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Love Poems Iii
LOVE 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
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:
untethered, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Rip
R.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 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:
untethered, 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:
untethered, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
Adam and Eve - Part One
Year 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 1,2
I’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 White
Synopsis
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 Words
Virgil 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 Kisses
MY 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 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:
untethered, absence, angel, angst, atheist, birth, courage, creation,
Form:
Free verse
The Otherwise
they 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
The Bomb II
To boil with all the energy of Hell
may set aflame untethered wherewithal,
for once expended nothing can foretell
the limits of demise that may befall.
A single match may flicker to a flame
or simply set the whole of...
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Categories:
untethered, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Islands In the Storm
Let 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
Love at first sight
I asked her
do you believe that as soon as any man walks into a room and he’s eyes fall so completely upon someone like you he can fall in love?
at first
she didn’t answer
she just...
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Categories:
untethered, appreciation, love, love hurts, sweet love,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Would Milk the Tigress
Who 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 Prevarication
Unsolved 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 1
NOTE 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 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:
untethered, 12th grade, adventure, angel, atheist, blessing, december,
Form:
Rhyme
Falling Forward
I divorced the sky, once too heavy,
Each cloud a promise I couldn’t trust—
I watched it tear apart, not softly,
But with a thunderous, elegant thrust.
I unbuttoned the stars from my chest,
Left the moon dangling, bruised and...
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Categories:
untethered, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Flight To Midnight
O 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 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:
untethered, baseball, boy, child, childhood, children, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Prince of Purple
Beneath 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 Woman
After 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 Smile
She 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