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Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
pitted, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
pitted, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiJuvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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Categories:
pitted, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
pitted, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
How Huxley Sees the World
"How Huxley Sees the World"
He composes his world -
dream extractions
simulated from
the surreal reality of man
colour cognitive from the dead moments
we phantomise to life in sleep
electric light colour bursts forth
from a perspective unique
a hare...
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Categories:
pitted, art, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
pitted, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Unwoven MemoriesI grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.
The boxers outnumbered the...
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Categories:
pitted, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Mine Psyche Riddled With DybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
pitted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Gloriously Luxuriating In Eternal SleepGloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...
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Categories:
pitted, age, angel, anger, angst, anxiety, autumn, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill ViolationsSevere surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations
Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting,
paradigm of mortality.
Since January first
two...
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Categories:
pitted, 12th grade, 1st grade, age, america, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No JokeMine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted
nor linkedin...
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Categories:
pitted, abuse, body, dark, family, food, grave, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorderThe monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder
As origin of Homo Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incremental fits and starts)
evolutionary forebears didst dread
Tom Tom Club former members
an American...
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Categories:
pitted, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety, atheist, environment, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh Mondseer the Muck Cob Brie Muenster SagaOh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga...,
which I can prov-olone huck curd
(within Trump con feta ration) – as cheesy poem!
Yea of course writing ideas unstoppably
burst asunder at the most inconvenient
opportunities such as...
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Categories:
pitted, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Doomsday Clock Minute HandDoomsday Clock minute hand...
hovers over 100 seconds to midnight
as of January 2022,
which apocalyptic prognostication
established by the Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists
maintained since 1947,
the clock quantifies a metaphor
for threats to humanity
from unchecked...
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Categories:
pitted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
pitted, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Book of RebeccaTHE LAST BOOK OF REBECCA
There did come out from the land of in between,
where no mind has ever been before,
the spirit of the space,
and it did say unto Rebecca
I have come to give you love...
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Categories:
pitted, abuse, addiction, america, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Blank verse
Coronavirus Microbe Covid19 BegatCoronavirus microbe (COVID-19) begat...
heebie jeebies couple months before March 15th, 2020
More'n three hundred and sixty six days ago,
a pandemic did devastatingly blow
across the webbed wide world
dark shadows spelled glow
bull horror seeds of hell show
did terrify...
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Categories:
pitted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anniversary,
Form:
Rhyme
Charles Schulz Peanuts Character WoodstockCharles Schulz Peanuts character Woodstock
Analogous to (being mine) security blanket
similar, but not identical
to the trademark one
clutched by Linus Van Pelt,
I take flight into sleep
courtesy holding fictional little yellow bird,
a mutual (of Omaha) best friend of...
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Categories:
pitted, 1st grade, 2nd grade, age, animal, best
Form:
Rhyme
Societal RantsPut your clothes on.
Being proud of your body only goes so far.
You’re 14.
Calm down.
Aren’t we supposed to be kids?
You’re trying not to be.
You may look 21, but you aren’t.
Why would you want to grow up?
He...
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Categories:
pitted, betrayal, confidence, for her, social, society, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993 Parts One and Two [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...
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Categories:
pitted, anger, friendship, may, words,
Form:
Elegy
Peggy Cahill Divine Heavenly LadyPeggy Cahill divine heavenly lady
Saint Vincent dePaul Food Pantry
at Saint Mary's Parish
in Spring Mount blessed,
graced, and praised
courtesy grateful recipient,
he who crafts these words.
Acknowledgement forthcoming today
June 11th, 2022
Matthew Scott Harris
expresses gratitude concerning largesse
regarding quite a...
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Categories:
pitted, adventure, angel, appreciation, beautiful, bible, blessing, community,
Form:
Free verse
Acknowledgement Forthcoming Today February 8th, 2022Acknowledgement forthcoming today February 8th, 2022
Matthew and Abby Harris
express gratitude concerning largesse
regarding quite a few bags of comestibles
plus two twenty five dollar gift cards
applicable at Giant supermarket.
After myself and the missus
(courtesy friendly youngish gal)
beckoned, motioned, and...
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Categories:
pitted, angel, blessing, devotion, february, giving, heaven, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King JuniorThe revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the revered Martin Luther King Junior
honored as benevolent demigod figure
to...
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Categories:
pitted, abuse, age, america, angel, appreciation, birthday, black
Form:
Free verse
Coronavirus Microbe Covid 19Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19)
(alternately titled: yours truly doth mutter
asthma bowled dug gutter
pin yon hated chap strikingly and gently weeps,
whereby melts milquetoast like butter.)
Aye reckon eyes aforementioned
entitled microscopic organism
doth strain credulity threatening
Homo sapiens...
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Categories:
pitted, 11th grade, 12th grade, beautiful, husband, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
Honey's Light, Gold and Mahogany - HomeDad looking at that weatherboard house, Old Tooters home,
A thrifty man.. us to him did his brother send,
Saying that the place could do with a mend;
The roof had red patches of pitted rust, the cost...
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Categories:
pitted, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose Poetry