Repealed Poems

palette knife

...The canvas waits beneath a tempered blade.
A pale silver knife, not forged for war, I wield.
I paint the silence that the wounds betrayed.

The sky lies torn in strokes of celeste shade,
each sl...

Overlooking Lovers

..."She reassured me with an unfamiliar line."
Love is a mystery school, yearning for sages
well able to reckon sixes from nines.
True wits should elect sin's disbursements
rather than reflect on lo...

Pauline Hanson

...Justice?? From some ( w e f ) sympathetic civil servant
Named stewart..' I see no reflection of it. Just a punitive
Ruling 'of lawfare' upon Pauline.' Who admittedly in my
View should study more u...

the GAUD poems

...Poems from "the GAUD poems" and "the ur poems"...


& GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE
to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!”
—michael r. burch


reverse the Curse
with LIGHT VERSE!
r...

Unsettling Night

...In the wake of the atmospheric river's retreat,
A world clothed in an unusual pale orange hue,
Unsettled I felt, discomfort laced within my heart's beat,
As the sky darkened, the air grew stagnant...

CHRISTMAS EVE

...All is quiet, all is still.
All is tranquil amid the chill.
It's late December, the moon is high,
Shining brightly against the sky.

The snow is sparkling in the street,
Like diamonds scattered...

Poems About Poets X

...Poems for Poets X
Poems about Poets X



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for Virginia Woolf

Weigh me down with stones ...
   fill all the pockets of my gown ...
      I’m going down,
     ...

Soda Tax Axe

...The pols say: ‘A soda tax is OK.’
Cynical voters nix them anyway ~
   For they rightly suspect
   Pols just want to collect ~
Behind it all, a revenue grab preys 



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Her Mantra

...For a few years
my long departed granny
had one oft repealed saying.

I would take her out to do some grocery shopping
on the way there she would say
in a trembling unsure tones:
"Are we doing...

Grace

...When I think of sky
it is a study of shapes,
radiance with motion;
a lidless stadium for
wings and blissful soaring...
the mental athlete I am
some nature of me giving
all artful snapshots fli...

I Can'T Breathe

...The last of me is drowning deep in agony 
A packaged denied arrest paints a felony 
Isn't it crazily funny?
We live together in harmony 

Whereas urgent attention couldn't rescue the saga
From ...

Life Sentence

...After the diagnosis,
each moment a dream
of years and then months
and days in between

After the surgery,
the dream became real
time again captured
—the sentence repealed

(The New Room: De...

The Case For Traditional Values Part Three

...Having and holding onto a Godly nuclear family today is becoming increasingly difficult to do so! If you can home school your children. Find a good Christ-centered Christian school either on-line or ...

Yet

...My nation is filled with weariness today
Ministers might, in joy, sway in each highway
Much debts on farmers have got repealed they say
My nation is filled with weariness today
Mullers, till now,...

Game of Clones

...
Another puppet government,
strings attached gone
Proxy power given to the corrupt —
a foreign gameplan
played wrong

The latest Queen gambit
was an Old World maneuver, with 
a neo-Ro...

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