The Masked Ghoul Mr CEO
...The Masked Ghoul Mr. CinChief
Fear mongering and peddling crude dirt politics
Is his favorite tool of trade at as this moment...
The one they do call time and again Our able leader
One who hi...
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Categories:
embittered, africa, allusion, corruption, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
Harlot
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crimson lips
stained with blood of saints
rides the beast
steers the reins
embittered roar portends doom
her end imminent
Spin a Shadorma
Nette Onclaud
6/3/25
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Categories:
embittered, woman,
Form: Shadorma
She gambled
...She gambled on you
She walked a bridge too far
You didn't feel it true
It was too high a bar
She could have tried talking
That way she would've known
Behind your infatuation
Real affection...
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Categories:
embittered, analogy, break up, emotions,
Form: Lyric
REMIX OF MY TOBACCO
...REMIX OF MY TOBÀCCO
In the time of leech to the time of leash, came I from the sojourn of papyrus writing the pain on the wall of my heart with a golden exudate from my galls that embittered all. ...
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Categories:
embittered, allusion, care, christian, city,
Form: Free verse
Symphony of Life
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Symphony of Life
An embittered phase
Birthing a beaten man
swapping in-between worlds
With ebbing expectations
Prompting shattering wills
A stolen life
on a broken path
Spattered w...
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Categories:
embittered, deep, inspiration, surreal,
Form: Narrative
The Sacred Laws
...Disobedience never pleases
anyone in power who entrusted
his existence to a few commanders
who violated the sacred laws:
they were terrified of bloodshed,
their fear spiked the horror of being d...
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Categories:
embittered, betrayal, confidence, courage, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Adrenaline Junket
...The vague and the abstract turned into a contract,
adrenaline junkies, now joined in a dare.
With hands up, no screaming, they’d both go careening,
defying gravity at the State Fair.
W...
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Categories:
embittered, flying, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Jessamyn's Song
...Jessamyn's Song (circa age 14-16)
by Michael R. Burch
16
There are meadows heathered with thoughts of you,
where the honeysuckle winds
in fragrant, tangled vines
down to the water's edge.
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Categories:
embittered, earth, life, song, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Penance
...Everything I regret happened so many years ago.
Nowadays I refuse to be taught just how to even let go.
Until that night I overcame my embittered ego....
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Categories:
embittered, psychological,
Form: Sijo
Fragmented
...Fragmented
Worn out
My veil has been stretched and torn at it seams
My face tells a story
Hardened by the damp and the cold
Embittered and coarsened by the wind
The heavy gusts blow m...
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Categories:
embittered, angst, anxiety, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse
TRANSPARENT SOCIETY
...Upon the vast expanse of blank parchment,
Unspoiled slabs of molding clay,
They lay unfolded before me,
As her earthly form once did sway.
The quintet of horizons,
Whirled in orbit around her ...
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Categories:
embittered, culture, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Make Believe
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It came to me in moon’s soft shadow,
As it will at times, still as the frost
Withering the leaves, branches unsheltered,
Buried in embittered …
On December’s naked chill,
Startli...
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Categories:
embittered, beautiful, moon, night, stars,
Form: Free verse
Three Secrets
...One of the many secrets of life:
There is no true freedom.
Man is slave to his own ignorance
And to his own personal sense of reality.
This, in turn, leads to another secret:
The only true sin i...
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Categories:
embittered, death, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Slang Footles for Male Names: Part 3
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Always Prepared
Ready
Freddy
The Untamed
Feral
Ferril
What’s in Frankie’s Pockets?
Frankie’s
hankies
Patriotic Guy
Yankee
Frankie
Of the highest Quality
Fraser’s
ra...
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Categories:
embittered, boy,
Form: Footle
Black October
...The Paragliders like ravenous vultures flew
to southern Israel to predate on soft targets.
Like swarms of bees, they snuck, raped, maimed, shot, burnt and slew.
Terror did every man's fragile cons...
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Categories:
embittered, evil, october, war,
Form: Rhyme
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