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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:
rectified, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
rectified, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets 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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Categories:
rectified, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Brownian Motion Writ Large
Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial
and endothelial cells, and although
there must be biological...
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Categories:
rectified, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, appreciation, business,
Form:
Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...
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Categories:
rectified, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Norwegian Bachelor Farmer Days I Never Lived
Norwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived
Woebegone and egg foo young on you
meaning me of course
sidestepping a crucial positive
electric kool aid battery acid test
prior to pledging troth,
and tying Gordian knot
to strangulation point,
never fending for myself,
nor...
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Categories:
rectified, adventure, america, appreciation, atheist, blessing, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Damn them computer hackers
Damn them computer hackers...
nothing but persistent
pesky sniveling, snot nosed
beastie boy buggers.
Data breach conundrum with Gmail rectified...
courtesy MacKeeper computer technicians
in tandem with the geek inside me,
who finally resolved elusive quandary
that befuddled and frustrated yours...
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Categories:
rectified, 11th grade, anger, betrayal, conflict, dark, grave,
Form:
Free verse
To My Super Souper Friends
Alot of you folks have been able to say what you feel this holyday season with exquisite
wording and beautiful sentiments. I can't do that. Maybe if I tell you a story about a
little...
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Categories:
rectified, friendshipteacher, me, write, class, autumn, city, class,
Form:
Free verse
Brownian Movement Writ Large
Akin to daffodils got to puff the magic dragon GoDaddy seed achieve
visibly absent pride and prejudice where aggrieve
ment unseen, as careening human bits believe
where forebears of Adam and the ants sandy dunes cleave
species pollination, yet...
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Categories:
rectified, adventure, age, allusion, conflict, confusion, humanity, myth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Flat Rocks
“Where are you going?” Teddy asked, breaking in our conversation,
between Bulldog, ‘Newy’ and myself and noticed with his observation,
that the words of Phillip Island had been mentioned by us three,
so he gathered that we’re fishing,...
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Categories:
rectified, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted
Ronald Rump reasonably roasted
Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety
rambling reverence regarding “r.”
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled -
rickettsia re:itch ruler.
Rapaciously ravaged
revered reverential rubric.
Radical ruthless renegade
rapidly riotously ripped rigged ramparts.
Refrained retaining remnant
redolent...
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Categories:
rectified, 12th grade, america, betrayal, december, grave, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Another Yes
One time I asked myself what's so hard about being a child of Christ?
is it because I have to fight against the devil everyday of my life?
is it because I'm now saved and living sanctified?
or...
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Categories:
rectified, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, life, uplifting, god,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler.
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric.
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts.
refrains retaining remnant redolent regal, resplendent rafters.
riches rudely rupture rooted rectified rights.
ruckus ricochets revenant...
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Categories:
rectified, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy, funny, imagination, lost,
Form:
Alliteration
Frangible Ego Abysmally Copes
Unrelenting blitzkrieg deadly
assault upon psyche
pounded defenseless
vulnerable mindscape accustomed
to shelter within aproned crease
mama proffered manna, especially
when untethered meek docile lad
subjected to blistering hellfire
infamous hoodlums wantonly unleashed
verbal bombardments lobbing poison
spear tipped invisible blackened barbs
manifold times more agonizing
piercing,...
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Categories:
rectified, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 7th
Form:
Bio
Submersion Connections
Submersion Connections
The water heaved and sighed with the gathering force of self while
the tug positioned to push, pull, hold.
The mammoth engineering marvel,
rose like the Phoenix with the grace of Shamu,
antenna first
then bridge
finally the deck
The round...
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Categories:
rectified, introspection, mental illness, relationship, romance, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Do You Have My Back
Do You Have My Back? (Loyalty)
Earn my trust
Earn my allegiance
Allegiance professes commitment
Allegiance is pure dedication
Dedication proper and steadfast
Dedication allows peace of mind
Mind not at ease when lacking
Mind needs constancy
Constancy denotes dependability
Constancy communicates so not to...
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Categories:
rectified, confidence, devotion, faith, feelings, friendship, relationship,
Form:
Blitz
B.R.E.A.K.(Bad Relationship Enters a Koma) Part 2
Until I had a nightmare and things got vile
It was you running from me on our wedding day
I yelled out baby please come back this way
For weeks that scene bothered me
Then my trust for you...
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Categories:
rectified, devotion, forgiveness, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost loveme, love, me,
Form:
Rhyme
A Force of Its Own
Does it make you happy? Or perhaps
it excites you? To want the
unavailable and to love the un-
lovable. To feel the way you feel for
those that feel nothing for you. You’re
such a...
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Categories:
rectified, desire
Form:
ABC
Role-Model
When I was called little brother,
I smiled.
It meant I have an elder sibling.
One from whom I could learn,
To discern,
Between Light and Dark.
What about the Grey?
Only a few would about the grey;
Enquire.
Even fewer,
Perhaps...
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Categories:
rectified, character, community, conflict, courage, father, feelings, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink of symphonic symphonies yearning to break free, dancing like ethereal...
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Categories:
rectified, community, friendship love, imagery, poems, poetry, tribute,
Form:
Spoken Word
Through the Cracks
12/15/22
Among a society
Obsessed with notoriety
I get occasional anxiety
Can't always find privacy
Still a battle with sobriety
A drawn out process or soon to pass
Continual polluted gas
Another disillusioned ass
Followed by yet again brutal acts
I'm always falling through the...
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Categories:
rectified, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Sicuti Est Naturae
English Translation
BOOK 1
Proem
Nature, as one to another it seems bad omens,
envois, at entering at this stage of preliminary
dictates our way of thinking, worship saddens;
He, who follows many years, having mastered
what can only be dedicated once...
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Categories:
rectified, 3rd grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Table of Contents
Alone in a room,
alone within eminent doom.
I simmer so deep in saturation
that I forget that isolation happens in extended duration.
For the sake of direction, I reference past chapters
to avoid tried and true mistakes and...
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Categories:
rectified, absence, appreciation, best friend, black african american,
Form:
Political Verse
Got Any Ideas For a Poem
Got Any Ideas For A Poem?
Ha! That catch phrase
(kid ding lee writ)
hoop fully goat yar attention
truth be told, (no...no...
no...not by...
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Categories:
rectified, 11th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Time and Tide Will Not Wait
Time ticked until the stroke of ten
before descending its wrath on men
And at that hour it escaped its cage
Pendulum chiming with total rage
Humans are in chaos as they await
time to restart. In its...
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Categories:
rectified, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme