An Unforgettable Journey
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Cyclone stars appear in the night sky
alongside circular lights abreast an amber moon
He quietly sits by the piano and plays
sending this heart of mine into a tailspin;
Aiming straig...
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Categories:
unfastens, appreciation, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Poems
...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
be...
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Categories:
unfastens, children, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Vampires Are Such Fragile Creatures
...Vampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, wh...
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Categories:
unfastens, dark, death, gothic, halloween,
Form: Verse
It's Halloween
...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
be...
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Categories:
unfastens, cat, children, evil, grave,
Form: Verse
Oh the Horror: Vampire Poetry
...Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil inca...
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Categories:
unfastens, gothic, horror, sensual, surreal,
Form: Verse
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
...Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
E...
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Categories:
unfastens, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire Poem
...Vampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of ...
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Categories:
unfastens, dark, death, desire, evil,
Form: Verse
The Cat's Paws
...Brendon earns his bread and butter
as an artist at Anna's -
Anna's Beauty Salon.
He places the smock across my shoulders
as if it were a feathered gown;
I feel resplendent already.
Removing t...
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Categories:
unfastens, beauty, cat, hair, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Reborn
...Her soul is cold and dull;
limber limbs grow numb at love's undoing.
Songbirds no longer trill
in gay abandon, sadness spoils their tune.
Winter's blast is coming
with full force, dark days of u...
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Categories:
unfastens, love,
Form: Verse
Reborn
...Her soul is cold and dull;
limber limbs grow numb at love's undoing.
Songbirds no longer trill
in gay abandon, sadness spoils their tune.
Winter's blast is coming
with full force, dark days of u...
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Categories:
unfastens, love,
Form: Verse
Reborn
...Her soul is cold and dull;
limber limbs grow numb at love's undoing.
Songbirds no longer trill
in gay abandon, sadness spoils their tune.
Winter's blast is coming
with full force, dark days of u...
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Categories:
unfastens, inspirational, love,
Form: Verse
Reborn
...Her soul is cold and dull;
limber limbs grow numb at love's undoing.
Songbirds no longer trill
in gay abandon, sadness spoils their tune.
Winter's blast is coming
with full force, dark days of unfill...
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Categories:
unfastens, love,
Form: Verse
Family
...A decade in to
a new millennium,
a woman, nearing
a century on Earth,
braces herself in
a doorway of
the house,
she has lived in since birth.
Her oldest son unfastens his belt, and takes a ...
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Categories:
unfastens, brother, caregiving, childhood, daughter,
Form: Narrative
Reborn (Repost)
...Her soul is cold and dull;
limber limbs grow numb at love's undoing.
Songbirds no longer trill
in gay abandon, sadness spoils their tune.
Winter's blast is coming
with full force, dark days of u...
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Categories:
unfastens, lost love, love
Form: Verse
Reborn
...Her soul is cold and dull;
limber limbs grow numb at love's undoing.
Songbirds no longer trill
in gay abandon, sadness spoils their tune.
Winter's blast is coming
with full force, dark days of u...
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Continue reading...
Categories:
unfastens, inspirational
Form: Verse
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