Long Incised Poems
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Free Verse I
Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
incised, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Solitude
These cascaded tears are black in complexion,
I started arranging them when I was fourteen.
These broken stars are the horizons of fear,
I started numbering them when I was ten.
These words were the scars seen
in...
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Categories:
incised, abuse, africa, anxiety, art, , Lullaby,
Form:
Blank verse
U-Turn
FROM THE ur POEMS
u-turn: another way to look at religion
by Michael R. Burch
... u were borne orphaned from Ecstasy
into this lower realm: just one of the inching worms
dreaming of Beatification; u
would love to...
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Categories:
incised, angel, atheist, baptism, christian, culture, religion, religious,
Form:
Free verse
THE ur POEMS
THE ur POEMS
& GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE
to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!”
—michael r. burch
grave request
by michael r. burch
come to ur doom
in Tombstone;
the stars stark and chill
over Boot Hill
care nothing for ur...
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Categories:
incised, angel, atheist, christian, humanity, loneliness, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse Iv
FREE VERSE VI
Reason Without Rhyme
by Michael R. Burch
I used to be averse
to free verse,
but now I admit
YOUR rhyming is WORSE!
But alas, in the end,
it’s all the same:
all verse is unpaid
and a crying shame.
What the Poet...
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Categories:
incised, freedom, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Free verse
I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve,
as fine vermilion lines,
between bleeding moonlight,
swiftly sailed across
my darkness and I,
sakura springs sang
dulcet melodies of
a deathless devotion,
incised within...
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Categories:
incised, angst,
Form:
Free verse
The Epilogue
Hold me within the virtual chalice of righteous
And never let me stray too long amid the imperfection of this body
From this visage of dignity, once poured upon my soul...
That not deceit nor hypocracy become the...
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Categories:
incised, faith, hope, loveme,
Form:
I do not know?
Contemporary Art!?
Scathing these miscoloured orbs of sight, with incised rocks carved beneath
Concretionaries jagged edges of contagiums....
Painted upon the predominating canvas of perceptions dank, pasteled times!
So what has changed, this mosaic of histories collective collage?
As one way...
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Categories:
incised, life, nature, sympathy
Form:
I do not know?
Symbiotic
You know not why you're now here,
just that you are bound by fear-
(and a couple incised wires)
watching me, enticed with pliers.
Naked, cold, taught, and crying,
you can't move, although you're trying.
All stretched out, upon your stomach,
odors...
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Categories:
incised, corruption, dark, evil, fear, horror, murder, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Field of Vision
her arms had waisted away
her hands were cuffed
shackles incised her wrists
her eyes weren’t motionless
but all she could see was a wall
and she felt like an infernal image
of rage damned water welling up
with no release for...
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Categories:
incised, courage,
Form:
Imagism
Setting a Place Apart
The shaded lane leads to the estuary
and mud banks sculpted by the constant sea,
expose their drying backs beneath the sun
before once more in ebb and flow are gone.
Over a sty a path leads from...
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Categories:
incised, destiny, discrimination, eulogy, history, pride,
Form:
Rhyme
Healing Words
Her words were mumbled unprovoked and put him through the grinder
minced they were tearing apart they hurt like a dagger so he finally knew
where his heart was dismembered as it stood still one sentence then...
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Categories:
incised, love,
Form:
Free verse
Turquoise Night
... leave your walls and cliffs behind and
leap with me into the vernacular music of turquoise night,
clutching one another by our trembling hearts,
defying the twisted face of oppression
in annihilation of free-fall...
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Categories:
incised, love, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Wire Walker
There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —
defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch you when you fall
as your sticky grip on the star’s...
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Categories:
incised, betrayal, conflict, husband, jealousy, lust, sin, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Finished
It seems like only yesterday when your rainbow ceased
The reaper’s blade turned crimson in the struggle for being
Violet droplets forsaken as the final violation struck home
Forgotten the pinks and the mellow the sprite resolution
A...
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Categories:
incised, i love you, i miss you,
Form:
Free verse
Welcome To Delhi
Revived to pop out as an empty nester
To accompany a newfangled life
Maneuvered all the way for a change of state
I dropped my bags and willed at country’s metropolis.
The heirloom edifices occupying moiety of...
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Categories:
incised, places, social, urbanblue, change, red,
Form:
Imagism
Opaque
Nobody noticed her pain and resourceful depression
As façades piled onto charades of deceitful appearance
She cut a pattern onto her skin with razor blade strokes
Her innocent blood oozed a translucent shine of despair
In her mind she...
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Categories:
incised, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Dipping My Hair In Blue
We are at the junction of the Little River and the Ottawa River,
journeying into the Canadian wilderness by canoe, the
paddles stroke slowly into the water, paddles heavily incised
with vines and flowers, and I am dipping...
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Categories:
incised, desire, dream, native american,
Form:
Narrative
A Dream Comes Floating
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We are at the junction of the Little River and the Ottawa River,
journeying into the Canadian wilderness by canoe, the
paddles stroke slowly into the water, paddles heavily incised
with vines and...
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Categories:
incised, hair, love, native american,
Form:
Narrative
Jack Speaks
Although intoxicated within ethereal madness;
bound within the chains of this soulless prison.
I'm desperately in love with this Gothic sadness;
whilst staring into a fog of disheartened reason.
Walking and stalking through dark rancid streets;
stopping for pints, now...
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Categories:
incised, 12th grade, dark, death, gothic, murder, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
Dipping My Hair Into the Blue
We are at the junction of the Little River and the Ottawa River,
journeying into the Canadian wilderness by canoe, the
paddles stroke slowly into the water, paddles heavily incised
with vines and flowers, and I am...
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Categories:
incised, imagery,
Form:
Imagism
5874265
Winter has taken hold of my heart.
In the dark of night she slunk in, leaving frosty-footprints on the glass,
and sang me to sleep with lips as soundless as an owl's wing-feather,
dusting my eyes with powder...
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Categories:
incised, depression, life, loss, nature, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Visions Beyond the Horizon
Visions Beyond the Horizon
The doctor incised the umbilical cord, the nurse held him by heel,
They waited; the baby cried not; the nurse nudged and he giggled;
The baby giggled again; new mom laughed; doctors just haggled;
The...
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Categories:
incised, allegory, christmas, jesus,
Form:
Sonnet
The Last Mile - Sq
In my brittle life’s fragile landscape changes are not aberration,
etching a valley incised on contours of topographic undulation,
meanders in time to plains of nebulous future taking shape,
changes are not aberration in my brittle life’s fragile...
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Categories:
incised, death, journey, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Kintsugi
when her shadow cracked
fragments entered her mind
shards of false gold
pierced façade and persona
left her in pieces
splintered images and illusions
the mask had been held tight
a rope strangled the puppet
clown’s grimace incised
by strings of attachment
and forced assimilation
a...
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Categories:
incised, courage,
Form:
Free verse