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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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on a roll to be, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary CuisinesYours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...
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on a roll to be, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will II often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…
Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...
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on a roll to be, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, faith, hope, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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on a roll to be, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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on a roll to be, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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on a roll to be,
Form:
Abecedarian
Two Lovers V - Convenience StoreShe looked at him concerned
"Oh my God, we forgot the buns!"
A barbeque happening
Guests arriving
Coals flaming
Food prepared
But nothing to put burgers on
For their housewarming
Hasty instructions and some cash
From his Lover and her roomies
Then he starts to...
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on a roll to be, first love, happy, relationship, romance, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Food glorious foodFood glorious food
Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...
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on a roll to be, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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on a roll to be, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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on a roll to be, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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on a roll to be, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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on a roll to be, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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on a roll to be, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Just Doin' My Translation JobIt's all frustratingly LeftBrain relativistic,
even nihilistic in its darker
ruminating
paranoid about chaotic outcomes form,
said Einstein's post-millennial ghost.
So its all synergetic fractal 4D equivalent SpaceTime,
said Fuller,
in co-arising nondual P = N(NP)/2 (0)-Core response.
Interesting you should...
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on a roll to be, creation, health, humor, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Adam and Eve - Part OneYear One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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on a roll to be, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd ThirdThis is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.
“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...
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on a roll to be, love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Heat LighteningHeat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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on a roll to be, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
The Bone Idol[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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on a roll to be, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Brain InjuryPain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears are always ringing with this...
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on a roll to be, america, anxiety, beautiful, lonely, mental illness, peace,
Form:
Free verse
The Story of My LifeI want to tell you the story of my life. I was born in a barn at dawn. There
were eight of us but I was the only one with spots. I was...
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on a roll to be, cat, life,
Form:
Prose
Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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on a roll to be, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
The Pied Piper From New York City - Part OneThe Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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on a roll to be, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
Hurt People Hurt PeopleFlirt with Whitney
Flirt with fear
Life is good
But I rather be anywhere but here
Body aches from pushing out tears
Driving on the road of life
Eyes is watery
So I can't steer
And I'm getting dizzy
Stomach very...
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on a roll to be, deep, depression, feelings, longing, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
Johnny the Fable SaplingEvening came and the Harvest Moon was about to rise,
little did Johnny know this night would bring him a surprise…
Johnny lived in a mushroom village with many folks just like him. He carried an over...
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on a roll to be, children, silly,
Form:
Narrative
Echoes of the Angel's FallenInvocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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on a roll to be, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic