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Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
squalor, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
squalor, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Canto Xvi Hell By DanteAlready I reached the place where heard the sound
Of falling water in the circle next
Suchlike the rumble done by hives around,
When three spirits together changed their treks,
Running, out of an horde just passing there
Under...
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Categories:
squalor, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
squalor, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries PapaInxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa
Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –
for approximately
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...
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Categories:
squalor, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter SemesterThe reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
...
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Categories:
squalor, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets, remembrance day, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
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:
squalor, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
New Year's Eve 2022New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
squalor, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse
New Year's Eve 2021New Year's Eve 2021
December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
whereby the Ball a geodesic sphere,
12 feet in diameter,
and weighing 11,875 pounds.
The aforementioned Ball...
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Categories:
squalor, adventure, culture, dance, humanity, inspiration, new years
Form:
Free verse
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
squalor, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with bitter taste, hearts torn.
They heeded not the cries of pain,
Nor...
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Categories:
squalor, christmas, friendship, hope, love, peace, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
LayersAs you peel back one layer you will a bit more of me
Each layer defines parts that the naked eye may not see
The outer layer is tough resistant and seems weather proof
Just one more layer...
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Categories:
squalor, caregiving, life, christmas, son, me, heart, christmas,
Form:
Quatrain
The Walk HomeA walk home
...And there he lie in fetid squalor,
Upon the chaise in vacant parlour...
“What befell this young man?” a query.
A sorrowful tale - tis quite dreary.
Tricks! The superstitious mind doth play.
Bested -...
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Categories:
squalor, dark, death, evil, fear, horror, imagination, night,
Form:
Narrative
In the Manse Market For a Preowned Spa HouseIn the manse market for a preowned spa house
Mine feeble efforts pale in comparison
to a kid scaling El Capitan
of Yosemite National Park,
nevertheless me, a dry witted husband
self emasculated milquetoast
of late ofttimes yawps imprecations
against fickle finger...
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Categories:
squalor, absence, allegory, angel, appreciation, autumn, black african
Form:
Free verse
Experiencing Emerging Adulthood Stage While Inching Toward Being An Old GeezerMe, an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
burning, depleting, using... fossil fuels,
thus a global nonrenewable resource(s)
repentant consumer
admitting heavily trod carbon footprint
additionally deeply enmired
within very late adolescence,
hence I shriek
with utter dismay
starkly aware personal hygiene
suffers direct...
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Categories:
squalor, anger, childhood, confusion, father daughter, health, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Pool SharksPOEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Shark
by Michael R. Burch
They are all unknowable,
these rough pale men—
haunting dim pool rooms like shadows,
propped up on bar stools like scarecrows,
nodding and sagging in the fraying light...
I am not of them,
as I...
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Categories:
squalor, poems, poetry, poets, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
At a FuneralThey have come for your funeral
Their looks belie ‘their hearts
When you needed them
Their backs turned on you
Now shamelessly and hypocritically
They drag those sacrilegious legs
To profane your ...
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Categories:
squalor, betrayal, death, destiny, farewell, fate, horror, how
Form:
Elegy
FragmentsFragments
They will be...
you do these kinds of things
can't be helped
imagination Band Aids some call them
I know
you just do
fingers wrapped ‘round cold steel
it's then
it's now
differences slight
like playing marbles
tripod-cradled taws and steelies
"Bombers" "Pots"
"shooters" all
aim straight
roll in the...
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Categories:
squalor, war, imagination, me,
Form:
Free verse
In Response To My First PoemMy first poem on the soup:
Honouring the Wartime Dead
They fought with grit to save the nation,
From poverty, squalor and infidelity,
And when they marched it was the Nazi’s or them,
Who would suffice to...
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Categories:
squalor, child, dad, passion, poetry, political, technology, world
Form:
Rhyme
Quarrel Not With MeQuarrel not with me because your ancient longing to right
The ancient damage that deformed you in the night
Has offered you no ego massaging victory in fight
O may champion the spurious claims of others brought to...
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Categories:
squalor, confusion, forgiveness, me, longing, love, me,
Form:
Bio
Lord God, You Are My Mighty Valiant DelivererApril 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 5-8
Key Verse –2Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because...
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Categories:
squalor, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poet CondemnedThe Poet Condemned
I have opened my mind and unleashed Pandora’s Box.
My mind is now open, but my will is now lost.
Freedom of the mind; open and clear.
We couldn’t see the demons, but we can feel...
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Categories:
squalor, creation, poems, poetry, writing,
Form:
I do not know?
Goodbye For Nowlarge yellow diesel machines coughed
coughed thick black smoke, caught their breath
struggled convulsively and after a series of loud farts
assorted groans and mechanical creaks ...
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Categories:
squalor, adventure, allegory, angst, fantasy, inspirational, life, passion,
Form:
Blank verse
Nobody KnowsNobody knows how life will play out-
the steps of a journey marching through each scene,
for futurity is sightless, only the beginning has eyes.
Nobody knows the number of heartbeats...
no artist, craftsman, designer, seascapist,
no orchestrator or sculptor-...
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Categories:
squalor, future, inspirational, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse
Ascending DescentJonathan’s fall had been so rapid down the obstinate pits
Time had not allowed him any chance to read the writhing
On the wall and he could not have deciphered the ancient
-Language of demise-
He had been...
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Categories:
squalor, depression,
Form:
Free verse