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My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of Tribulation
I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside

My tears are diamonds in...

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Categories: like a bird, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member That Long Evening
When you came to me...

Not that you wanted me.  Oh, no!  It was I who wanted you,
Your comfort... your caring... your
... compassion, your compassion...
Your body, beautiful and young, perhaps that as well at...

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Categories: like a bird, feelings, lost, thank you,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Icarus
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?

Only a...

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Categories: like a bird, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Native American Translations
Native American Translations

Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...

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Categories: like a bird, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form: Free 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: like a bird, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Salat Days
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch 

(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)

I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...

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Categories: like a bird, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

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



Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...

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Categories: like a bird, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”

That man built a house 
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -

all consuming the titled prize;

like a bird 
sings a song
the metre repeats and...

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Categories: like a bird, muse,
Form: Narrative
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021 

No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days, 
when oral blight smote 
left...

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Categories: like a bird, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A World Without Pity
After wishing me a good morning, he said that it was all set,
It was time to raze the house, even though I wasn't in debt!

But they wanted to build a big highway, exactly in this...

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Categories: like a bird, adventure, fantasy, home, lost, time, world,
Form: Couplet
Odder Than Odd Itself
Where did you go?
I want you to know
That I love you so, 
But I got to get up and roam
Due to being far from home 

Oh, I hear them...and feel them...

I hear the echoes of...

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Categories: like a bird, angst, anxiety, beauty, crazy, depression, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
From Sunday School To Monday Morning
Once again I tip the scale
And mutter, whoever invented it was a man from hell.
It was not a woman who created weights for size
For women can look past the outer shell
And search deep for what...

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Categories: like a bird, art, history, love,
Form: Ballad
Kismat
Over yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
With footfalls that loom, a sweet scented voluptuous sound
Which gently strike...

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Categories: like a bird, beautiful, encouraging,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In the obsidian abyss, I melt, feeling the warmth that embraces me
In the obsidian abyss, I melt, feeling the warmth that embraces me,
Awaiting the flight deep within me, a dream without any hope to measure.
Beside my own self, inseparable in this boundless world,
In an eternity without...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: like a bird, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Catharsis of Clown
Since I first put on the greasepaint, smooth as cream on morning toast, they said I had a gift for making people laugh. Natural as breathing. Effortless as falling. Born to perform like a bird...

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Categories: like a bird, inspiration, joy, pain, smile,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines
This year's Halloween edition....





"Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines"



There approaches 
One

Light bringer
rides a dead pony

albino 
red eyed, no gun

or so 
the story goes

pale 
as death

hear its 
Netherworld neigh

beetles 
dig deep 

pigeons coo 
novocained

ignorant 
messages fixed

dull...

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Categories: like a bird, halloween, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Echoes of the Heart
~Echoes Of The Heart.~
                               ...

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Categories: like a bird, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Racing Thoughts - All For Naught
My mind is as hollow as the dead of night
My spirit is dancing out of cheer and fright 
My soul is shattering because I’m too late
To talk about what’s on my mind these days– 
In...

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Categories: like a bird, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, grief, hope, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Silkworm's Birthday
"The Silkworm’s Birthday"





Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast 
Drops one feather for a quill, a song hidden in a laugh, no bitter pill
magic never rests, like a crystal...

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Categories: like a bird, chicago, grandchild, imagery, love, mother daughter, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken Dream
BROKEN DREAM

At any time in your life, did your dream of whom
you wanted to be when you grow up came true?
Or it did not and at this time in your life you
are thinking what it...

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Categories: like a bird, dream,
Form: Free verse
My First Ever Mistake
The mistake I had never expected,
I did it without getting into awareness
Of how it would react.
Lacking that girl in me is like lacking
Of soul in my lonely body
Honestly speaking, she is my helm,
Stark, she is...

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Categories: like a bird, 10th grade,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Infodemic Rant
conspiracy theories usually hide ...
       in the shadows .. but as Covid spreads
         across the globe baseless opinions and 
 ...

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Categories: like a bird, anxiety, death, health, world,
Form: Free verse
Praying Away the Pain
I bow down and pray
That I’ll see the light of day someday
When will I ever be free?
I cry out to you, baby
That I’ll see the light of day, we’ll see
Today, I feel dismay

Darkness forms in...

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Categories: like a bird, hope, hurt, loneliness, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Night of Shadow, Poe, House of Usher's Bloody Dust
From my new Blog, 
Tales From The Dark Book Of Poe, Oct 23rd,1977 as was written, after midnight clock struck its blackest hour.
Blog Posted:6/11/2020 2:30:00 PM
Blog, Tales From The Dark Book Of Poe,  Oct...

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Categories: like a bird, creation, dark, dedication, fantasy, horror, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Your Love Is Like
Your love is like a river peaceful and deep, 
like a secret I just can’t keep, like the shearing of a sheep,
like taking a leap, like my hand falling asleep, your love is like 
the...

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Categories: like a bird, crazy, husband,
Form: Rhyme

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