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Snapshots
Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch

Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.

Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.

There...

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Categories: humdrum, divorce,
Form: Free verse



Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.

Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.



A Surfeit of...

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Categories: humdrum, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 2020 Revolution
Numbers, numerals,
like words,
combinations of letters,
mean something,
sometimes more secular,
sometimes more sacred ecological.

Numerals and letters share sacred iconic human-intelligence root systems
within a bicameral ecology of mind-body nonduality,
both RightBrain matriarchal empowering flow of integrity (Czikszentmihalyi)
and LeftBrain patriarchal Yang...

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Categories: humdrum, beauty, culture, earth, health, math, trust, truth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan

Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humdrum, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
Starlight and Moonlight II

These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …




Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch 

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

The night is dark and scary—
under...

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Categories: humdrum, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form: Rhyme



I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome
I (a youthsome, wholesome, jokesome, handsome,...
gamesome, chucklesome, bothersome,
and awesome modest fellow)...
does not deliberately court immortalization,
and wonders what criteria confer elevation,
exaltation, glorification, hero worship,
idolization, veneration, or worship.

I go about a daily humdrum routine
me, a twenty first...

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Categories: humdrum, age, appreciation, birth, creation, desire, fishing, longing,
Form: Free verse
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: humdrum, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and Commentary
K169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary

[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humdrum, bible, evil, hate, jealousy, people, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Hay Un Dia Feliz By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
       Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

      To come by a happy day

(In this poem, Parra maintains lines of...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humdrum, childhood, family, father, feelings, music, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris

I led a boring life.
The end.

All joking aside, now the epilogue.

As a bookish fellow born January 13th,1959
he attended school and got promoted
as a...

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Categories: humdrum, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse
Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite Pastimes
Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes

Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.

He preferred solitude versus
interacting...

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Categories: humdrum, 12th grade, angel, anxiety, books, boy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Her Shadow
In her shadow,
I knew the meaning of comfort
The whisper of grace
The joy of acceptance
The miracle of a place
Where silence knew deliverance
And kindness knew the way
To make my heart beat with hope,
Breathing light into the safety
I...

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Categories: humdrum, appreciation, christian, hope, jesus, love, mom, mother,
Form: Free verse
Scotch Tape Sweepstakes
Scotch Tape Sweepstakes

The easy to handle
sticky sided material
made of a variety of materials, including
cellulose acetate, polypropylene,
PVC, and adhesive
(alluded to in the title)
applied in an innovative manner
allowing, enabling, and providing me
the means and ways to affix...

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Categories: humdrum, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Free verse
Apple of My Eye Darling Daughter Numero Deux Gifted Me
Apple of my eye darling daughter numero deux gifted me...

Twenty four years ago –
February 4th, 2023,
whose existence begat 
by this dada and da mama aye
revel in your bursting at figurative 
seams viz maturation, and know...

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Categories: humdrum, adventure, age, america, beautiful, birthday, celebration, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Rental Rebate Plus Affordable Rent
Rental rebate plus affordable rent...

One benefit living at
Highland Manor Apartments
until decrepit and bent...
constitutes qualifying for reimbursement
direct deposited into checking
as chump change event,
hence one generic grateful gent
feels self satisfied as Clark Kent.

After wing and prayer
granted courtesy...

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Categories: humdrum, america, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, happiness, humorous, march,
Form: Rhyme
Always Danger In the Sky
We’re in a casual conversation on the point of shooting Ducks,
and how they’re not bad on the palate, as long as someone plucks
the flamin’ feathers off the birds, ‘cause by the time they’re bare,
we can’t...

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Categories: humdrum, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Obliviousness Concerning Lapsed Driver License
(alternate title: days of yore bubba's zayda
flush with buggy boo horse sense).

Norristown City Hall police person
informed yours truly
on September 15th, 2020
mine automotive driver license expired,
thus between January 13th 2019
and September 17th, 2020
I drove automobile,
(whether borrowed...

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Categories: humdrum, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel, appreciation, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Recherche Poetic Themes Stock In Trade of Yours Truly
Recherché poetic themes stock in trade of yours truly

No surprise, rhyme nor reason,
I tease out extraordinary threads,
sometimes deliberately writing
about current calendar day or season

for instance today July 28th, 2020
another hazy, hot, and humid summer day
and...

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Categories: humdrum, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Alexa down!
Alexa down!

She, the brainchild of Rohit Prasad -
India-born person who breathed life
into Alexa, and lead technology side
of project almost from its inception.

Amazon Alexa Echo
a marvel of voice activation technology,
(reportedly voiced by Nina Rolle,
a voice actress...

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Categories: humdrum, addiction, appreciation, best friend, fate, humorous, husband,
Form: Free verse
Concepts Phantasmagorical
When the cows come home to roost,
	or the crows are grazing grass,
It’s time I wrote a rhyme,
	until yesterday returns to pass!
If bats in the belfry stay sleeping,
	until the clock strikes the noon of day,
Tis then...

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Categories: humdrum, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Conversation With Walter Mitty
“Azure blue sky dreamer.
Where you bound today of mystifying  days?
Can you hear me through that enigmatic fog?
Your Milky Way incarnate hyper trance phase.”

“Fellow wonderland  adventurer.
I’ve been pole vaulting otherworldly golden orb frontiers.
As I...

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Categories: humdrum, art, beautiful, celebration, character, fantasy, humor, nice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Emptiness - Soul Hunt
Written: April 27, 2024

                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Seraphic, sibilant wisdom,
    a grace-gorged vista,
...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: humdrum, analogy, life, soulmate, voice,
Form: Free verse
Advice to Young Poets
Advice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under the bridge
for me to believe
there’s just one acceptable path.
In poetry everything’s permitted.



Byron
was not...

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Categories: humdrum, light, poems, poetry, poets, world, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Gentle Unto Death
He was alive should breathing be called life, 
In state of peace and bliss, no surface strife, 
Suffering in silent resolve for long, 
A man as was of intense self-esteem, 
Died long ere, waiting still...

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Categories: humdrum, death, life,
Form: Narrative
Apple of My Eye
Shana Aubrey Harris – 
 whose existence begat by dada and da mama; aye
revel your bursting at figurative seams viz maturation, and know by
chatting over telephone, your aura, charisma, 
   and persona finds...

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Categories: humdrum, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, daughter,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things