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Limericks Ii - Nature and Animals
Limericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot!"
Clyde Lied!
by...
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Categories:
sheathed, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot."
Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a dromedary
who...
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Categories:
sheathed, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Limerick
Erin
Erin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
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...
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Categories:
sheathed, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now Completed
Nemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
sheathed, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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Categories:
sheathed, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
A Kept Woman
Dream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
sheathed, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx
Sonnets LXXI-LXXX
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.
Because you...
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Categories:
sheathed, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form:
Sonnet
Modern Sonnets Ii
MODERN SONNETS II
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
sheathed, art, romance, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
sheathed, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Making Tea
It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness
Encountering myself at a passionate spring
oozing its life gliding o'er its rocky...
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Categories:
sheathed, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration, dad, daughter, mother,
Form:
Concrete
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle Nemesis - Part One
Nemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm...
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Categories:
sheathed, art, courage, creation, deep, evil, hero, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tale of Ancient Times
This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced naught save chivalry.
From the Pope a...
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Categories:
sheathed, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Requiem For A Motherless Child
The weeds have sheathed the garden from its care as more nails than wood appear of a house lacking adjectives. A sun liberated from scathing entrapment amongst an overburdened forest whose boughs are heavily laden...
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Categories:
sheathed, appreciation, black african american, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Oceanic Wedding of Sapphire Emotions
Amidst nocturnal blue naked confessions
of our intertwined souls, hearing the
mellifluous melody and symphony of
our ocean, lulling our inner child’s deepest
sapphire emotions in the depth of our
sensitive corners—a blue ecstasy, like...
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Categories:
sheathed, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Black Dahlia
A phantom beauty sheathed within a gown of utter darkness,
Stalks the lonely avenues of Los Angeles, seeking in vengeances
Revenge for her murder to bring him unto justice’s final damnation!
On the corner of thirty-Ninth Street she...
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Categories:
sheathed, america, grief, halloween, holiday, imagination, violence, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
I Promise I'll Try Not to Cry
Please sing me a song of love gone wrong
And I will weep in dreams while I sleep
For that's when I fear the cascade of tears
And melancholy brought on by such folly
Will you allow me to...
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Categories:
sheathed, cry, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
Cholla's Legacy
A diverse array of flora and fauna reign majestic
in vivid tawny imagery of shifting sand dunes
and barren rocks-- sixteen miles
from the golden rays of western tomorrow.
Time is played out in crucial moments of...
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Categories:
sheathed, america, appreciation, august, beauty, imagery, nature, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Lost Love Deliria - Part 2
Part 2
4th Delirium: Lost Souls
Sunken cities , pilgrims peering.. gawking,
squinting eyeballs, blazing sun
Janus facing, shepherds chasing.. stalking,
friends embrace before they shun
Tearooms steaming, tumult teeming.. talking,
lovers listen, poets pun
Broken stones unanchored, quaking.. rocking,
slipping, falling, one...
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Categories:
sheathed, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cannibal
In the night the wolves howl in the distance,
As the spring lambs bay, with the first stirrings of life,
Close lies the pack of humanity, those for whom hunger for the
Fresh taste of the blooding’s first...
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Categories:
sheathed, dark, fear, halloween, holiday, horror, imagery, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Want To Do
Written on: 7th September 2012.
Written by: Sashi.Prabhu (Zeauoxian)
Tons more I wish to do,
Much more I want to do,
Before I am laid on the pyre facing the sky deep blue,
Much more I wish to do……….
I want...
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Categories:
sheathed, inspirational, life, me, write, work, me, work,
Form:
Couplet
I Am Caspered
We met upon the stairs. In a brief moment of chance, I did not allow myself to be drawn away by other brighter, faster burning lights which held a momentary fascination and then flicker away...
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Categories:
sheathed, absence, best friend, corruption, courage, death, grief,
Form:
Free verse
The Aberdare Ranges Kenya
Dawn, when silence falters
And the trees of the range-
Are tucked in a bucket of fog
Marching dawn, whose beauty never alters,
I tuck myself in blankets like a log
At the Treetops Hotel upon the range
Dainty dreams...
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Categories:
sheathed, africa, mountains, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Ferret Legging
Ferret Legging
You never know what you’ll find on the net
Nothing much surprises me there and yet
I found a sport that takes no native skill
Just a strong pair of pants and a real strong will
Competitors’ trousers...
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Categories:
sheathed, animal, sports, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Not of This Earth
*Image of Child Sad Suffering provided by Pixabay.
Not Of This Earth
Poetic Form: Narrative
Asymmetric mistrals warp speckled vaporous pallidness toward rhythmless voids. Obviates an evacuating azure as a midday star pivots to a twilight qualm. Numinous...
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Categories:
sheathed, dark, death, earth, scary, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Bucket List of Wants
Tons more I wish to do,
Much more I want to do,
Before I am laid on the pyre facing the sky deep blue,
Much more I wish to do……….
I want to scale scary heights,
I want to bungee...
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Categories:
sheathed, adventure, dream, imagination, inspirational, introspection, life, passion,
Form:
Couplet