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
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