Long Elusiveness Poems

I'm that my words and pen can't express my weakness.
Nobody could have foreseen I felt such happiness.
My bald secret is now included in my poetic liveness. 
I'm at a loss for words to define my...

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Love is not blind but because of it’s unpredictability and it’s elusiveness
It can, at times, be a little difficult to see.
Other times, however, it is as palpable as can be
We can feel it in our...

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The exaltation of my depression controlled my free will
Sensing the elusiveness of a thing called Love
feeling the high and the low of it
I expected the low to go away but it didn't

Only a lingering memory...

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Bias has for animals better named Beasts:
Creatures that could us shake in strong seats
They are the ones Satan ably schemes their use
In battles real rather than a ruse…

And he had been chiefly The Selective, 
Their...

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Every Man Has a Dream
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Every man has a dream that he cannot quite touch...
a dream of contentment, of soft, starlit rain,
of a breeze in the evening that, rising again,
reminds him of...

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It could of been her hazel eyes that burnt like copper gold
The way her hair of golden blonde shone vibrant, strong and bold
Maybe her lips of ruby, scarlet rays of fire
Her radiant disposition
Like the sun...

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I passed by Old Man Banksia, a wonderfully gnarled tree,
While trekking through the Jamison, a bushland pedigree,
I saw the broad leaf of the Geebung, with its yelow frill,
The distant sounds of Katoomba Falls with its...

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My inner person desires and seeks
innovative words softer than roses,
lovelier than the skies of spring, louder that the voice of Moses...
then see me anxiously run when the cathedral's bell rings!


My inner person needs serenity more...

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I couldn't waste any more kisses
on another...not as deserving as you are,
your faithfulness was promised to me in a consecrated  embrace.


Take away the passion emanated by desire,
and the thrill to feel loved and touched...

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The mammoth task that my ambitions view,
Shall intercept with reason why I care
To change this woman from the god I knew
Becomes the pedestal, that none compare.

I see her shape and form delight the day,
My having...

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TO JUSTICE WITH LOVE…

Your deceitful tease
and elusiveness
are beyond compare;
your blind promise
has yet proven
that you really care.

How long
must my soul
lowly hang
like strange fruit
dripping trails
of its fallen red juice
behind its every pursuit?

They say
only death rivals 
your equanimity—
Fool...

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We slunk into this atmosphere of peace, 
Content to say the love that we possess
Is one that keeps absorbing one's caress
Like nothing on this earth I could release.

My soul is so enchanted by this cloud
It...

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I've always loved Aspen's leaves of gold
Even though winter's what they foretold.
And maples' gold among the crisp red,
once fallen make the lovliest bed.

The green was nice and furnished us shade.
Beneath it, young lovers' vows were...

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With years of mind numbing digging
Persistence pays off with time
I would almost call it a living
This life long search for the treasure of rhyme

Harder to track than the abominable snowman
Slippery than that monster in Loch...

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I found myself wanting to be angry and vile,
seeking black, looking hard for him
in all the dark places, lingering a while.
Black has his own ways, unknown to mortals-
slinking out and in mysterious portals.
time be traveling,...

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Fluently flowing from her beautiful head,
Are locks of perfection,
Stopping abruptly at her back.
Sloping steep with elegance,
Forms her neck,
Supporting her head like it holds the world.
Smooth silky plateaus are her shoulders,
The sturdy top table,
Balancing good and...

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REFLECTIONS ON A SUBLIME JOURNEY

Sailing on the ocean of a cosmic pilgrimage
Searching wholeness of the universe
I journeyed into 
The flowing river of my soul
And caught a glimpse of the light
Of celestial revelation:
Becoming like an autumn...

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What is this most elusive dream
Forever within my grasp, 
Yet too illusive to see.
Whenever I persue it, it runs away
But when I end the chase,
It chases after me.

Why is it such a mystery.
Just when I...

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With trusting innocence we've played
with nets and jars amid a field
of muted rustling blooms that yield
Their subtle breaths of perfumed air
where milkweed monarch’s foraged there.
They were the prize and preference
of youth and trusting innocence.
Inexpertness with...

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