Conceits"



Such conceits
as veils between 
our windowed worlds 
torn torrential incomplete

mayst thou watch and learn 
the one I spawned, 
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh

one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...

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Categories: comet, love, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Triggers
“Triggers”

  So, you are used to me writing poetry but today it’s more like my thoughts for others to read. I need to clear my head of these constant roller coaster emotions. Today was...

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Categories: comet, depression, suicide,
Form: Cinquain
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...

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Categories: comet, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date
Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...

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Categories: comet, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comet, christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Promised Release From the Very Darkest Evil
The Promised Release From The Very Darkest Evil
        ( Free verse, narrative, horror)

After she had finished hurting John, she saw bright stars.
No, not the first time but as...

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Categories: comet, art, creation, dark, death, horror, imagination, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unborn Dreams of a Fertilization 1942a Long Journey a Long Lived Nightmare Part 1
The unborn dreams of a fertilization  – 1942
A long journey  – A long lived  nightmare

The journey begins without knowledge, just passion.
Life emerges, fights against the prodding at childhood.
The nightmare begins with a...

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Categories: comet, life,
Form: Free verse
Pine sap pipe
In the deep spiked pine forests

On a walk you forgot you took

Snow up your knees

Twenty feet away

An enormous old house

Not abandoned, smoke from the chimney

Large windows, dark wood walls

A forest castle here for you 

To explore...

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Categories: comet, 12th grade, flying, house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Most Irish Fairy Tale - Merry Christmas To All
It is not just Santa Claus who we meet in cold December— 
There is “Carolina,” and she’s the beauty of a winter picture perfect 
With luscious long coal black curly hair far down on her...

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Categories: comet, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Flight
......Flight......

Enter into the mind of madness, as it sets itself free
This is the only way that I see..
Take a trip through the universe,, called the mind..
Set yourself free leave all behind. .
Thoughts are currents of...

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Categories: comet, body, dream, emotions, endurance, environment, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Rileys Comet
A  stunning scene. Edited for our insatiable reading pleasure.  High on a tight-rope.
The debutant wearing her 2-piece at one end. The isis general at the other.The plot is for them to tip-toe, slowly...

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Categories: comet, me, simile,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 2
Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys
established the best Superbowl Era dynasty
with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw,
a defense disciplined on shrapnel and elite ego,
"Mean Joe Greene" and Jack Lambert, a compulsive...

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Categories: comet, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic

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