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Rejection Slips 2Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
ineffectual, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse IiNucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
ineffectual, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior JobberJinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.
Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...
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Categories:
ineffectual, 1st grade, 2nd grade, adventure, age, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Never Say NeverThere are moments when troubles enter our life’s
And we can do nothing to avoid them
But the one's we can
They look convoluted unless we demystify
But we think they are byzantine
As we think the mysteries in them...
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Categories:
ineffectual, encouraging,
Form:
Blank verse
Mirza Ghalib English Translations 4MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Urdu poems about speech and to speak, the spoken word, thoughts, roses, life, secrets, joy, pain, vows, critics, the heart.
Hearing my speech, accomplished critics
enjoined me to accessibility,
but my thoughts are complex
and if...
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Categories:
ineffectual, heart, joy, life, longing, pain, rose, spoken
Form:
Free verse
The CowardCowards die many times before their deaths…
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 2 ~William Shakespeare
spouse
a souse
classic grouse
a big girl's blouse
portent ominous
assertions blasphemous
obscure and anonymous
his skulking is nefarious
utterances...
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Categories:
ineffectual, language,
Form:
Other
Deliberate Pain Staking Attentiveness To Perfection(alternately titled: impossible mission goes awry
probably mortal enemy cast spell binding jinx)
Both mental versus
physical tasks necessitate
laser sharp attentiveness
triggered within blinks
similarly on par when people toast
momentary instance utter silence
before more'n one
wine glass simultaneously clinks
cheering hurray, especially
if...
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Categories:
ineffectual, 12th grade, analogy, change, death, goodbye, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
CyclesCycles
by Michael R. Burch
I see his eyes caress my daughter's breasts
through her thin cotton dress,
and how an indiscreet strap of her white bra
holds his bald fingers
in fumbling mammalian awe...
And I remember long cycles into the...
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Categories:
ineffectual, daughter, lust, sexy, teen, teen love, teenage,
Form:
Free verse
Imperial Corporate Jurisprudence, the Lurid Leviethan Part Two -Self reliancy stimulates political independence,
pragmatic critical thinking spurs revocation of spurious Partisan information,
vigilanteism guards against the Juntas,
systematic interdiction of peoples' ability to to procure food, self educate,
self medicate, and to self defense is a...
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Categories:
ineffectual, history, world, self, self, integrity,
Form:
Didactic
Phantom OperatorAre we testing open waters?
I never should have stationed there
We were not prepared
Through the shame and sacrifice,
I was getting there
All we know is shelter,
Survival,
Yet we were unprepared
Mark the way
through tunnels we...
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Categories:
ineffectual, betrayal, death, family, goodbye, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Obscenitygetting off the d-train one morning
@ the 125th st. nicholas stop
&
walking toward the soup kitchen
where i was going to work that
day
i saw a young girl of maybe 6, 7 or 8
(i’m not good...
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Categories:
ineffectual, life
Form:
Free verse
The Breathing Fog of May and the Insistence of Wednesday's Sun.It's...
irrelevant
we're two stories, picture books rubbed raw and torn pages, he's
ripped
up the middle, down the lines of his face on the left and his right ear
dangles
over my toes when midnight falls, I watch him, inconspicuous,...
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Categories:
ineffectual, loveapril, me,
Form:
Free verse
AssassinAssassin
A hooded figure watches over the sleeping.
Peacefully, suddenly colder, soon to be weeping;
A body of a thousand slumbers.
Tonight will be its final number,
For without sound or any sign of remorse,
Death has come, and in due...
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Categories:
ineffectual, dark, death, history, murder, political, sorrow, war,
Form:
I do not know?
Last Bell.....Man, I remember the thrumming of that last bell of the school year.....
Like a prisoner being furloughed into the warm sun, buzzing of grasshoppers.
Field stickers burrowing into your ankles, joyfully, while you take the wrong...
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Categories:
ineffectual, adventure, childhood, funny, introspection, life, nostalgia, school,
Form:
Free verse
Discombobulation, A FrustrationIn words, straight from this writer's heart ~
my soul, or some other sensitive anatomical part,
I consider a poem a failure, without success
when poetry readers consider it a bloody mess.
Sometimes I write in the midst of...
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Categories:
ineffectual, poetess,
Form:
Rhyme
These Empty HandsI have been told that I need to grow up,
The bulletin just arrived on my desk that
I have issues manifold,
To share this drink an ineffectual cup,
Perceant words heard before hope's sliver of a door closed...
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Categories:
ineffectual, sadwords,
Form:
Rhyme
Pause Between Thinking and SpeakingA slight pause is taken between a thought
and the words that I speak from my heart
for words often rendered in too much haste
are frowned upon with wary looks of distaste
I have to admit that it's...
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Categories:
ineffectual, spoken word,
Form:
Rhyme
Gettin Old - Wot Me?In the words of the great Bard, "Alas".
But enough of Shakespeare my friends.
For it has come to pass
That half a century and yet five more
Years that is, not my cricket score.
Have gone beneath the bridge...
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Categories:
ineffectual, imagination, inspirational, life, old, old,
Form:
Bio
Deception - POTDPOTD 4th Nov 2019
Vanquishing all reservation
twilight's prelude heralds
shadowy anticipation
of a secret amorous thirst
He surrenders once more
to his darkest desires
amplifies the sultry ambiance
with star spangled bursts
A slave in her entity
tremulous in her splendour...
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Categories:
ineffectual, conflict, desire, passion, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Rinkydinks: Volume 1Dear readers, I may still be suffering a bit from April Fool's Syndrome, but I'd like to introduce another Q and A series called "Rinkydinks". It is also dedicated to nonsense, but unlike "Grins and...
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Categories:
ineffectual, humor,
Form:
I do not know?
Thanatos Cold Embrace Of Death *
Everyone grieves in their own way ~ time will only tell if healing comes, * for some, deaths blanket; unbearable and Thanatos is...
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Categories:
ineffectual, death, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber Part 2Gamesomeness goads gawky, gingerly,
goofily graceful, grandiloquent gent, gallant,
genteel, geico, guppy gecko, gabbling gaffes,
gagging, gamboling, gestating, gesticulating,
garlic, gnashing, gobbling, gyrating,
gruesomely grinning, grappling, gnomadic
giggly, grubby, gastrointestinally grumpy
gewgaw gazing guy, geographically germane,
gungho, grave gremlin, grumbling, guiding,
guaranteeing, guerilla gripped...
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Categories:
ineffectual, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Alliteration
Evil RisingEver since creation, there have been voids
Ineffectual places for deviants to hide
In the beginning there were just a few of us
Milling around in the dark
Stumbling on our own uselessness
Bleeding from our palms and knees
As a...
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Categories:
ineffectual, anger, creation, evil, hurt, murder, sad, violence,
Form:
Free verse
From Far AwayMy own incipient awareness caught me by surprise,
I figured I knew nothing about anything, like so many of my generation
Fed on a diet of fast TV, fast food but slow thinking
Imagine my surprise when I...
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Categories:
ineffectual, confusion, people, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
A Query With FuryA Query With Fury
We were always a little leery,
Of people who query a theory;
For a while;
Facts compile;
Found to be done with great fury.
To cause they were seriously dedicated,
Until all of the parts had been decimated;
Became...
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Categories:
ineffectual, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick