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I Am My Father's Son
They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...

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Categories: grind, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX

Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch

The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...

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Categories: grind, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Lii-Lx
Sonnets LII-LX

The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch

How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...

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Categories: grind, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Chapter 16 -- Damian Hakim Polly Dolly and Molly: Damian's Plans and Family Time
March  2026
The final weeks of the CCC plan:
Damian and Polly planned the
Copy Cat Club convergence with
Molly and Dolly. The meet was postponed 
A few times until everything was set.
Damian and Dolly knew one another...

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Categories: grind, allusion, best friend,
Form: Alliteration
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: grind, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Poo Poo Bird
They pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it with tackle and rope

Now King Arthur declared in a boisterous...

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Categories: grind, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part One
Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI  Part One

Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grind, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 2
In the heart where your naivety resides
you wonder what haunts the sun
and why pain enjoys your childhood eyes,
when you see warm blood run
then you know that death can color
and like you, death loves a dramatic...

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Categories: grind, birth, death, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Megan's Quest Part 5of7
At that moment an explosion of mud filled the air
    as their tension was now largely increased.
They tried to gather their wits but all took to stare
    as for...

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Categories: grind, adventure, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Coconut Madness
Oh Hanna. 

The sinking of the USS Stefan wood. 

Oh Hanna 
I want to take you to Montana. 
We can camp out by the springs we will go and see the way oil is founding...

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Categories: grind, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Diary Notes: Another Day Sets In Paris
DIARY NOTES : Mad-House Maths

March 30th., 2018 - Another day sets in Paris

The home-bound Octogenarian trundles from the Mall's town centre
Back laden with the day's shopping
His hands numb from clutching load-packed plastic bags during the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grind, abuse, french, inspirational, judgement, life, violence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
                 II

The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grind, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Adverse World Unfinished Will Finish
You stole away my lonely melody, Lord,
And made it harmony according to Your accord
I’d like to thank You with all of my heart as I make sound
My mind is trying to look forward to a...

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Categories: grind, angst, emotions, encouraging, moving on, pain, passion,
Form: Free verse
We paid
Never will i depend on no female, because we paid. Trust, money up top, ask around we rock, because we paid.  No time to wait and sit, bless my day so we paid. Baby...

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Categories: grind, 12th grade, africa, america, city, deep, family,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
 Part One                     ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grind, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Thanks To the One and Only
Words of a mother melting your spirit despite it being cold. Her loving you no matter what chasing that heart of gold. 
         "You don't need to...

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Categories: grind, appreciation, dedication, depression, growing up, mother, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flagan the Dragon Part 3
The Tale of the Duck

The morning was crisp and in need of assist
    from the sun to warm up the day.
The Dragon needed some food to lighten his mood
   so...

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Categories: grind, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
So-Called Positive Poe
Downstairs I go
Elevate me, you know 
I'll get over the luv floo
Over the bad days too
Acting like a weirdo
A clown with an upside down frown... I'm a positive Poe 

I'm out of my mind
I can't...

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Categories: grind, deep, universe,
Form: Free verse
Prisoner of the Matrix Loaded
Prisoner of the Matrix loaded
Prisoner of the matrix loaded

Cattle within the herd
cages within the slaughter
Profiteers prey upon the wounded
Branded comodified beings consumed
In consumption
Led to the plunder of themselves
Within the plotted grids of bondaged earth

Still between...

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Categories: grind, america, analogy, philosophy,
Form: ABC
What Do You Know
I sit here waiting, waiting to go to a comfortable place where by  spirit can be at ease but you continue to play your dirty little game and I am going to bring the...

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Categories: grind, america, community, education, endurance, judgement, mountains, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Zolar the Inet God
(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")

It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...

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Categories: grind, abuse, addiction, anti bullying, betrayal, bullying, horror,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Money Muse
Money
and Manna
both root back to Maneh
of deep and weighty Babylonian coinage.

Maneh transcends spiritual/natural divides
to nurture nutrition's co-present values,
dew-fall grace from Earth's diamond curious treasures
tribal communions inspired with physical bread

And yet also 
more deductive
reductive Win/Lose seductive...

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Categories: grind, bible, blessing, integrity, money,
Form: Political Verse
Operating At a Loss
I
How long have I been doing this
Throwing my time & money
Into a hole
Filling up notebooks
Mining overheard conversation
For lines
Squeezing the sponge
Of my wine soaked
Mind
Into the bucket
Of poetry
And now here we are
Gulping down the
Lead tainted water
Like Romans
Romans
Forced...

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Categories: grind, anger, destiny, political,
Form: Free verse
Game of Cricket Is a Game of Life
Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life 
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn 
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...

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Categories: grind, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form: Prose Poetry
Search For the Hidden Spark
The old man stood;elbows resting on the old stone wall
Wistfully he gazed over the snow laden field,
Watching the sheep nibble on bales of hay,
He thought back remembering his working day.

In his leather like work hardened...

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Categories: grind, age, allegory, imagery, loss, magic, memory, riddle,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things