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Premium MemberHearts Save World

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Written: January 16, 2024
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Always strive to trust your heart
With everything you do, 
Don't be afraid of what others may bel...
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Categories: occluded, analogy, heart, world,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat Love Means

...I knew what love is from my mom, my first sensation
Before I could grasp its meaning, I sensed that emotion
I enjoyed it in breadth and depth as a babe from my mom
She wiped away my aches with...
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Categories: occluded, love, mom, sweet love,
Form: Rhyme



Wartime

...Walking this path.
Once populous,
Now desolate
Ambushed!
An unspeakable ambush
Now you're travailing
Just inhaling and exhaling
Breathing!
The precious breath of life
Spiritual bombs are col...
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Categories: occluded, betrayal, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCancerland

...The usual guide posts have become unreadable, 
Their stony font occluded as in an ancient riddle;
Glyphs without the Greek. 

The road is marked one way, no returning traffic,
Its service island...
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Categories: occluded, cancer,
Form: Rhyme

Starlight and Moonlight Ii

...Starlight and Moonlight II

These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …




Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch 

for m...
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Categories: occluded, dream, love, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme



Love Poems Iv

...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage. 

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Categories: occluded, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme

Heat Lightening

...Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlight...
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Categories: occluded, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet

Sonnets Xcviii-C

...Sonnets XCVIII-CII

Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the...
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Categories: occluded, bible, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet

The Tender Weight of Her Sighs

...The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch

The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found want...
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Categories: occluded, creation, depression, divorce, farewell,
Form: Sonnet

Standing Upon Timeless Thoughts

...Incongruent realities thru timeless mist,
Pursuant pleasures are truly missed…
Forever looking within horizons lost,
Endeavor endless of loves tossed…

Hearts broken between blackene...
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Categories: occluded, conflict, depression, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

When Love Breaks the Sky

...Weaken pillars of the sky 
Underneath are captured lies
Truth cracks and splits apart 
Thus was buried a broken heart.
Life bleeds from empty love
Misery felt by a carefree shove.
Sky has falle...
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Categories: occluded, love hurts, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Love Symbolism

...Catch that love
When it glides gleefully like a rock dove
Doesn't it cover the desolate abyss
Or gives love to see our bliss?

It speaks, greatest of speakers
Words that beacon ingenuity to goa...
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Categories: occluded, love, simile, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

Omens

...OMENS
O’er wintry land bare trees now sway
On wing above, black birds traverse
Occluded skies of baleful grey
Outspreading wings imparting curse 

Yet outcomes told by prescient sense
With ome...
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Categories: occluded, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Tooth Slayer

...Grinding to a halt his jaws clenching and crunching

Tim had tried all treatments under the sun like 

pills and the couch hypnosis even osteo-cranial touches

But his resentments would not aba...
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Categories: occluded, magic,
Form: Free verse

Omen

...OMEN
O’er wintry land bare trees now sway
On wing above, black birds traverse
Occluded skies of baleful grey
Outspreading wings impart a curse 
Omen of darkest consequence
Outcomes perceived by...
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Categories: occluded, dark,
Form: Verse

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