Mutilations Poems - Poems about Mutilations

...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 face and changed its conno......Read the rest...

...I am being forced to live With horrible malformations On my body In my body I am stuck with them for years For who knows how long The people want me dead Simply for existing They claim it i......Read the rest...

...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ... Polish by Michael R. Burch ......Read the rest...

...Prose Poems II by Michael R. Burch These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems... briefling by Michael R. Burch manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (q......Read the rest...

...from the everlasting scrap yard of common decency and the slaughter fields of raging battles never won the stench of broken values rises in foul smelling loss perfumed no doubt by the false ......Read the rest...

...Poems about Things that Break III These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old ha......Read the rest...

...Poems about Things that Break I These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old habi......Read the rest...

...It was an ordinary house, so I had no fear when they said come in. A suburban house with a red door, like many others in the area. I saw no one, but I knew they were there, somewhere. Hey! I yell......Read the rest...

...hey pete by Michael R. Burch hey pete, it's baseball season and the sun ascends the sky, encouraging a schoolboy's dreams of winter whizzing by; go out, go out and catch it, put it in a ja......Read the rest...

...Dangerous Visions I see you and you see me. We are not free anymore. Or at least that is your intent. You place the bonds... you brought with you, on all that will willingly take them... ......Read the rest...

...She has belief without comprehension and in her crutchwork shack she is much like us . . . tamping the bread into edible forms, regarding her children at play with something akin to relief......Read the rest...

...Auschwitz Rose by Michael R. Burch There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar, a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name. The world forgot her, and is not the same. I still love her ......Read the rest...

...Against communist Vietnam a war was waged For almost twenty years fierce fighting raged The French came first then the U. S. arrived Communism had grown and it had thrived. Most American ......Read the rest...

...There is a star for every shattered dream every time a person breaks a star is added to the endless canvas of the sky and as I stand Breathe and stare at those fond memories above me- I ......Read the rest...

...Phoenix and Phoenicia They had both been victims of their own sad minds stories lost told and untold narratives to be re-authored livid experience lived in silence meaning smeared in crusted mud......Read the rest...