12 Minutes
...A TV drones on
Background noise
Riffing on a trash can
Moments
Without moment
Motionless predators
Devouring their prey
Popcorn
Stuck between the teeth
A reminder of joy’s
Transient cheese ...
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Categories:
solicitation, nonsense, time,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
solicitation, america, political,
Form: Senryu
Patriotism
...I wish if I have to be part of the deal wish also a wish
of patriotism like never to betray here or near or
whatever rumors?, do you know how wide is the border
or bother?,
Do you ...
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Categories:
solicitation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Astang
...I can't so joke or play or waste much time until I know
whether the english man is dealing magic
or pun the mustang horse
or mushroom rice or beans or moon
or even sometimes absorb he...
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Categories:
solicitation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Present Difficulty
...Present Difficulty
No further trouble for satisfactory adjustment,
Will long over on puzzling dilemma,
Pleasure of inhaling soothing in empty soul,
Adopts such measures over striking juncture,...
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Categories:
solicitation, feelings,
Form: Free verse
When You'Re On Your Knees
...I was moved to write this poem after watching the brilliant and thought-provoking show: "Without a Trace", Season 4, Episode 18: "The Road Home".
When you're on your knees
By Michelle Morris
1...
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Categories:
solicitation, courage, family, life, missing,
Form: Free verse
Caution
...The mind creates forewarnings
That the heart chooses to ignore
Just to have the feeling of being adored
The butterflies in the belly
Has the ambience that is exceptional
But doesn’t make you qua...
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Categories:
solicitation, anxiety, betrayal, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Money
...Money
The most preferred content of a bulging envelope
For those with a project to develop!
A solicitation by the poor,
With sometimes bent knees on a floor.
Tempter of twenty – first centu...
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Categories:
solicitation, money, power,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Poems
...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
be...
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Categories:
solicitation, children, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Doors
...Walking through many doorways every day,
think of them as doors of perception if you may.
As you create those mental spaces and ponder,
many other doors open like a chain reaction wonder.
Those ...
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Categories:
solicitation, judgement, parody, senses,
Form: Ballade
Vampires Are Such Fragile Creatures
...Vampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, wh...
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Categories:
solicitation, dark, death, gothic, halloween,
Form: Verse
It's Halloween
...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
be...
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Categories:
solicitation, cat, children, evil, grave,
Form: Verse
Love Letter From the Soul Liv
...10,
Hot wax drips, honeysuckle lips
lavender scent, mind held waft
slow dancing
with a body so so soft
sexy sweet in blood red stelletos
picture perfect mirrored off the wall
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Categories:
solicitation, love,
Form: Romanticism
Oh the Horror: Vampire Poetry
...Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil inca...
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Categories:
solicitation, gothic, horror, sensual, surreal,
Form: Verse
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
...Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
E...
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Categories:
solicitation, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
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