DUAL VOICES: INK AND CHALK
...I am a tempest of words, aching to burst forth.
(Years of structured lessons simmer beneath my skin.)
The most important thing is that I'm drowning in metaphors.
Being a poet shapes reality, an...
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Categories:
acceptances, teacher, writing,
Form: Narrative
The Sum
...The Sum
By Benjamin Mui
I am not a failure Nor am I a success
I am not my rejections Nor am I my acceptances
I am not worthless Nor am I special
I am not my weakness Nor am I my streng...
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Categories:
acceptances, dream, peace,
Form: Free verse
Pain From Within the Mirror
...Dear God,
I come to you today because I need to know ... Why don't I have a reflection in the mirror every time I look within it? And why can't I hear my own words when I write poetry?
And for most...
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Categories:
acceptances, beauty, courage, god, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Lay Down Your Arms
...Lay Down Your Arms
by Michael R. Burch
Lay down your arms; come, sleep in the sand.
The battle is over and night is at hand.
Our voyage has ended; there's nowhere to go . . .
the earth is a ci...
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Categories:
acceptances, beach, conflict, environment, holocaust,
Form: Verse
Catacombs
...Sunlight we merely dream of
here amongst the bones
with the memories of the past
these haunted caverns
dank in their prisons
Acceptances specter
teaches our children
there before the pulpit ...
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Categories:
acceptances, analogy, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Venus and Mars
...As the stars cross this brumous night ~
Standing here with these white washing tides
Carrying away the sands beneath my feet
Glancing beyond the repetitious of this champagne sea
Swells a...
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Categories:
acceptances, love,
Form: I do not know?
Idiosyncrasies
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What peculiar behavior I see.
That’s what is known as an idiosyncrasy.
It is inconsistent with acceptances in society.
Persons who have foibles in life
have actions that can cut like a knife...
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Categories:
acceptances, life, people,
Form: Rhyme
An Enchanted Place
..."I open the door and cross the threshold of imagination"
A Rambling Poet
An enchanted place
Where ex lovers still love me
Dead relatives live
Tears from the past dry
Years of mourning and pining
A...
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Categories:
acceptances, imagination,
Form: Haiku
Holding On
...Are there reasons why we all hold on?
Knowing well where the path shall lead to…
Finding a place perhaps to feel belong
Yet strangers we are to everyone we knew
The world isn’t at all so small
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Categories:
acceptances, lifelife, may,
Form: Light Verse
~ Venus and Mars ~
...As the stars cross this brumous night ~
Standing here with these white washing tides
Carrying away the sands beneath my feet
Glancing beyond the repetitious of this champagne sea
Swells a...
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Categories:
acceptances, loveme, stars,
Form: I do not know?
The Rebellious Man
...The Rebellious Man
If love was meant to be
Dare he stand before his own soul
And deny it
Will he risk his broken heart
Should he turn aside from the path of breaking
And the making ...
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Categories:
acceptances, life
Form: Free verse
~ Venus and Mars ~
...As the stars cross this brumous night ~
Standing here with these white washing tides
Carrying away the sands beneath my feet
Glancing beyond the repetitious of this champagne sea
Swells a...
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Categories:
acceptances, life, love, passion, peopleme,
Form: I do not know?
Decorating
...Decorating
“But what is real? If you mean those impulses and signals sent by your senses
and which are then interpreted by your brain. Then the real can be anything
your mind desires.”
Mo...
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Categories:
acceptances, caregiving, childhood, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Free verse