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Emo Love
With this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...

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Categories: puzzled, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member 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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Categories: puzzled, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form: Epic
Premium Member 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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Categories: puzzled, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
Sonnets LXI-LXX

Erin
by Michael R. Burch

All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,

her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,

the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...

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Categories: puzzled, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form: Sonnet
See
See
by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...

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Categories: puzzled, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form: Sonnet



The 996th Poem
Fulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...

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Categories: puzzled, beauty, change, corruption, courage, crazy, deep, writing,
Form: Free verse
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.

Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...

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Categories: puzzled, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form: Free verse
No Umbrella
There is always something to write about
I don’t know what you are talking about
There is always something to write about
So take out your pen and spell it out
I was trying to book a ticket for...

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Categories: puzzled, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, business, creation, rain, seasons,
Form: Narrative
Social Privy
justice 

What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you? 

Too what ends? 

May we seek? 

Who(m) may guide us? 

Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)

Debated and glorified by us all 

Beloved; instilled among (a) core...

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Categories: puzzled, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Know Thyself
Know Thyself
(one of the two Delphic commands of Apollo)



For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                  ...

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Categories: puzzled, god, me, world, voice, creation, fear, me,
Form: Elegy
Spring Festival


   Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance 
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced type interpreted-
interpreter-embossed embol-
in...

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Categories: puzzled, beautiful, god, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Visit to Heaven


                             I dreamed I went to heaven,

...

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Categories: puzzled, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                          ...

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Categories: puzzled, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Daughter of Gibraltar
For a few coins Melord, I'll tell a story of two that met in this place, 
and here you can take your rest, and leave sumpter to graze in the tall grass.

I payed the old...

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Categories: puzzled, angst, giving, love, poverty, song,
Form: Epic
King of the Castle
The King of the Castle 



Said I’m but a child
Afraid of the world outside 
Afraid to run wild and to  be proud
Of the freedom it provides
Afraid of love 
Afraid of the dark 

Said you...

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Categories: puzzled, betrayal, corruption, depression, evil, lost, memory, mental
Form: Narrative
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated 
upon...

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Categories: puzzled, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 58
When they came to a side hall Joulupukki stopped.
     “Do you feel the magic?”  He said to her.  She nodded.  He stepped around the corner, on the far...

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Categories: puzzled, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Sandless Sand Castle
The Sandless Sand Castle

Let me tell you about my eldest brother.

I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: puzzled, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
In the Arms of Peace-Abiding Angels
I don’t know what I know
I fly like an eagle – just go with the flow!
I don’t know what I know
I don’t know what you’re thinking about 
But I can tell you’re puzzled in your...

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Categories: puzzled, adventure, angel, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 50
Morning came quickly and Joulupukki, Dyndoeth, Lumi and Gwaldon met with Ceridfen as she fed them a light morning meal.  None of the young ones were out of bed yet.  As the sun...

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Categories: puzzled, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Three Tribute Poems, Composed By Me, For Longfellow Blog
Three Tribute poems--  composed by me,

For Longfellow blog….

(1.)

Glory Of Faith's Triumphant Golden Crowns



The rays of morn took their first golden breath

Dispersing powers of night's darkling mists

First gleams romancing sweet the earthen shores

Beating back dark...

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Categories: puzzled, art, creation, dedication, deep, humanity, life, philosophy,
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: puzzled, fantasy, home, magic, people, school, spring, time,
Form: Couplet
Session 3: Tech Support Notes From the Missing File and Mushroom Soup Case
The Almost Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent Tech God Oisin
Session 3: Tech support notes from the messed up file and mushroom soup case

“Hello this is Oisin. How may I help you?” Oisin says in his polite business...

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Categories: puzzled, humor, satire, technology,
Form: Prose
Anything For a Laugh
I’ve always been a prankster and a lover of a joke.
I love to see the puzzled look on an unsuspecting bloke,
when he looks around and lifts his hat - totally confused.
Some take a joke for...

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Categories: puzzled, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Children Vi
Poems about Children VI

Playmates
by Michael R. Burch

WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far...

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Categories: puzzled, child, childhood, children, love, school, teen, youth,
Form: Rhyme

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