Best Lessoned Poems

The day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds 
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and the trees too,
waving their twigs like hands saluting people walking...

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The day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting 
     aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle 
            puffs of the morning breeze, Sending leaves on...

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Blessed was I to see the wind 
And yes, I felt her breath.
Her beauty held me spellbound
to dream of unto death.
She pranced lively never to trace,
her ivory face was carved from grace.   
She could not understand our kind,
or of our fate, to her...

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His result slip showed  he had failed
Friends celebrated their success
But his parents and some he shamed
Had pinned  on him their hopes and focus

His Dad said "For negligence, it's the price
 Your direliction is  hard to repair
So change your style to do better...

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I feel a weight lifted of my shoulders,
Like past B.C. Olympians throwing boulders.

The world overall is a place of wonder,
rules made to be broken, and disappoint mothers.
What if? Could it? Should it happen,
To be a rebel with a cause is my only passion.

Mistakes are what...

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(countless years hug hoe ~ a half dozen)
twas spawned a fondness for thee above named young lady,
   when first she got assigned to thine offspring
a glint of genuine virtue grew into a shimmering orb
   of brilliant radiance that if accorded a...

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I yearn to tell you what I know
But I am lost to find the perfect way,
So come and view the truths I'll show.
You'll see beyond our concept of today.

Talk to the homeless on the street,
Some are happy and the rest are mad.
You can give and...

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Am never paving way ever again to tears,
Am standing tall to all these fears,
I have trembled enough,
Struggled enough,
Am never looking back again,
Nothing will take me back to that futon,
I have worked harder to slide back,
Embraced everything even their mock,
I have leaped in pain for many...

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(a salvation for my then junior high school youngest daughter afflicted with cognitive dissonance, who over the intervening years (mor'n half dozen Earth orbitz  ago), I dashed off this poem witnessed nothing short of miraculous transformation evinced and witnessed by profound learning displaying significant...

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Various Heresies 4

I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch

I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.

But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from afar.
And so I stood and laughed, bizarre:
a thing embalmed, made...

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Oh sinful love!
Ranges of diversity surround thee.
Quests fulfilled for meager use.
The style has no grace or degree.
Bended and forlorn though many seek,
Your pleasure is lessoned each time needed.
Oh sinful love!
When shall you no longer be seeded?


Oh hurtful love!
Pains that are dispatched between two,
Heartaches of dysfunction...

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The day was almost over the length of shadows added to the horror the suicided 
failure as eye kicked the step away from the very air eye breathed only to discover 
that the rope that eye had lengthened only added more to links already there...

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When I first met you I was so in love with you.Every text every call would make my heart bounce off the walls.But my heart broke when I saw you awoke with a differant girl and a whole new differant show.My tears would last for...

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my faith… tested
each day young life lost.. sadness
why not me... I’ve lived

the taste of life…
once sweet… delicate now… gone sour
final hours… close
~
raw facts of life… pain…
rapture… if treated with care
putting wrongs to right
~
project Mars… a dream…
Kids Radio Talk… their planning
journeys into space
~
galaxies…. beyond
infinity… life who...

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Melody Maker

The music in my mind plays softly. 
It is quiet today. 
I can write and enjoy
each stroke of the pen
as it touches the paper... 
like a lover for the first time
with their dearest one. 
Gentle, soft, and methodical
the sounds interlace the moment, 
with memory,...

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