Hope Absurdity Poems

We live within a lifeless metropolis,
Where corporations prance in the stream of time,
Their gaping mouths reciting shallow verse,
While Freedom’s statue weeps in lonely midnight.

Gargantuan flags...

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In the expanse of purposeless existence,
We drift, untethered, searching for guidance.
Hope, a distant memory, elusive, unattainable,
No laughter escapes our lips on this path.

Days and nights...

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Lo, Meursault, the hero, of the novel, 'the outsider',
Is spun by absurdity, like the web of a spider.

Neither religion nor society does affect him,
Nor does...

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A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch

Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands...

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I see the wind blowing my hair past my face
But I cannot feel it's caress upon my cheek.
I hear the oceans echoing whisper as it...

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My brother David met William Geris
A former head of state of Utopia
Having dinner in the city of Paris
They talked about big things

David had plans to...

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