The Centre Point
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I arrived breath away, stepping out of a journey waiting not for fellow passengers with tedious conversations about Hemingway, Trump or AI
hot excitement dis...
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Categories:
tabulating, allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
William Blake Poems
...dark matter(s)
by Michael R. Burch
the matter is dark, despairful, alarming:
ur Creator is hardly prince charming!
yes, ur “Great I Am”
created blake’s lamb
but He also created the tyger
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Categories:
tabulating, brother, children, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Wordsmiths Worst Nightmare
...Wordsmith's worst nightmare
fortunately thwarted courtesy
mine tall tale telling flair.
Mine irretrievable brilliant masterpiece...
all for naught after mental cogs and wheels
I did apply c...
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Categories:
tabulating, anger, angst, confusion, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Dylan Thomas
...These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I have written t...
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Categories:
tabulating, poems, poetry, poets, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Just About Gone
...I’ll be just about ready when it’s just about time
To do whatever needs to be done.
With my Winchester loaded and my bay freshly shod,
I’m riding off to seek the setting sun.
Since it’s just ...
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Categories:
tabulating, break up, divorce,
Form: Lyric
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
...Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his ...
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Categories:
tabulating, 2nd grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme
Auld Lang Syne the Most Sung New Years Eve Song
...“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song
Courtesy Robert Burns
circa (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.
Two hundred si...
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Categories:
tabulating, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
...Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
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Categories:
tabulating, earth, light, love, poems,
Form: Sonnet
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
...Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the...
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Categories:
tabulating, autumn, faith, grief, life,
Form: Verse
Tabulating Curiosity and Wonder
...In the silence of morning
where the child’s still snoozing
and the Christmas pine’s dark
and I don’t yet have coffee to lift
In the buzz of refrigerator and heater
mostly my eyes scan the quie...
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Categories:
tabulating, art, child, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Queen of Heaven
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Black women in America,
let the sterile tabulating machine
tally your vociferous views
Loud women pridefully possessing
the highest voting demographics in the amber land
Have your pas...
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Categories:
tabulating, spiritual, symbolism, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Total Time I Spent In Dental Chair Post Adolescence To Present Age First Appointment
...so much precious existence
found me rooted with mouth ajar
as sigh asper the dentin-cementum
so mud dear reader (with dem perfect
enameled pearly whites), aye har bar
envy for those with a ...
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Categories:
tabulating, body, depression, feelings, grief,
Form: Imagism
In the Lions Den
...He roars from the distance, instilling in everyone, terror and fear
Approaching stealthily, though unseen, somehow you sense he's near.
Then, in an incomprehensible instant of time, before you can ...
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Categories:
tabulating, bereavement, death, grief, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Counting House Hammer
...In the Orient it's called Karma,an inescapable butcher of beasts continuously chopping,slicing & trimming the meat of our mentalities,precisely weighed,
Occidentally the official judge of justice...
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Categories:
tabulating, life, perspective,
Form: Didactic
Gold Digger
...killing for love? we should out grow it
unless it's for deceivers and you know it
those less fortunate charity recievers
those pretty eye's and nails
masscara that never fails
those that are w...
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Categories:
tabulating, fear,
Form: Free verse
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