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The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
expunging, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
expunging, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Turkish Poetry Translations I
Turkish Poetry Translations I
Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you're like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes...
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Categories:
expunging, lost love, love, love hurts, memory, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Match In the Dark
What a game ...
he was just a jester,
and this a ghastly prospect ...
The ground lay torn open before him,
a wound in the earth that called to his dark heart,
pulled on his better judgement like lead...
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Categories:
expunging, analogy, death, fantasy, games, metaphor, raven, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Spindleshanks Ain'T No Legend
Spindleshanks Ain't No Legend...
But sits here donned in his foreign
aged (not so lovely) bag of bones
barely functioning surviving, but by
skin off his teeth, (which explains
dentures) regretting, revisiting,
ruminating hellacious bout with
anorexia nervosa, approximately
five dozen (multiply) orbitz...
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Categories:
expunging, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form:
Prose Poetry
Winter's Echoes
Icicles hang on the edges
Silence creeping into the conversation
Revealing the boredom of this skirt
Tendrils of frozen water suspended
On hearts, hopes and dreams
Moonlight flickers on the night
Ebony haven of owl and coyote
Animals wild and warmed by...
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Categories:
expunging, appreciation, blessing, faith, hope, inspirational, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
Attila Ilhan Translations
Ben Sana Mecburum
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as ever-expanding dimensions.
You are indispensable; how can...
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Categories:
expunging, break up, farewell, for her, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
The Poet Speaks
Today December 27 two thousand nineteen
Start time: at sixteen minutes
after seven o'clock post meridian
End time: nine minutes after
nine o'clock post meridian.
Where the outer limits as Guiding Light
regarding twilight zone,
vis a vis edge of night
i.e. est...
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Categories:
expunging, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Unspoken Implication Belied Bon Geste
(unsettled conscience beckons expunging)
Upon espying aesthetically pleasing lass
(considerably younger than me),
middle aged ma'am, or classy older woman
impetuousness overtakes rationality
courting acquaintanceship constituting
aforementioned type female
these premature ejaculations
blindside yours truly
upon comfort level
of unfamiliar lady recipient,
(especially years gone by
with...
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Categories:
expunging, analogy, cute, memory, passion, prayer, psychological, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Basting Brought Breads
In a royal antibacterial waste machine one must wait for the willing vibrancy of the whistling seal. Dressed neatly in a three piece suit he sits on a rock and calls to the breezes on...
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Categories:
expunging, adventure, analogy, angel, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
a match in the dark
a ghastly …
prospect ...
the ground torn open before him
a wound in the earth that called to his dark heart
pulled on his better judgement like lead ...
warm, the darkness -
warm and peaceful, if but a plunge...
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Categories:
expunging, analogy, dark, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Father-Daughter Dance
I once made a stranger bleed out from his eyes
After transcribing his skeleton, and then reading
His scratched-up bones back to him.
I was thirteen when it happened, English class
When I first realized how a...
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Categories:
expunging, absence, age, anger, hate, heartbreak, hero,
Form:
Free verse
You Are Indispensable: Attila Ilhan Translation
Ben Sana Mecburum: “You are indispensable”
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as ever-expanding dimensions.
You are...
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Categories:
expunging, absence, autumn, break up, city, depression, international,
Form:
Free verse
To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part Two
Part Two
To have written is to leave but a mark
nothing stands for the proud rhyming syllables
more than his acquired business acumen
a Vaishya karmic hope
Now we stand aghast before this...
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Categories:
expunging, on writing and words, may, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Working Out Isn't Working Out
I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
inspired me to start counting carbs, pounds, and reps.
My trainer...
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Categories:
expunging, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Our youngest offspring
The breast of this dada heaves
with remorseful painful ache
as if...the insides of my body
into a bajillion pieces break
though anniversary of birth,
I intended to write, but... did rake
akin to hot coals, an overwhelming agony
wrought urgent compulsion...
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Categories:
expunging, beauty, celebration, cry, dad, daughter, faith, meaningful,
Form:
Bio
Motorised Saucepans In Kent
isn't it? kent fog burger faces driving in a motorised saucepan.
A nine foot rod is better than a three foot stick and a three foot stick outsmarts any microfiber jewel encrusted steel bow when attempting...
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Categories:
expunging, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
Stolen Van Life
A fair pile of graded kindling and fresh limbs.
Wooden spring, deep brooding in each fiber, the damp air won't help.
White fire, a searing brain, a taxing task, omni-repetitive, still
remains at one hand.
Weakling losing life to...
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Categories:
expunging, care, child, conflict, corruption, death, remember, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Blessed Anonymity of Cyberspace
Ordinarily, a discriminatory
guardedness factors large what I air
in close confidential quarters
within therapist office bare
ring pocked marked soul
of this feigned cheer
full contemplative, introspective,
and ruminative despair
ring fellow, whose unfettered
stream of consciousness
(oxbow lakes included) doth endear
me, asper when...
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Categories:
expunging, anti bullying, community, life, longing, meaningful, self,
Form:
Free verse
Brush
I sit in front of myself,
Finding my way into my own eyes,
Searching for myself in my mirror,
Though I do not recognize this figure the light reflects,
I gaze past my trasparent face,
Looking for me,
I...
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Categories:
expunging, confusion, fear, introspection, visionary, body, fear, love,
Form:
Free verse
No Immunity For Trumpeting Donkey Kong
The wheels of justice might turn slow,
but...fear not those Dom (men knows)
minions defrauding decent folks...THUS
We (the Gods/Goddesses of Olympus)
interrupt this regularly scheduled pro
gram to deliver urgent unanimous verdict...
Telegram Spake Reportage...Justice
handed down from court of King...
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Categories:
expunging, abuse, age, environment, hope, natural disasters, political,
Form:
Light Verse
Wheel On a Stick Part 10
The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing
Radiant
A pilgrimage of enlightenment undertaken by Bob the Plumber after experiencing a spiritual detonation that woke him...
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Categories:
expunging, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
November 13th 2017 - Part 3
hip of hemlock to forego discontent with bing hue
man, who cherished tender mother-son glue
and wondrous tribulation,
I harbored enshrined and unwittingly flew
from pristine sanctuary secured
deeply in consciousness,
which access to retrieve circumstances
of myself as a...
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Categories:
expunging, absence, age, anger, angst, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement,
Form:
Ballad
Are Ye Goin' To Marry That Witch of a Dame - Counterfeiting the Canticle By T Wignesan
ARE YE GOING TO MARRY THAT WITCH OF A DAME - Counterfeiting the CANTICLE by T. Wignesan
(With self-lacerating apologies and scathing penance to that great troubador medieval English poet who longed for his lovely lass...
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Categories:
expunging, betrayal, fantasy, humor, marriage, parody, sensual,
Form:
Quatrain
Nutritional Digestion
It feels sadly ironic,
and unwise,
to focus healthcare
on digestive system deliveries
to feed and water our bodies
And underinvest,
too rarely applaud
and enrich
nurturing nutrition communications
made through our neural-sensory systems
natural/spiritual health care deliveries
and wealth care receptions
from abundantly compassionate
panentheistic worldviews
In...
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Categories:
expunging, caregiving, health, integrity, peace, senses, sensual, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse