Where Life Goes
...When winter arrives
Icicles manifest around my heart
The Earth is barren
Roses wilter and decompose
Absorbed within grey dirt
Where oh where does life go?
Does it migrate with the doves?
Doe...
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Categories:
wilter, grief, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Limericks IX
...Limericks IX
Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch
The world’s first antinatalist limerick?
Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames m...
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Categories:
wilter, fire, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Trump Poems and Epigrams V
...Trump poems and epigrams V
The prez should be above the law, he sez,
even though he’s no longer prez.
—Michael R. Burch
Mercedes Benz
by Michael R. Burch
I'd like to do a song of grea...
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Categories:
wilter, america, political, presidents day,
Form: Epigram
Blue Is Not a Sad Color-
...Blue is not a sad color
So is the color of depression
Blue is a feeling that's never mentioned
Yeah blue is in the purple family which means royalty
Blue was off and separate and does...
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Categories:
wilter, analogy, anxiety, blue, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Total Devestation
...Total Devastation
Of smoke saw big plumb;
Certainly did ceil our doom;
Then swept tomb with brume.
Will equivocate;
Hesitate and celebrate;
Did elaborate.
Prefer to pilfer,
While each f...
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Categories:
wilter, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
A Perplexing Pen
...I'm a cerebral fire
That burns from within
I try to do right
But I succumb to the sin
I reflect the flames
From the sun up above
And I harbor the passion
Of the moonbeams of love
I try to...
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Categories:
wilter, introspection
Form: Rhyme
Sow the Seed
...Sow the seed
Watch it grow
It may take time
Cause the sun don't always shine
But even the rain is greatly appreciated
Watering by sorrow
Replenishing for joy
Some reapers may come along
To ch...
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Categories:
wilter, faith, inspirational, may,
Form: Free verse
Die Rose/ the Rose/ La Rosa
...Die Rose,
die im Stillen mir schon blühte,
vertrocknet war sie schnell im Morgenlicht.
Und auch ihr Duft,
verging zu schnell,
Wie kurz geträumter Traum,
der leicht zerbricht.
Wo dürre Zwei...
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Categories:
wilter, inspirational
Form: Verse
Half a Rose
...Here's half a rose
that now belongs to you.
The whole one is very special
because it now belongs to two.
Keep this rose with you
wherever you may go.
My prayers are always with you
and so ar...
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Categories:
wilter, friendship, rose, rose,
Form: Ballad