SINKING
...These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...
Sinking
by Michael R. Burch
for Virginia Wool...
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Categories:
notary, death, fate, fire, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Rough Draft
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Gangster Hip hop is a perversion of poetry
a chant of rebellion, in notary,
serve me upon high times noteworthy high ego
malign a strategy to have you leggo your humanity
and follow the...
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Categories:
notary, art,
Form: Lyric
Winter's Empress
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Her adorned stars, crackling overhead
like embers in a fireplaced
-sweat-stones of heavenly sky lodge.
The bottomless pit of lipstuck warp ighs, ...
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Categories:
notary, art,
Form: Rhyme
Second-hand Knowledge
...The way she was standing
So open ended
The power she holds in just a glance
I checked the notary with dexterity
and the line in my head
Saying “I’m not good enough for her”
But I didn’...
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Categories:
notary, angst, crush, growing up,
Form: Free verse
POETSLAB
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Mnid playrugond a laynbirth mzaing plzuze.
Intricately woven words amaze with nuzzle.
Nurturing emotions, they ascend,
Delicate meanings, they transcend.
Piercing through the depths of ...
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Categories:
notary, art,
Form: Acrostic
Anairda 3
...you shed blood
there where they stop bleeding
your hyaluronic lips whisper
fifty-three year old grievances
for colleagues in the hospital's green uniform
sometimes you clean the apartment
en...
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Categories:
notary, emotions, life, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
The Leonardo 500
...Leonardo more than a Renaissance man
artist? yes but -
sculptor? yes but -
musician? yes but -
anatomist? yes but -
cartographer? yes but -
scientist? yes but -
engineer? yes but -
inv...
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Categories:
notary, art, imagination, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Betrayal In a Tandem
...The two women sat near the coffin as if in a dream,
The notary shuffled pompously his files,
The women wondered what his scheme was.
The old man looked at them, his face all smiles.
The dead ma...
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Categories:
notary, death, wife, women,
Form: Free verse
At Miranda's Whiskey Store Bar
...There life is different
other behavior is fine...
In this whiskey store bar,
where the toilet
is american a...
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Categories:
notary, adventure, allegory, allusion, drink,
Form: Light Verse
The Coward
...Cowards die many times before their deaths…
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 2 ~William Shakespeare
spouse
a souse
classic grouse
a big girl's blouse
portent ominou...
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Categories:
notary, language,
Form: Other
Each Day of Our Lives
...Each day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minera...
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Categories:
notary, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
Wal-Mart Convenience
...Do you have a copy machine?
Well certainly, Wal-mart said.
And she proved it.
I don’t suppose you have a notary, I said hesitantly.
I AM a notary, Wal-mart said.
She grabbed up her rubber stamp,...
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Categories:
notary, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Midnight Dreamer- -
...Midnight dreamer;
I am standing in the flames of morrow;
Flesh clings to my joints;
I am on search for tomorrow;
I can’t feel my soul, soul, soul
I am burning up inside, inside, inside...
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Categories:
notary, allusion, analogy, appreciation, dream,
Form: Lyric
The Ballad of Agnes Bean
...From ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched close his cane
To rap tap the gate of the jai...
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Categories:
notary, abuse, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Trump Giving Us the Shaft and More
...Trump Giving Us the Shaft
Knock, knock, knock and guess who's here;
It must be foolish Trump with all of his fear;
Executive order;
Go to border;
Who had given us the shaft with his spear.
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Categories:
notary, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
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