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Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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couched, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
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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couched, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems Iii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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couched, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a Luke warm welcome Matt unfurled
courtesy Jimmy John,
who embarked on
imp apostle bull...
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couched, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Being American
I live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...
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couched, america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Brownian Motion Writ Large
Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial
and endothelial cells, and although
there must be biological...
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couched, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, appreciation, business,
Form:
Free verse
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 2 Final
Nightmare 8. To Lose the Gift of Feeling Heard
Is each person not poet when he spills his heart?
Has your verse lost its edge if it’s true no one listens,
Or does God mean that no one...
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couched, anxiety, christian, fun, humor, life,
Form:
Quatrain
K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary
[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...
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couched, bible, evil, hate, jealousy, people, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Ways of Providence
9.7 Bhagavad Gita As It Is "The whole cosmic order is under Me."
10.8 Bhagavad Gita As It Is "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me ."
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...
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couched, faith, fate, inspirational, life, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Shayna Punim You came a long way baby
Shayna Punim - You came a long way baby!
Though negligible communication
now transpires between us
twenty seven years ago
come February fourth,
two thousand and twenty five,
our lives (affecting yours truly
and that of mother, plus Eden
a caring older sister)
irrevocably...
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couched, adventure, age, anniversary, beautiful, birthday, gender, hello,
Form:
Free verse
Inevitable Death Defines Life
Inevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...
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couched, absence, allah, angel, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Shame full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.
Fast forward two hundred and...
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couched, adventure, america, betrayal, birth, endurance, independence day,
Form:
Free verse
Thrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You
Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that I am ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flaccid noon,
the minimal load burdensome midpoint idle tranquil saunter,
meteorological...
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couched, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, care, celebration, love,
Form:
Free verse
Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language
Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language
When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to describe a situation
perfectly verbalized and couched by
a dialect of High German including
some Hebrew...
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couched, 6th grade, adventure, america, anniversary, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Variations On a Theme
Variations On A Theme...
of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.
Ach'n (ache Ken and burn'n)
kickstarting existential and proverbial struggle
me species classified as generic muggle
analogous to entertainer
with namesake of yours truly
starring an...
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couched, abortion, absence, abuse, age, allusion, appreciation, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Heterosexual married sexagenarian male
Heterosexual married sexagenarian male...
Aims to trigger cerebral orgasm;
Other terms for said phenomena are
"brain tingles" and "head orgasm."
This sensation is described as a pleasant,
even euphoric, tingling warmth and/or feeling
of relaxation that comes...
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couched, 12th grade, beautiful, drug, feelings, heaven, husband,
Form:
Free verse
What happened to my sex drive?
What happened to my sex drive?
(sung – in a round pussy willow warble - to the tune of --
Oh Where Oh Where has my little dog gone).
Once pronounced libido of mine
took kamikaze nose...
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couched, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
I Heard the Universal Sound of Aum Pronounced Ohm
I heard the universal sound of aum (pronounced ohm)...
while being quarantined inside our own invisible bubble
Transcendent meditations
while athwart oblate spheroid
allow, enable, and provide
deft capability deciphering
snap, crackle and pop
accepted as mere static
to the untrained ear.
Each inaudible...
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couched, allah, appreciation, birth, devotion, flying, happiness, identity,
Form:
Free verse
New from dyslexic temple mount
New from dyslexic temple mount...
of one mortal university
undergraduate built in madly
the brainchild of one Forest Hadley
an a Ford able game paid top dollar
after being purchased by Milton Bradley
called Dodge the Old Farts.
A favorite game...
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couched, absence, abuse, adventure, angel, anger, betrayal, desire,
Form:
Free verse
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part Two
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for “some” other giants – Part Two
...
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couched, confidence, dedication, devotion, humanity, inspirational, philosophy, space,
Form:
Quatrain
Poetic Paean To Papa's Princess
Poetic paean to papa's princess
Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife....,
whose piercing deliverance,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,
(especially after dirty deeds done...
generating thunderstruck ac/dc current
hmm... maybe due comeuppance
being scammed to the hilt)
suspicion...
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couched, absence, abuse, angel, anniversary, appreciation, betrayal, divorce,
Form:
Rhyme
Shame Full Travesty Regarding Fourth of July Celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration
American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.
Fast forward two hundred and...
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couched, 12th grade, america, anger, appreciation, betrayal, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Zealous untiring repentance
Zealous untiring repentance
Fleshed out as poetic confessional.
Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating pandemonium.
I wrought havoc courtesy aegis
of paramours picadillos, yours truly did relish
crooning, clowning, and cavorting
around at Piccadilly Circus
located in Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue
Piccadilly, Covent Street...
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couched, absence, adventure, africa, anger, atheist, body, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment
Aspiration towards elusive apotheosis of enlightenment...
analogous to where
the fountainhead of knowledge
gushes forth unstoppable
as a result after Atlas shrugged
his head and shoulders
loosing bits of esoteric material
(and hairs - i.e. fluff
as the spouse would say
caught up in...
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couched, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Worry Knot Chokes Out the Living Daylights
Worry knot chokes out the living daylights
I know from personal experience
the foolhardiness of
courting, flirting, honeymooning...
worse case scenario,
particularly when just a wee lad,
yours truly internalized
unfamiliar bodily aches and pains
as a death sentence,
slept with one eye opened
against...
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Categories:
couched, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse