Prevarications Poems

Flee from Him

...
    Dissonance in me awakens
       Feelings faint and badly shaken

    by hearts - come clean - that are now achin'
       no thanks to my prevarications …

    Women: Sense a man’s unease ...

Isolation

...I

It is dawn.
Brother, rise.
Let us give vent to the rising sun, and with claps of the
Mind, welcome its waking ecstasy.
Distances prevail — measured on the sun’s distance
From the soils.
Ep...

Variations On a Theme

...Variations On A Theme...
of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.

Ach'n (ache Ken and burn'n) 
kickstarting existential and proverbial struggle
me species...

Read

...Read
Trees (solidity presenting)
Fluttering leaves
The light kissed plants merry with the wind free and clean
The rain stream glimmering to
a speckled burst of sun
Gentle easy rolling chuckle o...

Observance

...Observance
by Michael R. Burch

Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

By dying leaves an...

You

...You!
by Michael R. Burch 

For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.

For thirty years You would not open to m...

Variations On a Theme

...Variations On A Theme...
Ach'n (ache Ken) Existential Struggle...

(NOT by Bellini, Paganini, Rossini...
Eeny Meany Miney Moe - si,
nor the three stooges tee hee hee)

twill never end till...t...

A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I

...(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions ...

Forceful Rebuttal

...Believing prevarications, from you, confined,
  taking the route to the open lands, so blind,
    unsighted within alternative techniques,
     you and me in contact, two afflicted, combined,
...

The Trial of Christopher Okigbo

...I

Hungry earthworms
Forever entombed in the bowels
Of mother earth
Awake

Defy this asceticism and prostrate
For your ultimate destiny
Lies not in the dogmatic 
Steady march along beaten footpaths

...

Oso, the One-Eyed Wino

...Oso the One-eyed Wino

By Gary L Thomas

...has a doubly unique perspective on this
Flat world. The depth that passes as distance
From an objective makes him subject to
Prevarications, half-truths an...

My Love Stripped Bare

..."Limpid pools of prevarications laid down and to the left.The ayes and nays of what lay between us , belie sweet spoken claims of truth.A Chalice filled with promise is naught but empty if held and t...

Restlessness

...I sit here and try to digress
To grapple on the hold of restlessness
Feelings of tyrannical fearlessness
Close your eyes and be helpless
Oh I throw my hands up to be rid of this mess
I roam and ...

Prevarications

...Lie
on 
shifting 
sands of truth-
in pragmatic hands....

Rancorous Benevolence

...Archangel that sways upon my peripheral pedestal,
 Your eyes flutter gaunt pernickety,
An anachronistic presumption that does not grant fastidious rebuttal,
 A perennial anathema that balances on ...

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