The Enemy Within
...The Enemy Within
"All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca
Oh Yes.
There is an Enemy Within.
It lives within, feeds upon, you.
Senseless, yelloweyed
It informs all that you do.
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Categories:
unlamented, angst, scary,
Form: Free verse
Turkeys
...A Brief Guide to the Tories
As practised in the UK
Grab what you can
Shall be the way
Life at the top
Seems to be a farce
When progress is made
By kissing ****
Brown paper envelopes
Fro...
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Categories:
unlamented, class, corruption, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Reflective Path
...Some say
the experiences and encounters along life's paths and ways,
it's the journey that we're on,
the sibling rivalry, the parental guides in each direction gone,
from birth to death we do...
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Categories:
unlamented, analogy, life,
Form: Sestina
On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation Goethe
...ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones,
like yesteryear’s
fading s...
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Categories:
unlamented, best friend, body, death,
Form: Free verse
No Mark
...No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
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Categories:
unlamented, break up, change, divorce,
Form: Verse
Unsung, Unheard
...Bemoan the songs unsung for want of melody and tongue.
Bewail the sorrows unlamented and veiled, for want of a good sob.
Waffling silent tunes echoing and rattling in the cage, trapped unexpressed....
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Categories:
unlamented, song, sound,
Form: Free verse
On Dinner and Hearing the News
...On Dinner and hearing the news
Your soft touch, elbow to elbow, not withdrawn, steady;
An unnecessary head on shoulder in lament.
Casual glances, a quiet acceptance of the gift of food
The next n...
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Categories:
unlamented, death, social,
Form: Verse