Starker Poems

Tandoori or Tangerine Tan shorts no4

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Cohorts of suits distort

Court the last resort

Damnation of immigration

Onslaught in cahoots cavort


Pander to propaganda slander

Escort darker fraught faces

From other races c...

Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version

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Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?

Mister rich lister Blister

Sinister Mandarin Minister


Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman

Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem

Podium pandemonium
 
Needs Imodium....

Wokery, no just jiggery pokery

...Febrile Fog obfuscates palimpsest varnished promises..

Naysayers hoodwinked... deluded players peeling layers..denuded..

Deafening din of our chagrin...

Espoused by rabbles roused by mandari...

Poems about Shadows and Darkness

...These are poems about shadows, poems about darkness, poems about shades in the form of ghosts and spirits...



Shadows
by Michael R. Burch

Alone again as evening falls,
I join gaunt shadows...

Transplant

...These are poems about shadows and shadowy things...

Transplant
by Michael R. Burch

You float, unearthly angel, clad in flesh
as strange to us who briefly knew your flame
as laughter to disea...

Weening Sensations

...There is beauty in your absence
     there is greatness in your silence
there is pain in your wishes
     In your innards, there are dreams
Poetry and you are synonymous
     I am synonymous...

In Mourning

...These bright summer days
             present a world starker than
                                 fall's greyest hours  
                                             8/14/22...

The Clouds

...The clouds look like they’re painted,
So still up in the sky.
My mood today is tainted;
It’s not important why.

The river ripples gently,
Oblivious to me.
I stare at it intently,
Though ther...

Some Decisions

...Some decisions must be made
And they could be the wrong ones,
Since opinions may not jive
With yours and might be strong ones.

Everybody’s comfort level
Varies so completely,
Even with the fa...

Charcoal Spirits

...A lone black crow
sits on a limb of a tree

amongst a crowd of trees
that surround the townhouses.

The trees' silhouettes 
are drawn on the brick; 

on the shingled roofs;
by the Sun this ...

Sandy Hook Poems 2: Student Tributes

...Here are tribute poems for exceptional children and teachers who should be alive today:

Emilie Parker,
the horror grows starker
as we see your sweet image
and cringe at the carnage;
but dear, ...

No Mark

...No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
...

Lilacs

...Dad's voice in my ears,
After all these years,
Lilacs the color of dreams,
Reality starker than it seems.
The callouses on his hands,
Evidence of life's demands.
Too blind to see the truth,
He...

Ode To Bobby Fischer

...Child of darkness, child of scorn,
the devil danced when you were born,
for demon seed from Morphy passed,
would haunt your days ‘til everlast.

Predestined to die derelict,
an iso-pawn so cyni...

Rebirth of My Rigour and Vigour

...Cycles of life stream reams of joy and pain
Alternating nets and magnets of sunshine and rain
Sifting through rest and strain  

When by default I favour a fault
That in my right sense I should ...

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