Long Desiccate Poems

Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood

bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch

u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!

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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch

Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...

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What Goes Around, Comes
by...

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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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Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.

When I held you in...

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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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I followed you down the rabbit hole,
   Believing in all the magic life could bring.
Thinking you would unlock the chains I wore,
   Setting my spirits free.
To teach me not to live...

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The wilderness is always beautiful,
whenever one stumbles upon it
and everywhere one looks, it's blissful  
to spend an entire afternoon exploring it!

Sit by that small pond loved by skylarks and observe frogs
leaping while a golden...

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In the terrane of deplorable deprivation manifested 
in the wasteland of wretched desertion,
the obscure tufts of the subdued slender grass 
struggle to rise through the cleavage of stony destiny.
The frail faces shaping the artifacts of...

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I enjoy the feeling of walking alone barefooted 
on the bed of dry leaves in the forest. 
The crispy feeling and sound under my feet 
sounds like Life is so good. 

Looking at the beauty...

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I am caged in depression.
A mind in haze, prostrate in grief.
The radiance of your candlelit dinner..
I can only decimate in sourness of sad light.
I can only feel nothing,
but would you still love me?

I am helpless...

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Up above the wasteland of my lonely life in the seamless sky,
clumps of cumulus rainless clouds weren’t consumed hovering,
spawned a desert in my heart where I saw their arid shadows fly,
and there you became a...

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Volatile emotions desiccate in perched life desolate,
somewhere within me hides a quiet niche of bliss,
its realm in the sands of my desert heart I try to locate,
searching for unfelt ambiance of the concealed oasis.

Dried tears...

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In seamless sky up above the wasteland of my wan life,
clumps of cumulus cloud hovered rainless all the while.
In their smoldering shadow a desert spawned in my heart,
and at its fringe in the oasis of...

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“For the departed love there is a permanent place 
in the sanctum of soul”- Quote by poet


Up above the wasteland of my life in the seamless sky
the rainless cloud clumps weren’t consumed drifting.
In the desert...

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In the depravity of the neglected wasteland 
obscure tufts of subdued slender grass 
struggle to rise through the cleavage of stony destiny,
the frail faces shaping the artifacts of cruel fate, 
flicker with the fading smile...

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Sword Of Justice


    Sword of justice indict a bogus Gilgamesh

     An apathetic ghoul condemned embodying arrogance above kindness


     Dark and ominous intent bound to...

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With stars for eyes
And an armored heart,
I allow myself to desiccate slowly,
Into the tender arms of Mother Earth.
Her embrace may carry me to hereafter,
Or let it hold me until my remains are simply skeletal.
I aim...

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Eternal Bliss


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Once
by Michael R. Burch 
 
for Beth
 
Once, when her kisses were fire incarnate
and left in their imprint bright lipstick, and flame,
when her breath rose and fell over smoldering dunes,
leaving me listlessly sighing her name...

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Do you think that I mince my words
like one preparing a pot of soup—
dice it up and roll it in!—
the more floating fragments, the merrier,
no matter the mishmash to the tongue?
And how attractive to the...

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Rhapsody of rainbow morphs to morose mélange
Bleeding colors bleached from the twilight cloud 
Rainstorm daubs as blemish on the broken heart
The shades of grey paint the frayed linen of love.

Requiem of roses resonates in melancholic...

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From cold, distant hearts frigid 
air doth circulate
Downy blanket no longer the 
surface can insulate
Icy stares a corrosive wind 
doth instigate
A sheltering family no longer 
the gale can mitigate
Frostbitten minds numbed to 
their pending fate
Emotive...

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Little words the broken hearted heal
Little smiles the morose comfort
Little deals prime movers seal
Little irritations sometimes stray into the fort     

Where they wreak havoc 
Instead of sowing care
In circumstances where cavok
Would...

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Always too late
Letting go of all the hate
Never letting them see how bad it hurts
Stuck in endless Deserts
No one to believe
Heart Burnt passed any degree

Always hiding pain 
They look past time and time again
Running away...

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Touch my arm
With your ghostly hands,
Do me harm
Though leave me desperate,
My lips, desiccate,
And forever, I will wait.

Breathe out gently
Caress my sensual neck;
Do attend me,
And open wide my eyes, revel in my sighs;
But make me not...

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The allured mind roaming restive 
in the searing desert engulfing,
seethes in the pensive pores 
of the swirling sands desolate. 
The drops of sanguine sense desiccate,  
the dust of desire swirls 
with the transient sheen,...

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