Save Me From Myself
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{"It’s 4:05 pm, darkness is mending over the horizon, the city, I’m fighting and thrashing against the flames that shroud. With secrets yet to resign, they dwindle at nightly dusk as it topples ove...
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Categories:
scorcher, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Along Dry Path
...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid?
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories:
scorcher, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
SPRING
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Spring with full bright blossoms in cheers or zing.
Dulcet sunshine never turning scorcher.
Pigeons flutter in frolic to fling.
Colourful flow...
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Categories:
scorcher, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Modern Living
...Which social travail must we suffer
Food banks and rampant inflation
Hunger and energy poverty
go hand in hand
We have our Hitler beasts again
Putin in the Ukraine
and discordant Politicians
C...
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Categories:
scorcher, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Litha
...Humid and hot
Scorching parking lot
Longest day, shortest night
Light and dark fight
Shorts and tank tops
Sandals and flip flops
Cutting grass
Catching bass
Beaches and amusement parks...
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Categories:
scorcher, beautiful, environment, june, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Venus
...Vicious scorcher of a planet, the hottest!
Explored by spacecraft, NASA's Mariner 2.
Neighbor to Earth, but a nasty one at that;
Unlikel...
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Categories:
scorcher, humor, planet, truth,
Form: Acrostic
Sonnets Xcviii-C
...Sonnets XCVIII-CII
Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the...
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Categories:
scorcher, bible, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
The Emptiness of Heart
...The emptiness of heart,
because it was driven apart.
Her conscience tells,
Never listen those yells.
is it missing of a soul,
or just the ashes of coal.
all she needed was the calm,
or be wo...
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Categories:
scorcher, break up, cry, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Various Heresies 2
...Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You...
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Categories:
scorcher, atheist, bible, christian, god,
Form: Verse
I'Ve Got Jesus's Face On a Wallet Insert
...I've got Jesus's face on a wallet insert
by Michael R. Burch
for the Religious Right
I've got Jesus's face on a wallet insert
and "Hell is for Queers" on the back of my shirt.
And I uphold t...
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Categories:
scorcher, christian, heaven, i am,
Form: Verse
Ludix-Rym
...Spring starts the year with soft flowers
Sometimes brought with gentle showers
Air fragrant with scents that devours
Hues so bright and bold that glowers
Green grass which also empowe...
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Categories:
scorcher, autumn, creation, inspiration, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Torment of the Mind: Part Two
...Everything in the past that could get her down
Plays in her mind to the sound
Of sweet torture.
It's a scorcher
Like the burning suns rays on a hot day
Traumatic thoughts must have his way
Bu...
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Categories:
scorcher, peace, perspective, power, psychological,
Form: Didactic
Minefield
...Minefield
I wish I could navigate the minefield of my mind
Its corners dark and undefined.
One step too far, it all explodes
It explodes, my being erodes.
I walk through slowly with a hopeful f...
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Categories:
scorcher, anxiety, depression, fear, pain,
Form: Rhyme
An Early Morning Walk On the Beach
...I awoke after hearing a noise on the roof of the cottage, it sounded like a couple of seagulls, probably fighting over a piece of bread.
I was wide awake now and looked over at the clock, it said 04...
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Categories:
scorcher, beach, holiday, inspirational, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Sons of Beelzebub
...Call forth the war
Call forth a cunning shroud of aptitude
Bring down the damnation
Extinguishing the virtuous spender
Thy father of darkness, brightness
Let me call forth the dawn of a new era
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Categories:
scorcher, evil, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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