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Snapshots
Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch

Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.

Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.

There...

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Categories: primitive, divorce,
Form: Free verse



Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.

Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.



A Surfeit of...

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Categories: primitive, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Prescribing Rebirth To Dt2
DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my feminist work as ecotherapist--
so...

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Categories: primitive, birth, body, culture, health, humor, mental illness,
Form: Political Verse
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips

With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...

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Categories: primitive, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....

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Categories: primitive, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative



Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Punishment meted...

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Categories: primitive, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Unleashed
I got up this morning in a good mood 
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...

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Categories: primitive, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form: Narrative
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: primitive, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form: Verse
FICTIONAL BIO:
FICTIONAL BIO:

The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...

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Categories: primitive, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography 
qua zee mow toe natural formed...

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Categories: primitive, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon a Reservation
Back in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...

No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...

Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...

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Categories: primitive, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Defecation accidentally clogged
Defecation accidentally clogged...

for the umpteenth time 
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks 
on porcelain throne id est 
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to overflow onto the floor,
and hence found yours truly (me)
immersing himself...

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Categories: primitive, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing, december, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Last Trap of Zulaikha
Zulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird, 
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?

Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...

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Categories: primitive, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"



The Reptilians
war daily 
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges 
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts 
and oily palms
profiting from all 
the soft-boiled 
foxes on the run
cerebral cortex bound
thinking they are free-willed
and...

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Categories: primitive, horror, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words 
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...

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Categories: primitive, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternity's Viral Hourglass
That which is neutral,
no big deal,
normal,
not noticed,
enjoys an intimate mirror effect,
behaves and misbehaves
with the logic of eternity.

Time steers virtually clockwise,
eastern dawn toward west's setting sun,
birth through death,
with day's completion duskly hoping
for red skies at night.

Time...

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Categories: primitive, culture, destiny, environment, math, philosophy, psychological, religion,
Form: Free verse
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color  
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred. 

Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...

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Categories: primitive, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Long Way Home
It was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.

As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric designs,
Like the...

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Categories: primitive, fantasy, home, magic, people, school, spring, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times. 

She’s a queen who sees her lover...

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Categories: primitive, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
New Year's Eve 2022
New Year's Eve 2022

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022 
sequestered (with the missus) 
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd  
entertains reckons partition of time 
into...

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Categories: primitive, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form: Free verse
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon read reliable publications...

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Categories: primitive, abortion, abuse, america, anger, bereavement, emotions, history,
Form: Free verse
World Bleeders
World Bleeders (#777 words)


If you claim to be sane
in this crazy whirled we live
I pity the world in your domain
in that you forget to forgive
I think your normal is abnormal
You must be one of the...

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Categories: primitive, change, dark, death, earth, evil, political, world,
Form: Rhyme
As a mortal man of threescore and five years
As a mortal man of threescore and five years...

I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, or biography
that since the advent of Homo sapiens
avast number of civilizations
and their...

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Categories: primitive, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, humorous, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Softly Off-Colored Poem - 2
Poet's Pre-Notes: A poem from my 8th week in a Stanford continuing education class offered on the internet, a study of free verse and structure. The poem writing technique is to write as unconsciously as...

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Categories: primitive, life,
Form: Free verse
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
My nascent poetic tribute to black history month

more apropos and alternately titled: 
praise to thee people 
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancement of webbed wide world
worth more than paltry words
of yours truly can...

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Categories: primitive, 12th grade, adventure, africa, anger, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things