Long Frazzle Poems

What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch

Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...

They sway, bemused ... till rain falls...

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Do you hear them, Mom? he asked.
I was busy doing a household task,
but I stopped to listen
seeing sweat on his forehead begin to glisten.

The room was quiet, and I’d say, even cool,
his lips trembled— at...

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STILL KICKING
I've got this smile on my face,
tears rolling down my check, but I ant apologetic about it, 
not bluffing though I hear buzzing sounds, being very busy I remain unhinge,
can't be knock off balance...

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Love again
And love after love
Ends in dissolution of joy
I pause, not for me,
Because of this much I am certain
And long winded Socrates cannot pull the curtain
Of logics down unless a fallacy is there
I found what...

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Once upon a dry and sunny day,
My head I rest, and on the bad I lay
Thinking of the one true question…
What that is, I just will not mention.
Drifting asleep I vision with grace,
An angel, wrapped...

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Winter Fantasia.

Snowman, his coat a trillion frosty threads...crotched by Jack,
the naughty mischief maker. 
Each crystal cast perfect by Boreas.                ...

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Poor mans food 

I’m beginning  to comprehend  the necessary procedures to gain internal happiness. I’m learning to love myself while appreciating change. In every transition you make remind yourself of positive affirmations. The...

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Our Mate Fred Greer...

Strike me dead said poor old Fred....
A man cant get a win....
Churchill's dropped us off at Singapore ....
With no rifle its a sin.....

Changi prison camp at last....
and his best mate lay a...

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Episode 1

Enter Fire Ball

Can I help being curvaceous and bold, 
Or so I’ve been told,
Can I help it, if I get a visual massage,
Daily compliments, in fact a barrage!
I was born a beauty, and to...

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Freudian Slip --- Insight of Lip --- Dane Ann
Gravestone ---Heart- Mark ---Dane Ann
Gall  --- Vexing Vixen  ---  Dane Ann
Happiness --- Bounteous Bliss ---Dane Ann
Hog Sty --- Power Pen --- Dane Ann
Indigent ---...

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One bus sleeping in the valley
Deep night
Rescue team works
We get down from the bus
We are not strange but silence
Can't remove eyes
Clouds are moving like a cow
Moon stuck on hills
They are covered with dew and
-poor moonlight

In...

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The Venus Sun-Trap

Bright sister of the Earth defines the sky at eve and dawn
For similarities not at all, a hothouse orb intensely strong
Of water next to none that would see it boil and frazzle
Earth’s closest...

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Wake up fresh in the morning, free from daytime's infections
   Splash a pot of coffee on your pristine complexion  

Rev up your car's engine: Send a cloud of smoke into the air
...

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Up to my eyeballs with boxes of history
this decision I made is really no mystery.

I've worn myself to a definite frazzle
but as I look around it's beginning to dazzle!

A crazy time to pick up and...

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To write a tongue twister is not funny mister
I just don’t know where to begin
There’s one that I’ve written with which I’m quite smitten
But I’d had a very large gin...

Workers wrinkles worsen when wind worsens...

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"WITHER/Lyrics III- Dream Theater" poetry contest entry.
 
Don’t rock the boat, they said
Over and over and again and again
“Don’t rock,” can infect the brain
Unclog my head: harvest the grain

O, we need to rock before the...

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Saturday night sinners belly up to the bar
Not a worry, not a care
Come Sunday morning, it will all be alight
Heading to church in a fancy car
Got to get there before the Jones  get there
And...

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A POEM MADE UP OF CLICHES

At Poetry Soup we're admonished
Never to use cliches
They provide us an extensive list
For the error of our ways

But one thing you can rely on
Is people just don't pay heed
Like a...

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A cool Autumn morning
we caught the bus
off at eleven 
    .without much fuss.

One & half return 
         our village Croft to Leigh 
 ...

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My Mother In Law

Saw a view appearing to be panoramic,
Of me while I had laid in my hammock;
For ugliness there was no known cure;
Much more then anyone could endure.

Instead of being on welfare or relief,
Living...

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Beyond an overcast lazuline sky
a night of waning moon sets ember dark.
As a silent candle of molten hope burns
an ashen landscape in sudden flares up
plummeting a trail from heaven to earth.
Streaks of  photons scattered...

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Treasure Hunter 
I was following a narrow road that led to a dry like,
the road was flanked by uneven trees, looking like rejected 
kids for the school´s football team, short, thin too tall, and 
the...

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Sometimes things won't do
Sometimes you be blue any ole poem
You dance you cheer you take up at this forum
Not a color of the rainbow
You choose
Not a color in a box
No need for chocolates or chalk
In...

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I lay away in a soft blanket
Harsh night sounds keep me fast awake
And it seems tonight I must be in your debt
If only brief snatches of memories I take
But they alone keep me safe.

It seems...

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The dark city's in despair
Waiting for a hero on his mare
Soft and sweet my lonely cries
Hope he hears and comes to aid
The sane soul's a sanctum of his dwell
As that is how is the story...

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