All the More Human, For Eve Pandora
...All the More Human, for Eve Pandora
by Michael R. Burch
a lullaby for the first human Clone
God provide the soul, and let her sleep
be natural as ours, unplagued by dreams
of being someone e...
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Categories:
unbreathing, birth, death, eve, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
A Death In Pandemic
...A DEATH IN PANDEMIC
I’m dead
I’m gone
Sometime ago,
I’m lifeless now, unbreathing
Like a waste
In a black plastic jacket
They tried hard
They did everything what they could
Gave me pills...
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Categories:
unbreathing, 12th grade, atheist, death,
Form: Free verse
Kiss of the Vampire
...Tormentous is the titan’s tear
So tranquil he thus aspires
To catch a fleeting grasp or care
When the morbid moon expires
Pale beneath the endless moon
Within a coffin quietly
A ghost aghast ...
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Categories:
unbreathing, dark, desire, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
To My Last Breath
...When I was a newborn,
I had no experience to reassure me
my first gasp for air
would not also be my last.
Between that first second inhaled reassurance,
and now,
I have operated under a roman...
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Categories:
unbreathing, appreciation, blessing, earth, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Screaming Guillotines
...Screaming Guillotines
I.
I sit on the wide veranda of this house called America,
And I can see the Beast Boys coming our jungled way,
Coming like wild torrents of lapping flames over the asto...
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Categories:
unbreathing, allegory, america,
Form: Free verse
I Drew a Blank - Promises
...Promises
Your promises that I had all trust in
lay quiet as logs of unbreathing woods,
Till wantings of my soul rose as fierce storms
to impute life into the forgotten,
Today you wa...
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Categories:
unbreathing, beauty, relationship,
Form: Blank verse
Create Life
...To create a life -
That is, to give breath to blank space,
Moving a pencil, leaving a trace
Releasing the word, only to strive
For even greater heights
Some may say, they found it in love
In ...
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Categories:
unbreathing, books, creation, life, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Widow's Imagination
...Are you not dead?
When did the unbreathing
started doing business with the living?
Or you resurected?
You died,i know you died
i saw your lifeless body
your hopeless eyes
looking directly ...
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Categories:
unbreathing, africa, death, depression, i
Form: Epic