Every rose has it's thorns, but not her
...What is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen?
A flower,
white and pure,
in a field of debris.
The lily maiden,
a lotus in the troubled oceans,
sprouting and unfolding,
emerging amidst gla...
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Categories:
nuzzles, beauty, extended metaphor, flower,
Form: Free verse
Foreplay
...Cuddles and feelings make the world so good.
Hushed our embrace, our silence understood.
Ten spare lights, as our romance is revealed.
Jenni in love, our hearts gently healed.
Jenni I allow you t...
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Categories:
nuzzles, desire, emotions, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
Velvet Night
...Eight Words 2 8-8-24
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Velvet Night
On a warm, velvet summer night,
When moonlight drips in a soft SIGH,
The scents of LILACS bathe starlight
An...
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Categories:
nuzzles, night, summer,
Form: Quatern
Epigrams V
...Epigrams V
Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars
applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry?
—Michael R. Burch
Teach me to love:
to fly beyond sterile Mars
to percolating Venus.
—Mic...
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Categories:
nuzzles, irony, jealousy, judgement, life,
Form: Epigram
Intimacy Ignition
...Floral fragrance
Fizzes
Nasal nostalgia
Nuzzles
Pristine passion
Persuades
Testing
Tempting
Lips-lust
Lingers
Hypnotized heart
Heaves
Cosmos
Countermands
First time?
Full-tilt fast...
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Categories:
nuzzles, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Feline Majesty
...Graceful and sleek, with fur so soft,
A feline beauty, aloof and oft,
She prowls the night with watchful eye,
In search of prey that scurries by.
With stealth and skill, she makes her move,
He...
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Categories:
nuzzles, animal, cat,
Form: Quatrain
Nowhere Can the Golden Light Stay, Mourning For the Queen
...In the waning moments of daylights song;
night birds at rest call softly to the stars
cicadas and crickets noisily sing;
as the golden hour waves goodbye.
Baby deer and ducks look on am...
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Categories:
nuzzles, 12th grade, bereavement, death,
Form: Verse
Sweating Snow
...sweating snow, travel
a go? heavenly flakes
fluttering, stimulating, drawing
attention to themselves
cockapoo doesn’t sweat
his tail, sweep
sweep,sweep
his black coal nose nuzzles
the gl...
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Categories:
nuzzles, animal, weather,
Form: Free verse
With Breakfast On Their Whiskers
...snuggled up to the gentle fire
under the moon and stars
he rests his head
and nestles into
a long lingering
swig of whiskey
that drifts his mind
on the night breeze
like the billowy puff
s...
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Categories:
nuzzles, aubade, dog, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Rounds
...Rounds
by Michael R. Burch
Solitude surrounds me
though nearby laughter sounds;
around me mingle men who think
to drink their demons down,
in rounds.
Now agony still hounds me
though else...
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Categories:
nuzzles, addiction, birth, drink, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Unblinking Third Eye
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Magnetic connect,
select and effect,
as of heart’s yearning
and desires burning.
Vibrational touch
sans mind’s thought flow crutch,
enabled by grace,
pierces veil of space.
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Categories:
nuzzles, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Morning's Fresh Breath
...Early bright lithe and lively morning fresh breath,
Swish through and with a courtly, pirouette.
Breezing trees hear the whispers of their own leaves.
The rain's philter makes th...
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Categories:
nuzzles, feelings, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Old Town
...Little sways in shower streams
bring on fond memories of sweet
Old Town. Fountains, heavenly
guides. Bricks and rubble take
witness to unheard passions and
half hearted lies. Flats and floatin...
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Categories:
nuzzles, art, childhood, desire, friendship
Form: Free verse
Meeting Your Baby
...you fall in love
faster than you ever did before
stunned you have lived without this creature
who mews like a baby kitten
and nuzzles your arm
you feel invincible and alive
for the first time e...
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Categories:
nuzzles, baby,
Form: Free verse
Luminous Venus
...Lavender moments after the sunset
Unhurried glow blends in dark of night
Memory of the day draped in shadows
Invisible photons waltzing too bright.
Neon blues in promise of cosmic.love
Obscures...
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Categories:
nuzzles, planet,
Form: Acrostic
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