Suffices Poems

Epigrams II

Sex Hex
by Michael R. Burch

Love's full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).
 
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Midnight Stairclimber
by Michael R. Burch

Procreation
is at first great sweaty recreation,
then—long, long after the sex dies—
the source of endless exercise.

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The One True Poem
by Michael R. Burch

Love was...Read More

“Make a Sad Song Better”?

It sounds good at first glance but then who do you serve?
To solve other folks ‘problems’ suggests more than nerve!
Do you dream that your wisdom groks nightmares afar,
Your discernments shed light (or trap fireflies in jars?)

Still,...Read More

As the ballast stables, to brace the core
Of railroad ties, ships, ... steadying bases
So moral codes tying the heart, must galore
To ballast our repute from toppling paces.

With divine, must we thrash a devil's creed:
Of Acerbic vows, Sarcasm and Fatal brawl
Such...Read More

Epigrams
by Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!

Conformists of a feather
flock together.

If every witty thing that’s said was true,
Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You!

Love has the value
of gold, if it’s true;
if not, of rue.

Fierce ancient...Read More

Fully satisfied
I thank my great God
Who suffices me
richly with His grace
always, so timely…

     While abounding 
     in His mercy
     and compassion
     for increased faith…

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Another Saturday of middle men gathers, save one, be another weekend passes, mumbling about, till I spoke out, forgive me, this be the truth of it.

'Tis but a few words, that I lent to friends ears, a course set to...Read More

Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

Rear lee if ever suffices as an apt poetic title
amidst bookish canon - while
this writer (similar to other aspirants
in their respective creative pursuits)
aware arbitrary perusers may deem vile

core body of voluntary selective readers
mentally affix probationary...Read More

Once the Sinis floppers' nerves acted up in bunches, 
Scandinavians had no way to head off sucker punches.
Sacks of scamming slapstick, slap bass,
and farcefest, thick and fast, came to pass.
Not a clod of sunstruck dung by a donkey's ass 
shines...Read More

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Droplets beget
drips and drops that fall
to splash, splat 
plip and plop
in pool below.

Dew doplets
beaded on glass and leaves,
coalesce as rivulets, 
let to run down panes 
when it suffices....Read More

Morning dew frosts the window,
a beam of light stripes the room-
echoes of bluebirds trickle
among the primeval music-
before the world has woken up
a sip of coffee suffices
is enough to make you smile-
or reflect on that quiet morning
when it's you and nature...Read More

Note: Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. For those of you who are interested, the "cuisines d'amour" mentioned in this piece are as follows:
1)Spanish; 2)German; 3)Hawaiian; 4)French; 5)Mandarin; 6)Swahili; 7)Japanese; 8)Yiddish; 9)Navajo; 10)Italian; 11)Esperanto; 12)Urdu.

Pronunciation's at your own peril!

	
Valentine's is a special...Read More

When love starts
Nobody cry
Everybody is happy
When love starts

When love starts
No person is wrong
Everyone is right
When love starts

When love starts
Even play man pretends
Play woman pretends
When love starts

When love starts
Every one shines
Like the stars above
When love starts

When marriage starts
Home is a safe...Read More

We mere mortals,
Are but temporal beings.
Drowned by the wine of luxuries 
That life has to offer.
That being said, still suffices not
(Countless, numerous sins ongoing
Creating, still dreaming 
Of robots never-ending)
The forgotten warmth near the fireplace
And those which are eternal
Just to be...Read More

Now and then I yen for you.
I search to find out
What I can about you
In secret.
Where you are now,
Where you have been
What are you doing
Who are you with
I yearn to know you are safe and happy.
The details do not matter...Read More

Hot December with excitement in the air.
Parties, new dresses and meals; a treat so fair!
Most special is my last born’s birthday.
Minute monitoring of decoration’s detail
And fussing over final dressing of cocktail. 
Majestic table stands with a centerpiece;
Tempting cake covered with...Read More

One needs not all mountaintops to conquer for his mark to leave in life, the right hill suffices!







(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
        06 July 2016...Read More

The 'dusk' has arrived 
The sun has willingly  bowed
Down the silver lined  Clouds
With departure framed waves
Encompassing luminous Rays,

As I sit by the window of solitude 
Watching the 'dusk ' in control,allowing the dawn to  emerge,
There lies a...Read More

The Journey Of Marriage

Grand party, grand clothes, grand decor and grand style!
Well-wishers and greetings cheering the dulled hearts 
Silver jubilee's are celebrated by partners with affected smiles
Wars behind doors and eyes literally gnawed out by painted talons
The tongue's wrath suffices...Read More

you carve your words precisely 
like a master does a flawless diamond
infuse your images on the head of a pin
not a letter wasted 

you who
speaks from deeper within 
with every new write

never one or one hundred reads suffices
each new recite...Read More

There are paradoxes , be assured
In life that must be confronted, not endured
If there is no conviction, don’t be lured
That a drink is well balanced and matured
Then you drink it expecting to be cured
But it leaves your imbalance and immaturity...Read More

Swish thud goes the pendulum,
Giving every second significance,
With each moment as important.

Taking me into myself, for myself,
Able to access my abstraction,
Feeling my own presence positively.

The beats remind me of my heartbeat,
There, but not visible: just by intelligence;
Only these clocks emphasise...Read More

A mother that hears the cry of her baby 
does not turn deaf ears to show indifference.

A woman prepared for a culinary task, 
by all means, gathers the condiments required.

A barricadoed road, however restrictive, 
suffices not to keep an incubating...Read More

    



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Once within eternal time
of pre-bicameral lack of language,
and imaginative recreation,
I recall breathing in my Lover's richly hued nutrition,
and my Lover inhaling mine,
purging Elder lungs of misperceptions
that I owned Her
any more or less than she wanted me.

We owned this natural dialectic...Read More