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Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
sped, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
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 it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
sped, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
sped, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
sped, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Free Verse I
Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
sped, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
sped, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
As Time Walked By
These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
sped, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 99 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali Nyaf and Rico: the Celebration-- Mass Invitations
Date: April 2045
An excellent April afternoon blooming.
Damali is now 19 years old this
Day. Damali was thinking of his future
Stretched out at his study desk.
He had been enrolled for a year...
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Categories:
sped, granddaughter,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 107 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Festive Fountain Market Jamboree
Date: January 2046
8:45 am in the Damian Domaine
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever we can?" She replied
While still sleepy eyed checking
Supplies. So...
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Categories:
sped, child, chocolate, confidence, family, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 16 -- Damian Hakim Polly Dolly and Molly: Damian's Plans and Family Time
March 2026
The final weeks of the CCC plan:
Damian and Polly planned the
Copy Cat Club convergence with
Molly and Dolly. The meet was postponed
A few times until everything was set.
Damian and Dolly knew one another...
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Categories:
sped, allusion, best friend,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 18: Dolly Damian Molly and Polly: Love In Degrees
Date: April 2026
The 1st degree is unknown
Damian and Polly had planned
The trip to the Copy Cat Club
For weeks with Dolly and Molly
The club was popping when
They hit the scene.
The DJ...
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Categories:
sped, beautiful, culture, fun, good night, hello, integrity,
Form:
Alliteration
Chaucer Translation: Merciless Beauty
Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
sped, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
sped, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC
Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but mainly...
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Categories:
sped, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form:
Narrative
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
sped, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems Ii
LOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...
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Categories:
sped, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Bartender Tales Ii: Changes
Kerris spoke to Damian the junior
Bartender on the phone. "Yeah, it's
8 o'clock now. I'll be there at 9 to
Open. Meet me there at that time."
He smiled happily thinking...
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Categories:
sped, beautiful, blue, engagement, friend, friendship, heart, life,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Precious Priceless Progeny
Precious priceless progeny
Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...
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Categories:
sped, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
A Glimpse into The Future
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, science...
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Categories:
sped, death, fantasy, future,
Form:
Narrative
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...
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Categories:
sped, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One
Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight
The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me
With my horse’s pace and that of...
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Categories:
sped, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 143-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Prodigal Aquarius Paradise Restaurant
Date: September 2050
Damian stood at the front door
Ushering everybody out to the waiting
Limousine. "Come on my People
Be quick about it wifies!" Sidney
And Saderi were willing to go along
For the...
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Categories:
sped, best friend, birth, husband,
Form:
Alliteration
The Forge
I remember the beach sand and swing
when you and mother were still something
I remember the ducks in the lake
you held my hand watching their wake
I remember the sheep dogs when the day was through
and the...
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Categories:
sped, abuse, angst, emotions, life, recovery from, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 87 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Solomon Brothers and Sisters
Date: March 2041
The weather was agreeable all
Seemed well in the Damian house
Hold early morning. The kids were
Heading out to school. Dolly and
Molly were helping the 3 year olds.
This will be their first day...
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Categories:
sped, adventure, angst, black love, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form:
Alliteration
The Train - POTD
POTD 25 Nov 2020
Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares
I do get it about advertising campaigns.
Enough to know that,
‘strategically placed ads’ catching the eye, is huge.
But this poster...
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Categories:
sped, lost love,
Form:
Narrative