Long Mirthless Poems

No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...

telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...

here where you have...

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I'm a very picky guy, getting involved 
With my quality quantity 
Oh oh look at how I have evolved
It's fantastic that it's reality 
It's not a fantasy alone
And God answered His phone
No longer on my...

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V

Indeed, it is so far, far, far back where last I
Stood in sight of all her unnerving ambiguities...          
This overstated manner inborn of an innate
And intimidating...

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These are poems about shadows, poems about darkness, poems about shades in the form of ghosts and spirits...



Shadows
by Michael R. Burch

Alone again as evening falls,
I join gaunt shadows and we crawl
up and down my room's...

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These are poems about shadows and shadowy things...

Transplant
by Michael R. Burch

You float, unearthly angel, clad in flesh
as strange to us who briefly knew your flame
as laughter to disease. And yet you laugh.
Behind your smile, the...

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A languorous morning 

Nestled in between warm duvets, a goose feathered pillow or two…a luxury 
A striped kitten, a beautiful shade of grey, on a windowsill grey too; purring, gentle breaths, authenticity so appealing
A glass...

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The slash that is the roll of clouds
                           ...

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"Quesions for God"
CONTEST

There I was, missing her,
As she was lost somewhere in the snow,
The dead of winter encompassed her,
      -slowly passed into oblivian.

There are no words to convey, 
These inert...

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Written: September 06, 2023
I dream poetry                             ...

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I have condoned myself to suicide
To death
To feel acceptance, the burge of pain, enlightenment
All with immediacy 
As if i was but a figment of a whorish imagination 
I often find myself the stranger among the...

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Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage, then nisus,
The brittle and mirthless smile on his face were pathetic,
A nonaged;
Amputated and broken with a heart big but beats quiet,
Suddenly, he sighed deeply, from a kind...

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I danced with death for a moment,
Dressed in a sheik metallic guise.
In the absence of life's petty presence,
Death spoke freely for a while.

In daily struggles, humanity forgets
The joke of life in his mirthless glee;
Bending low,...

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A twinkle in her eyes tonight 
evokes the thought that they invite,
though I recall, not long ago
my absence seemed more apropos.

The laughs that linger on her lips
bare more than many verbal slips -
the times they...

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It started with a single thread,
something, someone once had said
something, for which I still felt dread
something, that I'd long thought dead

This thing, that would not leave my mind,
this thing, so mirthless and unkind
a mote in...

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Securely bound within these the shackles of darkness!?

Submerged aneath their versions mirky waters 

Swirling inside merely moments, left afore drowning....

Consciousness slipping away as thoughts of life

Drift through his mind this, colophons final touch

Highlighting every link...

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At age three she was the baby who couldn't feel afraid
A life track was set out, just the way she was made
They tested her at eighteen, with images of blood and gore
No galvanic skin response,...

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*****LETS TOSS A COIN*****
Whenever we flip a coin, we always know the side that we hoping for
But every story has a two side
And so is life
But we always consider one side that we like
And forget...

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SALVATION ACCORDING TO FAITH


“Help, help!”, I shout out loud, in fear.
‘HELP, HELP!’, echoes of my voice I hear.
Over and over, impinge in my mind
Closer and closer, it gets so near.
Louder and louder my cries, my...

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Written: January 09, 2024
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Seen through a sepia scale
Drab grief, of hiemal cradle
mirthless, a desolate land
shrouded in frozen doldrums,
amid...

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In the corner café across from the sea
he sits alone reading his book
Thinking of love while drinking his tea
and memories of chances he never took
Her name resonates gently 
recalling moments,
of cheek touched whispers 
yet hands...

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En  mar sin olas,
          sin peces,
          sin mareas,
        ...

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I use to hike through Flankers’ un-cobbled street
                       With easel and canvas hawking...

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There are people who make up misguiding lies,
use words to hurt, wound and paralyze,
they put up'walls or mountains to the skies,
of unscalable heights and unmeasurable size.
 
They set us adrift on a windless wave,
to spew...

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Spirited meeting, don't faint
Real or surreal, it is momentary, as cannot stay long on the same plane
Want to protect from mirthless life's winding chimes
Only if it was easy as mending the book's spine
Rarely lurking demons...

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Drowning in a mirthless salty ocean of pitch black memories




Your chromophobic soul punctured with vibrant cobalt blue scars




Your bloodycrimson tears painted with dull shades of smiles and stories




My yellow sunshine veiled by the drowning ache...

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