My Dear Poet
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Inviting the passing crowd into the intricate weavings
of her mind...
she sits along the curb reading her poems aloud
A torn page of charcoal dream hangs from a lamp-post
Hopin...
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Categories:
weavings, beauty, desire, heart, inspirational
Form: Free verse
towards the exhalting booth
...dotherant's hardened mule
news of numbers and yearling's pew
ardvakians, mustering askance the dairy
frolic, adhere, nearer, when forward
finding in country
beliefs?
how have you been beate...
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Categories:
weavings, cinderella, color, england, eve,
Form: Ballad
Primal Properties
...(19th century Tibetan Wangden rug)
Primal Properties
I look around at all the art I have collected
An assortment of inherited, home made and bought,
Ranging from African to Asian to Pe...
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Categories:
weavings, appreciation, art, creation, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Sweet Spot
...(Pema on Turkish Rug, 2023)
The Sweet Spot
Remarkably, right on the cusp
Between the tangible and intangible
Sit the old tribal weavings
Of the near to far East.
I’m sure to many
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Categories:
weavings, art, heart, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Crossing a sea of bitterness, voids curled beneath my ribs lie hidden
...Crossing a sea of bitterness, voids curled beneath my ribs lie hidden,
I drank from the cup of vices, chewed on stupidity, laboring in vast fields of error.
My mind lay with disillusionment, embrac...
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Categories:
weavings, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I don't want to wander those places where our footsteps have long since passed
...I don't want to wander those places where our footsteps have long since passed,
Down shaded alleys where our memories whisper and stand guard like stone sentries,
I no longer wish to hear those son...
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Categories:
weavings, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Tapestry of Life
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January 22, 2024
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Divergent viewpoints can arise
Whilst triumphant variously savor
Glorious tune of achievement,
Gain glo...
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Categories:
weavings, analogy, appreciation, beauty, dream,
Form: Free verse
In tumults of time and forgetfulness, in the hidden frenzy of a heart beating faintly
...In tumults of time and forgetfulness, in the hidden frenzy of a heart beating faintly,
Invoke the unseen magic, unravel silk works in the deep night,
Tame as a magus who dares, let fall veils of si...
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Categories:
weavings, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Awaiting Houyi: the Song of Cheng'E
...A song is heard
In the dead of night
Her tears are shining in the sky so bright
Tears of star light
Her voice is delicate and drifts on the breeze
As a jade flute sounds in the Cold moon palace...
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Categories:
weavings, dedication, deep, devotion, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Thrilla In Manila - Philippines Coliseum
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Well, here we are in the Araneta Coliseum
In Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines
To witness two modern boxing Gladiators
Their prowess, stature, about to be seen
This will be the th...
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Categories:
weavings, character, history, men, places,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Iii
...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (III)
Songstress
by Michael R. Burch
Within its starkwhite ribcage, how the heart
must flutter wildly, O, and always sing
against the pressing darkn...
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Categories:
weavings, animal, bird, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Time's Weavings, As I Brood Upon Them
...Time's Weavings, As I Brood Upon Them
Shut inside windows open W I D E
I age 1,000 years
To your one.
The Past turns in tight circles upon the Present,
Inscribing itself in memories
Lendi...
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Categories:
weavings, age, mystery, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Arctic Seasoned Disguise
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Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty
Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
wh...
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Categories:
weavings, good night,
Form: Free verse
The Liberation Library
...In my personal political library
of capital invested thoughts
about healthier attachment
through co-invested feelings,
Sit-Spot sets
gold lettered Wisdom of Laotse,
Neighboring George Lakof...
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Categories:
weavings, analogy, appreciation, beauty, freedom,
Form: Political Verse
Kindred Spirit
...I feel the fiber of our lives,
the intertwining threads of our existence,
like weavings on a loom,
join together.
As if made of the other's own fabric,
our life stories play in a...
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Categories:
weavings, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
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