Water Lust Poems

Your flower petal lips are carnivorous,
ever-ready and always famished; 
I long to be what will satiate you,
leaving you all swollen with desire;

Ever-ready and always famished,
I’ll...

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Seduction is a movement that falls in step with the ocean’s tide.
Its power hidden in the ebb and flow,
Evocative motions pulling you outside of time.
You...

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Hallucinogenic hymnals;
I hear you, you mirror angels 
as you sit shadowed by candles;
Lost to scandals, lost to scandals;

An urge to sin makes me whimper;
With a...

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Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my...

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Are you traveling to Oron to be lost
In the mysteries and secrets of Ekpe, the Bermuda triangle
lban Isong, a land deeply rooted in the ocean
With...

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The shower is where we go to get dirty 
A domain of filthy activity & debauchery 
Together, we defile the sanctity of a shared space...

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For love cannot abide a troubled soul
Nor hold the trembling hand of aging fear
Lest it succumb as doubt makes it less whole
And yet deny its...

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You are my ocean
Catch me in your undertow
Take me to places I Would 
normally never go. 

Your currents have a hold 
on me, of that...

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I’ve got my hand in the fire 
getting high on how it burns;
I feel every ounce of it,
screw the comfortably numb;
Soothed by your rushing water,
pain’s...

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seductive poses

sensing ripples on my lake

blood in the water...

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My Black God
is real as I could imagine
worrying about defective White People
vulnerable to skin cancer
and fading water-front real estate values
in this unholy 
traumatic 
WhiteWashed Anthropocene.

My...

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When you think of flowers 
blooming you think of the 
stages they have to go through-
toget to the point of being 
admired by rhe world,...

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I paused 
To build my castle
A fortress
With a moat

Pretend I could hideaway
Savour in the solitude 
Where I could queen 
Independently

Out of harms way
Casting off all...

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I thought today
how is it like to have
in the winter, the soothing sea
lying at your feet
when the seagulls
in the beak, are bringing you poems
saved
from silver...

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As the morning light steaks across the room, you stand at the foot of the bed. You are refreshed, an awakened and out of the...

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