Variations Of Roses
Roses has many colors
But it still signifies love
It differs many sizes
But still weight love
No matter what its beauty
It had still thorns to protect
Love had its danger to make
To warns us how much love
To one person has something
To do with self-control
To much love is dangerous
Beauty has warning not get to much
Love is enough to make us
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Categories:
variations, character, color, meaningful, rose,
Form: Free verse
Variations
each snowflake has a unique take on six
no duplicates. how can this be? says me
then i remember – why not crystal pics?
identical twins differ – same old tree
variation challenges all we see
heads, hearts, arms, legs, eyes, ears – change perceptions
collectives reveal nature’s deception
same pattern – creativity unfolds
communities’ still breathing sensation
no clones but distinctive character
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Categories:
variations, blessing, community, creation, inspiration,
Form: Dizain
Variations On a Theme
Variations On A Theme...
of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.
Ach'n (ache Ken and burn'n)
kickstarting existential and proverbial struggle
me species classified as generic muggle
analogous to entertainer
with namesake of yours truly
starring an out of world
stellar performer who doth juggle
regarding mein kampf,
who sports thrift store couture
NOT worn by Bellini, Paganini, Rossini...
Eeny
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Categories:
variations, abortion, absence, abuse, age,
Form: Rhyme
Seven Variations On the Opening Line of a Senryu
seven variations on the opening line of a senryu
“We seek the teeth to match our wounds”.
Kenneth Tynan
sometimes what we seek
is not necessarily
the final answer
sometimes what we seek
is the unfound, the profound
beyond dreams and hopes
sometimes what we seek
is the truth and nothing but
the awful sad truth
sometimes what we seek
is what we were prescribed
not what we wanted
sometimes
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Categories:
variations, poetry, self,
Form: Senryu
Goldberg Variations
Whirling through torpedoes of sound,
spinning and tailing its way like Raphael to earth,
shoots some uninstantaneous ether:
the impermeable myelin of true experience.
The soul—the richest treasure chest ever found;
creating, disseminating, revealing, glimmering, alluring.
Rawest sense material pinging in gold-tipped purls of rose-furls:
stroking the ears as gently as a brook,
yet roaring with the might of an ocean-river undammed,
with strength
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Categories:
variations, beauty, music,
Form: Free verse
Present, Past, Future Variations
Past
prior
knowledge
future
present
unknown
Future
nonexistent
nor
past
neither
present
Present
searches
future
visiting
the
past... !
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Categories:
variations, allegory, allusion, appreciation, creation,
Form: Free verse
Variations of the Meadows
green grass stretches tall
light, dark shades of rooted growth
in hills of beauty
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Categories:
variations, nature,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
variations, love,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
variations, love,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Variations
Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch
This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:
Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch
Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!
How will you tidy your hair
this near
summer?
Leave to each still night
your lightest affliction,
dandruff.
Soon you will free yourself:
one shake
of your white mane.
Now there are worlds
into which you appear
and disappear
seemingly at will
but invariably blown—
wildly,
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Categories:
variations, autumn, farewell, seasons, snow,
Form: Haiku
Variations On a Theme
Variations On A Theme...
Ach'n (ache Ken) Existential Struggle...
(NOT by Bellini, Paganini, Rossini...
Eeny Meany Miney Moe - si,
nor the three stooges tee hee hee)
twill never end till...this oft writ trend
of mine will never end,
only when...mortality
ike'n no longer defend!
Thus...once again, (or...as per usual),
this poem iz a boot
ruminations about bout,
who else except this ole coot
at das receiving end
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Categories:
variations, age, birthday, depression, fantasy,
Form: Bio
Complex Variations On An Unhealthy Theme
Ecologically resilient health
and WinWin spiritual fueling economic development
and biologically transforming nature,
Combined with reflection
deflection
inflection of our personal
and economic
and political health v pathology experiences,
Recouple complex metaphors
of green commonsense
inviting a resilient ZeroZenZone case
for health benefits
of planting and harvesting basic humane-divine communion values.
Health allegories and gospel wealth parables
need not autonomously rely on sacred principles
equating blind faith with good faith.
Reassociating
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Categories:
variations, abuse, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Political Verse
Variations On Theme of Red
Variations on a Theme of Red
Color of bold that daubs the sunset bright
Old fair weather friend of shepherd’s delight
That taints the emblazoned rays of gold
Displayed a glorious red for all to behold
Rare crimson moon adorns a shady backdrop
A Raleigh scattering miracle of red that’s set to shock
Its sign of fate that casts a
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Categories:
variations, red,
Form: Rhyme
Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story -X-Xii
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued
for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun
(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the anonymous quatrain form. Cf " Poietics of the Pantun
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Categories:
variations, age, humor, literature, satire,
Form: Pantoum
Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Vii-Ix
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX Continued
for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun
Check out: www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf
(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the anonymous quatrain form. Cf " Poietics of
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Categories:
variations, age, humor, love, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
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