the future as Irony
...The Future as Irony
If we try to look ahead, say ten years when ex-president Trump sits in a cell in Arizona sent by Elon Musk, who rules the world and has an army of all-seeing AI officials, peop...
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Categories:
reviles, absence, angst, april, best
Form: ABC
Raining in Summer
...Unseasonal summer rains at once burst
Everywhere litter and garbage dispersed
Making men run here and there for shelter
In no time, life becomes helter-skelter
Unexpected like facing an old f...
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Categories:
reviles, rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Best Sports Poems Ii
...These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II
The Locker
by Michael R. Burch
All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation or senti...
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Categories:
reviles, baseball, basketball, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
Nocturnal Mask
...The smoky structure of forgotten dreams,
buried in the breath of lost denial
Stealing from sleep what life rebukes
—disguising what the coming dawn reviles
(Dreamsleep: November, 2021)...
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Categories:
reviles, dream,
Form: Rhyme
A Lull-
...In a lull, I’m calm in placed in a sleep;
With soothing sounds and movements, that peeks;
"The rhythm of the soothe quiet hush, what a rush”;
Lullaby pauses, that cessation, of my respite...
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Categories:
reviles, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Tristich
Enforced Stupor and Torpor
...A coterie of unschooled children in tow
A blind woman shambles from street to street
Stretching an emaciated hand in a row
Hoping a coin her kitty will greet
From impoverished passersby
Who ti...
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Categories:
reviles, poems,
Form: Free verse
Unquotable Quotes - Friends - Xvi
...Unquotable quotes Friends – XVI
Can friends also be lovers ; not certainly under covers.
Can friends do one another harm and stay calm ; not unless they have lost their sense of alarm.
Can yo...
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Categories:
reviles, best friend, friend, humor,
Form: Epigram
I Am Not My Fear
...I feel I am drowning
In open air,
Clawing at dirt that isn’t there
No one sees my distress—
No one really cares
Clacking, scraping sounds
Of glasses and plates
Echoes of breathing and voices
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Categories:
reviles, anxiety, appreciation, fear, growth,
Form: Free verse
Her Kiss
...The fire glows throughout southern hill
The pulse of one’s soul one can feel
The castle is formed by one’s will
It is a glorious structure and marvel of engineering ornamenting the hill
The kni...
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Categories:
reviles, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Wondrous Journey : 7-12-14
...It is simply being at a still point, where silence speaks
volumes.
Where guilt turns to tranquility and I can trust to risk or risk to trust,
either way, it doesn’t matter. It is a matt...
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Categories:
reviles, color, dream, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Man and Wife
...Dreamcast silver
solid pikes,
made out of human skulls.
Window seated
man and wife,
drown the coach with love.
Angry voices in my head
sense the sight
and smile.
Midnight murder flowing red;
cold ...
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Categories:
reviles, jealousy, lonely, love,
Form: Free verse
Making Poetry Out of Anything
...After I have continuously fed the moon with my
spoon of inspirational feelings
Soon I noticed; it never grew fat,
but stayed toon, like an animated raccoon
so I had to enhance the moon, to a glow...
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Categories:
reviles, dedicationinspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry
C'Mon People, Really
...C’mon people, we have sunk even father out of the line,
Romans Chapter One.
C’mon people, haven’t we turned completely mad, insane,
we don’t listen to God or His Son.
C’mon people, Christians,...
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Categories:
reviles, faith, god, god,
Form: Rhyme
Obsacles
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My life has obstacles.
So very many obstacles.
There have been forks in the road.
And I have taken the wrong path.
But with each of these wrong turns,
a new path has opened up for me.
And wi...
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Categories:
reviles, life, life, time,
Form: Free verse
The Card Dealer
...the cards in my hand,the lights everywhere camera's
in my eyes.
flashing lights everywhere,nervous inside don't know
what to do.
concentrate,concentrate.stay on task.
look at the dealer straight...
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Categories:
reviles, imagination
Form: Free verse
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