Reminded Myself
...I reminded myself in an unusual way,
While standing in a rain of a watery display,
Soaking in my new town's local splash park,
Remembering how I needn't be in the dark.
I let the risen structur...
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Categories:
upwardly, character, growth,
Form: Quatrain
Words We Cannot Escape
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“Words We Cannot Escape”
Words we can no longer speak
we tap dance over keys
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand
Autumn now gone
across white-washed n...
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Categories:
upwardly, muse,
Form: Free verse
Jamal Hussain and friends
...January twenty first, 2024 the above thugs burst.'
Into a shop in Wallsal town, two with axes smashing
Windows to the ground' then six of them stormed into this
Store, a multicultural vist.? I wil...
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Categories:
upwardly, analogy, career, education,
Form: Rhyme
Wings
...Do it with all of your being
What!?
Upward "movement"
As you have grown,
to now from childhood.
Look at the sky
See the heaven
Fly high
With your free will and power of two wings:
Hope & fe...
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Categories:
upwardly, life,
Form: Prose
Pictorial of Stained Glass
...Written: November 05, 2023
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Glittering glass on gossamer ground
untamed saffron blaze tackles its task
a flawless waltz
Beaded up pr...
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Categories:
upwardly, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Various Heresies 10
...Various Heresies 10
God to Man, Contra Bataan
by Michael R. Burch
Earth, what-d’ya make of global warming?
Perth is endangered, the high seas storming.
Now all my creatures, from maggot ...
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Categories:
upwardly, bible, christian, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poets Ix
...POEMS ABOUT POETS IX
Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare
by Michael R. Burch
a tweet
by any other name
would be as fleet!
@mikerburch
Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies to Shakespea...
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Categories:
upwardly, poems, poetry, poets, write,
Form: Rhyme
White Puffy Clouds Over Whitewashed Lavender Skies-
...white clouds on the wind
whitewashed on lavender scenes
puff cotton balloons
~
abides so they seem
just floating upwardly high
winds white clouds in skies
3/7/22
Written word...
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Categories:
upwardly, analogy, beautiful, encouraging, environment,
Form: Haiku
Lost Love
...Life movements cease to flow across my breath
A solitude of lifeless reality settles in deep in my core
Untouched by love the soul escapes upwardly to the stars themselves
A view from abov...
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Categories:
upwardly, heartbreak, heartbroken, pain,
Form: Free verse
Oh Dystopia a Tree 4 a Carpark
...The long hard journey through
past to progress
These day's has far few many stops to make along it's tried and tested daily route to commute
As cutting costs has so many
uneconomic station la...
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Categories:
upwardly, slam,
Form: Free verse
A Counsel House
...A counsel house
12.45pm
Head Office?
It's in Dover,
Well that's depressing in itself!
Smiley faces and OMG's to the fore.
A clinical appearance in reception,
Is that depressi...
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Categories:
upwardly, anxiety, depression, funny,
Form: Free verse
Various Heresies 3
...Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordain...
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Categories:
upwardly, america, bible, christian, god,
Form: Verse
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:
upwardly, atheist, bible, christian, god,
Form: Verse
As I Dire Breathe
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Got free range to roam
in a plastic dome, poorhouse farm
The debt fence keeps rooster clock me
from payment parachute, golden eggs liberty
Oh, such pecking order karma harm
It’s ...
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Categories:
upwardly, humorous, joy, satire, word
Form: Light Verse
Middle Class Dismissed
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Marginalized middle finger people
moving upwardly mobile
on a quality-of-life escalator going always down
Mall pallbearers for the palladium pocketeers,
(them who bring forth weekly ...
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Categories:
upwardly, anxiety, imagery, jobs, symbolism,
Form: Tristich
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