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Buyer's Remorse, Karma Deserved

...“Buyers Remorse, Karma Deserved”

Many voters are regretting their voting choice
Realizing they have stymied their voice
The voters on the right side of history
Will not join in their misery

...

Categories: redaction, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Solitudes

...Crowdy street at cloudy day  
Smiling solitudes in motion 
Can’t discern a word they say
It’s the roar of the ocean
Waves and splashes that repeat
Their eternal symphony
Mute the sounds of the ...

Categories: redaction, feelings, ocean, old, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

Sharon

...Sharon
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 15

apologies to Byron

I.

Flamingo-minted, pink, pink cheeks,
dark hair streaked with a lisp of dawnlight;
I have seen your shadow creep
through eeri...

Categories: redaction, beauty, body, hair, light,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...Fake the caress of a loving hand
Felt the pain of lust on demand
Fingertips touch much more than skin 
Awaken thoughts purely filled with sin
Love no longer is an action
Words committed too soon...

Categories: redaction, internet, trust,
Form: Free verse

What The Roses Don't Say

...What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch

Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...

They sway, bem...

Categories: redaction, angst, fear, lost love,
Form: Sonnet

Gods For Power

...If God
and gods
and other paternal powers
resource love,
and not hate

And if we believe
that love fades
with encroaching fear

Which can overwhelm 
personal
and professional
and economi...

Categories: redaction, courage, earth, god, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Haiku Translations Ii

...Haiku Translations II

Illuminated by the harvest moon
smoke is caught creeping
across the water...
Hattori Ransetsu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Fanning its tail fla...

Categories: redaction, dark, moon, nature, night,
Form: Haiku

Forever Young

...Forever Young
David J Walker

  	No
I should have said 
I knew you when we
	Were both brand new
And we knew 
nothing of life
And not a single thing 
of each other  
Except the unquestioned...

Categories: redaction, allegory, love,
Form: Free verse

3 Neologisms

...Circumventing
discombobulation
results in
circumbobulation

Eructing
redaction
is a form of
eraction

Malevolent
people
are truly
maloverted...

Categories: redaction, humorous, word play,
Form: Free verse

Moaning Out Meaning

...The meing
and mining
and mowing
and moaning
and meaning
and moatedness of life
could not be so different
for girls and boys,

She and he and s/he speaking indifferent
hearing purpose

Enl...

Categories: redaction, earth, health, humor, life,
Form: Political Verse

And the Worst of These Is

...There is a time and place for action
Which should feed into interaction
But that can be betrayed by blind reaction
Ending up with governmental redaction...

Categories: redaction, anger, betrayal,
Form: Epigram

Conservative Healthy Spirals

...Genetic, so therefore regenetic, conservatism
of DNA and this fractal function's Elder RNA-rooted ecosystemic
political psychologies,
ecologies of empowerment,
and not so much;
History,
and not...

Categories: redaction, blessing, culture, earth, games,
Form: Political Verse

Prophets and Messiahs

...The difference between 
bad-old-boy 
competitively evolving 
egg white privilege

And good-girl 
cooperatively revolutionary 
just-us-yolks

Foreshadows a symbiotic contrast
between prophet...

Categories: redaction, destiny, environment, nature, science,
Form: Political Verse