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My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of TribulationI’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
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 IcarusSouthern 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 TranslationsNative 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 XiJuvenilia: 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 DaysSalat 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 IPoems 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
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 ReimagineLong 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
A World Without PityAfter 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 ItselfWhere 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 MorningOnce 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
KismatOver 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
In the obsidian abyss, I melt, feeling the warmth that embraces meIn 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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Categories:
like a bird, bird,
Form:
Free verse
Catharsis of ClownSince 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
Pale Horse and the Yellow SubmarinesThis 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 NaughtMy 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
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
Broken DreamBROKEN 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 MistakeThe 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
Infodemic Rantconspiracy 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 PainI 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
Night of Shadow, Poe, House of Usher's Bloody DustFrom 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 LikeYour 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