Dark Plot Poems

In twilight's realm, where moonbeams entwine,
Two owls engaged in a contrast of minds:
A Great Horned Owl, proud and strong,
And a Great Gray Owl, cunning and...

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When they plot your death
escape is futile
so just go along
but get their DNA
and leave saliva
and fingernails 
and maybe blood
in the perp’s car
maybe you can save...

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Journey Journal Page
#11: PLOT


Ply that sure think as words heap poise,
Live your grand fest through light and dark;
Odd that verge brink where meaning stays,
Toil in...

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Radiance
by Michael R. Burch

for Dylan Thomas

The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted,...

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Alone 

Alone I feel myself slipping into the darkness of an abyss. 

 Drowning grasping at complete nothingness with a stench of death and despair....

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I am immeasurably honoured to have been invited to collaborate with as fine a poet as Robert Lindley. Our first collaborative process has been very...

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As I Plot Just One More Day

Desperate as the waking at blackest dawn
I seek only moments within eternity,
for the day upon me is long 
and...

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It’s a fine line you see between pleasure and pain…
And I will make it my pleasure to drive you insane.
The time has come to put...

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The Plot 
It was after eight o`clock in the evening before it got cool 
enough to go for a little drive my interest the savannah...

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I KNOW NOT OF THE LADY'S PLOT

This is for a lady I know not of
a lady whose face i've never seen
she has no idea what...

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The plot and the plan


A plan he was planning
a plot he was plotting
that no one dared to reveal

For fear of the mark
that glowed in the...

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Popping pills to keep me happy?
I want to drink until I'm stupid.
Waste my life away
The destination you predicted
Blood will flood my eyes
You spit ice and...

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