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Poems About Poems Vi
Poems about Poems VI

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.

The...

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Categories: precariously, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Snow Queen Tale
Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE

silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from

the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.

winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.

the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.

her smile warms
the...

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Categories: precariously, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Free Verse Iii
Salve
by Michael R. Burch

for the victims and survivors of 9-11

The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,

sometimes we still touch,

laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...

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Categories: precariously, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form: Free verse
A Night On a Wharf
A Night On A Wharf

The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...

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Categories: precariously, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure
[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
  a quantum cellar creating
  the very big...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precariously, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form: Verse



Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
Long 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: precariously, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form: Rhyme
Harboring Hate
Verse 1: Hating can hurt...taking off my shirt 
Fading can make you feel like dirt 
Sometimes, I feel beautiful and high as a kite
Other days, I feel like a cow patty on the ground...you love...

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Categories: precariously, betrayal, cute love, deep, depression, desire, destiny,
Form: Lyric
Soon Be Done
I woke up this morning feeling quite relaxed 
Even though the night was rough my sleep was enough
I picked up my jug to fetch some ice from the hotel restaurant
So I stopped at the front...

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Categories: precariously, appreciation, celebration, confidence, courage, culture, encouraging, love,
Form: Narrative
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...

Oddly enough even 
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping 
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...

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Categories: precariously, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale By A Wishing Well 
  (In The Wastelands Of War)

Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...

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Categories: precariously, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zeitgeist
competing cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
  hominins humming mostly human song
  altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
  opportunistic, never staying long

  self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
  real representative intelligence
  modelling...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: precariously, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form: Verse
Around Me
I woke up this morning form a puss nap to face the miserable day screaming in my back, I turned around to see who it was but I did not see anyone and suddenly my...

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Categories: precariously, beauty, character, cheer up, chocolate, community, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Mellow Tenderness
I have such sentimental devotion
My eyes are an outlandish ocean 
Wish I had positivity's pure potion
Pleasure and pain got me feeling my sad notion
Of what I've become - the chosen 

I don't know what to...

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Categories: precariously, angst,
Form: Free verse
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder
The 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: precariously, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety, atheist, environment, history,
Form: Rhyme
Existentialism Emancipation Proclamation Manumission
Existentialism emancipation proclamation manumission...

Flourishes amidst freedom 
once invisible (alice in) chains shucked
when soul no longer kept linkedin 
to jane's addiction 
with corporeal duty, entity, fealty... 
while formerly shed body electric 
gendered as former googly eyed...

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Categories: precariously, allah, angel, appreciation, atheist, birth, body, death,
Form: Free verse
Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win
Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...

for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of the game
of thrones breaking apart ramparts
of inalienable rightful
freedoms rent sunder, whereby nothin
can stop...

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Categories: precariously, america, angst, anxiety, business, conflict, culture, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife - Deux
Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux

Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal 
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly 
ricocheting axon to neuron
inducing inxs of chaos 
wreaking entropy beheld 
by beauty and the beast
enveloping...

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Categories: precariously, absence, allah, angel, atheist, creation, death, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
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: precariously, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
Vice President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 2024
Uncertain if my one man pep rally appeals to thee most amazing, daring, grueling... youngest aspirant to restore Earth in the balance predicated upon uncomfortable truth. The old geezer here would be over the moon...

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Categories: precariously, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, business, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Wheat and the Tare
They crept upon our shores eating away the inner core
They crept upon our shore knocking on our barricade doors
Tall stout men with peevish eyes and strange looks on their white faces
Invade our quarters looking for...

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Categories: precariously, community, conflict, confusion, death, desire, violence, western,
Form: Narrative
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 13th 2022
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022

Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil curse,
butta I avoid tempting him 
courtesy fanged...

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Categories: precariously, america, change, confusion, history, light, march, morning,
Form: Rhyme
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since
August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...

Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason: 
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia. 

August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...

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Categories: precariously, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Wicked Bad Designed Day
(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey  
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia 

August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one still sending hair raising shivers down my spine
which following unpleasant...

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Categories: precariously, abuse, adventure, angst, good friday, grave, mom,
Form: Free verse
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 14th 2021
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 14th, 2021

Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil,
(albeit harmless) look
regarding feeble effort I undertook.

Don't forget...

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Categories: precariously, adventure, confusion, evil, good night, hello, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Inspection Took Place February 17th, 2023
Inspection took place February 17th, 2023...

At 1330 hours (indicated
courtesy notification slipped under door
less than twenty four hours)
hence foretold ill fate
by property (crooks and quade) management
the head honcho zaftig, wanker,
(who replaced the warden)

and Rich (BOLD FACE...

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Categories: precariously, adventure, america, anger, anniversary, anxiety, crush, fate,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things