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Poems About Poets Viii
...Poems for Poets VIII Fireflies thinking to illuminate the darkness? Poets! —Michael R. Burch BeMused by Michael R. Burch You will find in her hair a fragrance more severe than camp......

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Categories: owlish, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poets Vii
...Poems for Poets VII Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales by Michael R. Burch (for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics) Open yourself to words, and if they come, be glad the st......

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Categories: owlish, love, music, night, poems,
Form: Rhyme



A Worry In the Treetops
...A mottled feather glides, then pirouettes to the forest floor. Above me a deeply depressed owl plucks at its plumage. Birds of prey are too intelligent their eyes swivel on lit-up neurons. ......

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Categories: owlish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a Moment
...i wish i could be a bird owlish in my dismissals giving chase to not one fleeting memory while turning my gaze ahead eyes and focus fixed wings extended wide winds lapping upon my soaring ......

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Categories: owlish, bird, freedom, life, philosophy,
Form: Suzette Prime
California Dream
...Cruising southwards to LA from Sac a midnight filled with songs ‘n Luna, light-etching hills in a black infernal… It was a leviathan’s back on which I felt the tires unrolling a chilled grief ......

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Categories: owlish, allusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ecofeminist Blues
...Interesting how dominant or repressed, predative or victimized, winner or loser, positive or negative, show up in so many paradigms of light, beauty, truth; And/Or predetermined prejudici......

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Categories: owlish, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Owlish Wisdom
...Owlish wisdom Prophetess sees Treats delicately Bides her time Gently watching Soul’s auras Recognizing danger Keeping counsel Startled dark ones Leave vicinity Recognizing owlish wisdo......

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Categories: owlish, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Owl In the Night
...Scratchboarded stars of liquid light pouring in like rain beneath the cupola of heaven one sentinel of night A solitary figure stilled by the mutany of a willful hoot his head is bowed ......

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Categories: owlish, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hospital Forest Prickling Me
...Hospital forest pricking me not so lightly Owlish creatures staring at me Not as a person but a body One they knew they could not save But they needed for experimenting I flinched whenever I ......

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Categories: owlish, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Day and Night Greet Each Other
...Remnants owlish wisdom wafts through nighttime’s purple sky. Fox settles down with her kits, against a nurturing oak stump. Meadow and forest perform their nightly slumbering rituals. Vigilant dee......

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Categories: owlish, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Lessons From the Jungle
...Animals animals all we are Have come from the jungle that's oh so far! Happily happily we came dancing here With many lessons that you all have to hear. I am the ferocious lion king The song o......

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Categories: owlish, kid, kindergarten,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Drag Me Back
...Creepy Oozing Pimply Witchy Ominously lit by bonfire Grabs me to throw on hot coal pyre I run I jump I yell I scream They drag me back kicking and hitting I refuse to stop, never quittin......

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Categories: owlish, light,
Form: Tyburn
Celebrate Imperfection Forget Identicalness
...aye savor the faire genetic blueprint extant unique to each of us with this quite alimentary aire including (that almighty, bottom, cushiony, dimpled, excretory functioning......

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Categories: owlish, blessing, care, celebration, how
Form: Free verse
Est'Bel Strolls
...Urges ushered Est’bel out of her abode – a cottage cobbled together from cobwebs and clapboard – and she scuttled forth, her nesty hair tousled by a leaf-laced breeze In her bony hands she cl......

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Categories: owlish, magic, moon, night, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
...High noon in Fort Laramie, the summer sun is oppressive. A whalebone corset digs into my body’s tender parts. Peering from the shop, my hand touching the pane of dearly brought glass, I feel the v......

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Categories: owlish, memory,
Form: Sestina

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