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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary CuisinesYours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...
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in for a penny, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Power of My PenI have been trying to find the right words to pen this verse, but since I came to this country my words are suppressed and my voice is oppressed. The wind is blowing furiously, and...
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in for a penny, anti bullying, break up, community, corruption, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
InstructionInstruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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in for a penny, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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in for a penny, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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in for a penny, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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in for a penny, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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in for a penny, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 2nd ThirdNOTE: This is the 2nd THIRD of a funny 3-part piece. No other way to post it due to file size limitations. It's a really fun poem, and I hope you'll take the time...
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in for a penny, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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in for a penny, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Tiny Town Events - 2nd Half -- Text With IllustrationTHIS IS THE SECOND 1/2 of my "Tiny Town Events" piece, posted separately, (one half at a time), due to Poetry Soup's poem maximum-length requirement.
To enjoy the entire story, you'll need to first go to...
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Categories:
in for a penny, love,
Form:
Narrative
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight 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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in for a penny, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-KuralOn the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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in for a penny, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Make Yourself a - Better DealThis piece is based on a true series of events --
First time me an’ Jessie seen him - walkin’ in from nowheres -
couldn’t o’ been a stranger sight - as each of us recalls,
But...
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in for a penny, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiiJuvenilia: Early Poems XII
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly,...
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in for a penny, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
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Rhyme
Youth's Sweet Friendship Fragments"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
John Ruskin, 1853
I think of youth’s sweet...
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in for a penny, friendship,
Form:
Prose
Shame On Me -- In Both Audio and TextEvery day, ‘round 8 am, I climb up from the subway and pass a guy - a blind guy - who is there to beg for change.
But one day, as I paused to watch...
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in for a penny, heartbreak,
Form:
Narrative
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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in for a penny, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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in for a penny, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The ReunionThey came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very first class of a very very private school. Their school,...
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in for a penny, allusion, death,
Form:
Prose
Mommy WhyMolested the first fifteen years of my life. My mother remained silent the whole time. As the molesting continued all those years. Forced to live a pretend life all my childhood. Beaten and punished every...
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in for a penny, mother daughter, mother, child, house, school, god,
Form:
Epic
My Love, My Best Friend, My WifeI write this prose for my dear, fair lady wife
To celebrate her Birthday on November 29th
She’s my partner, my best friend, the love of my life
Without her my life would be as dark as night
From...
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in for a penny, allegory, birthday, celebration, for her, husband, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Good GirlThe Good Girl
Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...
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in for a penny, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Prose
Poet Convention 2014Poet Convention
Lost in a poets convention,
I can't recall every poem, I've read through the years
50518, unique comments I 'validate'---
Thank You For Sharing Your Happy and Sad tears
Since March 24, 2010 In the...
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in for a penny, celebration, character, dedication, farewell, goodbye, inspiration, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door NeighborPlease help yarn hexed door neighbor...
Yours truly pinned down by invisible
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock
to seal and line...
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in for a penny, abuse, anger, bullying, character, december, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
A Penny For a Poets Thoughts IStanding up for the kids standing up to sleep in overbearing heat clothes damp from their pee, God made night separate from day, but with lights bright all night as well as all day, the...
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in for a penny, abuse, anger,
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Political Verse