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Unfastens Poems - Poems about Unfastens

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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!



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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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Categories: unfastens, inspirational
Form: Verse

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