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Poems About Flowers
Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch

May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.


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Categories: enigmatic, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form: Rhyme



Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer

Eden
by Michael R. Burch

Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...



Outcasts
by...

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Categories: enigmatic, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form: Free verse
Roses and Lilacs
Winter
by Michael R. Burch

The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.

The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.

Published...

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Categories: enigmatic, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form: Verse
Arthurian Poems
At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch

That night, 
at Tintagel, 
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery, 
and the unholy thundering of the sea...

In his arms, 
who is to say how much she...

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Categories: enigmatic, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form: Verse
Sonnets Xvii-Xxiv
Sonnets XVII-XXIV

Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch

The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...

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Categories: enigmatic, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form: Sonnet



To Be a Friend Pleaser
I heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling, 
Have I felt more of the need to...

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Categories: enigmatic, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly,  might be a source of some...

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Categories: enigmatic, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form: Prose
Apocalyptic Poems I
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...



The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch

“Dust to dust ...”

I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...

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Categories: enigmatic, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Love Poems Iv
LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage. 



She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...

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Categories: enigmatic, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form: Rhyme
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War

Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.

President...

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Categories: enigmatic, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel 
 soft it lay cradled  
rhapsodic rubicon...

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Categories: enigmatic, character, courage, death, emotions, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Epic
I Had No Clue It Was Valentines Day Part 2
Continued From I Had No Clue It Was Valentines Day Part  I
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was just in time to get my taste back, I wanted something sweet to eat
I continued walking until I reached the place...

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Categories: enigmatic, angel, celebration, community, courage, death, encouraging, freedom,
Form: Narrative
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.

Upon the advent of an unexpected inspection
slated for tomorrow January 24th, 2025
myself...

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Categories: enigmatic, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal, crush, devotion, humanity,
Form: Free verse
ROBERT SHERRIFF Leonardo's Art
ROBERT SHERRIFF 08/07/1954 - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER

Leonardo's Art

Leonardo da Vinci, a visionary of his time, was often likened to a grandmaster wielding a baton, orchestrating...

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Categories: enigmatic, age, art, heart, women,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member Velvet Glove Compartment
Age defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers 
slid over an intermittently scratched carbon black handrail she...

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Categories: enigmatic, adventure, age, birth, celebration, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form: Prose
Halloween Poems Iii
No One
by Michael R. Burch

No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...

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Categories: enigmatic, angel, dark, eve, evil, fear, gothic, horror,
Form: Rhyme
New Year's Eve 2022
New Year's Eve 2022

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022 
sequestered (with the missus) 
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd  
entertains reckons partition of time 
into...

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Categories: enigmatic, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form: Free verse
Ecstatic, Enigmatic Epiphanies of the Galaxie Eclipse endgame
Universal space…
Vast grace…
Infinity stars and galaxies
Of glory and praise
Joy
Jubilant 
Desire 
Humility
Hopefulness
Unity 
Peace
Happiness
Cheer
No fear
No tears
The Kingdom of unconditional clarity and love
Speak words of love from abuv
Roam home
Roam Home
Hold you dearly
Never let go
Insecure…
Then, I feel good
Misunderstood,
But good...

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Categories: enigmatic, angst, anxiety, deep, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears
Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...

of diverse and sundry sizes engaged 
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah 
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed heads
(hide their snickers
just a kiss away)
their backsides mimicked 
tufted heavenly...

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Categories: enigmatic, absence, adventure, america, angel, anger, divorce, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Kundalini Awakening
Part-1: Preamble

God loves us, so He split Himself in two
Motionless as space, kinetic as time
Shiva and Shakti; truth known to but few
As the word of God - Om sounded life's chime

God's vibration caused a ripple...

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Categories: enigmatic, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...

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Categories: enigmatic, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nineveh
Nineveh *
*Deep I have fallen 
    eyelids leaden with sleep
       just a hole to crawl in 
         and...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigmatic, beauty, imagination, science fiction, space, star,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Eyes of the Orient
(oh, mercy ... )

amazing eye whites,
perfect and pure as glacial ice -
they draw me in,
like diving into a clear Caribbean lagoon,
fluid and cool ...
brown iris so dark in contrast,
that they're lost in the inky black...

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Categories: enigmatic, beauty, metaphor, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
My Daughter's Smile
My Daughter's Smile
By Linda Hays-Gibbs 

There is a light, a light so sweet, comes from a smile beaming out from deep-within a soul, of infinite warmth, a burning coal alight with dawn, a tune to...

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Categories: enigmatic, children, emotions, feelings, inspirational, religion, religious, smile,
Form: Ballad
Road
My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to remember, however...

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Categories: enigmatic, age, perspective, , cute,
Form: Bio

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