Long Solicitation 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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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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Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch

Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!



Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch

How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...

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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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Vampires
by Michael R. Burch

Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.

Centuries...

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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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The fragrance of possums is a kit of great virtue bathed and lit by an orange green hue. Display not weapons in weather fuelled skies. Thin thunder is unwelcome in a booming bass rhythm and...

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This poetic attempt an abbreviation
how biological insemination
(minus in vitro fertilization)
seeds latent Homo sapiens reproduction
possibly since moment of conception,
whereby inchoate progeny

impossible to sustain
fantastic, holistic, terrific... weatherization
against prejudicial germs
that elude uterine infiltration
entering womb thru fallopian tube,
or courtesy...

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Listen Up
Hobbes

*Quick note*
This is a song I wrote a few months back

Attention to the greater population,
Hear me as I offer you Redemption.
Kneel to me and surrender your nation,
Or prepare for complete aniahlation.


Hear my voice as...

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In the United States of America, all immigration laws must be in effect at all times. It's
been like that since the Civil War started and the signing of the Declaration of
Independence. But everybody must accept...

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I was moved to write this poem after watching the brilliant and thought-provoking show: "Without a Trace", Season 4, Episode 18: "The Road Home". 

When you're on your knees 
By Michelle Morris
17/08/2022

He got down on...

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Remember how you used to skip a Stone and watch the rings appear,
to follow the sun.
Smooth as silk, that an Angel has spun.
Makes for fluid thinking when
the mind thirsts in it's ilk.
For Mother's milk.
For the...

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The twittering of the birds singsonged by 
As the mum night kissed the new spousal dawn
The daybreak entity by the beadsmen allegiance
Pour forth by the holy water along the river adorn.
Thrown by the kid, the...

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Now I want you
To be there
Like evening when work is done
Something better than expectation
To look forward to
Despite we being only met
Since the rising of the sun.

It is hard to imagine
A leaf fallen
Before my love could...

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Baneful Invitations
                    by Odin Roark

With so many invitations offered
He often graciously refused
Even as the ones he...

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Walking through many doorways every day,
think of them as doors of perception if you may.
As you create those mental spaces and ponder, 
many other doors open like a chain reaction wonder.
Those spaces creating new potential...

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Present Difficulty

No further trouble for satisfactory adjustment,
Will long over on puzzling dilemma,
Pleasure of inhaling soothing in empty soul,
Adopts such measures over  striking juncture, 
Most carefully the point of heart and mind, 
Will perceive the...

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You walk around,
felling like you're above the law
Shielded by family immunity

Get disorderly when you paint the town,
brawling, hitting people in the jaw
Yet you're called a pillar of the community

You lack basic people skills,
heredity always handed...

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THE MEERKAT
Meerkats are delightful beasts,
Arousing warm affection
They stand in groups discrete
Looking in the same direction

COW
How now brown cow
A bestowal to the world art thou
Miracle of God's construction
Four stomachs in mass production

THE PIG
Our blessings upon you...

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The ring and the violet represent, love 
Happiness, and careness.
Extraordinary our love shall be.

Reply to my love with a yes.
I imagine you in your beautiful dress 
Nervous to death I am, by 
Giving you this...

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Money

The most preferred content of a bulging envelope 
For those with a project to develop!
A solicitation by the poor,
With sometimes bent knees on a floor.

Tempter of twenty – first century thieves
Hoping to receive the accolades...

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Cover to cover


rosy cheeks looked at him from the Corner of her
eyes, beckOning him oVer to her solicitation of lovE
and sexual desire. She kept winking those big eyes,
determined to Reel him like an easy fish,...

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Limerick: Once Cute Pute in Gay Paris called Miel

Once Cute Pute* in Gay Paris called Miel*
Plied her trade around a Ferris Wheel
Rode them roller coaster
Spun them on wheel later
Got lush cut on fines for police...

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Out into the garden I would go, 
To smell the perfumed daffodil,
When I would begin to throw, 
My feelings in full intent and will. 

Thy delicacy evades description, 
But I know that it does not,...

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I can't so joke or play or waste much time until I know 
   whether the english man is dealing magic 
 or pun the mustang horse 
  or mushroom rice or...

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