Poultice Poems

Van Gogh on that starry starry night

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When Vincent stumbled home that night through a drizzle of rain ~ 
what was going on inside that teeming, torturous brain?
Did he blaspheme heaven with every profanity and curse?
Or di...

THE NIGHT BEFORE

...THE NIGHT BEFORE

Twas the night before Christmas
Just after Yule, the winter solstice
Two big events need no poultice
Between these dates, an isthmus

All stores had now finally closed
Count...

Nightfall for Kevin Roberts

...These are poems for my friend and fellow poet Kevin Roberts...

Nightfall
by Michael R. Burch

for Kevin Nicholas Roberts

Only the long dolor of dusk delights me now,
   as I await death.
T...

arrows in a poet's quiver

...poetry
goes beyond
a mere rhythmic flow of words
like a poultice, it draws out feelings and emotions
hidden between the lines, on a personal level
poetry is to be felt more so than read
when th...

Birth of the Word Witch

...What say you naive with all your poultice,
                     foolish fervor to your reverie!?”
“Mark me damned but you better hope I die,”
           otherwise I’ll be peeling your hide,
     ...

I shall find a way or make one

...(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the humpback whales 
Ships p...

Ella's Enchanted

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                   O, I see you're coming back to Ella 
of the Cedar's Tale, more and amore, 
as she gets between your skin, like a beetle at bore. 
Lang-wishing, fang-wishing her wiggle, ...

Lavender Faerie In the Lilacs

...she was discovered nursing her wounds inside my lilac tree
what are you? I asked her, could she a butterfly be?
She did not answer at first, tried to hide under her pretty wing.
Dainty and shy, sh...

Panacea's Magic - Parts Iii To V

...III.

Through the boughs, crept the goddess of healing,
   Circling around the branches with ease.
   She saw the warrior beyond the trees,
   Then stopped in her place—carefully kneeling.
She ...

Fig Leaf

...Fig Leaf

“While the fig leaf traditionally covers naked shame
The fig leaf also makes a healing tea of restoration” Quote by poet.

Ducking beneath a quilt woven of the fig leaf
 To sip upon a...

This Time Around Is For Me

...Traduced! Forgive but don’t forget is the adage
How can one heal whilst storing the ugly image?
It’s the lie entailed by cowardice…

So a mind, replete with forgiven but unforgotten
Turns irrati...

Poems About Poems V

...Poems about Poems V

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommo...

An Oceanless Beach

...An Oceanless Beach

What is it to see 
but never emerge from the dark? 

Children marvel at color, 
movement, 
perception, 
not knowing 
control mongers await them, 
famished gluttons who r...

No Greater Pain

...Hope is a collage of fragmented feelings
that fan the embers of today;
scattered amidst yesterday's ashes.
Stoking the sputtering flames of tomorrow;
egos and pride parade brazenly
upon ...

A Poet's Words

...The experience of penning one's thoughts to paper
for the perusal of others
offers a certain inner satisfaction
that must be experienced to be appreciated;
letting your words guide you
to a deep...

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