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Falling Into Place: Solace Solitude
Let me take a little sip
Of your blessed, breathtaking brilliance that will numb...
This pain I have in this heart of stone
The voices in my head won't leave me alone
I thought I was on my own,...

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Categories: swallow, deep, desire,
Form: Lyric



Below the Horizon - Shallow Shame
Agony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity 
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...

Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...

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Categories: swallow, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hotel Caretaker
How unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.

 ‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...

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Categories: swallow, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations
The first soft snow: 
leaves of the awed jonquil 
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

Come, investigate loneliness! 
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...

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Categories: swallow, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii
Dusk-gliding swallow, 
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers! 
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

That dying cricket,...

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Categories: swallow, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form: Haiku



Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
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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Categories: swallow, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.

Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.



A Surfeit of...

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Categories: swallow, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2
[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...

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Categories: swallow, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...

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Categories: swallow, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member le livre bleu
“le livre bleu” 

Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers, 
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine teeth,
they drown their sorrows in their muses -
contemporary little monsters – Still Life, 
they call...

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Categories: swallow, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
[This poem 'No God Of  Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't  cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]


By...

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Categories: swallow, evil, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Mario William Vitale Latest Writings
The language and images of Mario Vitale's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that is surprising to realize how many of his poems deal...

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Categories: swallow, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skin of Terror
Skin of Terror
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

(The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming anxiety. He peers out into the gloominess at the wheel and tightly clutches...

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Categories: swallow, horror, mental health, mental illness, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member CIRO GARGANO JUNK SICK OFFICERS
IT WAS 1984 DURING AN ELECTION CIRO GARGANO RAN THIS SMALL TOWN OUTSIDE GREATLAKES NAVY BASE WITH HIS DRUG CARTEL AND AN IRON FIST OF  CORRUPTION HE BLACKMAILED THE ENTIRE CITY SEVERAL OFFICERS SELLING...

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Categories: swallow, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS DATA HACKERS ENTRAPMENT CANCELLED
THIS DATA BREACH ALLOWED HACKERS TO STEAL PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDDING TO THIS I HAVE SEVERAL COMPANIES CEO FOR CRHIST SAKE ON DISABILITY IN HIDING FROM TWO ABUSIVE SPOUSE HOWEVER THIS CRUELTY HAS GATHERED FALSE INFORMATION...

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Categories: swallow, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS IDENTITY FRAUD AGAINST LAB RATS
AS I SUFFERED IN SILENCE SEVERE BREAK INS JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY AND SPECIAL AGENT PAULA BRAND BEGAN IMPERSONATING MY MAIDEN FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS FIELD TRIP ODDLY USING MARTIN LUTHER KING DAUGHTER MIDDLE NAME...

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Categories: swallow, allah,
Form: Naat
Give Me a Second To Breathe Part 1
Verse 1: Nothing's in my way today 
I'm finally getting my way 
Glitter sprays in the air
We are on the bridge of without-a-care,
No longer in despair 
You fed me vibrant love, my starlit sky above
You...

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Categories: swallow, angst, desire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member My Alphabet
A a 	big A little a
                   What words start with the letter A
    ...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swallow, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form: Abecedarian
Procrastination
The invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...

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Categories: swallow, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, work,
Form: Free verse
Procrastination
The invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...

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Categories: swallow, dedication, destiny, dream, fear, happiness, success, work,
Form: Free verse
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore” 

Where do we go -

when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted, 
along the unopened road?

we walk into the 
forest alone, 
there we meet 
strange creatures -

some say 
they...

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Categories: swallow, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Worming the Cat and Dog
Once again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the mighty Dogs will surely cope with that.
I couldn’t think of...

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Categories: swallow, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure


When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...

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Categories: swallow, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Things That Stuff My Mind
Exhausted, yet I can't sleep
So glad that I don't want to weep
You're living your epic life 
While mine cuts like a knife 

Under the horizon,
I see the reflection of the sun
Over the rainbow,
I see a...

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Categories: swallow, deep, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
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Categories: swallow, change,
Form: Free verse

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