Fear Curtal Sonnet Poems

 

"When you find yourself on a 
dead end street take a detour."

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We are made to make it up as we go 
extracting wild ideas from our minds;
Dancing to music no one else can hear 
yet graceful...

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Throughout history, Man's feared the unknown,
all beyond the horizon was taboo.
And yet, curiosity led the way
past village walls, into that phantom zone,
"where there be dragons,"...

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Troubled souls come seeking my learned advice
Pour out their hearts accompanied by bitter tear,
And share the anguish of their burdened soul
Hoping this lowly counselor’s words...

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 School was out for annual Christmas break
Ice and snow hung around many a week
A friend and I did what one should not do
Went onto...

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The autumn leaves, like a fiery blaze
Blows across the forest in the fall breeze 
Leaves on the ground, the woods is like a maze.
Birds glide...

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Abide
by Michael R. Burch

after Philip Larkin's "Aubade"

It is hard to understand or accept mortality—
such an alien concept: not to be.
Perhaps unsettling enough to spawn religion,
or...

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The way you are is why you are original and one of a kind 
Only one and always worth more then most

My life is empty...

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My love for you is thicker than honey.
My love for you is deeper than the ocean.
My love for you is greater than space itself.
When I'm...

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He walks and he talks but all without feeling.
He sleeps and he dreams but in a broken mind.
He hurts and he breaks not understanding the...

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As I call my wife and children to say goodbyes.
I tell them do not fear for I am with them always.
I leave the booth to...

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I live in a barren wilderness.
Thoughts of those I miss are few.
Nothing but the midnight sky to watch.
For leaving them behind I have no bitterness.
Although...

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Just because you can 
Sailing ships away is easier then returning them back to port with red tainted monther land sand to perpetuate a pain...

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Whoe’er she be the creation of gazing and killing lips
That is not impossible to hold and to scream,
Whose form which I look down at the...

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When spring dies shall the valley shines,
And by the light of night quivering heart away,
Yet through beauty morning confines,
Till that ripe in please, so a...

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