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Snapshots
Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
unencumbered, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iii
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
unencumbered, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children Iv
Poems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
unencumbered, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire Poem
Vampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
unencumbered, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
Vampires Are Such Fragile Creatures
Vampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.
Centuries...
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Categories:
unencumbered, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form:
Verse
Softly Off-Colored Poem - 2
Poet's Pre-Notes: A poem from my 8th week in a Stanford continuing education class offered on the internet, a study of free verse and structure. The poem writing technique is to write as unconsciously as...
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Categories:
unencumbered, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Flood, Christ's Death
(Necessary, Sufficient – Why? How?)
Was the ‘Death of Christ’ needful? Can ‘Mind of God’ change?
Might the rainbow then signal ‘Repentance,’ a sign
God does grow and responds too, to changes wrath wrought?
Were there souls saved by...
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Categories:
unencumbered, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
The Man In the Mirror
Who is the man in the mirror that stares back at me through eyes of blue that can scarce seen behind lenses reflecting bright light?
Those eyes appear so young and vibrant, though cast behind a...
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Categories:
unencumbered, age, celebration, courage,
Form:
Prose
Running Away From Hibernating Ren
Why is it
as I watch The International CEO Actor
unilaterally Ordering disinvestment
in both domestic and Earth's cooperative-organic health,
I feel cold harsh January snowblow storms?
Dismaying cold
calling me toward hibernating silo of unencumbered sleep,
possibly to dream of sequestering...
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Categories:
unencumbered, culture, earth, future, health, history, humanity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Refined White Values
While trickling thick amber honey
in my black decoffied coffee
I wonder why I never noticed
until just ever now
How refined white sugar
has monopolized my wider full-hued view
of more nurturing nutritional brown sugars
natural bio-resonant sweets
healthier sugar-phosphate cooperative relationships
as...
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Categories:
unencumbered, culture, earth, health, integrity, nature, passion, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Becoming Colors POTD
I was a celebrated, professional psychic, offering glimpses of rosy future;
And helping people work through problems, like pink moon, come sooner.
I had learnt to talk with the spirits, and also relate what they were saying,
To...
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Categories:
unencumbered, beautiful, color, dream, fantasy, imagery, nature, work,
Form:
Couplet
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 2
Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
CHIYO-NI POEMS ABOUT WOMEN AND DESIRE
How alarming:
her scarlet fingernails
tending the white chrysanthemums!
—Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
unencumbered, desire, flower, mother son, parents, passion, woman,
Form:
Haiku
We Must Strive For Political Correctness
By Elton Camp
It would just be the end
If by words we do offend.
There’s the devil to be paid
If we call a spade a spade.
“Vertically challenged” means short.
“Horizontally challenged,” a fat sort.
“Nondiscretionary fragrance” means we stink.
“Living...
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Categories:
unencumbered, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Tor House, Hearst Castle
Back then, I’d never heard of Robinson Jeffers. My friend told us he was a famous poet and Tor House was where he lived with his family for much of his life. Definitely a stop...
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Categories:
unencumbered, happiness, home, life, poets, simple, travel,
Form:
Prose
Then and Now
On a park bench one sunny afternoon, a teenager sat next to a stranger, ...
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Categories:
unencumbered, courage, god, growing up, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Children's Poems IV
Children's Poems IV
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Boundless
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Every day we whittle away at the essential solidity of him,
and...
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Categories:
unencumbered, baseball, boy, child, childhood, children, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Tales From the Hollow
In a windswept vale the tree had spread its branches
Its shale like trunk defined by weather had many wounds
One in particular had hollowed inside this stanchion
Braced against pervading skies and silk-watered lagoons
So clearly defined a...
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Categories:
unencumbered, destiny, earth, fate, home, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To Mr Cave
As I journeyed along the countryside on a makeshift road off the main highway, I came upon two elderly gentlemen sitting together at a fork of that road. I introduced myself to Jack Cave and...
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Categories:
unencumbered, people, retirement,
Form:
Ode
Redemption
REDEMPTION
One day, when my time was done,
I flew to the place where it was always sun,
And before me lay a fine array
Of palaces and fields where laughter held sway.
As I made my way to the...
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Categories:
unencumbered, faith, forgiveness, inspiration, introspection, judgement, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Lady Shutterbug
Lady Shutterbug had doubt
Spent hours that coulda been ‘bout
an environ pro-activist devout
Spotting celebrities, scoping it out
Not keeping abreast trendy starlets
Kylie, Mavee, Cardi B, or Scarlet
Yet little does she regret,
out...
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Categories:
unencumbered, celebrity, character, humor, rap,
Form:
Free verse
Completely Different
Its so hard to be different in many ways unique, fresh, oblique
Confronting not conforming, defying not complying
Requires courage, conviction, confidence to be out there upfront emboldened.
Shedding the safe garments of compliance, the safe hat and...
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Categories:
unencumbered, change, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
Flowerpatch Portals
The way to a girls heart
seems to be sour candy?...
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Categories:
unencumbered, angel,
Form:
Rhyme
Striving For Political Correctness
Striving for Political Correctness
By Elton Camp
It would just be the end
If by words we do offend.
There’s the devil to be paid
If we call a spade a spade.
“Vertically challenged” means short.
“Horizontally challenged,” a fat sort.
“Nondiscretionary fragrance”...
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Categories:
unencumbered, funnypeople, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Divine Appointment
There lies before me a portrait most captivating and divine. ...
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Categories:
unencumbered, color, god, light, stars,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Spain In Rain Falls
Spain in Rain Falls
There’s something different
About the rain in Spain
And being an English man
And well versed in rainfall
I should know a thing or two
About rain
It still falls horizontal
Occasionally with a side to side wiggle
But it...
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Categories:
unencumbered, naturerain, rain, sky,
Form:
Free verse