Best Unwhole Poems

If you could hear echoes from my heart now,               
would you perhaps reflect and wonder how
I have longed to hear your melodic voice  
flow in symphony with mine and rejoice.
I...

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Take away the frost of winter,
rid the land of biting snow,
then who would praise the warmth of August,
how could April rivers flow?

Hush the deafening crash of thunder,
dull the flash of lightning's thorn,
and who would feel the calm of silence,
when the still of dawn is born?

Sow...

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 I am not a warrior
My skin is pale and soft
I am not the kindest spirit
My words can hurt you to the bone

I am not purest serenity
I am fragile and unwhole
but my eyes own warm expressions
of a giving, caring soul.
A soul so weak and strong
sensitive...

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Various Heresies 2

You
by Michael R. Burch

For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.

For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained closed, hard and tense,
like a clenched fist.

For thirty years You...

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Since Adam’s fall the human race
has been stuck in a hostile space.
The evil forces wage a war,
God’s pure image they seek to tar.

This war is fought within our hearts,
with thoughts that wound like whizzing darts.
The fiend’s ghoulish goal is mind control,
to lure, entrap, and then...

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“Tessellate” 

on the surface
it’s easy to see
we tessellate

inadvertent 
decorative ostentatious
flirtatious lives taking risks 

with the other sides
planned strategic functional 
quantity rich quality lacking

Human

our words our ways
opposites 
like magnets attract, it all fits 

we think it doesn’t, yet
from the beginning of time 
it has been like...

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ReGenerating MultiCultural Ecologies

Our unwhole Uniting States'
degenerative republic governing system
was designed by white patriarchal representatives
to expand our polarizing divide
between what a true European Native USA Representative
Senator
CEO supremely looks like,
resonantly sounds like,
resilient health feels like
competing WinLose defensive wealth

To invest in a clearly defined
dominant representational class,
We bilaterally needed
an...

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A father ails, a son's lover's lament
Steel rudders committed, what hues to lament.

No courage, the lover feels not what to speak
A channel untuned to the feast of lament.

Tradesmen and saints, what heed they at all?
The father feigns slumber, a weak heart's lament.

The lover replaced, made...

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This is the third time
I've read Beyond Religion:
Ethics
[non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-violent]
for A (not "The") Whole World
[ZeroZenZone Universe, psychological and politically eco-logical].

In the second, of two, sections,
the Dalai Lama discusses,
in most excruciating therapeutic detail,
emotional positive v negative intelligence,
good- through bad-humored democratic literacy.

I remember Behavioral Psychology class
leading to...

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Dust storms in my mouth

My words are withered

In the searing gaze
Of her dirty eyes.

I am brittle clay
Parched for renewal
Awaiting the rain.


My walls form a tomb

When she is closed outside



And I am that ghost
That walks out in the darkness.
to Penetrate her seal.



I will Use whatever tool
I...

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I stand amongst the shadows where the light and dark divide

In a struggle for my sanity Pandora's box has opened wide

Madness calls me forward whilst defiance holds me back

Am I just another wanderer who falls between the cracks

One forgotten breath tipped the scales of my...

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marooned -- unwhole as i am
a piece of me missing
adrift in its emptiness
throbbing in angst

furious at the impending silence
yet clinging to it like i never want it to lift
hovering in limbo -- life being too short
to be caught in this game of catch-22



AP: Honorable Mention...

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I was wandering through what I thought I'd destroyed
I was wondering where would I lose all these joys
Untruth's bruise upon my soul
Losing lies that made me whole

There was once such a time when I felt I was right
And a time when the darkness was bleeding...

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Look beyond this thick façade,
You'll find four seasons in my soul,
But take away a piece of Winter
And you'll leave me cut, unwhole....

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Dear moon child, 

Shining in the darkness, you’ve always had to be
Facing every struggle and turmoil, constant calamity
Your light so evident in the darkest of hour
Beauty that blossoms, fulfilled like a flower

For even when unwhole, you light up the night
Never failing to appear, such a...

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