Mirthless Poems

Twilight

...The corn has ripened.
With it is the wizened laughter of a
Mirthless age, showing ashy teeth
Of dappled cowries.
A flavescence so bantered by the courage
Of wilting bloom!

Sadly, sea waves tr...

As all shall stay, be it, so be it, without me

...I have condoned myself to suicide
To death
To feel acceptance, the burge of pain, enlightenment
All with immediacy 
As if i was but a figment of a whorish imagination 
I often find myself the st...

Rain

...Love falls like rain,
Onto my waxed face. 
Blending into tears of pain, 
From an unknown place.

I can’t think straight, 
I can’t see clearly,
I can’t love anymore.
 
My sight blurr...

Safe Shores

...A languorous morning 

Nestled in between warm duvets, a goose feathered pillow or two…a luxury 
A striped kitten, a beautiful shade of grey, on a windowsill grey too; purring, gentle breaths, aut...

Psychopath

...At age three she was the baby who couldn't feel afraid
A life track was set out, just the way she was made
They tested her at eighteen, with images of blood and gore
No galvanic skin response, a s...

Poems about Shadows and Darkness

...These are poems about shadows, poems about darkness, poems about shades in the form of ghosts and spirits...



Shadows
by Michael R. Burch

Alone again as evening falls,
I join gaunt shadows...

Transplant

...These are poems about shadows and shadowy things...

Transplant
by Michael R. Burch

You float, unearthly angel, clad in flesh
as strange to us who briefly knew your flame
as laughter to disea...

Grim Thrum Epiphany

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Written: January 09, 2024
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Seen through a sepia scale
Drab grief, of hiemal cradle
mirthless, a desolate land
shrouded in frozen dol...

Climbing Vines

...The paring knife of winter
undams the dense brown
blood. Asps awaken and seethe—.

Twining stems sweat,
Irregular coralla dance
around your feet, pray at your altar.

Children of the soil, me...

I Dream

...Written: September 06, 2023
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I wander i...

Melancholia

...Mournful melancholy makes her miserable, 
Murky moods move her to morosity, 
She's miffed and morbid, her mind is mourning, 
Moping about in mellow melancholia, 
Marred in misery, misty-eyed, she...

The Ailment

...We gleaned glow
With blood pulled from earth
Oil sifting.
From earth depths 
Battling the awful onslaught
We're drenched turn mirthless...

Olas De La Vida Waves of Life

...En  mar sin olas,
          sin peces,
          sin mareas,
         la vida no tiene riesgo,
         pero no tiene aventura...
         No és por lo tanto vida...
         En caminos
      ...

Empath

...a delusory warm sunlight glow breaks in cracks
through the curtains in my room
energy leaves my body
as my breath is breathed into aching lungs

a haze encircles the breeze through the window
m...

Elements Easing

...When swift wind is blowing
and birds free breeze the dale
my hopeless heart is lightened
gone the gloomy gale.

When sweet child is playing
and laughs full loud with glee
my mirthless...

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