Best Sturm Poems

Come now, people - we've all heard this tale before:
Barbarians are at our gates, enemies outside the door.
Their shapes the image of our own,
Their shadows...

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into the spotlight

high summer enters stage left-

son et lumiere



Inspired by Raul's Summer tempest photo...

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Carolers sing in front of a garland draped door
In scarf and boot turn, spill grog into snow pour.

Approaching our porch with, “Come ye faithful”
Open the...

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Am Ufer des Flusses
Bevor die Sonne erlischt
Nur leichtes Gurgeln

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At the river banks
Before the sun finally sets
Only a slight gurgle

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A orillas del río 
Antes que el...

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"Dia de Los Muertos", the Spanish name it.  Eve
of All Saints, saw we of the church of blessed assurance
of an observance ushering in fall...

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People with family dressed up in the Victorian style
Returning home as the Mass services over awhile.

Which in olden times was Communion or Eucharist
Where people remember,...

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i.

The day he lost her to a fallen world
He promised to be satisfied with life
His love came from above abundantly
Commissioned to give back put others...

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What Remains
by
Rick Folker
June, 2017
Kansas City, MO

When the crowd clamors
And the tocsin clangs

When the mighty and powerful
Crush the weak, the vulnerable,
The poverty that chains and shames

When...

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I prefer crazed blue eyes
How  they
Magnetize
The ache 
I have
To make your insanity 
My own

I prefer crazed blue eyes
Won’t
Apologize
How I take 
Your flesh
And make your...

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Im stillen Kornfeld dort,
wo sie verborgen lag,
des Schnitters Sense,
da liegt jetzt sein Grab.
Und nur der Wind
verweht das letzte Wort,
das niemand mehr vernehmen mag.

Bezwinge deine Seele
und...

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I understand, not much; or plenty
 of understanding that which is understood
 an understatement; really! To understand
 that which is under stated; understatement’s head!
 or...

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this morning
I sought to be
informed
to become a glutton
for sturm and drang
two dimensional facts
were tasteless
only wailing tears
realtime malevolence
and the correct color of blood 
could satiate
the need...

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Upon entering Methacton Junior High School as rookie Warrior, 
   (the sturm un drang sports team mascot) 
   no doubt this...

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Chamber of Commerce types do a grand job of toutin' the beauty of Colorady.
Folks from Texas and the flatlands of Indiana come to find their...

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Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent...

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