Megalith
...
(center)Visions grow
out of our imaginations like vines.
We want to excavate a bare-knuckled past
with the jaw bones of concussed elks.
A cold moonlight carves them still.
They are the blunt...
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Categories:
myopically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
By the Sea
...Cold air breeze flowing over the shore, as an lifesaver floats on the glistening water illuminated by the sun, most memorable during the day as many above have fun
Frightened of the ferocious sea-...
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Categories:
myopically, 10th grade, poetry, sea,
Form: Bio
MusEcology of Peace
...I would like to see
and hear
and feel a peaceful day
and silent night
When guns
are as rare as typewriters
When partisan hate
is as extinct as flying dinosaurs
When ranting out of anger...
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Categories:
myopically, earth, health, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse
Kafkaesque
...I ponder whose hands concertina time.
Sometimes my brain wakes up 40 years younger
for a few moments I am vital,
perfectly formed and a smile for every eye.
Other times though, I arrive in the wo...
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Categories:
myopically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dearly Departing Christians
...Many of you live
humbly and heartily
patriotically and industriously
nutritiously and faithfully
in Western and Southern States,
United in this time of shrinking reservoirs,
dying rivers,
hu...
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Categories:
myopically, america, christian, culture, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Strangers and Wives
...I wake up with her,
check myself,
eyes creaking like blind stars.
She’s strange, she’s yesterday,
I remember us the week before;
wonder if tomorrow
will fade us both out completely.
We don’t...
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Categories:
myopically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Haiku Variations
...Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch
This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:
Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch
Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!
Ho...
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Categories:
myopically, autumn, farewell, seasons, snow,
Form: Haiku
Caterpillar
...The yellow and black caterpillar
concertina’s around my wrist.
Around and around my wrist it trundles
on those stumpy limb nubbins
neither veering left or right.
It’s a creature unaware of dis...
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Categories:
myopically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Haiku 1
...The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Mich...
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Categories:
myopically, family, heart, love, mother
Form: Haiku
Surbuban Magic
...Placed strategically close
to suburban hedgerows,
elderly backyard mavens
nourish generations of groundhogs.
Daily the grass is seeded
with 'Puffcorn Delites,'
bought wholesale from Costco...
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Categories:
myopically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Strangers and Wives
...I wake up with her,
check myself,
eyes creaking like blind stars.
She’s strange, she’s yesterday,
I remember us the week before;
wonder if tomorrow
will fade us both out completely.
We don’t...
...
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Categories:
myopically, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Seeds of Wisdom
...A solitary man
I make my way up the mountain
One step at a time
The life I know further and further behind
I wish to be alone
away from the busyness
the incessant noise
my many responsibiliti...
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Categories:
myopically, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Spy Vs Poet - Pen Trickery
...Spy vs. Poet - pen trickery
(A collaborative poem by Serena Storm and Joel Thornton)
Dissimulating cloak – an apocryphal script
Ah, I see "I" the spy has stumbled upon new tricks
Disloy...
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Categories:
myopically, creation, giggle, hyperbole, life,
Form: Free verse
Wisdom Tree
...Wisdom Tree
A solitary man
Makes his way up the mountain
One step at a time
The life he knows further and further behind
He wishes to be alone
Away from the busyness
The noise
Responsibili...
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Categories:
myopically, life,
Form: Free verse
Global Warming
...It’s often said that Man is very smart.
His cleverness is quite remarkable.
His brain, a rather special body part
Is hardly capable of being dull.
He never calculates and meditates
His every tho...
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Categories:
myopically,
Form: Sonnet
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