Best Striken Poems

Demitrios the golden Spartan captain sets sail for Italy 
against the western wind; he will certainly mourn Piraeus,
and with sorrow-striken eyes, he'll invoke Poseidon. 
Then...

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HELP! HELP!
 She is sinking,
 Sinking into the abyss of despair.
 Her brain is striken And her mind is stifled.
 She has been enervated.
 Her...

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Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations

Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for...

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Truth lies in these eyes of mine.
You won't look into,
Cannot immerse yourself in...
What's real.
I'm not trying,
Fear of failure or something wicked,
Do only morose things come...

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Tears fall without much thought,
Nothing left nothing sought,
Crippled by your thoughtless acts,
Marked by the unfortunate facts.
Heart was lifted above with ecstacy,
Seeming farther away towards heresy,
Once...

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The titanium in me explodes and burns
so much that even oceanic amounts
of the waters cannot stand its rage.
I adore you and reverence your body so...

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Envisions of a new world order
Have infected
My ideologies
Concerning political parties.

Apathetic to the suicide bomber
Clutching his holy scripture
As Jesus is turned
Into an aborted fetus.

Starving for liberation,
Feed...

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Trying to walk down a blood striken street,
not easy with bare feet,
I looked at the floor in a daze,
dazed and confused,
and totally bemused,
frost bite in...

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A race against time ..
As her life is faced with challenges..
A tragic loss of a loved one ..
Grief strikes her like a hot iron..
The pain...

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The murky rolling waves subject
to the whims of the February's wind, 
far above the secluded lighthouse;
the roaming aircrafts vanish through thick clouds,
leaving behind a trail...

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The rain like an army of crazed crickets in an over sized paper bag,

Or the drum roll of anxious fingers on my writing pad

Wind blows...

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heart snapped off hearing the news of my friend's unforeseen scarring mishap


Disclaimer: This unpredicted incident happened in the year 2009 when I was in 9th...

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Whatever bind that bounds us has been broken
For all the time I knew I never thought I'd be forsaken.
Yet after all and everything you are...

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He was striken with sudden illness
Had been taken to the hospital
For immediate diagnose
And extract reason for the cause;

As he jumped down from the car ..

To...

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There are so many to hold my hand 
and share my pain.
There are so many to make my 
present and forget me my past.
Why do...

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