Lost Absurdity Poems

In borrowed plumes, a masquerade we stage,
Thoughts echo doctrines, passions preordained.
From broken families, where fractured spirits weep,
Mothers of sorrow, 
With eyes that never sleep.

We inherit...

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God, how do you feel watching your people?
Do you chuckle when you see them,
Scuttling beneath the weight of their own shadows?
Do you find amusement in...

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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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In the dawn’s hazy light, I see them,
The weary souls trudging forth,
Faces etched with half-slept weariness,
Their spirits longing for escape.

In this bustling cityscape,
They gather at...

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we are actors

arguing in 
plotless movies

performing within
disconnected realities

muddling through
absurd battles

hoping for 
direction

striving to
make sense
of our roles

in a
cosmic
Cinema 
of the 
Absurd...

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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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To scheme and plunder - practised stealth
Cheating others - greater wealth
Sacrificing righteous self
Castle in the sky

To study deeply - gaining knowledge
Spending life as if in...

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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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