Freedom Bereavement Poems

You have breached the zone; tell me where else can the children roam? You have planted landmines on every corner and you have disrupted the...

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Their spirits sift through the ages
Soaring swiftly in song
Kings queens prophets poets
Martyr and messiah
Tattooing tongues teaching teal truths

For ages they are anxiously awaiting 
YOU 
The...

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Poetry Soup, it has been a while
What has happened, so much death judgement vindication even when I was a child
Green mile I had to walk...

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Alas, my sweet child you shan't!
Get used to an insane, world of can't!
Our brilliant brains are fully scrubbed,
As sniling and kids in a foaming bath.
Rub-y-dee,...

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To V on the passing of her mother

They say we choose our parents from some ethereal plain
Deciding on the womb to bare the birthing and...

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Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.
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Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.

Ah... what luxury to wax poetic 
as freedom to trumpet thoughts, 
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president...

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No estate should be able to turn away health inspectors,
No estate should be able to turn away ambulances,
  while bleeding internally,
No estate should need...

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Written: November 03, 2023, For Brian Strand Contest
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I was just a child,
enraged...

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We were accustomed to being in the military living in the
barracks, having inspections and following the rules.
Yet, at summer's zenith, my sweetheart and I and...

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Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liberty...

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Glory to the Departed
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett

I had to be free.
Now I am gone,
But remember me 
So freedom goes on.

Not an easy road to...

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Written: August 23, 2023
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In the realm where rebels reside,
A vessel of jade, a genre spontaneous,
There lies a poetic rebellion, untried,
A cathartic presence, quite wondrous.

Beneath the...

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Written: June 20, 2023
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Shedding the chains In my mind, anile regrets reside. 
A haunting reminder of mistakes I cannot hide.
Self-doubts and hurts cling to my...

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The cry of death echoes cold,
Following a desperate night, dawn weighs heavy,
Hold the cool Moonlight until freedom sails,...

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