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Halloween Poems
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
shrink from, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Fahr An' Ice
Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
shrink from, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
It's Halloween
It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
shrink from, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire Poem
Vampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
shrink from, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
Unquotable Quotes:Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads - Xxxvii Part One
Unquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII
( No aspersions are being cast here, willingly or otherwise, on the fairer, stronger and infinitely more sagacious sex. Even if these over-used words are somewhat overloaded...
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Categories:
shrink from, family, girl, husband, men, parents, wife, women,
Form:
Epigram
That One Friend
You were my one and only friend,
In a world that judged, that would not bend.
Others would laugh, would point and sneer,
Not knowing the pain, not knowing the fear.
They mocked my weight, my body, my...
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Categories:
shrink from, anxiety, best friend, betrayal, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Belle of the Balls
Belle of the Balls
...
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Categories:
shrink from, fantasy, children,
Form:
Narrative
A Trite Nihilistic Occasion - Part One
This doodling Yankee (boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom made glove snugly,
terrifically, unequivocally matching,
thence handily solving Finger hut issue,
when...
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Categories:
shrink from, deep, earth, fantasy, goodbye, holocaust, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony Revelation 12:11
For the accuser of our brothers [Satan], who accuses them before our God
day and night has been hurled down [to the earth]. They overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb and by the...
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Categories:
shrink from, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Oh the Horror: Vampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of blood,
her fangs—white—baring,
revealing her lust,
and...
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Categories:
shrink from, gothic, horror, sensual, surreal,
Form:
Verse
Seasons To the Season Insight Words Before Childrens Eyes the Tao Of
Seasons, to the Season
Spring streams, Summer dreams, no longer to be seen
for they have come to be dry, the gold, yellow, brown and red
of what will no longer be able to show it’s faces in...
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Categories:
shrink from, childhood, identity, seasons, sympathy, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Starving Spines
Pages turn thin, thin as the plot thickens
Thinning knowledge as ignorance quickens
Spines crack from hunger, hunger for minds
Cracking under pressure of different kinds
Books starve for attention, attention spans wane
Starving for readers in this digital rain
Covers...
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Categories:
shrink from, books, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Advent 2017
Advent
by
Rick Folker
December, 2017
"... you know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake ... the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us throw off the works of darkness and...
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Categories:
shrink from, change, christmas, december,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Twilight Child
I feel so strange these days
Hollow
Disembowelled
As if the core of me had been ripped out by invisible hands
And scattered to the wind like desert dust
I am like a ghost
I drift – wraith-like – through the...
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Categories:
shrink from, depression, introspection, natureme, world, me,
Form:
Free verse
Heroes
One does not have to die to be a hero,
Though many heroes paid the ultimate price,
That is but one among many scenarios,
Of steel, faith, valor and noble sacrifice.
Heroes dwell in neighborhoods across the land,
Who work...
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Categories:
shrink from, courage, hero, hope, integrity, relationship, strength, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Rodeo Blues
Riding against the wind, merciless memories nipping at her heels
wearing a Pollyanna mask & a ready laugh to hide the hurt she feels
The stinging words she heard that day hammer her heart like driving rain
she...
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Categories:
shrink from, cowboy-western, death, introspection, life, loss, people, places,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Assemblage of the Incognito Porch
In these parts dead forests run to the center dry
Bed rocks ring hollow in deep basins opened wide
Water no longer meets the cabin door
Since the lake became emptied by some force
Irrigation comes at a cost
The...
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Categories:
shrink from, appreciation, business, conflict, creation, environment, life, work,
Form:
Verse
For It Is A Human Number
In the dark corners of their minds,
lies hidden secrets and falsetto, falsety
and masquerade blind.
Humming to transcendental humanistic deities.
Beating you down to the beat
of their own drum of a 4th kind.
Ghettos...
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Categories:
shrink from, art,
Form:
Rhyme
I Carouse Time Honoured Humility
Walk through life with mirth
Laughing, loving, liberating friends and foes
Daring to enliven them as from my favourite firth
I breaststroke ashore and send a rose
To signify my noble intention
Meant to fulfill a wish
I made to...
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Categories:
shrink from, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Broken Minds
Why do I love Mr Rochester? Why do I think Jane Eyre should have fallen at his feet and worshiped him? Dear reader, it is for these few lines recorded below which he said to...
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Categories:
shrink from, beauty, courage, introspection, world, beauty, beauty, love,
Form:
Prose
Starting Today
(Moses Gava Featuring Kudakwashe Victor Shoko)
Neither did it start yesterday
Nor yesteryear
A scroll further backward
Deep into the historical era
I could see him crawling
During those years of polling
They were born egoistical
I wish I were not
Philanthropic,...
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Categories:
shrink from, retirement,
Form:
ABC
These Are the Times
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves...
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Categories:
shrink from, america, patriotic, political, time,
Form:
Free verse
Shyness
I'm young with no identity,
A faceless boy, alone and shy.
To classmates, a nonentity;
My parents fret and wonder why.
I'm part of the unnoticed pack.
I step aside as others pass.
To be alone, I sit in back
And never...
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Categories:
shrink from, 12th grade, bullying, hurt, lonely, sad, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Ontology of the Unwitnessed
Her laughter startles the morning air -
a flock of starlings scattering
from power lines into
the cathedral of her collarbones.
She moves through rooms
unaware of how doorframes
arch like...
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Categories:
shrink from, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Where Are a We Going?
I am resigned.
I was once full of neoteric life, fresh as morning dew.
Blank as a hardened sponge waiting for that morning, to
soak in all this...
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Categories:
shrink from, age, art, birth, childhood, death, woman, youth,
Form:
Ekphrasis