Best Publishes Poems

76 years today a legend retires his bat
70 years today another loses his battle
87 years today a nation gets back pride
49 years today Wal-Mart lures...

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He's a versatile "man of all trades,"
pursues anything new, virtually self-made.
He's a photographer, a minister and a poet,
immerses himself totally but before you know it

he's...

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Dark as the sky who
Publishes stars
Reflecting the dance
Against a tangerine 
Moon, longing for
Dawn and truth

Dark as the circles
Underneath sunken eyes
Who only see
Insomnia’s gloom
Coloring the night
In...

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He publishes poems
by writers who find
no publishers elsewhere.

They suffer rejection
and he gives them hope.
Some improve

and some do not.
But hope isn't always
the best thing.

It’s not hopeful...

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Myrolvorets is a Ukraine website that publishes a running list of people
considered to be enemies of Ukraine whose actions are crimes against
National Security, peace, human...

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(Now we hear from the murderess.  She explains 
that she killed Calmette because he published
love letters which she had written to her husband,
a minister...

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Time has passed by since I wrote
No awards received, not even a vote
Book shelves are filled with all the best sellers
Libraries kept mine down in...

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IF ever I had a country : XLIV - XLV

			XLIV

IF ever I had a country even beyond this galaxy
And if ever I were by no...

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That's *****!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow

Sometimes,

OK, really too often,
I...

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When life brings you to a place
Where pain and sorrow you must face
Listen to the wind and rain, leave a smile
From the stardust thoughts that...

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Earth History, lectured Fr. Time,
has always favored leftbrain culture,
too either/or bipolar
to rightbrain's more both/and interdependent way
of feeling and touching,
hearing before seeing and speaking
in rhyming reason,
not...

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“I will give you the riches of the darkness,
And the hidden riches of places unknown,
So that you may know that I Am God,
Who calls you...

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He was writing his thoughts, set to see,
With intentions for others to read and review.
What quickly happened, he couldn’t believe.
Things happened, he was quickly to...

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Poems for Poets X
Poems about Poets X



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for Virginia Woolf

Weigh me down with stones ...
   fill all the pockets of my...

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Poetry is stupid. 
It always has been and it always will be. 
If another stupid poet publishes another stupid work I'll scream and tear my...

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