Oblivion
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“True love blooms in the garden of emptiness” Quote by Poet
The beguiled butterfly you were the flittering delight
to my dream-drenched enticed eyes,
made an enthralling scene of t...
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Categories:
undestroyed, analogy, inspirational, lost love,
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:
undestroyed, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poems Vi
...Poems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
a...
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Categories:
undestroyed, extended metaphor, heaven, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
...Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between cle...
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Categories:
undestroyed, art, grave, grief, life,
Form: Sonnet
Pilllar
...You are a pillar,
Therefore you don’t need a healer
But an ordained preacher
Open your ears, your heart...
For this is a new season.
Forget about yesterdays pain
Focus on today's gain
It's n...
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Categories:
undestroyed, christian, health, jesus,
Form: Free verse
The Dust On World's Eyes
...THE DUST ON WORLD’S EYES.
The earth crying of pains, the Sky’s eyes running tears, complains of losing sight.
Rolling in phases the destructions of man,
The earth orbit sick of hearing ...
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Categories:
undestroyed, 7th grade, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Light Verse
Dinosaurs
...DINOSAURS
Yes, I’m an old dinosaur, she said.
But dinos ruled the world as its head -
For a zillion years, undestroyed,
Long before the asteroid.
So powerful in their kingdom
That onl...
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Categories:
undestroyed, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Mirror On the Wall
...Mirror, mirror, mirror on the wall
Do you like what you see when
You look at my inquisitive face?
Sometimes I like what I see though
Sometimes it’s a scared face
Worried about my worst fears.
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Categories:
undestroyed, beauty, cheer up, cinderella,
Form: Rhyme
Necromancer
...I appear with the unbegotten
In the hollows of the seen
A shadow of the soon forgotten
I enter through the dream
Inhabiting the void
In the source of germ and seed
I bring forth th...
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Categories:
undestroyed, mystery, mythology,
Form: Elegy
Journey In the Night
...A journey in the night,
Exploring our flight,
Pages of each our lives,
Pens ink of Bloack and red,
We scribble our dreams upon our sheet,
Scrawls of inner wnatg and yet to be,
Unintimided by ea...
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Categories:
undestroyed, love
Form: Imagism
Sleep
...To sleep, to die that partial death
Only to rise once more. Again
To sleep, and in that sleep to know
The Truth that is all life's full flow
I close the soul to circumstance
And cease to see i...
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Categories:
undestroyed, death, introspection, philosophy, lost,
Form: I do not know?