A Winter Town Life Frosts and Warm Feel
...At a giraffe like height, with eyes in clear view, from a cold icy frosty windowsill, 3 stories high. I see a city forest full of snowy powdery pillows packed and stacked high and also patches of ici...
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Categories:
quaintest, winter,
Form: Imagism
Free Verse Iii
...Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
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Categories:
quaintest, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poems Vi
...Poems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
a...
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Categories:
quaintest, extended metaphor, heaven, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
...Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between cle...
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Categories:
quaintest, art, grave, grief, life,
Form: Sonnet
Merrickville
...Under a sunny divine canopy
The quaintest little village
Scattered with historic sites
Bursting with enchanted colors
Voluptuous gardens of delight
Friendly cheerful neighbors
Meander calmly wi...
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Categories:
quaintest, character, community, people,
Form: Free verse
Romantic
...quaintest of little restaurants
sweet setting for a bit of romance
lights dimly dimmed
tables set just so
menu absolutely delightful
prices meant not to give a fright
we sat there in the corn...
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Categories:
quaintest, anxiety, bullying, change, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Here I Was Hung
...I've been hanging here motionless,
for nearly two thousand years,
Beckoning thoughts oft notionless,
Rarely understood, often evoking fears.
Crumpled posture, hands out-stretched,
Cross of woo...
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Categories:
quaintest, art, christian, faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme
But For
...Though east is east and west is west,
each corner lawyers will infest,
and one thing they’ll deploy with zest:
notorious, the “but for” test.
You want to be the one who smirks,
once having st...
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Categories:
quaintest, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
The Colour of Mockery Ii
...Callous sentences saunter into the quaintest of landmarks
Capturing the cinematography that is the mockery of felicity
At times I ponder on whether its veins quake with fear
In lieu of the eyes marri...
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Categories:
quaintest, mystery,
Form: Verse