Sojourn
...A silent door awaits a stranger's knock,
My nose bleeds cold when I hear thunderstorms.
Red blood cells through veins make radio talk,
And my feet walk out of shivering dorms.
Her soft tongue v...
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Categories:
dorms, literature, love, nature, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Dear Love
...Dear Love
I hope that you embrace me with joy
I ask that you ease the pain,
and shine without hesitation
Dear Love
I ask that when you arrive, sit in
the closet chair
Whisper forget me knot...
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Categories:
dorms, dark, love,
Form: Free verse
Manipulative Monsters
...Believe it or not, their ubiquitous webs
Are everywhere; they are the dictators
Who kidnap, maim, torture and kill teachers,
Poets, ordinary folks and babies in their cribs.
They rob and ransack ...
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Categories:
dorms, animal, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Naked Robbery
...Classes on tranny and ***** diversity
universities reek of perversity
Discrimination abounds all around
save if your skin's black or brown
Tuition hikes obscene, naked robbery
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Categories:
dorms, education, usa,
Form: Couplet
Geography Of Poetry
...Hailed countries, old and new
Old civilization, myth or true
North to South, poetry of bards
East to West like flash of cards
Names on maps are words in gaps
Eloquence or simplicity in poetry ...
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Categories:
dorms, people, places, words, writing,
Form: Verse
A New Queen Is Born
...I stood at the back of the line and watched nature unfold in front of my weeping eyes. I stood at the back of the line watching them moving in droves from every corner of the globe; colors of all sor...
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Categories:
dorms, care, celebration, change, death,
Form: Narrative
Weebee
...It’s elko noice to be back in the sprawling, claustrophobic infinity of college.
I love the energy, the hubbub, the moving ins, the lines for everything and the freshmen’s hovering parents. We loi...
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Categories:
dorms, culture, mother son, school,
Form: Free verse
White Rice
...White is for rice and brides - ready to commit.
White’s for ghosts and clouds or even carnations
but it should never, ever, be used for privilege
or worse yet, as poetic inspiration.
I’ve been...
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Categories:
dorms, friendship, friendship love, school,
Form: Rhyme
The Women In Scrubs - inspired By Araceli
...The women who work in the lab have beauty and charm,
Each having a role to play in orderly fashion;
They never treat you like a guinea pig on a farm.
They take care in their work with a whole lot ...
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Categories:
dorms, writing,
Form: Rhyme
My Generation
...Saturday nights I remember
were bad in September
even worse in November
On campus, roving mobs and gangs
looking for girls to get drunk and then bang
In dorms, wise fools dropping LS...
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Categories:
dorms, abuse, drink, drug, remember,
Form: Couplet
Hey Look At Miss Kay
...It is college visit day! I am the adult in charge.
Taking eighteen sixth graders, some rather large.
They get off the bus and try to keep up with me.
I’m the old one, but filled with enduring ener...
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Categories:
dorms, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Better Sit Down
...So now you’re feeling sorry
for yourself? Your pain and
anguish gnawing at you?
Just because to start you
ended up the object of
another’s twisted fantasy
and there were four of you
but then G...
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Categories:
dorms, addiction, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems V
...Juvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shive...
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Categories:
dorms, poems, poets, teen, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
The Unknown
...Why do I worry?
Why do the things I don’t know scare me?
Why have my dreams gone from colorful utopias,
to darker wastelands I don’t remember?
Why am I so afraid to face tomorrow
when not knowin...
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Categories:
dorms, remember, sad, society,
Form: Rhyme
Within the Sleepless Still
...Before my breath touches the morning air,
My thoughts in taciturnity upon suppression of solitudes…
Inhibition initiates interdiction within the hibernal hollow,
Where time a frozen fo...
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Categories:
dorms, depression, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Free verse
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