Best Expunging Poems

I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
  ...

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The blade penetrated the flesh
like a prong to a pitted plum
he had played with war
toyed with war
yet the gun
well the gun didn't have balls
Not for...

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Winter sheds Her dander
upon a frigid breeze,
releasing flakes of white.

Like soft, feathery down,
they silently settle,
on everything in sight.

Ice crystals glittering
in their dazzling splendor,
set the landscape...

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Transcending bliss,
lured by a kiss.

While giving love a brand-new start
healing the wounds of yesterday,
you chased all of my doubts away
expunging the pain from my heart.

Healing...

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The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch

The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence...

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You embody innocence and truth,
traits one rarely finds outside of youth.
And with your intoxicating charm,
you guard my heart, shielding it from harm.

You entice me in...

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What a game ...
he was just a jester,
and this a ghastly prospect ...

The ground lay torn open before him,
a wound in the earth that called...

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     by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day

        ...

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Part Two

To have written is to leave but a mark
  nothing stands for the proud rhyming syllables
    more than his acquired...

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Such a grand memory I set aside,
Passing time in the French bucolic countryside
Passing lazy days away
Sipping sweet, sweet wine.

Lifting spirits, jousting melancholic ways
Experience expunging naivete
The...

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Expunging weapons
Mass smashing nuclear arms-
Byzantine debate....

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Icicles hang on the edges
Silence creeping into the conversation
Revealing the boredom of this skirt
Tendrils of frozen water suspended
On hearts, hopes and dreams

Moonlight flickers on the...

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ARE YE GOING TO MARRY THAT WITCH OF A DAME - Counterfeiting the CANTICLE by T. Wignesan

(With self-lacerating apologies and scathing penance to that great...

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When listening to her heart beat
I can hear the metronomic  murmurs of string
and wind instruments blending
into a susurrous symphony
(expunging note upon note through my...

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In a royal antibacterial waste machine one must wait for the willing vibrancy of the whistling seal. Dressed neatly in a three piece suit he...

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