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Psychologically still thirteen
Psychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
thwarting, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Let Us Speak Clearly
Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain pick your pocket rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to...
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Categories:
thwarting, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Children Iii
Poems about Children III
Miracle
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
The contrails of galaxies mingle, and the dust of that first day still shines.
Before I conceived you, before your heart beat, you were mine,
and I see
infinity leap in...
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Categories:
thwarting, adventure, child, childhood, children, dad, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955,
not quite half...
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Categories:
thwarting, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form:
Rhyme
Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy Matrimony
Introduction: once again I incorporate
my trademark penchant
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to
discern fact from fiction?
Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...
Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...
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Categories:
thwarting, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Colin the Caped Cabbie
Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to...
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Categories:
thwarting, hero, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
Game of Cricket Is a Game of Life
Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...
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Categories:
thwarting, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Mother Dearest Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004
Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz seventeen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...
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Categories:
thwarting, absence, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Most Mind Boggling Mysterious Mortal
Most mind boggling mysterious mortal
Mystification prevails stupefying yours truly
befuddled, he blindly stumbles along rocky
pathway illusory impediments strewn helter
skelter intangible obstructions hinder access
psychological barricades effective impasse
detains, deters, detours manhood maturation
manumission manifestation materialization
linkedin, when permanent submission arises
beckoning...
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Categories:
thwarting, absence, angel, angst, atheist, birth, courage, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Betrayal guilty as charged
Betrayal (guilty as charged)...
within mine marriage,
and all the ramifications
that happen therefrom
courtesy the social media platform
of Facebook Messenger,
wherein those subscribing
to an orthodox dogma
may consider said website infernal
(even more despicable
then once upon a time
Old Rotten Gotham
sliding down...
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Categories:
thwarting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005
Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
thwarting, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13th
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
thwarting, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Struggle To Write
Struggle to write
Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.
This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...
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Categories:
thwarting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh My Dog, Another Yesterday May 23rd 2020 Spent Inside
Oh my dog, another yesterday (May 23rd, 2020) spent inside
Anomalous earthling inhabited
mancave quarantined
cocooned gamesomely
knowingly protected travesty
impossible mission sidestepping,
thwarting, zapping
eventuality, inevitability,
opportunity utilitarian death
crowning glory fêted within
netherlands immortality
granted courtesy biological
proliferation offspring...
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Categories:
thwarting, adventure, celebration, father daughter, forgiveness, i miss
Form:
Free verse
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf
in summer re:
typed out during winter of my discontent,
when yours truly no spring chicken
stirred ruse to expatiate poetically
regarding following rhyming reason,
hence mine lovely bones
into...
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Categories:
thwarting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Encounter With Guardian Angel January 20th 2022
Encounter with guardian angel January 20th, 2022
We (myself and thee missus)
experienced shell shock
analogous to war weary soldiers
back home from the western front
experiencing battlefield flashback
analogous to awakening dormant
post traumatic stress disorder.
Mental health challenged renter
twice threatened us
(think...
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Categories:
thwarting, angel, discrimination, health, hero, judgement, lost, sad,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxx - Bang Bang Who Shot Me Down Like a Pariah Dog - Follow Up
IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXX - Bang! Bang! Who Shot Me Down like an Un-licensed Pariah
Dog ! Follow Up !
IF ever I had a country, a country without a dim shadow...
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Categories:
thwarting, america, environment, humor, planet, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Children's Poems XI
Children's Poems XI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
To My Child, Unborn
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
How many were the nights, enchanted
with despair and...
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Categories:
thwarting, child, childhood, children, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Angel of Mercy Please Intercede
Angel of mercy please intercede
Weakest most lame specimen
among human breed
control of my life I willingly concede
wordless son of a gun fires off
following capricious poetic deed
done dirt cheap while
traveling highway to hell
the speed...
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Categories:
thwarting, 12th grade, adventure, angel, atheist, blessing, december,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th 1935 May 4th 2005
Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
Test teasing prophylactics embarrassing
purchase never made at local drugstore
unsurprisingly, obviously, invariably...
birth control taboo subject, best to ignore
subsequently intercourse...
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Categories:
thwarting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Elegy
Polar Bears
Symphonic sirens serenade me from afar;
distinctive, delectable scents tickle and tantalise:
my senses awash with anticipation
as, finally, I lay eyes on my prey.
Slowly and surreptitiously,
I draw ever closer to my quarry.
Prancing and playing, oblivious to the...
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Categories:
thwarting, animal, environment, mother, mother son, nature, snow,
Form:
Free verse
Still Thirteen
a ma lingering effect from angst riddled adolescence
written some years ago, the psycho social mental events
indelible imprint etched psyche ova this pa on a win tree day hence
though a survivor of self starvation i...
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Categories:
thwarting, age, angst, crush, depression, emotions, grief, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
It Begins
the empire has had enough---
having pandered to those occupying for 2 months now,
standing cute & subtle beside, avoiding aggression
so as to avoid unfavorable photo-ops with those
resisting,
so as to avoid having the footage being posted...
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Categories:
thwarting, life, world, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
A Circuitous Discourse
Who are we really? It’s my nature to—to what and how do we know it’s our nature, an inherent part of us? “The Scorpion and the Frog” an animal fable, teaches hurting others even...
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Categories:
thwarting, analogy, how i feel, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
2009 Hyundai Sonata Funereal Lament
Unaffordable, yet valiant speeding,
tailgating, and zooming Pep Boys, I cannot dodge.
Yours truly grief stricken
(sob... sob... sob)...
wheely hard to bear
this anticipatory anxiety
riddled joker impossible
mission thwarting despair
death knell tolled (told),
woebegone news, I did fear
hears stunned...
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Categories:
thwarting, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Verse