New Sonnet 1 2025 'You Are Become a Dodge of Love My Dearest'
...You are become a dodge of love, My Dearest…
Or there are arrows other than my own,
That would entendril you once they have pierced,
That will deprive you of a higher throne…
Yet, I'll not Queen y...
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Categories:
beguilement, confusion, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
Prodigree 1
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Roads of gold and gates of pearl are thoughts solidified, finding resting place here,
having been purified, first, in a trial by fire-
in the bulwarked organ
of love's pineal desire....
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Categories:
beguilement, art,
Form: Rhyme
Immanent Yet Transcendent
...Written: September 21, 2023
Immanent yet transcendent Contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
God is both fully transcendent and utterly immanent – extensively beyond us but...
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Categories:
beguilement, analogy, appreciation, devotion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Lampshade
...THE LAMPSHADE
Poignant pungent pain sustained,
continuing for years,
followed ! I had to swallow
as I...
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Categories:
beguilement, betrayal, break up, depression,
Form: Verse
Midnight Perfection
...Wide awake at my window
during the darkest of night.
I noticed perfectly aligned stars
they seemed like clusters
of impossible beauty.
Encouraging fragrant white blooms
of midnight flo...
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Categories:
beguilement, beauty, night, stars,
Form: Narrative
Sayyidina Ali
...Mockery law spoofed boycott,
Survived the beast of a desert tooth.
Hunger answered by inedible dinner goth.
Skin and bones as the cloth.
Under sieged bloodthirsty pavement,
There are no rules...
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Categories:
beguilement, character, history, religion,
Form: Manqabat
Death Is Approaching
...Death is Approaching......
A major portion of our lives has passed,
and we do not look at our situation.
Our time in this world is limited and brief,
and yet look at our condition.
Wher...
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Categories:
beguilement, blessing, death, encouraging, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Hymn To Aphrodite
...Hymn to Aphrodite
by Sappho
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor!
Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress and beguiler!
I implore you...
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Categories:
beguilement, crush, desire, girlfriend, god,
Form: Sapphic stanza
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
...Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn with the
Precious wealth of King Solomon's
Gold! ...
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Categories:
beguilement, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
The Sea Shells Song
...I've listened to it's calling, in awes amazement
Felt the rush of the waves between my bare feet,
Allowing the bubbles of sea form to explode,
As I spread my toes digging them deeply,
Within the...
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Categories:
beguilement, art, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To the Necessity of Seduction
...An Ode to the Necessity of Seduction
She had been primping, preparing,
for these moments of beguilement.
Groomed, long before she began to
blossom, reach her time of coming out.
Always posse...
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Categories:
beguilement, desire, gender, lust, nature,
Form: Free verse
Man De Ya
...Man De Ya***
Towering over self-beguilement
To achieve an inner contentment;
Pardon turned him a pure Gent
Earthily, but wholly God-sent!
Where he could have chosen wrath
He followed H...
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Categories:
beguilement,
Form: Couplet
Mistakes
...Mistakes Are Lifes Greatest Sin
From Adam And Eves Blunder When Be...
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Categories:
beguilement, confusion, life, philosophy, religion,
Form: Epic