Farewell Surreal Poems

Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams

POEMS

Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch

Every corona has a...

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NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Day4
Adveristy
Shorts

Termination inbound on the day
Ruminating over the cause
Sudden pain caused by fellowship

Heartstrings hand-plucked, wrought with strife
You take a bow, adversity on your fingertip
Perfectionist performance,...

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…is a cat not the totem of love

your physical contact generates feelings
were the neurons release 
the feeling for good vibes
peace, harmony 

by stroking soft gentle...

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Come Sweet Nightshade
And close my tired eyes
I hang my head in the cold downpour
My thoughts take flight

Away from this motal coil
My thoughts go running n...

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Dust
Ashes to ashes
Read as rust fine 
in dust the centuries are lost 
Tomes of history lie in disarray
far away from the terrors of the day...

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Not long ago when the summers seemed warmer and the winters were whiter. When the trees grew crown of leaves bright, a transparent green. Then...

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Haunted by its simplistically,
All the masses work for nothing, 
Power drones I watch the meek alone.
Bare white the afterglow.

Power of blackened glass reaching for the...

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Only an echo is left
in the halls distant in the falls
void for trapings and all
drifts through the moments like shadows
awaking dreams 
the razor of reality...

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his body shutting down
the sequence activated
his vitality a distant memory
the notion of time imploding
nothing existing outside
this suspended realm
of surreal animation

in and out
his breath
the metronome
in awkward...

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I love you
you’re beautiful
echoes still bouncing
off the walls
along with all
the things we’d planned

I love you
you’re beautiful
sweet visions of angels
dancing about
in the midst of graceland

I love...

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Glowing fields cracked, used up, 
relentless sun 
without mercy
mirror infinity at earth’s curve.

Melding evasive wind 
spins mini cyclones
in harsh triumph.

Stumps of once glorious trees
spread abstract...

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when i die send me 2 Thunder Bay
thundered thunder bolts r 10 dbs
Nipigon River Bridge Recharging Station currents
regenerate thunder like brook trout roe
restocking fishing rods...

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Magnus Annas

Summer's sensuality
When the new leaves are green with love
Marks the ritual's beginning
A ritual old as the unmarked time
That passed before us all,
In which we...

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The sun arched up
Breaking over the horizon
As he leisurely awoke
How unusual it was
Her laying by his side
Serene and peaceful
Beautiful as she was
He reached over and
Kissed...

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