Who's watching over me?
...As the sun set, I wander around to find a place to sleep for the night,
clear dark skies allow me to see the different lights that follows me
It look as though they are the astrology constellation...
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Categories:
propellers, confusion, night, sky, stars,
Form: Free verse
WHO ACTUALLY IS LIKE US
...Who actually is like us
The modern world you see today
Right before your eyes,
Who done this and who done that
Well you’re in for a wee surprise.
From the Bank of England to the Bank of France...
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Categories:
propellers, appreciation, inspiration, motivation, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Ladder of Jacob
...7/11/23
As a new day comes
Had to find out what I'm truly made of
In a world full of fake love
That's the I hate cuz
One of the reasons I'd take drugs
And always stay drunk
Getting closer...
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Categories:
propellers, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
I Bought a Submarine
...I bought a submarine. Not the sandwich either, a full on submarine. I got rid of all the useless stuff of course. Scrapped all the metal hulls, dumped the useless motor, left the curved propellers in...
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Categories:
propellers, image,
Form: Prose Poetry
Free Verse Iv
...FREE VERSE VI
Reason Without Rhyme
by Michael R. Burch
I used to be averse
to free verse,
but now I admit
YOUR rhyming is WORSE!
But alas, in the end,
it’s all the same:
all verse is u...
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Categories:
propellers, freedom, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Live For the Cheers, Die By the Boos
...LIVE FOR THE CHEERS, DIE BY THE BOOS
"If you live for the cheers
you'll die by the boos"
Ephemeral joyful pool of tears
exterminate joy and invite foes.
Deceitful applause and wrong peers
ar...
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Categories:
propellers, 1st grade, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Aves Appetiser
...How dare goddamn Laura divorce him
After thirty years arduous pre dawn sacrifice
Menopause made her dismiss marriage on a whim
Told Rod he'd not have true love twice
Victi...
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Categories:
propellers, anger, august, beach, character,
Form: Rhyme
The Charmer
...Bringing luck to all on whom she lands,
her six propellers tickle the hand.
With spotted Elytra of red and black
symmetrical patterns to say stay back,
to predators who would harm this...
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Categories:
propellers, garden, insect, nature, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Sun Smiles-Moon Frowns
...Up at the crack,
the crack of Dawn,
thankful for a new day.
Light peeks
from behind the trees
rubbing its eyes,
yawning, sprightly smiling.
Soaked in the spring
of life-giving yolk -
no or...
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Categories:
propellers, imagery, moon, sun,
Form: Free verse
Cityscape
...A tugboat, a ferry, a Circle Line cruise
All chug by on the river, for me to peruse.
A breeze gently blows as the waves settle down
As I soak it all up here on my side of town.
A ‘copter flits ...
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Categories:
propellers, city,
Form: Rhyme
Catarrh
...Meanest Bouncer of visiting oxygen
Like a scarf of coarsest jean,
Ever keeping it and the nostrils at arm’s length,
Displaying its suffocating strength.
Oxygen keeps loitering at the fringes of...
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Categories:
propellers, drug, health, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Defenses
...These are poems about war and defenses.
Defenses
by Michael R. Burch
Beyond the silhouettes of trees
stark, naked and defenseless
there stand long rows of sentinels:
these pert white pi...
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Categories:
propellers, conflict, evil, fear, prejudice,
Form: Quatrain
The Dance of the Whirling Wheel of Lights
...In the twentieth year on the 11th day of the first month
I saw a vision and the skies open up before me
As I stood facing the south direction the Sun began to dance
In colors of light
The Sun...
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Categories:
propellers, birth, earth, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Mending
...Mending
by Michael R. Burch
for the survivors of 9-11
I am besieged with kindnesses;
sometimes I laugh,
delighted for a moment,
then resume
the more seemly occupation of my craft.
I do ...
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Categories:
propellers, stress, surreal, sweet, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
In Juneau
...In Juneau, it's thrilling -
The air's always filling
With seaplanes, propellers a'whirl.
They glide on the water
And land where they oughta,
As smooth as a necklace-grade pearl.
The cruise s...
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Categories:
propellers, travel,
Form: Rhyme
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