Chocolate Prose Poems

Good to you, good for you, good with you… All things I’ve always dreamt of being. But also all things I never will be. You...

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I       woke       up

on the mattress placed in our living room. I found a...

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It is quite astonishing to hear and witness you not having caffeine on your lips as you never drink coffee. You have no allergies to...

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She is getting married today, my childhood sweetheart. I catch her eye and in that instance her sensual lips curl in a half-smile. I would...

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My soul has gone through constant torment as many have come into my life for the mere enjoyment of giving me deceit. It was a...

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Villanelle
by Michael R. Burch

Is poetry mere turning of a phrase?
Has prose become its height and depth and sum?
What happened to the songs of yesterdays?

Does prose...

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mercury and sunshine
will see you walking around sunset 
thought you are the ghost 
which 
come to frighten up the children 
how on earth do ghost...

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*** In the Dream Foretold *** A Devotion Series Poem

I am getting over paralysis from nerves twisted along my spine.  The agonies are
passing, but...

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LITTLE. ARIANNA 

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I drove down to fix a misconception with my partner,
After the rain fall,
I got there everything was different this time around, 
The blaze stand still,...

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The old woman has visions, I was told.
I had heard this for thirty years.
So I decided to visit her.
No visions, she told me, but glad...

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We bought the house during a winter storm
The widow had baked chocolate chip cookies
They would have been delicious
Without the cat hair

I discreetly pulled two out...

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Asking me if I would feel comfortable teaching PreK as a substitute
Is like asking a gorilla if he wants a chocolate covered banana.
The answer is...

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Cherry could hardly contain her excitement. 
Her busy brick office staff was hiring another apple today!
Plain sweet chocolate drop asked her if she had heard.
A...

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