Time Surreal Poems

Emaciated test-tube mutations 
Raised apart in pristine distillations 
Conceived in dexedrine celebrations 
and the crazed, ecstatic inhalations 
of the professor’s choicest pheromones 

Right-angled, inverted, and...

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air rockets skyward
uppercutting inside
plastic neon flesh
contorting at inhuman angles
what does my body language spell?

ankles anchored into the Earth
to stay grounded as the wave
of time and...

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During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial...

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In shot snap seconds, everything changed.
The horror was sudden -
a shatter-shower of bullets
bouncing off rock.
The picnic I'd laid so carefully
blew apart - black olives
tossed into...

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In the morning she was found deathly still,
her face quite pale but her lips and cheeks rosy pink;
with sorrow they buried the old lady,
in a...

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In my realm of surreal dreams, our love grows.
'Twas a serendipitous dance of chance
With one look, our eyes locked and thoughts froze.
Soon entwined as in...

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i'm 
  connected to 
a brittle 
      branch
   disconnected 
from a 
    tree of
...

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"Between amber light of twilight and rendered dark
 profound silence is found"...poet


In a dim-lit realm where dreams are surreal
   time has no meaning
pictures...

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Dreams are a window to the future, real or surreal - poet.

If it was a dream it was like no other,
soft, delicate, with silky feathers
the...

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SURREAL

When reality is not quite enough
And a tingle goes down the spine
The experience is like never before
Slightly anxious and no longer sure
When one steps just...

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allow me to introduce to you
a dear friend
may I present The Green Man
we once shared a goblet of mead
inside the head of a nobleman
sometime in...

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I went to Mars once
in a time that wasn't yet
the coffee tasted awful


...

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captivating winter child 
outside playing gyrating
 spinning and twirling hula hoopings
vibrated so much landed on the roof 
plastic ring slowly falls down
 until the ground
~
...

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I was angry 
Yet then again, maybe I wasn’t. 
I was hurt
Then maybe I really wasn’t.
All the mixed emotions. 
I drug that closed book around,
Trying...

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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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