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Various Heresies 3
Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
embalmed, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
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:
embalmed, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
embalmed, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
embalmed, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -
- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
embalmed, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 4
Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
embalmed, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
Love Poems V
LOVE POEMS V
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...
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Categories:
embalmed, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
embalmed, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
New Year Poems I
New Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
embalmed, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Mcgillicuddy's Wake
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy's 1976 Buick into Eagan's Funeral Home for Tim McGillicuddy's wake. At 87,...
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Categories:
embalmed, death of a friend, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than
Ah... tis nothing greater than...
malfunctioning heater
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.
While scrolling thru
poems crafted yesteryear,
I chanced to jog my memory where
there
occurred power outage necessitated
more than divine...
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Categories:
embalmed, 12th grade, angst, dark, environment, faith, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Raven Has Fled
“The ribbon is cut
The die is cast
The cement is dry
Yet nothing lasts
The brazen rewarded
The hero a fool
All reason outdated
New fury the tool”
A journey presented
Your ship to go far
With...
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Categories:
embalmed,
Form:
Rhyme
Planche de Chair Cuite
She was not invited
She was arranged
They never wanted Jasmine
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries
while they offered only
hinges rusted shut
She was not guest
She was garnish
Not...
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Categories:
embalmed, betrayal, death, gothic, grief, horror, loneliness, marriage,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Best of Fiends
Whatever rules they make up now in twenty-twenty-one
‘Little’ Frankie tells his dad I need to have some fun
His dad said how about a pet, I’ve just embalmed a pup
But Frankie moaned I’m sorry but I...
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Categories:
embalmed, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
What are we?
As the midnight
sun cries sweet honey,
the mourning moon
croons caramelized deceit,
like toffee-speckled leaves,
whistling bewitching myths,
seducing silenced silhouettes,
engrossed in tangerine temptations,
and mundane...
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Categories:
embalmed, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Death of Poetry with Ink Empress
"You can never kill a poet,
their words are engraved for eternity." Silent One
To the one who personifies my poetic heartbeats,
every time you abandon me, silence is my nemesis.
I'm like an inkless quill reciting a chorus...
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Categories:
embalmed, analogy, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Time To Cook the Rolls
Time To Cook the Rolls
“Honey, turn on the oven to 350; the movie is starting!”
Soupy Sales is kicking back with June Taylor at Studio 50.
He is flirting with her leggy dancers as they feed...
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Categories:
embalmed, angst,
Form:
Free verse
C a T and the Sphinx
*** C A T and the SPHINX***
Cat is on the prowl
Without taking a step!
Proud fellow, often unseen,
Gracefully gliding by.
He feels he knows it all —
At least all that is necessary to know —
Of the...
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Categories:
embalmed, cat, fantasy, fun, imagery, memorial, november,
Form:
Narrative
Sea of Roses
O n c e upon
a medieval arc,
when the coral night
was engrossed in
fuchsia epitaphs of fireflies,
your fingers,
embalmed
in the fangs of february moon,
shredded the love...
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Categories:
embalmed, angst, deep, emotions, heartbreak, longing, love, rose,
Form:
Free verse
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
with midnight ink
across a mazed face
of a starless canvas,
What if these...
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Categories:
embalmed, black love, dark, deep, meaningful, metaphor, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Vision
At this dawn of "bon voyage",
after million escapades of
blindfolded fate, I'm trespassing
through the pirouetting pigments
of fading frolics and
windsurfing towards rose-oiled
beams of glossy sun as its
gossamer grandiose has
finally enveloped...
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Categories:
embalmed, color, emotions, meaningful, metaphor, poetry, universe, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Easter Lilies
"The meek and the humble will be elevated to places where the haughty can never ascend even with a ladder. Stay humble in victory and calm in defeat"- by poet
far away in ancient Jerusalem,
stood...
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Categories:
embalmed, beautiful, christian, easter, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Dr Harold F Shipman Psychopathic Killer
Psychopath definition: A mentally ill or unstable person. A person who engages in antisocial behavior and exhibits a pervasive disregard for the rights, and feelings, and safety of others.
Serial killer: Performing a series of...
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Categories:
embalmed, betrayal, death,
Form:
Narrative
The Haunting
"The Haunting"
What happened
was a crime
in more ways
than one
who can understand
the mind of a recidivist
twisted, calculating
in this story, there is
more than one,
the night
of a thousand
cutting knives
the turn of the...
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Categories:
embalmed, dark, journey, light, strength, war,
Form:
Narrative
No Sin For a Mirror
No Sin for a Mirror
Arabic Poem by: Habib Al-Samir*
Translated Into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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In a room,
Bordered by the sun on the right
And the moon on the left,
A mirror stands
On a smooth wall
Exposing or concealing...
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Categories:
embalmed,
Form:
Prose Poetry