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Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
skinned, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
skinned, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
skinned, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
skinned, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
ErinErin, 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:
skinned, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About ChildrenPoems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
skinned, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
skinned, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
skinned, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
skinned, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
skinned, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Portraits of Racial Politics“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...
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Categories:
skinned, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Pied Piper From New York City - Part OneThe Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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Categories:
skinned, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
Wall StreetSet upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth. The meek children bending over for millennium, taken spankings of...
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Categories:
skinned, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 1Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have complex arcs
There’s some risk here I might have to work...
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Categories:
skinned, anxiety, crazy, fun, funeral, holocaust, humorous, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Greenpower DreamsLast night I dreamed.
I dream--
sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively
and in-between sub-climax performing
some wins and some perpetual losses
more ambiguously back and forth, up and down, in and out,
and not nearly sensual...
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Categories:
skinned, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Inconvenient WisdomInstant individual redemption
from predative enculturation
is overly spiritualized,
under naturalized,
rightwing evangelical dogma
more likely found in empire-building
strong business-loyalty development texts
than multi-enculturing
re-connecting
re-ligioning nature/spirit scriptures.
If spiritual
and capital redemption from baseline natural evils
is good news for individuals,
yet inapplicable to global...
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Categories:
skinned, anti bullying, bullying, community, forgiveness, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history monthMy jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...
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Categories:
skinned, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part TwoUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...
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Categories:
skinned, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthNascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred.
Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...
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Categories:
skinned, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form:
Rhyme
My Thing IsMy thing is,
Yang dear,
EarthMother
is much RNA-green older
than mammalian red-DNA Yang.
Yes,
seniority breeds long-term nutritious merit,
I remember this history lesson
from your creation by fairy tale,
how WinWin Paradise YinYin
wonder invited Yang's Patriarchal CoPresence.
Well said,
dearest,
which is exactly why EarthMother
needed...
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Categories:
skinned, color, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Love You MessagesWhen the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence
loves homophobic St. Paul,
This felt like too much tolerating
an unconstitutional intolerable
absence of basic...
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Categories:
skinned, health, love, peace, political, power, race,
Form:
Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part OneUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One ...
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Categories:
skinned, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Boob Jobs and Bomb JobsBoob jobs and bomb jobs
Sisters in arms those tits and those weapons of massive
destruction sex and death go together in dynamics
thermodynamics psychodynamics fused on the playground
of this life of this poem on which...
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Categories:
skinned, conflict, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Poem For ChildrenThere is so many stories telling a child how to grow up, the difference between right and wrong. to follow the rules, to see in color, how to stand strong. But still, you are children,...
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Categories:
skinned, child, fantasy, children, kids, inspirational, magic, princess,
Form:
Narrative
My Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History MonthMy nascent poetic tribute to black history month
more apropos and alternately titled:
praise to thee people
of variegated melanin color,
whose immense understated improvements
and enhancement of webbed wide world
worth more than paltry words
of yours truly can...
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Categories:
skinned, 12th grade, adventure, africa, anger, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme