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Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
untethered, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
SnapshotsSnapshots
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:
untethered, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
untethered, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems 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:
untethered, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children IvPoems 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:
untethered, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Adam and Eve - Part OneYear One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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Categories:
untethered, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
I'Ve Been So Lucky In Life 1,2I’ve Been So Lucky in Life! (1&2)
(Only Raped 5 Times Metaphorically)
Poem’s Introduction
My poetry has always been about transparency. It’s about letting go of an effort to be liked by others, and allowing others to gravitate...
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Categories:
untethered, abuse, angst, faith, humor, love, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren WhiteSynopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to run afoul of him. The evil-bishop places them under a...
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Categories:
untethered, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil, love, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Man of No WordsVirgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a few...
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Categories:
untethered, veterans day, war,
Form:
Prose
My First French KissesMY FIRST FRENCH KISSES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
My first french kiss; I was lanky, skinny, barely fifteen
I had the hots for the popcorn girl, she was eighteen
She made and sold the popcorn at the Strand Theater
Our mutual...
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Categories:
untethered, first love, girl, girlfriend, growing up, kiss,
Form:
Rhyme
Most Mind Boggling Mysterious MortalMost 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:
untethered, absence, angel, angst, atheist, birth, courage, creation,
Form:
Free verse
The Otherwisethey disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
......
retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
fresh slants on shadowy delight
the foreboding, ominous,...
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Categories:
untethered, community, psychological, sleep, voice,
Form:
Verse
Islands In the StormLet the storms of rage pace us by my friends, for we have our islands
Of friendships resting in calmer waters, shelter coves of treasures devotions
Never to be rocked away, or relinquished!
Admits tidal shifting, know I’m...
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Categories:
untethered, boat, devotion, feelings, friendship, love, spiritual, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Who Would Milk the TigressWho would milk the Tigress
wears no armour gasmask
pail within squat thighs
nor bloodless...
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Categories:
untethered, freedom, mother daughter, peace, political, soldier, women,
Form:
Free verse
Unsolved Criminal Mystery Modest PrevaricationUnsolved criminal mystery...modest prevarication
Found yours truly
a grateful dead head
convenient scapegoat dejure
Norristown police officers
fingerprinted me for
casual postal employment
linked to vicious brutal crime
someone else who shared
identical name and fingerprints as mine
the latter of corpse far...
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Categories:
untethered, absence, abuse, anger, april, bereavement, bullying, cry,
Form:
Free verse
Never Land Part 1NOTE TO THE READER
Once Apun a Time
This yarn is a flossy fabric woven of several earlier warped works, lightly laced together, adorned with fur-ther braided tails of human frailty. The looms were loosed, purling frantically...
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Categories:
untethered, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Angel of Mercy Please IntercedeAngel 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:
untethered, 12th grade, adventure, angel, atheist, blessing, december,
Form:
Rhyme
Flight To MidnightO albatross guide my loosed soul
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal
persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark
I will dream while we fly
on wings that span horizons...
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Categories:
untethered, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness, innocence, life, sin,
Form:
Verse
Children's Poems IVChildren'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:
untethered, baseball, boy, child, childhood, children, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Prince of PurpleBeneath the opal white moon, the crying doves shed their precious tears,
Causing the purple rain to fall, melting at the lavender notes of musical dreams,
Camelot’s illusionary ivory towers of brilliant colors, seemingly fades unto the
Violet...
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Categories:
untethered, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international, music, mystery, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
The Deadly, Fatal Kiss of the Spider WomanAfter she drank his bitter wine of selfish, pathetic love
She slyly sang him her haunted chant
"The laughs on you", she crooned in her soft malicious tune
At times, she could act with chicane
She had many...
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Categories:
untethered, allegory, death, husband, passion, wife, words, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Untethered SmileShe walks with grace and poise
A smile that spreads joy and noise
The kind that lifts the soul aloft
In its warmth, we could bask for days on end
Her eyes shine bright like stars
Reflected in that smile,...
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Categories:
untethered, africa, girl, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Family and LoveLife is all about family and love.
July 20, 1969, this day in history
Astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on moon, 240,000 miles
From Earth, a billion people
Listening at home:
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for...
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Categories:
untethered, appreciation, childhood, family, power, student, uplifting, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
Upon Espying Aesthetically Pleasing FemalesI admit tubby distracted by a modeling
female physique when attempting to write,
an aching agony rips thru this son,
gripping with hard on – tight -
by Dickens constricting sensation,
who orbited the sun LX times
coon sitters himself heterosexual...
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Categories:
untethered, absence, adventure, animal, art, cute love, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Passion and LovePassion and love
By Michelle Morris
10/04/2022
Passion and love so often confused
Only time reveals the roads we choose...
Oh-oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh...
Sparks with lovers can pull you down
Sparks with lovers is how you drown
No one can touch you now
No...
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Categories:
untethered, desire, inspirational love, love, passion, relationship, song,
Form:
Lyric