Summer Perdition
...after 'Berck-Plage' by Sylvia Plath
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A sheet of glass, this expanse of water.
How its tranquillity mocks my unrest.
Bloated beachballs and balloons
travel the park and...
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Categories:
counsellors, abortion, loss, summer,
Form: Free verse
The other side of the coin
...Most counsellors will tell you,
That its is all about you,
And how it is up to you,
To do everything for you,
To treat you,
And find ways to move forward to a better space,
for the sake of y...
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Categories:
counsellors, allusion, analogy, baptism, care,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
All in self are sunk
...Birds fruitless trees forsake,
Swans and cranes leave dried lake,
Courtesans scarce to wealth-less cling,
Counsellors leave a corrupt king,
Honey bees flee from lifeless flower,
Beasts forsa...
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Categories:
counsellors, love, self, world,
Form: Free verse
To Judge Thomas
...Can they take back
the rights our parents earned?
Take back the Lynching
and all the houses burned?
Can they move you
to the back of the bus?
And close their doors
to most of us?
Stop us fro...
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Categories:
counsellors, angst, political, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Motivation
...MOTIVATION
He smacked the desk in despair
Writer’s block a permanent feature in his limited world
Just the first sentence, not even a title yet
Words elusive, as if scared to appear on the page...
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Categories:
counsellors, inspiration, writing,
Form: Narrative
Pretty Polly
...Say goodbye to Pretty Polly
The lass from the Co-op store
She went and joined the Army
And they sent her off to War
Off to far Afghanistan
To set the people free
Pretty Polly’s was blown up
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Categories:
counsellors, anger, conflict, memorial, military,
Form: Rhyme
My God, Thank You For Extending Your Mercy Unto Me
...April 10 Scripture Meditations Based on Ezra 7-8
Key Verse – Ezra 7:28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was str...
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Categories:
counsellors, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Finally Saved Part 2 - Translation From Rabindranath Tagore
...This is the Second Part of the Translation from Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate Philosopher Poet from India.
Father only smiled; thought, "women
are emotionally heated balloons!
Li...
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Categories:
counsellors, father daughter, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Shared Memories
...Was it the honey moon we shared after driving all night through Wisconsin? Or was it the long move West to San Francisco from East of The Mississ...
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Categories:
counsellors, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Banquet At Cajamarca, Atahualpa, Peru
...The Banquet At Cajamarca, Atahualpa, Peru
Darkness reigned that day, its blades slashing
Blood flowed its red, death its might flashing
The holy enlightened, in their feasting elan'
Frenzied w...
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Categories:
counsellors, art, history, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Occupational Therapy
...Sisyphus had Syphilis which had traveled to his brain
a man of pleasure once but now he was stuck on a slope
got no spouse no kids to help not even a demimo...
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Categories:
counsellors, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
The Blue Voice of Silence
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The bottle freedom cracks suddenly
I don't want a quarrel
Cos' I don't want a duel
I don't want a quarrel
Cos' I don't want to pinch his toes
I don't want a quarrel
Cos' I mig...
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Categories:
counsellors, abuse, blue, break up,
Form: Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country : Lx and Lxi
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI
The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn...
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Categories:
counsellors, bullying, immigration, leadership, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mother Mother
...Song:- 1990
Mother Mother
love me love me
love me love me
I need your love
(repeat)
why don't you like me?
why do you hate me?
why do you hit me?
Mother Mother
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Categories:
counsellors, angst, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
The Counsellors Prayer
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Take my fear away
Let me speak
With clarity
Let my lips move
While my heart proves
The truth
About depression
Addiction
And anxiety.
Kale Brereton
August 22, 2018
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Categories:
counsellors, addiction, anxiety, depression, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
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