CLERIHEW ecphrasis XLI munch once more
Romantically symbolic for sure
Munch's metaphor takes the floor
here in the Dance of Life*
so many are especially rife
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Categories:
xli, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Life With T-Rump Xli Or Heil To the Chief
DJAHT is an acronym chain
Just a legacy that shall remain
After time when he’s dead
Hath the stone near his head...
To Hitler who lived in my brain
Author’s note: Donald J.(Adolph Hitler) Trump.
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Categories:
xli, blessing, future, political, success,
Form: Limerick
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
Sonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and takes my hand.
We are walking somewhere that her feet know to go,
so I smile, and I follow...
And the years are
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Categories:
xli, child, childhood, children, death,
Form: Sonnet
Love Letter From the Soul Xli
P,
It is not yet Spring but I can taste the Fall
patterned flights that have made her call
hints of hickory hovering low in the breeze
billowing smoke
from the heat we both breathe
cobblestone courses catered and caressed
deeply in our minds
recoiled and ready
to recall and reminisce
barefoot thru the streets
white with red
hot
white with red
ambient skies blending
mixing moments
bloodshed but
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Categories:
xli, love,
Form: Romanticism
If Ever I Had a Country : Xxxix and Xli
If ever I had a country : XXXIX - XLI
XXXIX
If ever I had a country
And if ever by some fluke I were the Minister of Trade and Commerce
I'd round up these Protected Species of vicious witches who live off the fat of the tenement purse
In cohorts with the " assured " companies and the conniving
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Categories:
xli, anti bullying, corruption, home,
Form: Dramatic Monologue