The Book of Changes
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"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thou...
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Categories:
windings, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
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:
windings, animal, bird, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Only a Moment
...The whole of a journey still to be traveled
is much like a novel begun
with threads of the story not yet unraveled
and windings of plot to be spun.
We’ve myriad paths to meander, assess.
The hou...
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Categories:
windings, adventure, future, journey, life,
Form: Ballad
Rolling Down My Hill
...I stand at the top of my hill,
Spread my arms and fall and roll,
Over pavement, yellowing grass,
Into balls of trees of autumn.
Jasper, topaz, ruby, and orange true,
At last my windings end
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Categories:
windings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Lickety Split
...L ost deep, the woods of tender age,
I feigned to quell my prurient rage ...
C aught amidst a gleam and glower,
K ept 'tween pages, pressed a flower.
E<...
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Categories:
windings, analogy, life, love, time,
Form: Acrostic
Gripe
...The malicious windings of your hasty pace
That erase sweet memories and their trace
Waste things that breathes and ones mute;
Pitiless Time, you are such a ruthless brute!
If you only aged men ...
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Categories:
windings, cute, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Craters of Costa Rica
...The Craters Of Costa Rica
Welcome Moon, Mars and craters, to your cousin Costa Rica
Mountain walls rise up in orange display, in gravel and red clay
Hug the twisting narrow roads in terror
Clin...
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Categories:
windings, adventure, anxiety, bird, image,
Form: Free verse
Percival's Promise
...The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance
Streaming with incresent colours towards life
Infinite within its parhelion possibilities
Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides
Whereupon...
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Categories:
windings, angel, art, autumn, love,
Form: I do not know?
Percival's Promise
...The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance
Streaming with incresent colours towards life
Infinite within its parhelion possibilities
Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides
Whereupon all...
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Categories:
windings, love,
Form: I do not know?
Spirit of the Dunes
...The sun fades towards the west
The loving beauty of our star in sunset is expressed
The majestic mountains expanding past horizon trees and beaches that are by sea caressed
All by the divine power ...
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Categories:
windings, nature, spiritual, sea, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Reliquaries
...The black one contains the incense of his cremation:
the fragrance of hair become ash,
shreds of flesh lost among the sorting of the parts,
grindings of those that didn’t burn....
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Categories:
windings, death, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Pop Culture
...Have I ever mentioned the way it is in life sometimes; my own meager thoughts!?
This Pop Culture, that has always lain at the forefront of transitories transcendence
An everflowing river which ...
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Categories:
windings, hope, life, love, life,
Form: I do not know?
Compass
...Envelope life with firm arms,be for it pleasure
windings and uprisings take for measure
inevitables that are thrown down your path
sensibily minded doing the math
for you are that compass...
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Categories:
windings, life,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry In Motion
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Tis yet another Moonless night...
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Within the twine shadow laced
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Categories:
windings, introspection
Form: Rhyme
The Unconscious
...The long, open windings of the dusty road
Seems absurd, like the empty yearnings
Of a parched soul
Which wills to dangle haywire
And be so lackadaisical
Leading to the unseen infinity
In the t...
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Categories:
windings, introspectiondark, dark,
Form: Free verse
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