Bodily
...Bodily
We are looking for in the universe.
In the hardening of the liquid.
Crustacean particles in the oceans and seas.
Fat that can be formed by proliferation of oxides in space.
Oil in g...
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Categories:
oxides, animal, earth, history, life,
Form: Free verse
Isis staind 27 plus years
...Isis staind 27+ years...
of scorpion stinging poison us marriage,
whereby the missus and I,
nevertheless experienced genesis as
mama and papa respectively.
(jest kibitizing)
thus explain...
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Categories:
oxides, adventure, angst, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Tranquil Skies
...Oxygen saturates the skies breathing fresh air in my lungs and helium resting on my shoulders beckoning the universe to come. You can see hydrogen running down the street with pressure mounting in it...
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Categories:
oxides, absence, community, corruption, earth
Form: Narrative
Isis Staind 26 Plus Years of Marriage
...Isis staind 26+ years of marriage
Yes, believe me you,
I (also considered the best karaoke singer
for the go-go's)
putting Shabrina Leonita to shame
back in two thousand and twenty one
once...
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Categories:
oxides, adventure, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Until the End of Days
...When the last wild tree has fallen,
Concrete covered last bare earth,
When we've finally completed
Rape of the Mother Earth,
When the last bird has flown freely,
The last wild animal safely cage...
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Categories:
oxides, environment,
Form: Rhyme
The Whiskey Burn and the Tequila Sweet
...The nest you vowed to leave
When you were a fledgling
The annoying crows of the big bird
You clicked your tongue at
Are now turning into fond memories
The nights of staying up until 6am
After ...
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Categories:
oxides, drink, heartbroken, memory, missing,
Form: Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - I
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael ...
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Categories:
oxides, evil, holocaust, racism, truth,
Form: Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Iii
...My most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a ...
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Categories:
oxides, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets X-Xvi
...Sonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes'...
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Categories:
oxides, art, body, god, life,
Form: Sonnet
Roses and Lilacs
...Winter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the wi...
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Categories:
oxides, desire, longing, love, nature,
Form: Verse
Auschwitz Rose
...Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her ...
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Categories:
oxides, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth,
Form: Sonnet
What Are We Doing To Us?
...What are we doing to our planet?
Processing oils,
pumping air with oxides;
be them sulphur,
or nitrogen gas.
Burning coals,
manufacturing chemicals.
Making acid rain -
burning our -
dumb ...
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Categories:
oxides, caregiving, death, dedication, depression,
Form: Free verse
Mars
...Red planet in the dark,
Iron Oxide lights your spark.
In search of great, there is not much greater,
then the planet of valleys, deserts and craters.
Spots of white look not unlike snow,
but, i...
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Categories:
oxides, education, family, science, visionary
Form: Free verse
Ojo Caliente
...Where the chug of boiling water pumps
and spills its acids, oxides,
to dye the ice-slabbed hillside orange-red
desert colors, we loll naked in a pool
lulled half-asleep; first drugged in a broth...
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Categories:
oxides, art, life, drug,
Form: Classicism