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The Injury of Fury~~**This poem is super long, but it took me hours to write. I hope you all enjoy reading this as I have enjoyed writing it wholeheartedly.**~~
Awful anger expressed in verses
Didn’t give me blessings, but curses
I’m...
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Categories:
later(a), anxiety, courage, deep, depression, desire, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
We Against the WorldI have this faith deep inside that my Father, my beloved Father, can mend my broken dreams
There's a purpose for us being on Earth
It serves us well to be good examples for the future Kingdom
We...
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Categories:
later(a), deep,
Form:
Lyric
Poetically Pathetic CrowJust enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
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Categories:
later(a), lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
later(a), father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
later(a), addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
later(a), memory,
Form:
Prose
Live 2 B U{intro}
(Whisper) mmmmhmmm
Turn me on by your tranquil, no-drama-no-trauma tune
It will be noon soon,
My sweet maroon moon
Don't panic, maniac of mine...you're swimming in your lament lagoon
Ohhhhh...
Please
Hear me out
At ease,
I hear your victory shout!!!
Ooooo I-I-I-I...
{verse...
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Categories:
later(a), angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, fear, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
later(a), 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
later(a), absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
later(a), abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
later(a), america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Blue Sky, Why
"Blue Sky, Why?"
stories speak to us.
inside our heart
is crying.
Blue Sky, Why?
why do children
holding sunflowers
watch their parents die
why do sweet children,
now war torn,
some the battle's orphans,
daily lose their lives
lying in their sick beds
bombed in...
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Categories:
later(a), courage, humanity, leadership, light, peace, truth, war,
Form:
Narrative
The Only Northern Northern StarAs winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
later(a), africa,
Form:
Ode
Poems of Recanted BachelorhoodPoems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
*
Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
*
What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
later(a), desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Yellow Winged AngelI.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness,
without want to weep and moan,
He was dreaming among heartless
building cloud castles alone.
He was waking up...
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Categories:
later(a), abuse, angel, angst, philosophy, solitude, yellow,
Form:
I do not know?
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
later(a), age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
later(a), 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
later(a), desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
later(a), muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To EarthRaisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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Categories:
later(a), cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
State of the Art IiiState of the Art (III)
These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work.
Come Down
by...
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Categories:
later(a), art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Starting With BeginningsLeft:
Let's start at the beginning
of your ecotherapeutic day.
I'm talking today with Fr. Time,
Earth's only fully self-ordained ecotherapist,
and recently published author of
"Journals of MotherEarth."
We have no corporate sponsorships to report,
although we are for sale
especially if you're...
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Categories:
later(a), gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, perspective,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Poems About Poems IPoems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
later(a), creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
ErinErin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
later(a), ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
later(a), poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme