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Premium Member Echoes of a Shady Past
An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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Categories: shudder, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...

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Categories: shudder, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form: Prose
Premium Member THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
                    ...

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Categories: shudder, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vi
Juvenilia: Early Poems VI



An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch

The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.

She came to me with the sound...

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Categories: shudder, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Roses and Lilacs
Winter
by Michael R. Burch

The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.

The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.

Published...

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Categories: shudder, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form: Verse



Auschwitz Rose
Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
											
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...

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Categories: shudder, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form: Sonnet
Athenian Epitaphs Ii
Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night: 
his owner's faithful Maltese... 
but will...

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Categories: shudder, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House

This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...

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Categories: shudder, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - the Old Dark House -
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...

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Categories: shudder, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...

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Categories: shudder, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure
[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
  a coat of cosmos covering
  over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
  a quantum cellar creating
  the very big...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shudder, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form: Verse
Starlight and Moonlight
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …



Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch 

Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?

And will she find...

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Categories: shudder, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Limericks
          Johnny and Amber

To get my mind off war and inflation
I’ve watched the trial for defamation.
  But from what I’ve heard
  that scorned Amber...

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Categories: shudder, fun, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 3
Ask your friend, neighbour or even a stranger newly-met
Have they ever been damaged by a ‘trust’ ….now turned ‘regret’?
Most men, if not all, have fashioned their character on personal experience
Yet these damned hypocrites are themselves...

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Categories: shudder, abuse, corruption, earth, i am, life, men,
Form: Lay
Give Peace a Chance Part 1
Like the twelfth
juror in the play
I must say I am not
convinced
For I know a recipe
for trouble 
I have seen the
double standards
And I do not approve
this for Kenya
I will never approve
it, and neither
Would you, dear
friend of...

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Categories: shudder, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Asking the Way Part Two
"Well  to  a  certain  degree  yes I  really  don’t  want  to  impose.
I’m getting  used  to  my  deprivation."    As...

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Categories: shudder, age, art, creation, death, deep, imagination, mystery,
Form: Prose
Premium Member To a Dead Mouse

	I
Friend, whatever brought your life to end
had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your
small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff
and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path,
then, for reasons of its...

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Categories: shudder, in memoriam,
Form: Free verse
The Volunteer, a Poem Inspired By Hrh Prince George of Cambridge
'We have a future king to make,'
Said the deep, resounding voice.
'But it is not a proper fit for everyone.
For a king must know first how to obey than to command,
And to abide rather than reign.'

'And...

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Categories: shudder, baby, baptism, birth, child, england, london, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Crow Fights The Raven
Beneath the pall of an eldritch moon, 
                           ...

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Categories: shudder, betrayal, bird, gothic, horror, metaphor, murder, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Warm Air Balloon
Alone, surrounded by seventeen million humans who call New York home
In a rut, depressed, searching in pain and in vain for hope

A crisp fall day, I venture north to play
The Adirondack valley, mountains borne from...

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Categories: shudder, anxiety, autumn, courage, depression, hope, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you descry not my utterance? Listen, yet, for all is precious...

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Categories: shudder, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Bring Brring Telephone Calling
'BRRRING BRRRING' said the telephone

“Oh hello” said the wide viewfinder to the telephone. “How are you today?” The telephone fell silent. Very silent. It had no battery with which to call, speak, shout or do...

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Categories: shudder, bangla, baptism, baseball, beach,
Form: I do not know?
Budget Flight
The plane looked old and fairly worn,
the sky was grey, about to storm.
They hurried us along the aisles,
in tiny seats we’d sit for miles.

With creak and groan we taxied out,
at runway’s end we turned about.
With...

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Categories: shudder, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Elly May
ELLY MAY


poem by: Maria Williams

T'was the night before her birthday and Elly May
Still in the office putting stuff away
In her horn rimmed glasses and grey flannel suit
She was the epitome of perfection, the essence of...

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Categories: shudder, beautiful, beauty, body, career, change, confidence,
Form: Light Verse
An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                           ...

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Categories: shudder, myth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things