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Premium Member It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a wonderful job that I loved, making plenty of money,
And a...

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Categories: dearer, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness, imagery, peace, work,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Positively Stunning
I used to be obsessed with fashion, caring far too much about clothes,
Like the sun whenever he's coming and going, is striking vanity's pose.

I lavished absurdly upon my wardrobe, in excess of what was practical,
Like...

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Categories: dearer, fantasy, fashion, growth, love, magic, people, vanity,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Being a Better Man - Revised
Do plans take stock of what you’d give to be a better man,
and somehow you have trust it’s true that human dream’s a gift,
that life’s a blessing on bad days? The world sees Grace (or...

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Categories: dearer, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Google This
Google Maps told me today
that my Phoenix to Tucson drive
would last an hour and fifty-seven minutes.
At excactly two-nineteen I would arrive.

But surely it is folly to assume
How could Google get this right?
Even with up to...

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Categories: dearer, car, computer, future, humorous, internet,
Form: Free verse
Sulpicia Translations 1 by Michael R Burch
English translations of Latin poems written by the ancient Roman poetess Sulpicia.



I. At Last, Love!
by Sulpicia
translation by Michael R. Burch

It's come at last! Love!
The kind of love that, had it remained veiled,
would have shamed me...

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Categories: dearer, birthday, city, joy, love, poems, poetess, soulmate,
Form: Free verse



Eleven Pm Part Two
For once, man, be serious
This is liberty hall, you know
And all the fairies want a tumble
Even though that is mother-in-law…
You shouldn’t miscarry injustice!

Sure, fad, I apologize, really serious:
I’m quite un-particular you see
About who goes west...

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Categories: dearer, fun,
Form: Free verse
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: dearer, sports,
Form: Rhyme
An English Adaptation of Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea From Faust
There was a king once reigning
Who carried a great, big flea—
And far from him complaining,
The flea filled the king with glee!
For to him that flea was dearer
Than even his only son,
And to make his preference...

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Categories: dearer, allegory, humorous, irony, political, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a poem for our time
Speak!
by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Speak, while your lips are still free.
Speak, while your tongue remains yours.
Speak, while you're still standing upright.
Speak, while your spirit has force.

See how, in the bright-sparking forge,...

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Categories: dearer, dark, father, fear, sea, spiritual, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Diana At the Ides of August, Part Two
She's a Messenger, a standard bearer of a Message of Love.  She's Love's unforgettable fruition and flower.  With Her trusty hounds bounding along beside Her, She suddenly races ahead, crossing the beach, down...

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Categories: dearer, absence, bereavement, betrayal, courage, encouraging, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Beautiful Child of Godly Justice
I see her again.
This time painted,
As a semi-trailer ad.
Paying the rent.
For us staying unknown.
My head was down,
Bobbing away from darkness.
Tho, still sensing her beauty.
Grimacing at its lightness.
Still remembering, the question.
To her, I first asked.
"Please, miss...

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Categories: dearer, beauty, community, society,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Dear Memories of Youth
kickball and biking
swinging on swings at the park . . .
youth’s sweet vibrant spark

Memories of my childhood and teenage years are probably the strongest of all my memories. I don’t quite know why that is....

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Categories: dearer, family,
Form: Haibun
Lacrimosa
He goes by the name of Lacrimosa
He is the plain picture of a man
Those who don’t know him see him as a monster
But you and I know better that he is a broken friend
His smile...

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Categories: dearer, dark, depression, grief, metaphor, pain,
Form: I do not know?
Patradoot Or the Messenger 34 /Many
Patradoot or the Messenger     34/Many……….

English version by Ravindra K Kapoor 
Originally written in Hindi by my 
Late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor



Like a naughty girl, she acts in many ways, dear...

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Categories: dearer, epicfather, father, freedom, hindi, poetry, , literature,
Form: Free verse
M-Theory Musings
What theory unifies forces, weak, strong,
With gravity— also, to which belong
All the string theories of why and because?
To answer these queries, M-theory does.

Proponents aver it offers clarity
As to the issue of singularity.—
Where there’s a will...

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Categories: dearer, creation, deep, muse, sky, space, visionary, world,
Form: Rhyme
The Live-in -- Part 3 of 3
I lie - what wife mine’d been saying (our solidarity betraying)
Was in fact much more dismaying: “Why have you not come before?
From our lives you’ve been absented – with your coming, I’m contented.”
Would I could...

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Categories: dearer, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Evening Walk
On the dusky roads
                               Full...

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Categories: dearer, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Sleeping Angel
I lay my head down on my pillows, I’m fussy, I have four just for comfort,
Three hours later and it’s four o’clock, again I’m unable to sleep,
I look at my partner and see her in...

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Categories: dearer, sonme, cry, life, love, me, smile,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Time Swirled Messages
Each poem’s a web that I hang (time-smoked adage
that swirls in the sky) and dream seasons rare eyes!
With no thought of entrapment or hope of ingesting,
rhyme longs more to bless you, verse whispers, “Hello.”
Heart’s a...

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Categories: dearer, faith, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Wind In the Pines 3
3.   At the Cabin

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

(The Chokugan  =  a...

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Categories: dearer, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let All Living Flesh Condemn Me
Let All Living Flesh Condemn Me!

Let all living flesh condemn me! May my living serve God’s will
(not what I dream, not what I own)! This World IS God’s; I know ‘my’ place.
I can’t know God...

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Categories: dearer, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eight Contests To Write For Part 2
THE ELEPHANT

The elephant is big and stout
And strong enough to knock you out
But when he really knows you well
The elephant will like your smell

The elephant is my best friend
For what I hope will never end
The...

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Categories: dearer, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Year 2037
The Year 2037                                ...

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Categories: dearer, age, change, future, god,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Seeking Ever the More, Greatest of Truths
Seeking Ever The More, Greatest Of Truths

I.

The soul, which like a heart true beats
hers to my love forever weds
singing songs that passions entreat
to invite joy to lover's bed
tho' Fate oft dances as it cheats.

II.

And Spring...

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Categories: dearer, appreciation, art, blessing, life, love, poetry, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Dearer Faithful Old Friend
It was a day when the crowded avenue of wizened oak trees
  Loosened its first spluttering of yellowing leaves;
    And far out across the stubbled fields, devoid of the
  ...

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Categories: dearer, best friend, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things