Metaphor Divorce Poems

Puzzling Relationship 

Our edges seem so similar
Meant to fit, snuggly together 
The tongue of your dry humor
Locks into the Grove of my clever wit
Forming attachments...

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Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my...

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Divorce is not flight nor sacrifice
It's closer to a bonfire of half of me 
It’s not disowning mothers for elation

Divorce is unnatural among parrots
Parents come...

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And at night,

When your light isn't here
I will look to the moons glare
Knowing you are somewhere 
Even if it is dark with out you
I know...

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White Lace

Mother died today. 
They called me. 
I thought they did not have, my number. 
They never called before, now. 
Why bother to call now?...

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The majority of mine lxiii years 
expended delving deep into imagination,
yours truly escaped, loosed, thwarted... 
reality courtesy bookland
roaming cerebral cortex terra firmae 
did not amp...

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I
When one falls out of love / marriage, if there's respect enough to remain friends then LOVE has triumphed over evil.

II
I am in RSA, South...

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Separation can be the death of a loving relationship, 
but can resurrection come too? 
Can one give a reprieve from
Braking bonds that bind. 

Threads that...

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Sadness reaches further 
Than the shores of the island's heart
Stretching outward thru the banks 
Inward, where the rivers start

Population of the mainland
That, I do not...

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the final certificate
that I don't love you anymore,
was decreed in court...
The confirmation that
we don't belong anymore
each other is on paper
of the justice of the peace...
Did...

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The rose has died 
A slow and painful death!
Poison has melted it through.
The weeds  c r e p t  ever tighter
R o u...

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On days like these.
I feel the need. 
When lovers roam.
Driven a part, I need these
Feel my hand the reason it bleeds
and most of all I...

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My hearts on the shelf.
I put my heart on the shelf today, without cunning array, or tears in vain.

A closet next to a furnace with...

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anger in your eyes
crimson are your lips
ivory is your skin 
sweet is your sin 
smooth are your hips 
Bitter bitter are your lies...

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I wandered between the mist of twilight and blue,
there's no sleep for those who day dream, you fool!

I stumbled upon a dusty path, barely lit...

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