Fire the Immortal by Nova
...FIRE the Immortal
Fire the Immortal—primordial breath,
Kindled in chaos, a twin flame of death.
Born in the forge where the cosmos ignites,
It dances through nebulae, seeding the night.
With t...
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Categories:
extinguishes, fire, god, light, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes, the longing for her overwhelms me, and no one else knows this silent pain
...Sometimes, the longing for her overwhelms me, and no one else knows this silent pain,
Most people think my pain is just poetry, just words, images from my wandering mind,
They don't see the battles...
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Categories:
extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
T-A-L-E-N-T
...The T in talent are pieces of tampered glass
Subjugated under capitalism,
And meticulously carving out worthlessness
on the talented's carcass.
The A stands for all the crumbs of appreciation...
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Categories:
extinguishes, appreciation, dream, how i
Form: Free verse
Float
...My drinks enticing and sweet
On a chair in the middle of the street
My little floaters been dinged
Roiling waves the edges singed
The wood alive with roiling flame
Waters pulsing like a broiling...
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Categories:
extinguishes, abuse, addiction, imagery, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Deprived of your love, I carry the burden of deep shadows under my eyes
...Deprived of your love, I carry the burden of deep shadows under my eyes,
with crow's feet drawing the story of endless nights on my face,
where each lie was your illusion, born from the confusion s...
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Categories:
extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
World Religions
...Judaism
The Mitzvah—God blesses every good deed
Thousands of years old
God Yahweh made a covenant with Abraham
that if Abraham and his people the Hebrews
Obey Him,
He'd consider '...
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Categories:
extinguishes, god, religion, world, ,
Form: Free verse
Your hands are silent executioners, each finger a hungry guillotine
...Your hands are silent executioners, each finger a hungry guillotine,
Let them glide over me slowly, like penance flowing as a slow river,
Let them cut every last fragment of restraint that still bi...
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Categories:
extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Plain Girl
...“Why are you friends with someone like her when you could be friends with popular people?”
Someone like her.
Someone who doesn’t stand out
Not with looks
Not with personality
Plain ...
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Categories:
extinguishes, anxiety, for teens, girl,
Form: Free verse
major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle
...major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle"
Though forever being a landlubber
a vision analogous to the nether world
deep within the bowels of the Earth
immensely distant from the s...
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Categories:
extinguishes, absence, anxiety, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse
Who was there to answer you when the night spread its shadows over the city
...Who was there to answer you when the night spread its shadows over the city,
Who listened, like a silent tree in a storm, to all the untold stories,
Who wrapped you with caresses like a warm blanke...
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Categories:
extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Petrarch translations into English
...PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS
Sonnet XIV
by Petrarch
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire
to banish every virtue from mankind,
replaced by evil in hi...
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Categories:
extinguishes, dark, desire, evil, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
THE LIGHT that LIGHTS ALL LIGHTS
...'light '
extinguishes
darkness
each new day
'light'
illuminates
at night
moon and stars
to guide
& navigate
'light'permeates
into every crevice
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Categories:
extinguishes, christian,
Form: Didactic
In the deep night of my soul, when the world offers me a separate realm to dwell
...In the deep night of my soul, when the world offers me a separate realm to dwell,
A blessed curse, having only myself, I find myself again,
Caressed by the melancholy of a red silence, like a dream...
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Categories:
extinguishes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Satchitananda
...What’s that fulfilment,
which extinguishes desires
and releases us from fear?
Once head melds with heart,
union of polarities,
results in bliss unending....
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Categories:
extinguishes, spiritual,
Form: Sedoka
One Flame
...
each candle contains a Flame
life abounds within its Light
Fire when these Flames unite
and banishing the darkness
warm comfort flows from within
drives away the biting cold
the wind of d...
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Categories:
extinguishes, death, family, fire, friend,
Form: Jueju
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