Thinkable unthinkable knee, are you still composing poetry?
...Your most recent interest in observational truth in laptop monitor
Gave you an ultimatum today.
He , as she, in he, as she again, grabbed you in all kinds of tree ,
remnant there before serenity
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Categories:
unthinkably, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The Shattered Illusion of Time
...Kill your heart and fight!
There's no point in stepping back.
I saw snow falling from the sky
where I stopped
A drop of light burns my heart gently and mercilessly
In this long-lost place
How l...
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Categories:
unthinkably, adventure, beautiful, crazy, cry,
Form: Epic
In the Mirror
...Now this is betrayal at the highest,
I’ll explain the situation without sounding bias.
We've…., looked at each other for as long as I can remember,
Seen each other's nakedness, even commenting on ...
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Categories:
unthinkably, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Propaganda
...Propaganda
It is a cold day, no more sitting on the terrace
watching ships sailing by and dreaming of the old days.
With little to do, I watched on Netflix about the making of the Nazi party.
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Categories:
unthinkably, anger, cinderella, family,
Form: Blank verse
Health Predicts Safety
...In some primordial
wandering birth-canal way,
I imagine we all experience traumatic excommunication
An internal climate PanDemonic
cerebral yet narrowly competitive
win/lose health today or ...
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Categories:
unthinkably, education, health, history, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Love Poems Iii
...LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
On...
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Categories:
unthinkably, desire, devotion, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Rip
...R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is ...
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Categories:
unthinkably, death, dream, funeral, grave,
Form: Verse
Heart-Wrenching Fight
...On this earth, which the man beholds
As his sanctuary own, he has proved
The mightiest of all and defied
Challenges unthinkably hard,
Has taken the route of science
To go up the value chain
T...
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Categories:
unthinkably, anxiety, courage, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Snapshots
...Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creatin...
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Categories:
unthinkably, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Invoking Unfinished Godsongs
...My autonomous ego's life
feels unfinishable,
unthinkably mortal in future disconnection;
an unfinished compassion life,
unfinishable love,
an unpolished divine icon
of Earth's self-promulgating...
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Categories:
unthinkably, earth, god, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Blackbird Pie
...What do you need right now?
I feel like I would enjoy a long retreat
from human voices,
a free to reverse
get out of jail vacation
from inside voices,
especially my own.
Who would keep you...
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Categories:
unthinkably, appreciation, earth, environment, happiness,
Form: Free verse
An Honor Killing
...blood against own blood
dad slays son for renounced faith...
unthinkably cold
Writing Challenge 5, May 2019, Senryu Poetry Con...
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Categories:
unthinkably, betrayal, dark, family, murder,
Form: Senryu
Caregiving Stories Continued
...Wounded Sacred Dementia
My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.
My B...
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Categories:
unthinkably, caregiving, health, humor, love,
Form: Political Verse
Too Much and Enough
...Too much of something?
Does that even exist
Could you just postpone it and unthinkably resist?
Too much of love
Or too much wing swings of a dove
Too much of not enough
Can make things...
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Categories:
unthinkably, absence, birth, care, love,
Form: Free verse
Unthinkably Forgiven
...Unthinkably Forgiven
He runs like the rain
yet his feet stay in place
he skips to the beat of your favorite melody
but the beat like a heart murmur has no energy
he hustles like scarface and...
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Categories:
unthinkably, faith, hope, life, urban
Form: Rhyme
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