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Premium Member Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...

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Categories: lay down, western,
Form: Rhyme



Poems About Dogs
Poems about Dogs

This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.

This simple recognition gives my...

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Categories: lay down, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Forever
“Forever”



When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the 
labyrinthine trail 
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...

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Categories: lay down, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Various Heresies 3
Various Heresies 3

Breakings
by Michael R. Burch

I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.

But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...

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Categories: lay down, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form: Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
Juvenilia: 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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Categories: lay down, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form: Rhyme



A Wisp of Thought
There was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...

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Categories: lay down, beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER

Please.  Stop holding back on me.

Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.

I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...

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Categories: lay down, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
 A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
                         ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay down, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Jesus gave up his life that we might live
????John 10:14-15 NIV??
[14]  “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— [15] just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life...

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Categories: lay down, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 7
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A new day begins and new promises made
The child guiding his way
Finally warmed he seemed less afraid
As through the snow they slowly made headway
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     “Who is this child?” he whispered to...

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Categories: lay down, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...

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Categories: lay down, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form: Narrative
Apocalyptic Poems I
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...



The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch

“Dust to dust ...”

I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...

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Categories: lay down, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Medical Madness
https://gigglespoet.com/#jp-carousel-66   My scars from a misdiagnosis are my armor 

Lord, old memories plague me in the darkness 
And as they rear their ugly head 
They only remind me of all that I've lost...

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Categories: lay down, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, birth, courage, endurance, faith,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Reflection of Your Crown
Ahhhh ooooh ohhhh mmmm hmmmm 

I was Insecure...impure...
Liberty is a miracle cure...
Endure till the end of time
Time with You was so sublime 
I'm a sinner, I admit it
I lied to get the truth I can't...

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Categories: lay down, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric
Sick Art
"Sick Art"



I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys 

I am a ghost
of my former self

ears lent to hear 
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...

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Categories: lay down, dark, horror, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In My Beautiful Balloon
With summer nearly gone, we all wanted to do something special,
And decided it should be daring, rather than the usual and dull.

So, we listed the things we desired to do, but hadn't yet tried,
And we...

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Categories: lay down, adventure, beauty, fantasy, lost, miracle, nature, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member To Speak of Women
Men ...
  Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
    That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
      As if ANY man ever had...

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Categories: lay down, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Have Faith - the Egg Timer Style
~ Have Faith ~
( Egg Timer )


Just trust in the Lord
Have Love Faith Hope
Enjoy Peace
Always
Too
Too
Always
Enjoy Peace
Have Love Faith Hope
Just trust in the Lord

~0~

Believe in God
Love with all heart
Worship Praise Pray
To Him
Too
Too
To Him
Worship Praise Pray
Love with...

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Categories: lay down, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 1
Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have complex arcs
There’s some risk here I might have to work...

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Categories: lay down, anxiety, crazy, fun, funeral, holocaust, humorous, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In His Image - the Acrostic Style
~ In  His   Image~
(Acrostic)


In his image  He’s created us all
New things, are  all  possible in His Holy name

He’s our Father. He watches from Heaven
Indeed, He deserves  all the...

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Categories: lay down, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Troll
‘An interesting guy I think,’
People might say on meeting you for the first time,
Oh yes, I’ve come to know you too well.
Thank God for the Internet,
Although there are bodies in your wake,
And stench follows you...

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Categories: lay down, evil,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member We Claim This Decree To Be Binding Forever a True Decree-1
We make this Decree before the Ascending Angels and Descending Angels! Power and Glory for our beginnings the heavens and the earth called one Faith one Lord one traveled road to bring the Power and...

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Categories: lay down, appreciation, community, dedication, family, mental health, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As sheep that have wandered
??1 Kings 22:17 KJVAAE??
[17]  And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master: let them return every...

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Categories: lay down, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Grandma's Gifts
When Grandma died, I found some things

                         Gifts midst tears that...

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Categories: lay down, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peach Drenched And Tanterlizing Irasistable
My receptive wide adoring eyes rested within the ambient light and bathed in The Shadoe and shade of the scene
Where before me a paragon of sublime refined  beauty 
So sensually seductively and arousingly delightful...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay down, appreciation, desire, dream, fantasy, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Romanticism

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