Gambit
Can I say, I love you ?
Will you permit?
Or you can do just one act of love
to caution; you might be a gambit.
(17.03.2025)
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Categories:
permit, confusion, love,
Form: Rhyme
Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call
Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call
by Michael R. Burch
(a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)
The hardest thing of all,
after telling her everything,
is remembering not to call.
Now the phone hanging on the wall
will never announce her ring:
the hardest thing of all
for children, however tall.
And the hardest thing this spring
will be remembering not to
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Categories:
permit, absence, children, death, eulogy,
Form: Villanelle
They Heard It Screamed a Damn It
When they heard it screamed a 'Damn it!'
One of them had dared to submit
That Charles, Incurable Hermit,
Chair their forthcoming First Summit
"I'm not shocked, his own dad Hermit:
Why wouldn't he such views permit?"
More screams of 'Bull !' and 'Damn it!'
Didn't George reckon that summit.
To hermits is outside their remit
Not like to a kin cash remit
And face
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Categories:
permit, change, community, hate, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
My Permit To Kill
He is a piece of me,
That was cut off my loin
And manifested in a she womb.
Ever grateful for bearing my name.
Be firm for my misstep and my fame
For i bore a true reflection in person.
The bearer of my blood seal
The only reason if am to blood spill.
Poyetik enej
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Categories:
permit, boy, love,
Form: Free verse
Hate Came With a Permit
Hate traveled on four wheels,
Illuminated the night,
And came with a permit
Two by two
Hate came to unite
The night
By the light
The bright white light
From every torch in sight
Hate faced the resistance
In the darkness
But hate's light
Could not outshine
"This little light of mine"
Hate could not outshine
Tyler's hugs
Hate could not outshine
Heather's
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Categories:
permit, social,
Form: Free verse
Permit Me
If I think how will dawn;
Can I see the morning light?
Then the unrest will consume me,
I'll be sick then.
If I think tomorrow I may die;
Then my dreams will die,
I will be older from my mind,
Frustration and depression will eat me up.
Can people live without dreams?
Allow me to bathe in the sun's light,
Let me touch all
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Categories:
permit, autumn, confusion, depression, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Kermit Left Cold Permit
Kermit Left Cold Permit
An actor who was named Froggy Kermit
Wanted to live in silence like hermit
Till wife called him old
He told her she’s cold
Kermit just croaked her an ill cold permit
Written:6/2/15
Theresa Marie
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Categories:
permit, fun,
Form: Limerick
My Sullivan Needs a Work Permit
Hey no ifs ands or buts about it
problems come from a bottomless pit
Chicken roasts and all
the roots of your fall
My Sullivan needs a work permit
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Categories:
permit, fun,
Form: Limerick
Permit Me
Permit me if you will to speak of
this great obscurity called love
I am not here to preach or feed
your preconceived clichéd ideas
of linguistic and rhythmic words
live above and dove.
I am here to invoke what is
already deeply embedded in the
very Fabrics of your soul.
I want to insight that traitorous
smile
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Categories:
permit, lovedesire, love,
Form: Carpe Diem
This Is Dedicated To the Woman Ilove Who Just Got a Carry Permit For a 45 Caliber Pistol
THE COLOR OF THE WIND WHICH IS WEDDED TO WINTER’S MUSE AND
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Categories:
permit, artmusic, me, music, giggle,
Form: Narrative
Permit Me
Deliver me into the arms of the one
That has renewed my hearts life
My life’s now begun
Let me gaze upon her beautiful eyes
As they see me completely
Accept no surprise
Let me know the scent of her skin
As the air provides it lift
To my nose, there within
Let me hear her words softly in my ears
As her breath enters
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Categories:
permit, fantasy, life, love, wife,
Form: Free verse