Long Noughts Poems

Sonnets XVII-XXIV

Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch

The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...

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Oh wow. Oh great. Look over there. Quickly now. Come on. It is the mitigating migrating mammoth mansions. Brick by brick and bone by bone. In a line. Travelling. Traversing the plains, fields and mountains...

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Standing on a ridge a sight can be seen. The kettles were choosing a queen. Bouquets were bought for the waters within. For waters will want wonderful and wonderful it was. The chosen kettle was...

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Murmur no things
or strings of sounds...
Could not care less
more-ish whispers
were Wicked
Whips of Words-
Weighted.
Tongue- lashing sharp
fork- tine Torture.
Cat-0-nine-one-one-tales...
Thirty-nine...
Forty-less-one
thrashing...
thrashing...
Thrashing...!
                  ...

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images are slow to fade, where did they go? why were they here?
  pensive pen and ink, a gentle man of measure
  pipe-smoke wafting cool blue persevering pleasure
  cartoon humour designed with...

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I live in middle land between fuzzy bottom
and the high hazy skies
I peer down quantum wishing-wells, waves entangle
observed as they collapse
I scan beyond forever where dark matter lurks
in unforeseen disguise
I think I am, I blink,...

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The warmth of the ice cold snow.
Runs down my face and melts in my glow.
The sun is so far away the wind blows a chill.
My heart beats so hot it makes my body shrill.
No more...

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In a place, In another time was where it all initiated
A bombed out place with mixed climatic systems, Reinstated
But moving on in this place gave me a cerebral pulsation
For within and outside these boundaries, I...

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Fighting demons
Bursting bubbles
He's in my head
Among the rubbles
Seeing that most things get done
He works at it from moon till sun
He tilts at windmills only he can see
Please meet.... Don Quixote

My affliction
or my soul
hearing voices
takes its...

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Wipe away tears
Pouring from your aching heart
Whether in the present or in arrears
Cos letting tears depart

Paves the way for a brand new outlook
Away from dark thoughts
Where a somber spook
Trading in noughts

Creeps in wait
For souls who...

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There lives a girl named Aoibha
A clever, gifted writer
She has a sister, Lilly
A little ankle-biter
They're always close together
They're seldom far apart
They share all that they're given
Some say, they share a heart

While Lilly Rose, she picks...

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Sonnet: Second Sight (II)
by Michael R. Burch

(Newborns see best at a distance of 8 to 14 inches.)

Wiser than we know, the newborn screams,
red-faced from breath, and wonders what life means
this close to death, amid the...

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The Dye Area

I'm really glad that ewe dropped buy
Eyed love two come out and sea ya.
But Eye really hadn't oughta
cause eye got the diarrhea. 

It makes four long and dreadful daze
and even longer knights.
I'm terribly...

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"Improvised, Noughts and Crosses" 

points strung 
pearls lacking
wisdom scattered
poetically, 
of no large matter
rolling lost across a floor
stuck in the cracks
hidden in strange corners,
what do points matter;
when connected
unbroken, 
the creative heart
improvised united,
becomes beautiful 
more pure,
of some...

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REFLECTION

I'm left, now staring into the mirror's reflection
A face, showing the merest hint of resignation
What is to be, will be, as others may have said
Moving forward to tomorrow with a heavy tread
Securing the day's agenda...

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.    SUNDAYS  WITH  COLIN
We, are all a Binary Code,
Noughts  and Noughts, and ones and ones;
The beginnings, look like the end…
 and the ends, look ,
Like the same, as it...

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A message made all ones and noughts
Passing down wires, sharing our thoughts

Meeting people from so very far away 
People we couldn’t meet any other way

Making many friends new every single day
Taking on acquaintances come as...

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I met Elmo - he said your civilization is far behind,
you haven't even reached esp, you're just one kind,
there are new 'failsafes,' I can't read your sexual thoughts,
it's a new game now, it's all crosses...

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YESTERDAY’S WISHES

I had my life all mapped out
When young and fancy-free.
I’d play soccer and cricket for England
And the fans would worship me.
I would marry Mavis Watkins,
Who really appealed to me
So I fondly carved our initials
In...

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So quickly now
The fading years,
So brief somehow
The past appears.


So here we find
Nostalgia sting,
So there the mind
Can barely string.


So clearly brief
The passage here,
So telling grief
Can falter spheres.


So mark the mess
That time forgets,
So dump the trash
Of old...

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https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/draw-me

I stand so tall and slightly lean
The sharpest creature ever seen
My t-shirt boldly has a rose
I have a much lengthened nose
My stringy arms I wave and cheer
Yet I have just one small ear
My rounded mouth...

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I wonder if
You hear my thoughts
I love you
With a thousand noughts 

Invisible
Like a gentle breeze
Of affirmation 
Rustles trees

I wonder if
Within your dreams
Affection flows
As living streams

Of hope and joy
Into your mind
As eyelids flutter
Undefined

I wonder if
As night...

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