Long Leaches Poems

City Skin

    A city can be so close, 
    enclosing, 
    familiar, 
    that it leaches into one’s soul,
    becomes...

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Sun Poem
by Michael R. Burch

I have suffused myself in poetry
as a lizard basks, soaking up sun,
scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light
he understands—when it comes, it comes.

A flood of light leaches down to his bones,
his feral...

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Twisting in the winds of pain
Hung by unseeing hands
Crying to the empty night
Hope has long since abandoned me
To desolation’s cold embrace
Find solitude in numbness
As what once brought happiness
Leaches away my joy
Regrets chase me
Across this barren...

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Lascivious Friends Amends

Coincidence, simultaneity, with a pinch of merriment
And convergence of moments, opened up this gate to hell 
(I had to open the door…didn't I ?…)
It was at their convenience, not mine
Cursed by fate, unwanted...

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Don Ask Me 'Bout Exacerbation Of Trumpeted "FAKE" News

The prez best get sent packing
     to Lake woebegone
forced to coexist amidst University
     of Pennsylvania Dutch
   ...

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after the dance we opened the doors 
dampness surrounded this place maroon drapes 
paisley patterns blinded my emotions license plates 
of james dean covered the pine paneling only in the back 

funny how a pair...

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I gave up on winning my mothers approval because I never received it, 
in doing so gave up on winning approval and set free of it,
I do not know what this win offers and thus...

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For fleeting fame, a chance to shine
Her need for love and acceptance overwhelming.
Casting out all values and decorum
Her thoughts focused on only the prize she seeks

For fortune and celebrity outweigh the moral dilemma
Her sense of...

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On a hazy day, in the mid of the jungle
through the dense rain forest, we trek;
Where astounding waterfalls spread smoke
and the various birds sing melodious jingles

Swaying lofty trees filter the sunlight,
cause the shadowy effect inside...

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Wise Postulations of Existance for The Damned

Solitude the pathway for self authentication
Interludes of what to say in the process of individuation
Attitudes of slow decay born from ill-considerations
Platitudes in early May about spring time commiserations

Various forms...

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She wails to your soul 
The coming of pain 
The black fairy appears 
Voice of the undead 
in the darkness 

Waking through the mind 
Piercing my inner most shell 
Bringing the death of you 
Pure...

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The demon spawns temptation in the minds of mortal men
Exposed is their dark desires, lifted from the pits of hell
Evil breeds in the fiery depths of Satan’s beastly lair
Seeds planted to grow in shadowed corners...

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Anonymity’s Red Carpet
                         by Odin Roark

Plush the red
Expansive the coverage
Bombastic the...

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>>>>>>>>God is the mass all of the ass , and the build up of everything around us.
    He is the wind and the waves.
    The razor that shaves, he...

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I sit here and wonder how this life went so amuck.
      Sometimes it has no meaning, just how often does it suck?
Your private life gets so invaded.
   ...

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Being the worlds chief of police
Is so overrated
With all that we do
And they all still hate us

We're only here 
To keep up the peace
Spread our name brand 
Of Democracy

If you don't love us
Then kindly leave...

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Politics! Politics! 
What a deadly 
game,making 
her victim early 
lame.Dear 
memories i 
recall there 
was but once 
an election,but 
present tell us 
of selection.
With eyes as a 
night owl ,we 
see men with 
ill mind...

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Pity her, the little lost girl
Naught but a child, stranded by love
Marooned on an island of her own devastation
Look at her, how confused she seems,
The loneliness staring from her hollow eyes
See the silent workings of...

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128270 is all that I am
Merely a number no longer a man
A decade of hope and honor and pride
This machine has no compassion inside

Our leaders, stockholder and managers entranced
Lay havoc on each of us worker...

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beauty for ashes
 in a deep forest of granduer
 nestled in a hollow grove
 voices coming from the Elms
 with painted pictures of light & love
 walk with me through the forest
 visit the habitation...

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"SATURDAY NIGHT ON THE TERRACE" 


run where there is only room 
to walk.
how else can you understand 
your strength?

put the possibilities up and 
create new steps.
the word will always be there
unlike the whores of the...

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Sometimes when I sink in my thoughts
I see the enchanting face of gone by years
In the wide open window of my heart
With my eyes blurred with gushing tears
 
When I take out my old albums...

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Dull Moments

I feel numb. 
My wits have been fried, at the ends... 
It happened, more than once. 
It was a little each time I watched the TV, 
and they talked about the "free". 
Who are...

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You’re wanting to laugh 
like a man insane,
jumping around
no thought to abstain,
pull yourself back 
watch what you do,
she ripped your heart out
did hand it to you,
grabbing your hair
kicking your head,
didn’t you hear 
the words shes...

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With animosity I endure each pain
Read each word as they describe disdain
Do not compare or look for blame
Distill yet comforts release the gain 
The outer world always preaches 
while villains they reign like leaches
Do not...

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