Long Sightless Poems
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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
sightless, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
sightless, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
sightless, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
The Dance of SalomeThe Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
sightless, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Marat and Charlotte 3Act 3. A dark, empty stage.
Marat
(standing up)
My eyes went blank. That's how it goes when
you have been doubly knocked flat on your back
in half an hour. He went, he went,
he went, he went, he went,...
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Categories:
sightless, death, love,
Form:
Blank verse
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings? Or did shadows flit across the leaf strewn path?
No...
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Categories:
sightless, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Making TeaIt'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:
sightless, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration, dad, daughter, mother,
Form:
Concrete
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
sightless, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Barnabas Oral's Sightless GameHe plays throughout the house at night
a braille touch for his lack of sight
and dreams of all the crippled things
with broken legs and shattered wings.
The bandage on his wounded eyes
will be there...
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Categories:
sightless, dark, games, humorous, psychological, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
A Journeyman's PleaThe great poets begged for muse and not for moments stolen.
We lesser mortals cup in hand beg, not for attentions’ span nor
cause to celebrate, but Time; a worthy goal.
Seconds spent pondering half-held slow bled moments
shuffling...
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Categories:
sightless, angst, atheist, break up, dark, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
My Twilight Dream Catcher My twilight Dream Catcher.
Sweet melodies tug at my heart strings.
The waves roll in as the blue whale sings.
As empty moonbeams fade,
In the cosmos evenly laid.
Layers of complexity.
Clouds meandering are a formality.
A tonic of love, a...
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Categories:
sightless, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
New HorizonsNew Horizons
One.
His lips kiss my skin
Whispering that I am not from sin
Words powered by artificial lust
Weaving lies into my vulnerable mind
Just to make me think it’ll be alright
Crimson regrets that line my arms and heart
Pleading...
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Categories:
sightless, absence, angst, happiness, identity, poems, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Evil EyeThe darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed dissenters to the keepers in the sky....
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Categories:
sightless, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Land Part 4A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,
to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.
He’s 22, he’s almost through, he’s melted in his prime,
his bane is firm, the canker...
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Categories:
sightless, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
July MatineeTuck into the public
private seclusion.
My aversion to inclusion
includes a stub, a tub,
a carelessly careful curation,
a velvet rope, a hint of hope,
a folding chair, softened and stickied
by foam and frothing soda spills.
A not soundless though...
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Categories:
sightless, love, onomatopoeia,
Form:
Free verse
Emptiness - Soul Hunt
Written: April 27, 2024
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Seraphic, sibilant wisdom,
a grace-gorged vista,
...
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Categories:
sightless, analogy, life, soulmate, voice,
Form:
Free verse
The RitualOh my darling, a white picket fence,
Oh my darling, a polite cricket wench,
In my face, you can't see, my soul.
Oh, my darling, oh, my darling, my pride has gone.
It's been replaced, it's been replaced by...
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Categories:
sightless, betrayal, community, fantasy, hurt, introspection, marriage, satire,
Form:
Narrative
A Love Not To Be ForgottenA love not to be forgotten
After the disaster, after the misery
Little sister of mine begged my dad for chicks
He tried to convince her what a bad idea it is
How a hard caring takes to keep...
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Categories:
sightless, love, petsday, dad, sister, dad, day, green,
Form:
Free verse
Prophet Mani and the Nazorean“Oh you, so-called Prophet Mani, preacher of division, answer this simple question without strife?"
“What is your question which your soul wants to hear to see the unity of all life.”
“Your God, is he good or...
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Categories:
sightless, allah, god, islamic, judgement, religious, sun, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Yes, the Wicked Monster Was An Abusive Man: a CollaborationShe was lost and cried all night, heart broken and sad
Old wounds ached from countless jagged scars and flaws
It was an evil monster, abusive and powerfully bad
From its sadistic, tormenting ways, never did it pause
How...
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Categories:
sightless, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
A Scene From My Book- a Broken ManHe paced the living room, furious with himself. What had he gotten himself into? Why had he agreed to Laila’s request to see her family? Here he was alone…all alone in the house with the...
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Categories:
sightless, longing, love,
Form:
Prose
By the Bedside, WeepingA visitor,
I sit by night and day
unmoved to pen a loving word
no more the Muse its lightning thrusts
of inspiration cast my woeful way
while waiting, watching,
nothing left
of hope, of comfort –
nothing right to...
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Categories:
sightless, angst, death, mother, words, day,
Form:
Free verse
To Live, Flightless BirdsA single branch, clawed and pecked, fickle and straining,
Lonely Nestling and father, paw and peck at their home
Lonely branch, spasms in the wind
Nestling and father paw and peck, yearn and whimper
These Flightless Birds, on a...
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Categories:
sightless, caregiving, childhood, death, dedication, depression, faith, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
A Dreamers Plight On Judgment DayA DREAMERS PLIGHT ON JUDGEMENT DAY
Give solely sovereign sway & Masterdom.
The air nimbly & sweetly recommends itself unto my gentle senses
To commend the ingredients of my poisoned chalice.
But this same thing we desire the most
That...
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Categories:
sightless, 1st grade, dream,
Form:
Classicism
StuffStuff your rock stars, your heros, your christs,
your anti-christs and anarchiests.
Stuff your false idols up your arse.
Stuff your regenerative ramblings;
the spiel of a million others
spilt in diluted misunderstanding.
The generic rhetoric of another blank generation.
Born under...
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Categories:
sightless, angst, art, confusion, life, peace, philosophy, social,
Form:
I do not know?