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Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
dorado, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
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:
dorado, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
A Sweet Poem In My Heart
I discovered a poem longing in my heart, it is for you,
And it is about you, my sweetheart. This poem resembles you.
I wrote it this morning, before the arrival of the auroral shadow.
Her words...
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Categories:
dorado, beauty, fantasy, i love you, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Chameleons
THE CHAMELEONS
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Give credit to the chameleons, they blend right in
A simple maneuver, changes the color of their skin
No matter the surroundings, one thing is clear
You may not see him, despite him being...
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Categories:
dorado, abuse, analogy, anger, angst, corruption, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Wordsmith's Veneration
Wordsmith's Veneration...
Methinks, I post literary endeavors inxs
but tis with blood, sweat and tears
in case ye did not guess,
who struggles to craft reasonable rhyme
ideally read by a pleasing poetess.
Aye willy nilly understate (trying to)
tantalize, hypnotize, galvanize...
with...
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Categories:
dorado, 12th grade, america, books, family, flying, garden,
Form:
Free verse
The Werewolf Banditos, Part Ii
II.
When drinking one noontime broken Bob got a glance
at one of Rick’s men, a thug named Dorado Vance,
but what caught his attention was the bastard’s hat,
in the stage he had seen the miner wearing that!
Stumbling...
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Categories:
dorado, adventure, animal, conflict, dark, horror, mythology, scary,
Form:
Epic
The Devil Has No Horns
In Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She lives on Babbit lane, and reads Currer Bell
She loves Billy...
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Categories:
dorado, analogy, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Food Missed
The poetry of the COVID era (read to the end)
Thai pineapple rice. Wonton and Yaki Soba
Tortufo ice cream. Scallopini veal, halva and also soda
Tamago, octopus and yellowtail. Ribs, pasta fagioli.
Meat lover’s pie, sword fish, big...
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Categories:
dorado, america, food,
Form:
Rhyme
Cosmic Jewels
If Keats could have seen through Hubble’s eyes
when the sonnet ‘Bright Star’ he wrote,
meaning its telescope-imaged skies
with those stellar tableaux afloat,
would he have noted ‘aloft it hung’
‘steadfast’ all night in ‘splendor lone’,
that poet...
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Categories:
dorado, earth, fantasy, nature, poetry, space, stars, world,
Form:
Verse
Sharing and Caring
I was on me way to Adelaide, to watch the Blues take on the Crows,
it’ll be a super effort winning there, as every Vic here knows,
I could have flown and watched the game and done...
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Categories:
dorado, food, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Looking For Elvis
While looking for Elvis
Met Nessie in Loch Ness
Hoarding a leprechauns pot of gold
While getting ready to depart
I tripped over the Lost Ark
In the baggage of a hitchhiking Pharaoh
Thought I had got lost in flight
Stumble into...
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Categories:
dorado, adventure, friend, lost, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Sidereal Generations
My genealogical family tree
was traced by a relative distant,
thus uncovering ancestral names for me,
of some who had seemed nonexistent.
The past came alive in my fantasy world
with visions of settings dramatic,
as I felt myself in scenario...
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Categories:
dorado, analogy, family, history, music, sky, space, stars,
Form:
Verse
Devision Part 1
Masses forming classes boarding:
Corral Gates of slaughter, hauling, sorting- human beings-aborting
our innocent(sons and daughters)
Bishops Queens and Cannon Fodder-
their crop of sheep sacrifice to image of the Beast
es cargo for the Elite Machine; of
Underground in...
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Categories:
dorado, america, anger, anxiety, art, death, funny love,
Form:
Rhyme
El Dorado
El Dorado
by Michael R. Burch
It's a fine town, a fine town,
though its alleys recede into shadow;
it's a very fine town for those who are searching
for an El Dorado.
Because the lighting is poor and the streets...
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Categories:
dorado, addiction, city, culture, drink, life, social, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Wordsmith's Veneration
Wordsmith's Veneration...
Aye willy nilly understate (trying 2)
tantalize, hypnotize, galvanize...
with "FAKE" trumpeting
spellbinding, rambling, quivering...
intoxicating, hallucinating, gyrating,
stop to take a breather...
English Language vocabulary, a
fascination, intoxication, provocation...
upon me ocular, neurological, mental...
faculties of this nattering nabob
from outer limits of...
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Categories:
dorado, angel, appreciation, crush, education, friend, inspirational love,
Form:
Free verse
' El Toro - Rojo '
Como’ Si’ Yama’, Senor’
Como’ Si Yama’, Por Favor’…
… for Below That Embroidered Sombrero’
Shone Eyes Like El Dorado
He Was A Tall and Handsome Hombre’
Like The Range of Sierra Madre’
…Now, He Sat Center The Cantina
Surrounded by Bonita...
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Categories:
dorado, adventure, animals, cowboy-western, fantasy, friendship, funny, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Testament
My father's abeng blew up my mother's womb
And I was chained there
Nine months in darkness drinking blood
Longing for my resurrection from the tomb
Longing to break the chains
Holding me before my birth to a carnal earth
Longing...
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Categories:
dorado, politicalme, history, me,
Form:
Free verse
Drifting Through Time
A veil of mist blankets the river, slowly drifting over its banks as the moon ghosts silently
behind thin dark clouds. A frog croaks and after awhile a cricket answers. A soft ker-plunk
echoes...
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Categories:
dorado, lifenight, time, dark, dark, night, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fifty-Two Plus One Hike Hypocrisy -Part 1
Cotton Lizard yellowhammer Heart of Dixie We dare defend our rights. ...
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Categories:
dorado, allegory, america, bible, freedom, jesus, political, satire,
Form:
Free verse
The Parlor of Prometheus - Part Four -
" She was born in 219 A.D.,
I met her in 235 when she was 16 years old.
I was working hard with her father as a mercenary
from a Belgium territory, trying to persuade a chieftan named...
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Categories:
dorado, creation,
Form:
Ode
A Trip To Lampedusa
We had stopped believing
Because our purple lords were deceiving
Labouring each day in the scorching sun
Our hearts were burning
Our desires started waning
At times we wish that our existence was done
What purpose is there in life were...
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Categories:
dorado, africa, war,
Form:
Lyric
Dreamy Cadillacs---Colourfication
"Dreamy Cadillacs"....COLOURFICATION
Decided one Sunday afternoon to indulge in something I love!
Being "Olde School" with an "e" and a Cadillac classic car buff.
I went to this show and was blown away by all the "Cads" I...
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Categories:
dorado, car, dream, imagery, passion,
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad of Clifford Griffin
In the spring of 1880 young Clifford Griffin immigrated from England to Colorado.
The death of his fiancee left him bereft and he was searchin' for his El Dorado.
He settled in Silver Plume where he and...
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Categories:
dorado, death, mystery,
Form:
Ballad
Serendipity
I excavated honest heaven for its lens of stars
And found only bright bags of burning air
I caressed the rose and got only scars
From swift thorns more pointed than my tears
And still in the vanity of...
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Categories:
dorado, love, religion, romanceme, beauty, beauty, hope, me,
Form:
Verse
The Ballad of 'soapy' Smith
Jefferson Randolph 'Soapy' Smith was the wiliest scoundrel in the west!
He was invited to leave numerous towns since he wasn't a welcome guest!
He swindled gullible dudes throughout the west endin' up in Colorado,
Where he earned...
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Categories:
dorado, cowboy-western, funny
Form:
Rhyme