Indian Wasteland
...It is the world of Shiva and Shaitan
It is the world of Krishna and Kant
Devi on Nandi holding Demon and Son
Devotees, Deities, Ash, Claps and Fun
Fragile girl carrying child in her arm's
No...
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Categories:
postmodernism, absence, anxiety, black love,
Form: Sonnet
Saturday With Frank O'Hara
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Mid Autumn, Saturday 6.30am
and daybreak is slowly climbing
over the back fence.
Frank O'Hara's poetry is still
echoing in my head from reading
it last night as I cook breakfast
of bacon and...
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Categories:
postmodernism, autumn, poetry, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Academy
...I went to school to try and find
new ways to write creatively.
Professors challenged my young mind
with homework drills approved by the
Academy.
Postmodernism ruled the day.
No metered rhymes...
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Categories:
postmodernism, poetry, school,
Form: Rhyme
Another Bukowski Nightmare Begins
...another Bukowski nightmare begins
the castrato sings below
while she calls from the minaret
fossicking thru the memories
for our linked verse
while i, sitting beneath the coolabah
river on the...
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Categories:
postmodernism, satire,
Form: Free verse
Simulacra's Deceit and Truth
...Signs and symbols as idols for truth’s god as meant
Introspection of man’s society by society
Mirror of conceit and the non-existent
Universal veiling of this reality
Long gone days are dream...
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Categories:
postmodernism, deep, philosophy, religious, society,
Form: Acrostic
Away With the Wind In Time
...Join me, in my hand, ??
Join me in the Institute for a Common Humanity.
Here I perch, naked and beaten, on a tiny glass slide within a microscope.
It is wondrous to find that this skin is formed...
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Categories:
postmodernism, allusion, beauty, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Your Professors Are Lying To You - I
...I.
You hear the most vile garbage
come from young people’s mouths these days,
that America is evil,
it does not deserve to be saved.
The fact they’re not shot in the streets
means at least we d...
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Categories:
postmodernism, art, corruption, education, how
Form: Rhyme
Rejection Slips 4
...Rejection Slips 4
Editor's Notes
by Michael R. Burch
Eat, drink and be merry
(tomorrow, be contrary).
( and complain
in bad refrain,
but please, not till I'm on the plane!)
Write n...
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Categories:
postmodernism, internet, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
No Free Lunch
...A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
...
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Categories:
postmodernism, irony, satire, society,
Form: Free verse
Preys Postmodernism
...Postmodernism’s the fashion ne’er manque.
We must study Foucault and his scribes.
Get reason trapped and do not court delay.
You need to find your intellectual tribe.
Where is the goose which ...
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Categories:
postmodernism, philosophy, satire,
Form: Sonnet