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Peace Prayer
These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...

Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

for Jim Dunlap

Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.

Be one with the...

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Categories: instinctual, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form: Free verse



Poems About Butterflies and Bees
Poems about Butterflies and Bees



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...



Album
by Michael R. Burch

I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...

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Categories: instinctual, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poems Iv
Poems about Poems IV

The Toast
by Michael R. Burch

For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...

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Categories: instinctual, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Precious Priceless Progeny
Precious priceless progeny 

     Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...

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Categories: instinctual, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Populist Politics
When I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,

Which would have given me pause
in that comparatively naive age
of green longing for...

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Categories: instinctual, bullying, earth, environment, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse



Huffing Paint In the Mini-Van
Baby birds tweet as their long skinny necks stretch towards blind faith. Somewhat frantically; newly born; next to dead; fragile existence; protected with life. Regurgitation from the same embodied mouth that an egg came from....

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Categories: instinctual, imagery, innocence, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Pain Short Story
I'm willing to bet you've never accepted the idea that pain can be enjoyed. Perhaps you've mildly entertained the notion, but never truly grasped it's fundamentals.  Well my dear reader,  we have much to discuss. ...

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© Bo Vigoren  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instinctual, death, horror, life, pain, philosophy, psychological, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Queen's Slippers - Part 1
Look at the eyes, windows of the soul.
Then the intent, link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc9En9WUzI8







"The Queen's Slippers - Part 1"




There is an owl it perches
on my heart
digs it’s talons in like
nine inch nails piercing
thick skin gone thin
it softly...

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Categories: instinctual, imagery, life, love, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Manimal
A legend dwells in the polar biosphere of isolation,
In the frigid nomadic country of Siberia,
Within the forests of mighty Russia, this is the realm
Of the Manimal.
It waits in the night, lurking amongst the shadows
Of the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instinctual, adventure, animal, halloween, history, holiday, horror, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Arrayveance


Lava pours to staunch a ruptured womb, green mists warn from the pit of one to walk from it, slick and groomed.

It is hard to believe we have to put up with this shat.
Where are...

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Categories: instinctual, art,
Form: Rhyme
Thru An Opened Bedroom Albeit Screened Window
Thru an opened bedroom (albeit screened) window...

Accessible twenty four hours a day
seven days a week,
fifty two weeks a year.

Spring 2022 Curtain call at
Highland Manor Apartments unit b44
framing Mother Nature nook
ever changing scene unfolds
analogous to storybook.

I...

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Categories: instinctual, adventure, america, animal, appreciation, april, beauty, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Miasma
I see the space between
Earth and Heaven
Maya and Brahman
As bubble film
I will metastasize through it
And become light

I am in an anteroom with God, He says
Oh the things that man could do with an orchestra
As much...

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Categories: instinctual, art, god, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Recreation of Me
I love this
   the bitterness
              that builds
tearing the cords
   to my heart
refreezing it
     ...

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Categories: instinctual, death, depression, introspection, lost love, love, parody,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Survivors and Warriors
I've been writing since sun up...lol  and it's awesome.  Everything I see, each picture, what I read, everything I train on, God supplies me with a poem. I also wrote another e-book, and...

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Categories: instinctual, appreciation, growth, happiness, heaven, identity, imagination, peace,
Form: Couplet
Theater of Utter Charm - Part 28
part 28

at least we know what to avoid in a civilization
hypnotism for one
and angst which merely resembles authenticity
by attempting to dissect the inconsequential
which boils down to the matter of
detecting the inconsequential in the first place
what...

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Categories: instinctual, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Lamenting Life Lost Before Mine Untimely Death
Lamenting life lost before mine untimely death

Last rays of wicked flickering candlelight
even to this present day 
(October 4th, 2023)
lxiv anniversaries marking birth
emotions of ambivalence self directed at me,
and family of origin diatribes still career,
within psyche...

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Categories: instinctual, 11th grade, 12th grade, 4th grade, 7th
Form: Rhyme
Oodles of Robins Harbinger of Spring This Brutally Cold March 5th 2021
Oodles of robins; harbinger of spring this brutally cold March 5th, 2021

Turdus migratorius -
otherwise known as robin red breast
jabbering Kon'nichiwa i.e. honorable guest
gather materials to craft nest
their beaks poking soft ground
regarding persistent quest
to sustain diet...

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Categories: instinctual, appreciation, beautiful, bird, creation, destiny, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Be Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Do we dare decide to come to the aid of the big bad wolf? 
Once upon a time wolves thrived from the Arctic Tundra to Mexico. 
Nevertheless, this species became nearly eradicated because of man....

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Categories: instinctual, animal, creation, environment,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Was it truly your choice to live in a world that fills you only with anger and sadness
Was it truly your choice to live in a world that fills you only with anger and sadness,
To drown in your silent fury and that of your comrades, until silence becomes a painful cry?
Did you...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instinctual, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Biological Clock Patented Before Seth Thomas Design
fertilization upon ovule 
   via spermatozoa automatically 
   gearing linkedin anticipated birth 
especially upon confirmation conception 
   did sex seed 
   after numerous attempts dispelled dearth

as probable...

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Categories: instinctual, abortion, destiny, identity, memory, race, time,
Form: Imagism
Photonic Participle


                  In the quiet whispers of dreams,
I dance with shadow's ebonescence,
as photonic particle - collider, 
photosynthesis derider, 
unveiling...

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Categories: instinctual, art,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Off the Path
You've stumbled off the righteous path, into the hushed
Wilderness of the unknown, beware for salvation's sake,
Go back nomad; travel not these paths of no return.
But nay this is the domain of the shades, little is
The...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instinctual, dark, halloween, history, holiday, horror, imagery, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Iii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (III)



Songstress
by Michael R. Burch

Within its starkwhite ribcage, how the heart
must flutter wildly, O, and always sing
against the pressing darkness: all it knows
until at last it feels the numbing sting
of...

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Categories: instinctual, animal, bird, extended metaphor, flying, nature, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Elephant
A rumbling sound does strike the ground, beneath the heavens,
The thundering finger tips of God, creeps across the earth itself.
Creation's lightening, announces their arrival, behold the mighty
Elephant bursting forth, grappling existence within it's ivory tusks.
Bend...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instinctual, africa, animal, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Vamperic Prayer-Dracula's Oath
In the name of blood, for it is the source of life itself,
Plasma's crimson essence of liquid infusion, to the undead's
Pulsating heart.
Intravenously feeding cravings passion, through the carotid
Artery at the throat of humanity, thou'st not...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instinctual, dark, evil, gothic, halloween, imagery, science fiction,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things