Echoes of Eclipse Flame
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Written: July 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: X F Lacasse
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From the anvil of solar eclipse flame ~
Sunsmith struck with a mallet lit by li...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, analogy, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Harvest of Resilience
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A golden butter melting on warm toast,
tasting of home, a soft gasp wrapped
in sweet memories, a heart held lightly
by rays of summer sun, unbuttoning a gray,
crying sky that on...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, analogy, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Prologue 3
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LizPiggo didn't answer,
she just handed the money over to the
Chinese lady and nestled into the quadruple
wide booster seat the Chinese lady had placed
for her. She liked LizPiggo. Liz...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, art,
Form: Other
Getting Older
...She’d been depressed at seeing how her parents had aged in just a couple of years. She hadn’t really contemplated time much before, it had seemed an endless resource.
Seeing her lying listlessly i...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, age, angst, boyfriend, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Antics of a Yoyo Thief
...The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief
Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines hopefully gives hint
nearly ...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Errata I
...Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!
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Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
unbuttoning, crush, desire, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Erotic Poems I
...Erotic Poems I
Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I d...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, body, clothes, desire, love,
Form: Rhyme
Stella
...To feel the curve and fullness of your hips
My tongue sinking inside your pearly lips
Feeling the soft hard tissue of your twins
Swell of your chest promises more wins
Smell of yobody floats bene...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, love, wife,
Form: Rhyme
The Antics of a Yoyo Thief
...Now scores of years
after botched minor theft penchant
courtesy security guard
analogous to inquisitorial trenchant
unforgettable verbal lashing
(suppressing me ululation to vent)
unwittingly...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, 5th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
Free Verse Iii
...Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
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Categories:
unbuttoning, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Peeps
...twas the night before christmas
i was alone in the house
off in the bedroom
unbuttoning my blouse
while drawing the curtains
i heard a big thud
peered out the window
to see santa donned in m...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
The Name and Blue Sky On a Sunlit Friday Morning
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"The Name and Blue Sky on a Sunlit Friday Morning"
“There is something missing,” he announced.
“Oh,” She said, “in what way?”
“Well, “Love”? ...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, faith, home, i am,
Form: Narrative
The Antics of a Would Be Mamas Yoyo Thief
...The Antics Of A Would Be Mama's Yoyo Thief
(now a penchant with less Zionist trenchant ululation to vent.)
Not a peep passed thru mine -
aye vaguely attest
what ten? eleven? twelve? age
of fol...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Metrical Tale
Approaching Storm
...Approaching Storm
by Edmund Siejka
It was unexpected
For what everyone thought
Would be a mild April
That no one saw it coming.
The first signs
Came over the horizon
Thick gra...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, life,
Form: Narrative
Unbuttoning
...Scratching the rusted face
of the dust storm?
to read the message.
I have come very far,
from the old stinks.
It was not the escape.
The unshaped...
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Categories:
unbuttoning, art,
Form: ABC
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