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An Uppercut I Remember

Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...

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Categories: flinch, father son,
Form: Blank verse

Animal Poems

Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot."



Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a dromedary
who...

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Categories: flinch, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Limerick

Sonnets Lxi-Lxx

Sonnets LXI-LXX

Erin
by Michael R. Burch

All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,

her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,

the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...

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Categories: flinch, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form: Sonnet

Enough

Enough!
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!

Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...

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Categories: flinch, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form: Light Verse

Dog Daze I: Poems About Dogs

Dog Daze
by Michael R. Burch

Sweet Oz is a soulful snuggler;
he really is one of the best.
Sometimes in bed
he snuggles my head,
though he mostly just plops on my chest.

I think Oz was made to love
from the...

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Categories: flinch, dog, family, friend, friendship, friendship love, love,
Form: Verse

World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi

World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi

Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch

You who live secure
in your comfortable houses, 
who return each evening to find
warm food, 
welcoming faces...

consider whether this...

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Categories: flinch, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form: Free verse

No God of Mine - 2021 Edit

[This poem 'No God Of  Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't  cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]


By...

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Categories: flinch, evil, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Hurt People Hurt People

Flirt with Whitney
Flirt with fear 
Life is good
But I rather be anywhere but here
Body aches from pushing out tears
Driving on the road of life
Eyes is watery
So I can't steer 
And I'm getting dizzy 
Stomach very...

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Categories: flinch, deep, depression, feelings, longing, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

The Lay of the Best Man - Part 3

Ask your friend, neighbour or even a stranger newly-met
Have they ever been damaged by a ‘trust’ ….now turned ‘regret’?
Most men, if not all, have fashioned their character on personal experience
Yet these damned hypocrites are themselves...

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Categories: flinch, abuse, corruption, earth, i am, life, men,
Form: Lay

A Makerere Student, Her Snake, Her Piper, and a Doctor

This poem is featured in Dr. Ivan Edwards' upcoming anthology, Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics, published by IEME LLC. The book will be available in e-book, softcover, and hardcover formats upon release. Available...

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Categories: flinch, anxiety, depression, family, inspiration, mental health, true
Form: Free verse

No God of Mine

Cement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.

Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...

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Categories: flinch, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Sometimes People Share

Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story

That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
or touch,
or deeply feel...

I flinch, sometimes.

Wince.

Maybe flirt with longer-term
dissociation,
to protect myself
from suicide
to protect...

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Categories: flinch, abuse, god, health, muse, passion, political, power,
Form: Political Verse

For One Pass of Your Breath

you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in my arms while you smelled my hair
i saw that pretty...

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Categories: flinch, lost love, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Gory Games

Gory video games are playing on the television screen…everyone watches excitedly without a flinch of fear…where’s peace when I need it? Where’s love when I want it? Where’s their sanity? Is it replaced with vanity...

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Categories: flinch, change, confusion, cool, crazy, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

This Woman His Wife 3

five decades of experience and vast global knowledge
he met and lay with all kind of ladies.
Intellectuals
Blondie
Women that sparks extreme desire
Some whose names he couldn't pronounce
Even those with no clue as to why God make a...

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Categories: flinch, love, marriage,
Form: ABC

Memory of Bones

The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving dinner was hosted
the plump turkey as dry as yesterday

many wars...

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Categories: flinch, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety, art, childhood, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Chapter 53 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Iv

10:30 at night everything was 
peaceful in the Damian Hakim 
household. Children were
Safely in there dreams. But the
Seven were wide eyed and 
Would soon begin to let the
Parents know they were needed.
The racket began. Damian...

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Categories: flinch, best friend, confidence, corruption, creation, youth,
Form: Alliteration

A Whole New Word

Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
   the editors must...

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Categories: flinch, word play, words,
Form: Verse

Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

October seventeenth
nineteen hundred sixty one 
and October seventeenth
two thousand twenty four
represents, signals,
and traces sixty three orbitz
completed round the sun.
by one cherished,
(despite lapse of calling,
emailing, or texting),
nevertheless loved,
and prized...

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Categories: flinch, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Colonisation

Bombarded by myriads of daily data without cease,
I suggest a forthright discourse on this topic,
carousel of trend and sound adherence  merely looming?
some unwitting sentiment  an aspirational diction,
reverberation or innuendo pending aftermath augur,
the world...

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Categories: flinch, august, courage, deep, freedom, future, mystery, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Green Eggs, Spam and Grits

Green eggs, Spam and grits
Sam and Pam had their fill,
Then made their way to Main Street
Down WhoDat’s Whatsup Hill.

Waived "Hi!" to their neighbors
To show them that they cared.
All smiled except two who
Just stood there and...

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Categories: flinch, bullying, cat, courage, fantasy, friendship, humor, poetry,
Form: Light Verse

Stalingrad II

Let fortitude confront the raging beast
for wolfen corps from Hell have entered in. 
They surge in packs, savagely unleashed,
to mutilate the innocence within.
Let ev’ry child and mother of its name
be fodder for this apathetic rage.
Let...

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Categories: flinch, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me

endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me...

like the infinite vista
upon the midwestern plain
farther than the eyes of mine
(an ascetic and copacetic
shortsighted father of two grown
twenty something daughters)
can no longer see,
since sockets severely seared
staring...

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Categories: flinch, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, crazy,
Form: Free verse

The Battle of Britain II

A pulsing motive met them in the sky
to paint his birds before they flew your way,
then talons reared, determined to deny
the devil’s flying wolves a win this day.
Your heaven’s filled relentlessly with fire
as deficit engulfed...

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