Tobiko Tail
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Tune perdendosi purple evening ebbs decipher
Out blotted skies swaddle boats’ cosy slumber
Burst fish femme fins, her brave roe survivors
Immense installation ce...
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Categories:
unguent, animal, birth, crazy, fantasy,
Form: Acrostic
Brownian Motion Writ Large
...Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuron...
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Categories:
unguent, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Snaggletooth the Snitch
...Me and the missus live in decent
sturdy accommodations (formerly
Schwenksville Elementary School
ofttimes referred to as prison,
and manager as the de facto warden),
albeit not so shabby nor ch...
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Categories:
unguent, absence, autumn, care, class,
Form: Rhyme
Free Verse Iv
...FREE VERSE VI
Reason Without Rhyme
by Michael R. Burch
I used to be averse
to free verse,
but now I admit
YOUR rhyming is WORSE!
But alas, in the end,
it’s all the same:
all verse is u...
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Categories:
unguent, freedom, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
This World of Dew
...THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
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Categories:
unguent, age, art, autumn, bereavement,
Form: Haiku
Press Secretary
...A euphemism! I? That I do decry!
Why the very word does imply
That I would ignore, omit, pervert…
If only to prevent some hurt.
Well, let me speak out forthright:
Search thoroughly my ways as ...
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Categories:
unguent, fun, humor, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Nicanor Parra Sandoval Translation: Advice To Young Poets
...Advice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under th...
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Categories:
unguent, mentor, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Bf's Girl
...BF’s Girl
Man is identified by behavior.
I say man and she demands an
Accounting. The definitive correlative
Can not be spoken. The constant common
Can not be held in union. I must discours...
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Categories:
unguent, conflict, corruption, love, power,
Form: Sonnet
The Dance of Salome
...The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel i...
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Categories:
unguent, dance, daughter, moon, mother
Form: Narrative
Snaggletooth the Snitch
...We (me and the missus)
live in a decent
accommodations low income
quite modest rent,
which facility lacks no shortage
of gossip mongers
with mail delivery the major event
many old people sme...
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Categories:
unguent, adventure, atheist, class, community,
Form: Free verse
Pause For a Replay
...1. A satellite on me is so superfluous
b’cos even without it, you’ll see my flaws
my new adulthood on your eyes is a sty
as my every late night makes you pray and cry
anytime my rebellion faces y...
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Categories:
unguent, daughter, father daughter, life,
Form: Lyric
Light Below My Window
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There’s a streetlamp outside my bedroom window
A yellow halo suspended in the ebon night
An eerie glow like an alien moon
That seems slightly awry
Somewhat out of tune
In the black vel...
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Categories:
unguent, childhood, light, memory,
Form: Free verse
Mother's Little Killers
...MOTHER’S LITTLE KILLERS
She hates them, the unguent power
Which sticks her fairy wings together
Making impossible the ivory tower
Of disinterested passion, the if and whether
Of generic name...
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Categories:
unguent, addiction, depression, mother, drug,
Form: Sonnet
Maimed
...Your curiosity pulled
the poisoned dirk of loneliness
from the deepest chamber
of my quaking heart.
With steady hand
pressed to the open wound,
the healing process began
as wonder turned to ...
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Categories:
unguent, angst, love, me,
Form: Free verse