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Scythed Poems - Poems about Scythed


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...the languid petals of addiction fall in a silent way drugs to wipe clean the scribbled slate of the mind adrift and alone on the ocean of the bathroom floor down on my luck down on my k......

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Categories: scythed, addiction,
Form: Free verse
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...Mauve sweetheart of mountains your petals pulse purple twilight and scatter small stars amongst scars, whilst wars rage on the world's dark stage and the stage disintegrates, becomes a mas......

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Categories: scythed, flower, hope, love,
Form: Free verse



Poems About Dylan Thomas
...These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I have written t......

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Categories: scythed, poems, poetry, poets, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
...Juvenilia: Early Poems XI Myth by Michael R. Burch after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas Here the recalcitrant wind sighs with grievance and remorse over fields of wayward gorse and th......

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Categories: scythed, boy, poems, poetry, student,
Form: Rhyme
Early Poems Ii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch Desdemona by Michael R. Burch Though you possessed the moon and stars, you are bound to fate and wed to chance. Your lips deny they crave a kis......

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Categories: scythed, poems, poetry, poets, teen,
Form: Rhyme



Love Poems Iv
...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage. ......

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Categories: scythed, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
...Radiance by Michael R. Burch for Dylan Thomas The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil— for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet; each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil, ......

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Categories: scythed, earth, light, love, poems,
Form: Sonnet
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
...Myth, after Dylan Thomas by Michael R. Burch Here the recalcitrant wind sighs with grievance and remorse over fields of wayward gorse and thistle-throttled lanes. And she is the myth of the......

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Categories: scythed, autumn, faith, grief, life,
Form: Verse
As God Slept
...I found God asleep in my temple. His shovel lain over a mound of dirty skin. I never thought I'd see my maker yawn. His breath was cold, and yet the wind he was making scythed my face as if I w......

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Categories: scythed, dream, god, imagery, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Flowers of the Field
...Fading flowers lie scattered on the ground Scythed down by deadly horizontal hail The long, short, and tall fall without a sound Relentless dawn’s bright light begins to fail As noxious c......

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Categories: scythed, hero, horror, remember, war,
Form: Ottava rima
Paying the Piper the Great War
...A fist clenched, face muscles flexed on pinched cheeks, huge sinews appeared on his neck, The veins in his arms were like twisted lengths of blue rope and his eyes bulged in his anger, His brother la......

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Categories: scythed, war, brother, autumn, brother,
Form: Prose Poetry
Barnacles On Bones
...Sirens call And tempests toss The Dutchman asks his due. Scythed by moonlight the dark crystal sea beckons To the romantic, the foolhardy The advent......

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Categories: scythed, adventure, allegory, death, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
...I stood there half broken and sated with tears On burnt Ivory sticks made black over years This was the site of just one battle Slaughtered they were but unlike our cattle Nairobi was said ......

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Categories: scythed, nature
Form: Free verse

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