The Toy
...A treasure untreasured, abandoned and forgot
In a darkened closet much like a burial plot
Misremembered kisses, hugs no longer felt
Twisting into bitterness, where lonesome dwelt
Memories wrapp...
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Categories:
worming, fear, horror,
Form: Rhyme
The Serpent
...As you slither and slide in the eye of your mind.
So deceptive and cunning in a truth hard to find.
The venom you speak, poisoned with your fork tongue.
With no rhyme or no reason, with no right o...
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Categories:
worming, betrayal, conflict, dark, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Marionetta
...From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus
Spectral filaments of the netherworld
Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette
Osseous structures fracture contort
I ascend from the fecund...
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Categories:
worming, crazy, dark, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Regret Worming In
...Heading towards the tall trees in the distance
I start to have a feeling in the pit of my stomach
It’s a feeling I couldn't seem to ignore…hunger
So I headed to the ground to rectify this
I swo...
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Categories:
worming, childhood, dark, family, fear,
Form: Free verse
To all the carbon-nations
...Carbon human lives address, express ideas? debate caress'
All mammals made of carbon too' walk and live some are; confined to zoo's, a manmade place to observe
And gather; revenue in that preserve...
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Categories:
worming, 5th grade, appreciation, community,
Form: Rhyme
Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
...Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I...
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Categories:
worming, age, america, creation, environment,
Form: Rhyme
We Played a Forest Dance
...moss smelled me coming
i felt her under my bare toes
she gave me a tickle
we played a forest dance
me giant, her worming around tree
the best tango...
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Categories:
worming, nature,
Form: Free verse
Conquering Your Enemy
...I am about to make a request
You might sooner turn down than test,
For all its promise of conquest
Of the hard men, who us detest
And of our doomed end turned a quest:
To start laughing with...
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Categories:
worming, change, conflict, love, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Come Along With Me
...Just come along with me to the town
where long time ago I bicycled,
walked and ran about whenever
I wanted to smell the fragrance of Saigon
where I raised my hand to salute the
spirits whi...
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Categories:
worming, appreciation, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Abstractions
...Lithesome words like ‘love’, ‘loyalty’
And ‘liberty’
Lie, like mollusks on the sea
Bed; closed clam shut
Not revealing
Anything but
An unctuous feeling
And when prized open
By a devouring que...
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Categories:
worming, betrayal, relationship, words,
Form: Alliteration
Apocalyptic Poems I
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
w...
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Categories:
worming, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Whoami Within Following Figurative Nutshell
...Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:
Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I...
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Categories:
worming, age, break up, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Into the Ether of Nothingness
...no one calls me by my name anymore
in fact no one ever calls
I look out to you my friend
my ocean of nothingness
and I see
the endless impossibilities
that will never happen
even...
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Categories:
worming, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Short Stack
...The Restaurant Menu has a picture.
Three golden brown Pancakes
A large corn colored slice of butter
Melting on top running over the sides.
Griddle Cakes doing a Nathalie Wood impersonation
Drow...
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Categories:
worming, father, memory,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
...Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children e...
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Categories:
worming, bible, christian, creation, god,
Form: Free verse
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