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Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch

Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...

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Categories: critic, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form: Epigram



Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch



Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
 
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...



Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch

Love should be more than the sum of its...

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Categories: critic, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form: Epigram
State of the Art Iv
State of the Art (IV)

These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. 



Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...”  — W. ...

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Categories: critic, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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: critic, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form: Epigram
Poems About Poems Iv
Poems about Poems IV

The Toast
by Michael R. Burch

For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...

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Categories: critic, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Life God Gave - the Octa-Tri Style
~  Life,  God  Gave ~ 
( Octa- Tri ) 
 




~O~




God's Love glow 
From our hearts let it flow 
My Lord, You're my Light, Hope, Joy and Guide. 



~o~ 


You heal heart,...

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Categories: critic, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Daddy Demands
EarthMama Invites

Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and fearful feelings
about LoseLose
ZeroZone,
ego and Earth
matriarchal-line 
extinguished.

Because all RightBrain feeling voices
and chemistries
are outside Sacred NatureSpirit
experientially
regeneratively 
cooperative
Patriarchal/Matriarchal Voices
secular and sacred...

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Categories: critic, bullying, caregiving, gender, health, integrity, love, violence,
Form: Political Verse
Talk To Me Stop Talking
Just a view on the inner critic. Every time I read what I wrote I see a different angle. This person never even opened their eyes. Some day you can't.

The day had begun. Simple. It...

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Categories: critic, mental illness,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 1 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part One by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, imagery, introspection, literature, philosophy, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Anxiously Anticipated Event
Dear John,

All day
yesterday
I loaded up with a cascading river
of mixed anxiety and anticipation
about what to safely and kindly,
transparently and vulnerably
compassionately, so non-violently, share,
what to communicate;

Which narrative tributaries to choose
within this vast spacetime stream
of choices
directions
felt depressions...

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Categories: critic, age, dance, health, humanity, humor, romance, sexy,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part Two By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, art, creation, literature, philosophy, word play, writing,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poets Vii
Poems about Poets VII

Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch

for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn

Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.

Teach us to sing...

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Categories: critic, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 4 By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN - Part Four by T. Wignesan


"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, literature, political, rights, society, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Poets - Xxxvi
Unquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI

     For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965 

The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, creation, poetry, poets, word play, words, writing,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Pride and Prejudice: the Lacking Margins
Pride and Prejudice: The Lacking Margins

Pride and Prejudice, a passionate novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. A masterpiece of English literature, composed with penetrating wittiness and exquisite character delineation, it...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, marriage, meaningful, men, muse, sister,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Over-Soul
“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. 
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable 
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment 
to acknowledge...

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Categories: critic, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member L'Assimilation Non Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Assimilation No By T Wignesan
L'Assimilation – Non! Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Assimilation – No !” by T. Wignesan

Born Kathleen Jean Mary RUSKA on November 3, 1920, in the North Stradbroke Island, off Queensland, she was deemed as an aboriginal...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, anti bullying, child abuse, conflict, freedom, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Ode To African Child
Oh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
 Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal

Oh! African child,
The coy the toy of the wife
Beauty of nature and life
The belike of Bowie...

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Categories: critic, africa, baby, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Internet Dating Profile
I am a singular event 
Occupying a particular span of time. 
I am a concrete mystic 
And an incurable skeptic 
Seeking an approximation 
Of peace and domestic tranquility. 
I am a Slavic soul brother 
Living...

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Categories: critic, internet, relationship,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Art of Caring
I will admit I was a tightwad, though that fact shames me now,
As never changing mountains, often colorful mists will allow!

I never meant to be unkind, but only endeavored to be practical,
Like the moon exiting...

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Categories: critic, art, care, fantasy, love, magic, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Time Sight Unseen, Part 3 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Three by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, art, literature, metaphor, philosophy, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bio: Closing Times Memories POTD

       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town, North Avenue, twas Chicago,1967.
O' Rourke's Pub, where else?
Smoky, filled with...

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Categories: critic, celebration, emotions, friendship, fun, holiday, in memoriam,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A Thousand Dark Secrets
Carrying with me a
halfhearted smile for the
braver men than I.
The men holding tightly
to past perceptions,
live or die.
Suppose I whispered to 'em
what I've heard through
the metaphorical grapevines.
Suppose I lent a hand.
Would they take it as an...

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Categories: critic, anger, angst, bereavement, political, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Retrospective Cliche
The pride of life is not humbling grace                           ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critic, christian, growth, introspection, love, truth, wisdom, writing,
Form: Free verse

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