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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: retro, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Sweetest Gift, a Childhood Memory
My auntie came to visit when I was three, but nearly four.
    I proudly and lovingly wore her name gifted to me, a sweet legacy.
       I...

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Categories: retro, angel, childhood, love,
Form: Free verse
Devils Rhapsody in Blue

   


   Hypocrites sucking off the silicone tit 
of the antichrist spirit.
Man infestation from the pit of 
deliriot.
In hallowed halls of discord, whispers echo,
the chorus of the damned proletariat,
a venom, seeping...

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Categories: retro, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment

Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...

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Categories: retro, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Once Within a Moment
Once within eternal Time
a coffee ground
of full-spectral 
spacious consciousness,
Might sink in cold water cups

Yet rise to surface in warm oil sublime
joyously buoyant juice

Happiest to float atop
a hierarchy of divinely positioned selection
station
static inquisition

Yet again, 
to an...

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Categories: retro, analogy, earth day, health, integrity, power,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 1
The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein 
are entirely unsolicited, uncompensated and unexpurgated, 
representing the...

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Categories: retro, mythology,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Night I Fell Like Rain
You had that future retro look:  two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the taxi before it shot off to the right,
Who could have...

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Categories: retro, destiny, water, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Post Post Modernism
Post post Modernism

Who wants modernity in any case whether
                          ...

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Categories: retro, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Secret Drawer
This Time Last Month

A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.

Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:


"I got upset when I first heard 
this shop was closing...

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Categories: retro, business, family, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In My Deepest Fantasies
Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant  raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled rampant penchant,
for titanic exploit extraordinaire beyond dimension heftiness,
 a stimulant patently innocuous...

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Categories: retro, celebration, character, confidence, destiny, dream, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fashioned Fortitude
A mirror never reveals  
fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins;  
time unmutes raven melodies within,  
tawny tunes of truth~
   I once spoke in colorful dialects.  
Now, I trust just...

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Categories: retro, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Erotic Poems I
Erotic Poems I

Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch

Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.


Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained...

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Categories: retro, body, clothes, desire, love, lust, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
 dulcet melodies of 
  a deathless devotion, 
incised within...

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Categories: retro, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Fecal Folly of the Scheme of Things Puke Poetic, Sorry
OMG this is what I think as I am reading? 
thus pus poems and yes they stink
simple in word mire contrivances with 
rancid rhyme scheme redundants that
exude explanatory expectorants spouting 
word wormy willy wally whilst...

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Categories: retro, adventure, dedication, judgement, philosophy, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 21
how the  else you going to progress
if you don't Sherlock Holmes the mirror
look what we've become
men hunting each other
for sport money and babes
an insane ability to believe anything
and that's all there is to it
you...

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Categories: retro, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Mirror Marriage Unrequited Unplenty
Can u take boy me for what I am or do u need to fabricate an ego estrogen entity 
to fit yr fee fakemale forum in twat time present and id/ego absent intensity. Do tell...

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Categories: retro, dark, introspection, judgement, marriage, voyage, wife,
Form: Free verse
Tapeta Lucida
Walking through the glittering iridescent sea                             ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retro, adventure, beautiful, introspection, light, romantic, sea, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 24
what do you need to be told
to make you capable of pragmatic liberation
which could be the foundation to a new
assessment of the inevitable
darkness is our measure but never our limit
its manic prism reflects everything all...

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Categories: retro, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Riffs In Time
Two soldiers. One fancies himself a punk rocking soldier of fortune and the other, nicknamed hillbilly, because he lost his shoes, they plan a trip anarchist cookbookrecipe fear and loathingbeyond culture shock  We journey...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retro, addiction, america, crazy, culture, drug, environment, travel,
Form: Haibun
Unshackle My Verse: Cypher
The newest reality show, on Imagination Response Operations Network or                   (IRON)and it is called Reclamations and is...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retro, adventure, computer, evil, fantasy, freedom, inspirational, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jazz Alive
Spoken Word Poetry: JAZZ ALIVE

Man alive, and this ain’t no jive, I’m diggin’ on jazz to stay alive/
East Coast rhythms from the 50’s and 60’s, in the heart of the city, where the music breaths/
Up...

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© Tony Adamo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retro, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Errata I
Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!

***

Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch

Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.

***

Negligibles
by Michael...

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Categories: retro, crush, desire, funny love, giggle, hilarious, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Frigidaire -
 
oh hello-
my name is frigidair   and I am
a (retro) refrigerator
  for food
I have been in this apartment
      since 1950

a nice kitchen   but I cannot...

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Categories: retro, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost Causes Remastered
Santa Clauses were to be molten and reshaped into Holy Cross bunnies
		             on a mega 3D printer but then the app somehow went...

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Categories: retro, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Love I Seethe For My Sons
In my life thus far I have lived the following enhances of verbal helping experiences learned in 7th grade from Mrs. Aumond; Is am are was were be being been have has had do does...

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Categories: retro, analogy, caregiving, divorce, feelings, introspection, truth,
Form: Free verse

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