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Unsquashed Poems - Poems about Unsquashed


Premium Member Under your cloak of stars, the restlessness is soothed
...Under your cloak of stars, the restlessness is soothed, A wave of gentle enchantment caresses my quivering soul, Whenever your shadow flees from sight, I enwrap you in secrets, I lock in my canvas......

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Categories: unsquashed, stars,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Icarus
...Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace, you climb, skittish kite... What do you know of the world’s despair, gli......

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Categories: unsquashed, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme



Various Heresies 2
...Various Heresies 2 You by Michael R. Burch For thirty years You have not spoken to me; I heard the dull hollow echo of silence as though strange communion between us. For thirty years You......

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Categories: unsquashed, atheist, bible, christian, god,
Form: Verse
I Am
...I am not one of ten billion—I— sunblackened Icarus, chary fly, staring at God with a quizzical eye. I am not one of ten billion, I. I am not one life has left unsquashed— scarred as Ulysses......

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Categories: unsquashed, identity,
Form: Verse
Premium Member People of Sacred Corn
...People of sacred Cornucopias found ourselves politically alone competing to survive in Earth's choking climates of totally domesticated and over-run despair, then neglect, then more actively te......

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Categories: unsquashed, caregiving, culture, deep, health,
Form: Political Verse



Seasonal Sigh
...Finished vines waving limply in the wind, tangled streaks across the hillside. The Autumn Earth conceals eternal motion under a carpet of many colors; a fluid carpet that flutters and shifts ......

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Categories: unsquashed, nature, seasons, weather, winter,
Form: Free verse

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