Predator
...It hits fast with no trace
No warning…no face
Slips in slick and sips blood quick
Steals breath and whispers death
It chokes and grinds
Claws deep and rewires minds
No mercy…no pause
Just r...
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Categories:
mauls, dark,
Form: Free verse
Stone-Hearted Love
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Written: March 11, 2025
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Desert dazzling daisy,
Enchanted by the delicate dance of the wind,
swayed gently under the warm sun.
Its vibra...
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Categories:
mauls, adventure, love,
Form: Free verse
Lord, Save This Unholy Baptist
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Lord, save this unholy Baptist!?
Her lactation, like mother's juice,
slakes thirsty tongues with creamy gist.
To flush her slick love-chamber's sluice,
with corkscrew thumbs, and pr...
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Categories:
mauls, dedication, desire, god, life,
Form: Lyric
Night Labor, for Rachel Corrie
...Night Labor
by Michael R. Burch
for Rachel Corrie
Tonight we keep the flame alive;
we keep the candle lit.
We burn bright incense in your name
and swear we’ll not forget—
your innocence, y...
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Categories:
mauls, children, courage, hate, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Red Bears and Glass Snakes
...Big brother on the corner and in the sky
Big sister in the mixed bathroom
With a finger in your apple pie.
Credit cards only -no need for cash
the eagle has both talons on every greenback.
An u...
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Categories:
mauls, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Song of The Red Wolf No 8: ABAB
...Chinese medicine, thus hope is reduced,
albeit, it doesn't apply to Red Wolf.
Canis rufus, a deep southerner roost,
with southern hospitality, aloof,
unlike others of their kind. Family
oriented...
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Categories:
mauls, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
I Dream
...Written: September 06, 2023
I dream poetry Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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I wander i...
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Categories:
mauls, analogy, appreciation, beauty, cute
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Pussy Cat
...Pussy cat pussy cat
Your growls and your yowls
Your calls and your mauls
Patting me down
Making me into a nest
Your jaws and your claws
Ouch pussy cat!...
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Categories:
mauls, cat,
Form: Free verse
Brevette
...Christ carries cross
want wakes wisdom
mantis mauls mate
music makes merry
sun sparkles snowman
thinking takes time
fear frames future
ivy interlaces iochroma
caterpillar chews cottonweed
ra...
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Categories:
mauls, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
That's Love
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mantis
mauls
mate
First Place Winner: Joseph May-In Just A Few Words 2/ Co...
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Categories:
mauls, insect,
Form: Verse
Shadow Play
...Evening turns to mime -
you emerge from its cameo artistry,
your dark unraveled hair cajoles
in a lamp shaded theater.
Moments clash together.
A denuding madness is ungloved,
a palpab...
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Categories:
mauls, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall Remain
...Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls...
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Categories:
mauls, arabic, poems, poverty, prison,
Form: Free verse
Who, Us
...who, US?
by Michael R. Burch
jesus was born
a palestinian child
where there’s no Room
for the meek and the mild
... and in bethlehem still
to this day, lambs are born
to cries of “no Room...
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Categories:
mauls, abuse, bible, christian, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Each Tear That Falls
...I'm here to encourage
I'm here to support
My love's revealed
Forthwith in your court
This bitter anguish
Devours my heart
Thy trepidation
Now rips me apart
Such weight on your shoulders
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Categories:
mauls, true love,
Form: Rhyme
Cleansings
...Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind...
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Categories:
mauls, holocaust, prison, race, racism,
Form: Verse
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