Best Starker Poems

Child of darkness, child of scorn,
the devil danced when you were born,
for demon seed from Morphy passed,
would haunt your days ‘til everlast.

Predestined to die derelict,
an iso-pawn so cynical,
how cruel a fate awaits the one
that conquered Caissa’s pinnacle.

With skills eroding into rust,
a mind among things you...

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An old lady sat near a window, near a window looking out.
With her radio going she sat there sewing, with an occasional look about.
On her thumb she wore a thimble, as she pulled the thread so nimble, enjoying the 
light,
While the weatherman’s voice was blaring,...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...

telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...

here where you have left no mark
upon this dark
Heraclitean shore.

Heraclitus said we can't step...

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A CHILD’S EASEL

We bought it used at an art store
And cleaned it with soap and water.
Then stood it on the living room floor:
A child’s easel for our daughter.

You would draw on it with a marker,
Or write messages we could read;
The letters were always starker			
If there...

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These bright summer days
             present a world starker than
                        ...

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There is beauty in your absence
     there is greatness in your silence
there is pain in your wishes
     In your innards, there are dreams
Poetry and you are synonymous
     I am synonymous with love
how I love you both.

      Poetry is...

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Cycles of life stream reams of joy and pain
Alternating nets and magnets of sunshine and rain
Sifting through rest and strain  

When by default I favour a fault
That in my right sense I should halt
Meaning I should let go of the colt

I caress and mount...

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spiral darker
   deeper down
 ever starker
   viral rounds

sing out somber, to the seas
 of tears of floods, uprooted trees,
   the flotsam the jetsam
 the waste and ennui
        barred walls of this cyclonic...

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I met you in the spring 
when flowers peeked shyly from beneath tiny buds 
when the grass was struggling to restore its 
magnificent green 
birds singing so sweetly lyrical tunes that drifted 
into azure skies 
and I was wrapped in loves arms, whole and complete...

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Careless talker

When emotions are
Bottle up in side
We long to be hug
But still make it hide

But comes a day
We let our guards down
And then some can use it
To do you so wrong

I read a verse from the
Bible on the shelf
Says be careful what you say
A careless...

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Trump Barker In Sideshow

Trump's financial records are n New York on file
Look like he is going through period of denial
Seems so rich and everything he can afford
Even made Daughter Chairman of a board.

If asking her a question why should you bother
Who would say anything against...

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Here are tribute poems for exceptional children and teachers who should be alive today:

Emilie Parker,
the horror grows starker
as we see your sweet image
and cringe at the carnage;
but dear, how you mesmerize
with those vivid blue eyes
and death cannot sever
our hearts from you, ever.

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Dylan Hockley,
a blue-eyed "gorgeous...

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they lay  some say
let go to the bay
get up walk the beat
on the there' feet
some or starker
call
SLEEP WALKER...

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the job is odd
its has to be
some have mabe three
head radio as the go
some have dogs that barg
and talk nd people starker
the
DOG WALKER...

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A lone black crow
sits on a limb of a tree

amongst a crowd of trees
that surround the townhouses.

The trees' silhouettes 
are drawn on the brick; 

on the shingled roofs;
by the Sun this Late January. 

The dark shape of the crow
is starker than the trees' cast

of the...

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