When Doves Cry
...Over obscure wasteland cloud hovered unmelted,
the desert deprived of tuneful rain languished
until you arrived with the whistling breeze,
the oasis resonated in the ripples of lacustrine symphon...
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Categories:
unmelted, analogy, eulogy, song,
Form: Free verse
Walking On Snow
...It seemed this was the February
of continual cold and snow,
many days stuck safely in the house
save for the morning expedition out,
to clear a path for the birds and my dog and I;
not to...
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Categories:
unmelted, angst, animal, snow,
Form: Free verse
Sonnets V-Ix
...Sonnets V-IX
Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel t...
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Categories:
unmelted, love, moon, night, star,
Form: Sonnet
My Heart Was February Ice
...My heart was February ice
Kneeling to barren, cursed winter
Beneath weak, broken sacrifice
White skies cracked, and springtimes splinter
Through summer's youthful, blurry run
My heart was Febr...
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Categories:
unmelted, heartbreak, loneliness, recovery from,
Form: Quatern
Sonnets V-Viii
...Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse: warm, p...
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Categories:
unmelted, for her, light, love,
Form: Sonnet
All Afterglow
...All Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
Something remarkable, perhaps ...
the color of her eyes ... though I forget
the color of her eyes ... perhaps her hair
the way it blew about ... I do not know...
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Categories:
unmelted, extended metaphor, for her,
Form: Verse
Hell's Hospitality
...The sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes its pace but now runs from a rifle
daylig...
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Categories:
unmelted, africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cold Fire
...
Glacial on the inside
Frozen memories
of a lost, tropical paradise life
Frostbitten feelings slowly moving
to the other bipolar side
Icy reflections of striated emotions;
dark moo...
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Categories:
unmelted, angst, feelings, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Twin Snow Pillars
...
He watches and wait,
the prey unaware of his gaze
But he hungers no longer for flesh
He chases after the spirit of the wind ...
White Wolf in the snow blend,
and alongside him is D. Whi...
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Categories:
unmelted, friendship, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
O Mine Valentine
...O MINE VALENTINE
We are a twine of
lines...vines
limbs
hair
fingers
sheets
blankets
couches
streets
signs
misgivings
mistakes
retreats
agressions
2 chairs
2 drinks
a fire
an ...
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Categories:
unmelted, love,
Form: List
Dawn Is Not Yet Rested
...Dawn is not yet rested upon the tree tops.
The ancient night of our souls lingers
protracted in the adamantine winter.
Dew buds are unmelted;
the road is swallowed up by dark.
Yet this time a...
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Categories:
unmelted, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Au Revoir Genieve - Miss G - Woollery
...For a day, for a week, for a month you will be remembered
Those who knew you well
Family will always recall that you have left a void in them
The thoughtful friend for a year
May think and shed a tea...
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Categories:
unmelted, death, day, cry, day,
Form: Free verse
Pouring
...Urn was carring the snow
unmelted
like the soul of night.
It was a very strange winter
like araucaria puzzle.
Who was dragging the evergreens
over the chaste cliff ?
All the incogerent roots have b...
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Categories:
unmelted, art,
Form: ABC
The Season Inside
...Its beauty yet again plunders me,
Into magnificent realms that hide
Deep within my every thought
Where I ,like a new tenant,
Seek comfort to reside
In the warm abodes of Winter.
It has come...
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Categories:
unmelted, introspection, nature, seasons
Form: Lyric
Beyond Permutation
...I want to see again
Your two white breasts bare
And virginal
On the north and south lattitudes
Of your unmelted chest
I want them stiff and pointing upward
Like white mountains
Their milk foze...
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Categories:
unmelted, nature
Form: Free verse
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