Shriveled Poems - Poems about Shriveled

... I live in shadow, a sweet sunflower sown on the dark side of your selfish need to dominate each spot of joy. Stunted and shriveled my bloom is thwarted, your need for nectar to keep......Read the rest...

...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......Read the rest...

...Growing my hair down below my knees... stimulated courtesy follicles, where Coconut, Olive, Grapeseed, Jojoba, Amla and Vitamin E oils allowed, enabled, and provided head start germinating pe......Read the rest...

... I’ve never been where they tread, chasing mirage through desert storm. I look at evasive eyes perennially petrified, see their void vision fixed fast on fantasy, shroud of de......Read the rest...

...Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call by Michael R. Burch (a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch) The hardest thing of all, after telling her everything, is reme......Read the rest...

...Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks... studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe My utmost humblest apology for inducing the following cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium, but ......Read the rest...

...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION Fly’s Eyes by Michael R. Burch Inhibited, dark agile fly along paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn by radiance compounded thousandfold,— I......Read the rest...

...My eyes couldn’t help But wander And smile at every passing inch Aimlessly following the walls And your voice Throughout the house you lay your head at night It was cozy Decorated d......Read the rest...

...Pull me apart go ahead I can't think anymore so I don't need my head. And oh my heart take it too it's dead inside all shriveled up from losing you. Take my lips I need them not th......Read the rest...

...Dear reflection, As you are still, you seem so far away, hollowed eyes with an abundance of nothingness to say, Yet power lifting as if you are sun-flooded with strength, The voices you he......Read the rest...

...Written: January 1st, 2023 Rumi's verse, "The desert beckons us as if it were the oasis," ____________________________________________ An endless, lifeless moor—......Read the rest...

...I came upon a fragrant flower Deep blue and green at midnight hour A smell from which I couldn’t name Distraught was I it sounds so lame I stuck my nose inside its bloom Breathing deeply it made......Read the rest...

...The beauty of the leaves embraced their difference As they shriveled ‘neath the sap drained Maple Celebrating their continuum in the soil A sadness tinged the sun’s smile The mindless flocks fl......Read the rest...

...Daddy potato head was using his hoe in a wicked way Chopping up parsley and rhubarb, throwing it past Monday Tuesday did not like it, it is shriveled and dried up he said. Daddy Potato head did no......Read the rest...

... No goods today No table spare Contraction themed Hole round, not square Diversion signs A blocked traverse A clear sans passage A please reverse The flower that Just won't unfurl Th......Read the rest...