Best Propound Poems

Still Seconds ( A Valentine )

Chocolate box romance
Of ribbons and flowers
Wishes in poetical phrases
Letter and verse
Imprinted rhythmical beats of hearts
In soft sweet confessions
Underline Cupids children

But my love prowls
On feline soft paws
Its breath an engine
Its rhythm slow steaming
Waiting

Saint Valentines greatest lovers
In painted masks
Have struggled expressions
Too beautiful...

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Figures of immense reputation and popularity they were
Attracting public attention and admiration in the pursuit of their great works
Leaving behind them a legacy of some kind
But going with them their unique characters.

Wasn’t the explosion of Christianity the work of Jesus of Nazareth?
And the burst of...

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A noble story one that ought to be our good host laughed and swore the games begun. Come match the knights tale if you can sir monk. To bellow arms and blood and bones he swore. A noble one I'll pay off the knights tale...

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I suppose struggling bards (such as I) are wont to muse
Upon profound or inane topics to propound our views.
So, it occured to me how baffling the English language could be,
To new arrivals to our shores from international potpourri.

Will he ever master the usage of to,...

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Unseen
Between shadows
Opinion is unheard
Feeling emptiness on the soul
Nobody care is she alive or dead

Sadness reflects in her lost eyes
Blank stare in the dark night
Weeping past days
Alone

Shadows
Cloak as a veil
Perceiving ostracism
As exclusion of daily life
Confining forever in four wall room

Inner fiendish voices propound
Secluding in a world
Fantasy...

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How can we take pride in a country
that is sliding into dissolution and chaos?
We praise ourselves for ending slavery.
yet racial prejudice is still much with us.
We pay slave wages and refuse to change
the minimum wage to a living wage.
We call all people equal under the...

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Pulsating honor doth corroded hearts impound
A blustery breeze echoes cries from each, preceding battleground
A recurring, eager parade of reporters, gawkers freely roam distant mound
Below, fatigued, tidy mass of steeled infantry; to death's throes bound
Neighing horses conditioned to mayhem the pageantry doth confound
On opposite ridges, mounted...

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Various Heresies 3

Breakings
by Michael R. Burch

I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.

But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now what can I do for her shattered psyche's sake?

I did...

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Last name here, First step there, only one allay...
Vestige sagacity, flaxen ochroid genes skitter down, 
Diddle drizzled dints to acquiesce an ugly axis,
Whet of whiled grime, tips on me thus to dawn,
In hands of lonely children, bid these lips bye-bye...

Bequest oaths, for ode by love...

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It seems there are self-appointed disciples who've nothing else to do,
Except propound their inane dogmas to assail folks like me and you!
This nation is being torn asunder by a few people acting on their own.
Why can't they find productive things to do and leave the...

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Cocoa from this bean derived 

Essential to this product

Scarce thought for the deprived

With creamy blend of milk and butter

Our tendency to indulge

A fair wage and exchange- it's juster

Alas sugar laden, it feeds the bulge

And addiction

In assorted shapes and packs

To enhance temptation

While the bean pickers live...

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A vast explosion in the sky
of supernova’s great goodbye
is how immense celestials die.

Yet these demises have their worth
to aid perchance in future birth
of star to house a planet earth.

Our human species’ vessel home
beneath the heavens’ vaulted dome
is floating in a sea of foam

where we’ve been...

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Though my mind has clearly gone,
my hollowed vessel sails on and on.
Tattered memories clatter through,
dried leaves in search of their limbs,
desperate to seek the plumpness of youth.
Their only hope; give up the fight,
to death magnetic earth,
once more, rebirth.
Yet far and wide they stride,
the empty vastness...

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tell them i’m gone
tell them i’m gone to change my name
give them any name
i’ll not give them another name

tell them i’ll not take my father’s name
no more father than i’m my own
i do not create
i’m not responsible
i have no ownership over my makings

so i’ll take...

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DEATH IS A NOTHING WORD
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