Best Revenant Poems

Awake the child that ached for years
The frightened man, ashamed of fear
I hold too tightly to this place
The reverence that lead to waste

Silent virtue comes...

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" Revenant "

In direction unforeseen yet then 'nother am I drifted~
Winds have their way & through my whims have thus sifted~
Yet oft have been waves...

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death cannot endure eternity ~ if it could we’d never be born   
          ...

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Instruction
by Michael R. Burch

Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.

Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset

of night is...

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PS Resident Revenant ...

  "I shall embrace it," he sighed, transmuting  -

Blood, no stain, he thought,

  Not even frost on the pane...

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From an aerial view, the sight of a beautiful red train 
chugging along down the railway track 
takes my breath away; 

One moment I am...

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Lost, to the darkness, deep ...

This bleak sojourn I have made times on end,
dipping my eyes to the dreadful forms that mock me,
a maelstrom of...

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"The Psychopomp’s Embrace" 

No judgement 
from the fallen 

unseen angels 
credited 
with scores to 
safely harbour 
lost passing ships 
that crush souls 
in dark night
ferrying...

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repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler. 
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric. 
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts. 
refrains retaining remnant redolent...

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I float in the ether ... a roll of sea swells below, pier toward the
west, island I know so well - endless hours there, but...

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"FALL"



I wrap
my Autumn world
around you

Calliope turning
raising the 
season’s poetry, 

I am she
returning 

dancing 
with Summer’s 
dying leaves 

Twirling you up into 
my warm golden brown...

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Haunted...
glowing foot falls on the dusted wooden planks cross the bridge
following them 
I swing around enormous trees 
skirt quickly...trying to catch up

were we holding hands...

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For more 
sleep I will drink 
a few more beers, then I 
will sleep like a pooped baby 
all night.

Nothing 
in a bottle, 
nothing in...

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recklessly chaotic surrender
 midway untrained assimilating
thought patterns struck by twilit
    idiosyncratic contractions'
 irrational heart dotted i's 
   of contradictory falsities,...

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In my limbo betwixt death and rebirth
  on the edge of darkness I’m not alone -
a journey through circles of Hell on earth
 ...

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