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Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
tenuous, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
tenuous, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 3Rejection 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:
tenuous, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets 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:
tenuous, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse ILozenge
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:
tenuous, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe 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:
tenuous, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
tenuous, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Rejection Slips 1Rejection 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:
tenuous, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Boundary Issues As OpportunitiesI wonder if everyone
has a most dreaded dreamed
nightmare worst way
to conscientiously drop wrong dead.
Mine is claustrophobi-recallish buried
half alive at best is worse
in a wooden rough pine crate.
I'm feeling angry with those who raped,
then buried...
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Categories:
tenuous, earth, humor, integrity, psychological, relationship, science, tree,
Form:
Political Verse
Au Revoir Oh Perilous FreedomAu revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...
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Categories:
tenuous, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Brownian Motion Writ LargeBrownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial
and endothelial cells, and although
there must be biological...
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Categories:
tenuous, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, appreciation, business,
Form:
Free verse
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy GrowthShame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
tenuous, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Obsession...inspired by 'Portrait Of A Lady' by T.S. Eliot
On winter days the view outside is nebulous at best,
within, the furniture is as it always was, and I am waiting,
waiting for a glimpse of you to...
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Categories:
tenuous, angst, devotion, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Galaxy and the Logos:The word "Galaxy", is derived from the Greek "galaxias", literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy. Galaxies contain varying amounts of star systems, star clusters and types of interstellar clouds. (Nebula is Latin...
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Categories:
tenuous, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel SyndromeFraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...
today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed colonoscopy
diarrheal gangbuster instigated
maybe Machiavellian microbe
with powerful rectal surge
analogous to invisible plunger
forcing...
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Categories:
tenuous, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Rhyme
US Health Warning New Virus AlertEPIDEMIOLOGICAL NAME: Donkey Pox
ORIGIN: First detected in insane asylums and faculty lounges across America.
TRANSMISSION: Pathogen mostly attacks highly sensitive unhinged...
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Categories:
tenuous, sick, society,
Form:
Free verse
Are You There GodThe man lay painfully wedged between two large boulders,
his position an anomaly only the cruelest of fates could bring to a man.
In one moment he’d been sure-footed, gingerly climbing the cliff....
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Categories:
tenuous, death, god,
Form:
Narrative
With a Capital RYou're slipping away again ...
Will you return this time, or are you done?
Are your feet set on the path to oblivion this time,
...
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Categories:
tenuous, death, father son, feelings, life,
Form:
Free verse
It, RevisitedIT, Revisited
BEHOLD, this perilous journey, tis a whimsical tale of woe, that is delightfully bespoken, for welcomed ears to bestow, as a clown be found awakening, his oversized feet abound, his frizzy hair stabbed outwardly,...
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Categories:
tenuous, fun, halloween, imagination, poetry, scary,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bartender Oh BartenderBartender Oh Bartender
(a stout rendition of O Captain! My Captain!
Perfect rhythmic rhyme with tonic
when the doth ale).
Mine eyes espy the glory per the ending
of another work day beckon Baileys Irish Creme
with Absolut certainty...
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Categories:
tenuous, absence, addiction, adventure, america, appreciation, bereavement, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
February 13th, 2023 old man winter gave a one two punchFebruary 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch
Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
would make laughingstock of forecasting
how Jack Frost...
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Categories:
tenuous, abortion, abuse, age, anger, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Stokey 2014Stokey 2014
I am working the door
At an all night bar
Sometimes I think I have spent too much time alone. These long nights remind me of flowers and effigies. I drink too much. There’s...
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Categories:
tenuous, addiction, allusion, anxiety,
Form:
Narrative
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Eye I Witness TimelessnessElusive ephemeral ethereal expansive eye (I) witness timelessness
Analogous to Möbius strip -
measured passage of existence
seems to defy any beginning or end
(unless Artificial Intelligence
supersedes developers smarts
of computer technology
evincing brain power
designing sophisticated machines
that enslave their...
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Categories:
tenuous, absence, africa, animal, birth, computer, creation, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Pity ClarityPity Clarity
by Michael R. Burch
Pity Clarity,
and, if you should find her,
release her from the tangled webs
of dusty verse that bind her.
And as for Brevity,
once the soul of wit—
she feels the gravity
of ironic chains and massive...
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Categories:
tenuous, life, love, poetry, poets, time, truth, words,
Form:
Verse
In Memory of Patches
I kept my Patches living with medication and trips to the Vet for a year.
But, I did not mind because I loved her so much. She had cancer and would
die. I put that in...
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Categories:
tenuous, cat, memory,
Form:
Haibun