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Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable
Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable

Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the government issued Safelink
Tracfone got permanently disabled
and all the data
(including contact...

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Categories: whims, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation, black love, dream,
Form: Rhyme



Let Me Give Her Diamonds
Let Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch

Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.

Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.

Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.

Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.

Let me...

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Categories: whims, valentines day,
Form: Verse
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me

As a divergence 
from the apocalyptical, dialectical, 
geomorphological, judgmatical, 
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this 
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote 
ye may find far fetched.

Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...

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Categories: whims, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form: Free verse
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Punishment meted...

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Categories: whims, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Love Poems Ii
LOVE POEMS II

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...

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Categories: whims, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whims, books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part One
Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI  Part One

Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whims, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Multi-Di-Minstrel Message: Revival
KGOD presents ...

SALUTATIONS!!! 

Well.  Let’s just get started! 
Here at the Ogden!  The God den of music and soul! 
So, let me introduce myself to thee, 
I am DJ Multi-Di-Minstrel Messenger!!! 
Thanking you...

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Categories: whims, celebration, jesus,
Form: Spoken Word
Beware the Ides of March 2023
Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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Categories: whims, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tranmutation
Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

                 ...

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Categories: whims, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whims, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Understanding Nature
Understanding Nature

Part 1: What (I Think) God Wants You to Know!

Some people don’t understand Nature,
Feel death and pain prove there’s no God
Or if there is He is a monster,
His empathy for us a fraud.

They say...

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Categories: whims, faith, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,
Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,... 

a willing experimental subject 
to escape untenable married life.

Upon falling into a deep slumber, 
the following subconscious 
somnambulant scenario arose 
allowing, enabling, and providing 
temporary alleviation from 
outa harried...

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Categories: whims, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry
Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry

Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though no fault of his own
the raging bullish conflagration
a taste of inescapable...

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Categories: whims, cry, environment, fire, humorous, inspiration, lost, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Me and Me First
That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First" 

(To mesmerise people He needed...

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Categories: whims, political, society, world,
Form: Quatrain
Every January first of the new year
Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previous three hundred
and sixty five days in...

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Categories: whims, adventure, age, america, angel, anniversary, celebration, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring's Kindness - a Collaboration With Regina Mcintosh
Cascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal 

lavender lilacs...

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Categories: whims, appreciation, beauty, inspiration, joy, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mask of Black Spinel
Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber,
Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number.

I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall,
The aching whims and shaking limbs:...

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Categories: whims, angst, dream, evil, horror, imagination, mental health,
Form: Couplet
Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.

Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these  carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...

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Categories: whims, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
In the Minds Fixed Eye
VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";   ...

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Categories: whims, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interview with an Angel
                Interview with an Angel

After a long surgery brewed in urgency,
I lie supine with the body pining with fury
With eyelids...

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Categories: whims, angel, inspirational, life, motivation, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Haven'T Forgotten You
Sipping in solitude inaudibly,
I feel left behind like an orphan child, 
Waiting for a stranger’s ride, 
I was left on the front steps of someone else’s house and I’m left to be
An introverted child, brokenhearted,...

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Categories: whims, beauty, betrayal, grief, hope, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Tainted Vision
Conditioned since birth by customs, family, society and ego
We go about with a clustered mind 
Complicating our simple life with our thoughts and self-imposed restrictions
We don't see a human as human rather we attribute adjectives...

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Categories: whims, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I do not chase what is destined for me
I do not chase what is destined for me,
for I have felt what it's like to pursue a dream that dissolves on the horizon,
leaving only unfulfilled longings and deep silences,
like a song lost in the...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whims, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Ego
Ego a three letter word,
rules a man's world,
and make him wish,
he ruled the world!

With it in his head
man feels he is the best,
definitely better than the rest.
About himself he always praises.

Ego make him buy things
weather...

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Categories: whims, life,
Form: Free verse

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