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The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
unfolded, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiJuvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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Categories:
unfolded, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
A Letter To Poetry"A word like a river flows through the mind" ...
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Categories:
unfolded, poetry,
Form:
Personification
Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
unfolded, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 105The next event to be held for Joulupukki was the coronation, which followed closely behind his parent's burial. He was very wary of what he would say at this event. Virtually every elf on...
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Categories:
unfolded, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Slow-Cooked Conversion StoriesI was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...
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Categories:
unfolded, childhood, christian, earth, faith, health, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Vacation In New OrleansWalking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
unfolded, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
2020At first, it wasn't my father's Oldsmobile.
Then, there came a longing for a new identity
with an invasion of one morphing after another.
Next thing I knew, there was 'no' Oldsmobile.
It seems that so many things started...
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Categories:
unfolded, america, anxiety, christian, christmas, god, hope, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
All My PresidentsIt is getting to the place where free speech is no longer free in America. ...
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Categories:
unfolded, america, presidents day,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Chapter 67 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Xvi --Home ComingThe time was 11:05. Damian
Made the essential announcement
"HAKIM the time is now 11:05
We will leave this place at 11:15am.
That's 10 minutes from now.
So use the toilet, do everything
You need to do for...
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Categories:
unfolded, black love, deep, destiny, family, flying, romantic,
Form:
Alliteration
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity
from heart to lung to brain
you’re a...
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Categories:
unfolded, abuse, addiction, angel, depression, forgiveness, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Openness, Unfolded"Energy fields extend to infinity.
Consequently they are open--
not a little bit open,
not sometimes open,
but continuously open.
The long-established view of the universe as an entropic,
closed system is rapidly losing ground.
Proposals that living systems were open systems
led...
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Categories:
unfolded, health, heart, humor, integrity, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Midnight BloomsI was a very enthusiastic gardener, who loved being surrounded by beauty,
Like the songbirds that visit cherry trees, with a taste for something fruity.
I adored the familiar blooms, but held a fascinated interest in the...
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Categories:
unfolded, fantasy, flower, garden, happiness, moon, night, stars,
Form:
Couplet
Children's FableAre you sitting comfortably, children?
Because it's a long tale.....
Then I shall begin.
Arthur was a Mason, which in case you hadn't known
is a man who sands and chisels, making shapes from out of stone.
From animals to...
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Categories:
unfolded, allegory, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years SinceAugust 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...
Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason:
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia.
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...
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Categories:
unfolded, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
The Whore and the Sea Part 2You know sailor man,
You woke the spirit in me
I thought you were drunken and carefree
I could not hope or dream
The whore of the seas must take her place
I was of the lowest cast
The lowest morale
After...
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Categories:
unfolded, allegory, angel, destiny, french, imagination, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Wicked Bad Designed Day(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one still sending hair raising shivers down my spine
which following unpleasant...
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Categories:
unfolded, abuse, adventure, angst, good friday, grave, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Peace For BlacksHello, I come to speak of peace,
The kind which saves the mind from deviation.
To give life to dead instincts,
For the lost throne belonging to black men is found.
Let the whole world come to hear this...
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Categories:
unfolded, adventure, africa, age,
Form:
Classicism
He Was the BraveSat in his chair, the tv still on
He’s not changed the channel for so very long
The message on screen says a shut down’s ensuing
But press any button to carry on viewing
The remote, untouched on the...
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Categories:
unfolded, hero, remembrance day, war,
Form:
Couplet
Ground To Pieces‘Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces’
...
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Categories:
unfolded, change,
Form:
Free verse
In the depths of nothingness, my love, a flower sprung from snowsIn the depths of nothingness, my love, a flower sprung from snows,
I dreamed of you as a splendor, an undying fire in the night, an eternal promise of beginning,
An ode in the whiteness that migrates,...
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Categories:
unfolded, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
To Which Image Should we Cling
Written: April 18, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest
Line of inquiry:
“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin like fresh morning...
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Categories:
unfolded, analogy, emotions, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Columbian Uncivil AllegiancesIt was a nasty war.
To call it an UnCivil War
is to avoid an obvious oxymoron
as embarrassing as Military Vitriolic Intelligence
through lack of Anger and Fear Management,
violently over-industrious absence of mutual civility.
We were too optimistic
about democracy's...
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Categories:
unfolded, columbus day, culture, health, history, military, native
Form:
Political Verse
Lighting of PovertyThe dilemma of unfolded experience
Thief of the universal peace
Thunder storm that terrifies the universe
You are the creature that lives invisibly within
The tremendous bug that bugs the planet earth
Uncomfortable but certainly portable to carry
Possibly replaceable...
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Categories:
unfolded, abuse, africa, character, earth, emotions, freedom, humanity,
Form:
Lyric
My Dear, Sweet, Lost Child Daughter of My Wasted Youth a Confession Part 3I am oh so sorry Gail, for my immature, inconsiderate,
selfish life style and for all that being these things
has caused you to suffer through, you who did not
deserve to have any of...
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Categories:
unfolded, daughter,
Form:
Free verse