Humanity
...Laws of Physics and Humanity #1 First Law (Inertia) Sponsor Dilly Dally 1-14-25 Objects at rest stay at res unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Categories:
vacillates, humanity, life, science,
Form: Free verse
Tempestuous Storm
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Time and tide again waits for no man
tempest-tossed upon life’s billow
The hull or the dinghy
Serves as a fortress
Though steady on its keel
Knocked his wits and sense
As he vacillates betwee...
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Categories:
vacillates, anger, angst, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Oh This Frisson, Thrill of Lies
...Hair gets grey, withers he but seldom wise
To know why nothing thrills him more than lies,
Why man’s pen portrays obscure truths in grey,
Why his mind’s chisel carves out misty clout
So grote...
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Categories:
vacillates, truth,
Form: Ode
Aroma of Love
...(it's like )
The sweet and scented waft of a delicate flower waltzing in thin air or like
Helium balloons at the fair. Often we equate it to cotton candy, or
Electricity. ...
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Categories:
vacillates, appreciation, love,
Form: Acrostic
Tell It Like It Is
...The quick sands of fate cave in
The sucking darkness captures
The weed of agony marsh slithers
Entangled hope of escape smothered
Hazard paves the pathway of life
For the destiny to wander uns...
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Categories:
vacillates, analogy, destiny, life,
Form: Free verse
Desires
...DESIRES
My dormant desire hidden inert indolent
wobbles, vacillates.
remaining repressed in rue.
not surpassing hesitance.
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Categories:
vacillates, dream,
Form: Free verse
Rocking Chair
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anxiety
a rocking chair
that vacillates
and goes nowhere
it’s not just you
it’s more than that
for it creates
a nervous cat
so cast your cares
and hit the couch
‘cuz broken tails
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Categories:
vacillates, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Shades of Blue and Gray
...Disappointment comes in shades of blue and gray
Delivered with a large dose of dashing hope,
My mind vacillates between sadness and dismay.
‘Tis time to put on a happy face for a bet...
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Categories:
vacillates, blue, depression, feelings, perspective,
Form: Villanelle
The Shape of Water
...Swoosh, she vacillates in malleable form
as ocean waves or garden hose splashes,
encapsulating life's nautical swarm
and keeping plants fresh with misty dashes.
In a cup, her shape is held gent...
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Categories:
vacillates, destiny, environment, fun, life,
Form: Rhyme
Godwink
...The student vacillates,
Succumb to study
Or go to the dance?
With a mind flip of the coin
And help from a higher power,
He is on his way.
Outside the dance
On that clear, cool Spring evenin...
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Categories:
vacillates, fate, love,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
...Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
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Categories:
vacillates, dream, earth, flower, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Short Stuff: Epigrams
...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R...
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Categories:
vacillates, body, clothes, death, eulogy,
Form: Epigram
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
...Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly m...
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Categories:
vacillates, aubade, beauty, dog, for
Form: Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translations
...I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and des...
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Categories:
vacillates, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Our Love
...OUR LOVE
Silver Moon in charcoal night
Dreamy heart to dance delight.
I move on your move.
So clear, not to prove.
You are my ...
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Categories:
vacillates, appreciation, love,
Form: Couplet
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