The Muezzin
...Before light’s encroaching
Beams, across wavelengths
Of glints, in between yawning
Protocols of waking,
The cocks strike a redundant
Note.
Choked by their own sensitive
Yodelling spree, muted ...
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Categories:
subsumed, prayer, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse
Drooping Flowers, Blaze Of Grass, And Us
...Dropping Flowers, Blades Of Grass, And Us
Like flowers droop
but refuse to die
from the heat,
like tanned fields
subsumed in the struggle
to survive and keep
the flow of transpiration,
like...
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Categories:
subsumed, analogy, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Subsumed
...You enter my starry expanse—
every thought I try to hush brightens.
I tame my pulsations with restraint,
afraid my asterisms
will say too much.
You shift along
til you entrain my world—
s...
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Categories:
subsumed, conflict, courage, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Oppression and Free falling
...Opression
Too oppressive for comfort, the proximity
Life with its array of shades, hues and shadows
Encumbered by words said and unsaid
Sentiments unspoken, muffled and silenced
Confusion vine l...
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Categories:
subsumed, appreciation, blessing, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
Lullaby of Time
...Something broken,
Something lost
‘Til what they found
Must pay the cost.
What was broken?
A heart, a mind, a soul
What was lost?...
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Categories:
subsumed, allusion, Lullaby, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
A civil war ferociously raged
...A civil war ferociously raged...
within complex edifice...
derelict hulking corpse delineated courtesy
seared, singed, smoldered smithereens
formerly robust warrior
slain during prime of his l...
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Categories:
subsumed, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Traditional Solitaire potential combinations
...Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of ...
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Categories:
subsumed, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed Reflection
...Ongepatshket torqued skewed reflection
drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.
When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then in...
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Categories:
subsumed, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
The Ones That They Call Nazis, Part Ii
......She’d long ago come to realize
that children stood by you for life,
while jobs cut you on barest whims,
she had simply invested right.
What was the use of having choice
if you couldn’t pick y...
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Categories:
subsumed, corruption, culture, freedom, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Poems I Never Wrote
...For the days gone,
For the days yet to be,
For the ones in the present yet to be decided,
As they continue to rejoice in their various colours,
Allowing even the thorns and the roses to be subsu...
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Categories:
subsumed, emotions, feelings, life, poems,
Form: Free verse
Sun Poem
...Sun Poem
by Michael R. Burch
I have suffused myself in poetry
as a lizard basks, soaking up sun,
scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light
he understands—when it comes, it comes.
A flood ...
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Categories:
subsumed, poems, poetry, poets, summer,
Form: Free verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential Combinations
...Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back...
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Categories:
subsumed, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Aether
...then the time has come, the day to look into your eyes and see that the sum of the seconds has equalized in this stagnant pool of water. if all the puddles were put together, the sea would be for ...
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Categories:
subsumed, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Nemesis
...superlative in wrath as one who avenges nemeses
sometimes a man out of hate is subsumed in sounds
propagating the use of onomatopoeias
stomping slapping and gerunding
the ancient and eternal a...
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Categories:
subsumed, 11th grade, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Terra Cotta
...Naples perches in its own white washed stucco
Brilliant white. It almost hurts the eyes.
An irregular pitch of cliffs subsumed into terra cotta tiles
Orangish-red like scales of some headless fish...
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Categories:
subsumed, metaphor, senses, travel,
Form: Free verse
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