The Power of Raw Vegetables
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Recently my nutritionist – a health
freak if ever there was one – suggested
I eat raw vegetables like cabbage, kale,
asparagus, brussel sprouts, cauliflower
and broccoli, all of the crucife...
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Categories:
supercharged, health,
Form: Light Verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories:
supercharged, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it d...
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Categories:
supercharged, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Mind of our heart
...In our silence, if thoughts intrude,
recognise that they manifest,
owing to cravings rude and crude,
offered to us as a life test,
so if we rain dance in the nude,
childlike innocence will be bl...
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Categories:
supercharged, heart, joy, silence, spiritual,
Form: Hybronnet
Supercharged
...She was depressed,
Sometimes it would take awhile
To feel it, know it,
But this time she could literally see it.
Her eyes had sunk into her clouded mind
Shading all she saw.
The sun hurt her,...
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Categories:
supercharged, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Without Prejudice
...it’s said we can’t outrun our past ~ yet the cosmos does so every day
and whilst mankind tries catching back up ~ monkeys remain much the same way
intelligence has surpassed evolution ~ one m...
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Categories:
supercharged, allusion, humanity, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Love You Messages
...When the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence
loves homophob...
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Categories:
supercharged, health, love, peace, political,
Form: Political Verse
Poems About Dogs
...Poems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently ca...
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Categories:
supercharged, animal, dog, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Hot Rod Baby
...Body of steel
Ready to deal
You get the feel
Supercharged
All revved up
With the cover up
Me behind the wheel
Oil and sleeze
Punch and Squize
Engine grease
Running like a breeze
You make...
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Categories:
supercharged, adventure, car, crazy, crush,
Form: Lyric
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
...Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly m...
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Categories:
supercharged, aubade, beauty, dog, for
Form: Free verse
Angelina
...I.
Angelina was the first girl hugged
By the shiest boy in the grade above her.
Happenstance.
He didn't even love her
Because at the time
Love was on his mind
And it consumed him
How absent...
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Categories:
supercharged, desire, first love, passion,
Form: Narrative
In Possession of the Master Key
...Writing affects your brain!
So all I want to do is write craftier and harder,
Using supercharged thoughts, converted from quantum data,
Letting it rain, running through my veins,
Seen, then cau...
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Categories:
supercharged, allegory, deep, meaningful, truth,
Form: Free verse
Orion
...liquid oxygen, nitrogen, napalm
the many methods of modern BBQ
multi-pronged igniters injecting mainline
high pressure laser guided fusion reactors
subatomic quantum mechanical quasar energy
pho...
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Categories:
supercharged, space,
Form: Free verse
My Philosophy of Love
...My Philosophy Of Love
The winds up high in the heavens above mix on till the times of never is forever
These words do flow on like a fountain mingling off to the rivers as so the oceans,
Forever...
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Categories:
supercharged, absence, angst, imagery,
Form: I do not know?
In the Dark Night Sky
...In the Dark Night Sky
In the Dark Night Sky, a “Pale Moon” now arises suddenly,
With clouds of ice sparkling in a frozen-cold ring around it;
While your bright, rosy-cheeked face appears as a ...
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Categories:
supercharged, allegory, change, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
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