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Some Pro's and Con's of Being Connected To Virtual Reality
Some pro's and con's of being connected to virtual reality
Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
regarding countless less well known dwarves
(that never got a chance
to play a bit part) such as...
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Categories:
slam, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 2
Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
slam, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Children Iv
Poems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
slam, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
I Broke Your Heart and Mine
(His Version of Break My Heart)
I have each piece, each shattered part of your heart that I broke in two, I feel every ounce of pain, every emotion, just as you
I would never take this...
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Categories:
slam, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems I
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
slam, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Sarah’s Origin
My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance,
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.
A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans...
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Categories:
slam, dark, death, gothic,
Form:
Epic
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
slam, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Some Pro's and Con's of Being Virtually Connected To Reality Poetic Verses
Some Pro's and Con's of being Virtually Connected to Reality poetic verses
Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
even countless less well known dwarves
(that never got a chance
to play a bit part)...
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Categories:
slam, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, appreciation, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Wall Street
Set 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:
political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...
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Categories:
slam, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
Talk To Me Stop Talking
Just a view on the inner critic. Every time I read what I wrote I see a different angle. This person never even opened their eyes. Some day you can't.
The day had begun. Simple. It...
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Categories:
slam, mental illness,
Form:
Prose
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days,
when oral blight smote
left...
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Categories:
slam, 2nd grade, absence, age, body, cinco de
Form:
Rhyme
Mad Molly Shaw 2 - Molly Stands Firm
[If you’re a glutton for punishment, you
Can find ‘Mad Molly Shaw’ using the poems
Tag at top of screen]
****
Mad Molly Shaw wasn’t...
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Categories:
slam, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Skeletons In the Closet
Let your skeletons out of the closet and let them dance with mine, the way that our bodies once moved together in an unspoken of time
I am one of these skeletons, maybe your biggest one...
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Categories:
slam, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two
Unquotable 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:
slam, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Videocracy
Say I:
On the websites I used to share, I was frequently amazed
Poems got greeted with silence; it seems eyes were quickly glazed.
It’s as if I’d morphed into a...
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Categories:
slam, culture, poetry, poets, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds of the day"
Virtues are...
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Categories:
slam, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
geneva
During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith in plodding persistence.
We were...
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Categories:
slam, boyfriend, humor, love, school, student, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One ...
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Categories:
slam, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Intertwined
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Intertwined in everything and nothing. Apart forever and never apart. Always reaching, never meeting. Intertwined in nothing and everything.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I twist and turn rising higher.
I’m forced into destruction and anger.
I want to dance...
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Categories:
slam, 10th grade, day, earth, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Escape From Horror
When I first awoke in this hospital, they tell me I had stared straight ahead and never uttered a word. I was in shock for a while, but now Dr. Albright, the therapist assigned to...
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Categories:
slam, horror,
Form:
Narrative
Fast and Cheap She Says
What ever is fast and cheap you say...
You are so funny -
this is not a fast thing -
to do a video montage of 5 minutes
may take me a lifetime
as I move from inspiration...
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Categories:
slam, art, celebration, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Earth Hugging
What could I do?
What to do
when your biological,
and even formerly sober ecological,
relationships suddenly veer insanely romantic?
Or worse,
mistrustful
and yet
not always distrustful,
or not,
maybe deeper sadness
and occasional manic gladness
emerging inclusively wider questions
of approach and/or avoid
Both romantic
and yet...
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Categories:
slam, health, light, passion, peace, power, romantic love,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind
Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)
STOP: ARREST ALL GIRLS
- standing with legs...
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Categories:
slam, beautiful, crush, cute love, desire, humor, men,
Form:
Free verse
The Serb Dog
The Serb Dog by Vee Bdosa the Doylestown Poet
There was a bunch of soldiers standing around watching
a house burn and somebody said "Was that somebody screaming,
did you hear somebody scream?"...
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Categories:
slam, conflict, discrimination, hate, war,
Form:
Prose