Metaphor Passion Poems

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Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my...

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A hot sweltering sticky humid evening
Heat clings and hangs in the stagnant air
Almost too hot and stifling to bear
Floods of silver wet ovaline beads
Perspire and...

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the moment her eyes
   elusive 
yet the sea sees her
within, 
such vast
oceans her thoughts
told by a thousand
and quell not
   her active...

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I'm infactuated by the way you say my name
Captivated by this game you said we're playing
I don't know the rules, they seem to change everyday
But...

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how …

how many odes have been composed
for the sake of the human eye?
since humans first etched papyrus
or chiseled stone
or painted cavern facades by firelight
the magnificence...

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To move a mountain is a wondrous thing;
To do that which is viewed as impossible.
None thought that I would have accomplished it, but I did.
I...

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Thoughts unraveling like loose strings on a ball,
then rewound to make useable opinion.

Past and future lose all their intrigue,
in the clearness and fulfillment of a...

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your skin …

cornflow’r in the moonlite
through louvers that
slice you to tender shards
of opalescence
arranged like piano keys on
Egyptian percale
the sea of sheets we so
often drown in...

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a yearning of alabaster guilt given birth
from this mouth of words mesmerising
like rings of Saturn, behold encroached
by your retort, cutting if not comic, life
adjacent to...

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I want to get lost with you
in a valley of singing sunflowers,
where I wish they bloom
as your luminous laughter in immortal hues.
My butterfly heart wants...

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the fins
of human
quake tremendously
spills grotesqueness while dumping
the ox cosmos in the middle of smoothly
mirrored
ocean Walls

where ones choice is fixed
at dawn stagnantly brimming
in obsolete enviable damp...

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After much delay
And many episodes of going astray
Finally, I put them on
Now, they're snugly and comfortably fastened
Fitted,  strapped, and secure are my blinders
Spectators and...

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all at sea, my restive heart
waters are calm, but in calmness
   moored 
the bounty of a lover's soliloquy
raging torrents bequeath a joy 
you...

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I am so vanilla, plain but sweet,
Still good enough for you to eat....

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