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I Found the Courage to Speak

...No torrid steel rod cauterized my wounds
for I couldn't lick the festering gashes clean.
Your sharp-bladed tongue bit too deep,
fangs plunged with each vile cursed scene.

No mere prick or scrat...

Emotional Shrapnel

...Lurid looks have been thrown at me
Deadly daggers sent to pierce my heart
Why do some insist on acting beastly 
waging war in attempts to tear me apart?
How long can I go on pretending I'm not in...

Country Pubs

...Bubbling babbling burbling banter from the bar..

Sup hush….memory lane trip...Proustian rush..pleasingly tickled. 

Plushly ebbed…spidery beer swirls webbed…lace whirls..grace dimpled dappled ja...

Beowulf translation by Michael R Burch

...Beowulf Excerpts
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes
whose clan-than...

my ego wants me dead in ireland

...Tires rang against the road in my eyes
The grinding of whetted knives
Tinnitus rings in my teeth
Threats are thought, silently

Back sores scream and swamp
Ass creeps through the carseat
In th...

This Shadowed Place

...
My heart lay barely beating, drowning in a marinade
of salted tears that fell from my reddened eyes.
Blood dripped down my chin from biting my swollen lips
as if they were wounded like a heart p...

The Great Names

...This, as it is, stripped and reduced - undone by 
raging, torrential, opened senses;
To its elemental couplings of unbridled pieces.

Here is life, in towering, brindled expanse, that 
swallows ...

Guillotine

...I heard screams from those marked for a guillotine death
No compromises for their cries before taking a last breath
Words of repentance for dastardly crimes were bemoaned
Begging for mercy with fe...

Dancing of Earth

...When spring arrives,
A group of flowers enjoy
Their countenance and
As the day grows older
They lose their incandescent looks.
If they could know the collapse
Before the begetting,
I hope they...

Surgeons of Sky

...Just testing the night
The surgeons of sky
 to see
a Sky-net so faulted and frank
unflinching but still true

Full of expectation and hope...Just touching the night
feeling the texture of it
...

Independence

...To Ukraine
 ~Arise in arms from ‘neath oppression’s boot,
confront the face of arbitrary whim.
Resist as one to quell the scarlet brute
and neutralize the threat of florid prim.
   Let tyran...

A Language Without Words

...I. 
they say 
there exist languages without words
without syllables yet pronounced,
like the sharp clatter of fork and spoon and knife against each other
at dinners in our family.
a vase shatte...

Freedom

...~ Contention grows beyond its mortal vail
to rail against suppression none condone,
for tyranny imposed shall not prevail
when liberty is paid in flesh and bone.
   Let not the price deter the bo...

Chef Bourdain

...Chef Bourdain  
1956-2018

Surf and turf, a sardine in tin; will travel. 
Your downward spiral 
Magnanimity that whetted our appetite 
Fans everywhere you excite. 
Consumed the exotic and 
co...

A Poet Views, Critic Reviews

...Fragrance of words I’m, who are you? 
Romance of lines brought in from blue, 
Make words dance in rhythm, 
Cut out noise in freedom,  
A poet asked: so, what’s your view? 

I wield a sword vibr...

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