Tree Surreal Poems

I remember having gone to bed a little tired,
And soon fell into a deep sleep.
Night chill prickled my skin.
I felt unusually light.
Wasn’t sure what had...

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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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       SURREAL

              ...

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

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It started with a blank canvas-
just another mid-spring day;
no sun nor rain, or gentle breeze-
an atmosphere so still and gray.

A day in May- a fresh-mowed...

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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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In the darkness
I ran into my grandmother’s room 
And clambered up into
The high, four poster bed. 

	Comforted by the
imprint of her body, 
I lay there...

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A pretty flower solitary in an abandoned field of endless weeds
-unpicked by a weed lover, who is unfaithful.
A long zigzagging crack on a ruined wall
containing...

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She must of been,
An autumn maple tree,
The way her canopy,
Embraces the green hues,
Innate gold,
And sheds her cares,
Like dresses and leaves
Reynaldo Casison...

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Embrace me my trunk
I have roots, grounded
My arms and hand are branches I am who I am encased
Energies in wood circle vessel

Even in the rain
...

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Awash in the moonlight
She moves lithely, a sight
to behold, her hair free, 
Flowing black like the night, 

Graceful as she can be, 
Arms raised, spinning...

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The strange men made strange fruits 

Point.
	
Strange 
Strange fruits
fruits and Men 
the difference only in color 
Multiply the hate. divided. but blood is same 
Between...

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I was strolling aimlessly in a park,
where first month pearl leafs swirl,
in a thriving suburb of rapid transport,
transport by urgent deadline promise,
transport by magenta sky...

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the sun can shine in the rain , drops in between drops its golden rays never stain

bringing out bouquets of all that blooms and sets...

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Eternal Surprise Productions presents
the It's Time For Your Enema show
bringing news of the day coast to coast
reading every offhand inflection
as though it were a rescue...

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