Final Moments
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Walking down stark white corridors, the stench of bleach burns my nostrils.
With every step, I can feel sorrow lump in my quivering throat.
Looking down at the wrinkles on my shirt, I quickly...
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Categories:
unsalvageable, angst, care, heartbroken, i
Form: Other
Free Verse Iii
...Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
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Categories:
unsalvageable, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse
Salve
...Salve
by Michael R. Burch
(for the victims and survivors of 9-11)
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering ...
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Categories:
unsalvageable, body, love, lust, recovery
Form: Free verse
Sacramento River Wordscape
...Redding Poem 2
"Sacramento River WordScape"
These descendent waters swim like mad lagoon fish,
Heading decidedly south with a fiery mindless turn,
Their cool liquid urgencies reaching to all ...
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Categories:
unsalvageable, freedom, nature,
Form: Free verse
Pyro
...You set fire to my soul
When I thought I was lost
Brightened my whole world
Warmed every square inch
Of my ice block heart
You thawed me inside out
Put a light in my eyes
The sparkle I thought...
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Categories:
unsalvageable, change, fire, hurt, i
Form: Free verse
Childhood Poems
...I leaf through a notebook,
re-reading old poems.
I cringe at the childishness,
the bare, colliding words.
"Unsalvageable",
I think to myself.
Better to bury them quickly,
before they try to get out.
New poems must be written;
the old cannot be saved.
Or can they?
Can I perhaps rework them,
reshape them i...
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Categories:
unsalvageable, imagination, inspirational, old, old,
Form: Blank verse
Come Death With Me
...Music so sweet to these ears:
MAYHEM
MURDER
MASS DESTRUCTION
LOOTING
SHOOTING
ATOM BOMBS POLLUTING
It is a symphony in 2 acts
One:A Final reading from the Apostle before the final Chime
Two:...
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Categories:
unsalvageable, allegory, angst, death, parody,
Form: Epitaph