Spring Vanity Poems

Wasteful can't succeed
Due to fear of poverty
Plus, spring with greed....

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Luminosity of the despondent star in the celestial land above
Had grown to be caliginous in nature 
Dwindled its crimson gleam

Dissolved into newfound restlessness, 
Parched, dark,...

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Raincoat labyrinth
city creature, Spring fever
night light fog shade moves...

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Oh, the gullible women threw themselves
at his intellectual poetry and prose.

To him, ah, he was as delightful as the scent 
of a fragrant spring rose....

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Vanity dripping off of you
Like dew from a new spring stem
The mightiest cock shall rule the roost
But there's a disease unleashed in the pen

Something's in...

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I used to be obsessed with fashion, caring far too much about clothes,
Like the sun whenever he's coming and going, is striking vanity's pose.

I lavished...

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Puller of a big shell home, no hobo
Tracked brightest of silver patterns
Bold snail, Hugh wobbled with mojo 
Hubris resumes his powerful status

Side to side saunter,...

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After Twenty years of a bare chin
I decided to give it a go
It came to fruition nicely
Though I'd not thought it to be so!

At the...

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A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch

Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands...

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A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
 
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon...

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The narrowing of choice, opaque or black?
Unconfident die castes vote ballot blank,
How has our circus bread become this bland?
What a diverse homogeneous blend,
All stitched to...

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Fancy feast
In my best china dish
How she loves to be finicky
Wearing nothing but
Her pretty pink rhinestone collar
As she tiptoes across the room
Slinky and sleek
With a...

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Hurtful one, never allow
forgetfulness blot out
a pleasant memory;
is it rage or animosity?
Frendship is based
on trust, not doubt...
but your hipocrisy did
dissolve all integrity
reducing it to a...

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With a cosmopolitan tabloid draped upon her lap,
A girls sits at her vanity wearing an underdress unstrapped.

The woman on the page portrays perfection with a...

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Mistress Rose, dowager of the garden
Would you flaunt your beauty with ne'er a pardon
Fawn seductively in morning's breeze
To entice favours from passing bees?

Would you flick...

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