PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HIS DELIVERANCE
...August 11 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 1-3
Key Verse – Jeremiah 1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith...
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Categories:
disentangling, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Exploring Panic
...If troubles were akin to veils,
which on their own do not one blind,
when multiplied can quickly smother,
overwhelming smothered mind.
But tearing off these piling veils,
is not piled order in...
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Categories:
disentangling, anxiety, depression, imagery, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
...Recluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (ma...
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Categories:
disentangling, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse
How Evil Is This Society
...How evil is this society,
for telling the truth,
that it will jeopardize your entire life and
others that are around you.
How many more lions must die
at the hands of the evildoers?
Memories...
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Categories:
disentangling, anger, animal, black african
Form: Free verse
The Gnome Wizard Ponders
...The gnome wizard is proud of his transmogrifying hat.
Through telepathy he can cajole it to turn into a cat.
Or a dragon, an anaconda, a worm, a mealy mouse or rat.
The only thing he does not ask ...
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Categories:
disentangling, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell
...He/him (ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popular...
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Categories:
disentangling, age, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Pillars
...The strongest den, most beautiful place, unbreakable bond s and each others strength.
Beautiful memories wrapped and treasured.
Yes, family is the most beautiful gift one can ever get.
If ...
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Categories:
disentangling, confusion, faith, family, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Rejection Slips 2
...Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the mon...
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Categories:
disentangling, beauty, death, desire, life,
Form: Free verse
Doppelganger
...Doppelgänger
by Michael R. Burch
Here the only anguish
is the bedraggled vetch lying strangled in weeds,
the customary sorrows of the wild persimmons,
the whispered complaints of the statel...
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Categories:
disentangling, death, destiny, eulogy, fate,
Form: Epitaph
Arise
...I don’t lie-in bed for an extra minute
I will have time for that when it’s too late
Somewhere it is already tomorrow
They are catching life’s new joys and sorrow
My turn to awake and live it out
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Categories:
disentangling, emotions, faith, fear, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Poets of All Nations Unite
...Small we stand large with poetry and verse write about sun and sheer darkness
Rainfall comets and tides as a micro-cosmos in a world that lacks infinite words
Some throw in science philo...
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Categories:
disentangling, poems,
Form: Free verse
An Unperturbed Mind
...When you sort decades of electric cables from that box hidden away
It reminds of disentangling neurons haphazardly fired at random
It’s a beautiful day and you’re in it among sea saw and hamme...
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Categories:
disentangling, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34
...I listened to his heart profusely,
For a beat like his was much to ponder
I often wondered, his thoughts, and,
A light in me knew, with wretched wonderment
What the whispers in his mutterings me...
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Categories:
disentangling, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings,
Form: Epic
I Loved You
...I loved you, that is for sure
I hadn’t met someone quite like you before
Absolutely annoying in probably every way possible—
From your smile, your croaky voice, to the way your hands moved
Like a...
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Categories:
disentangling, confusion, deep, friendship, how
Form: Free verse