Death Fate Poems

Pilate concluded the case was a fraud.
The charge against Christ was legally flawed.
But because he was so morally weak,
A novel verdict for Christ he did...

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She screams at the heavens, her voice a plea,
In anguish and despair, on bended knee.

"Why create me," she wails, "for endless pain,
For 45 years, suffering's...

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I chose to think death
Something that lies silently
And takes me gently....

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These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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Atomic bombs are dropped on babies
Humanity is thrown out of the door
Humanity is dead. Humanity is no more
There are too many aggressive and demoniac atrocities
Wars...

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Do others often ask themselves, 
" Are there days without darkness...
when another storm shows fierceness?
Has hope dimmed for selfish reasons? "

And the living pay little...

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"Welcome to my domain. 
You are here because despite my repeated warnings, you dared to insult me with your presence. 

You came looking for a...

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The battlefield is filled with blood,

Washing the whole field like an ocean that will never end,

My comrades kill to defend themselves,

I kill to survive

My enemies...

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In earth's mournful sigh, the day does fade,
A quietus bow, as light to dark is made.
The sun descends; its fervor now grown still,
As night's embrace,...

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Sunlight glints off polished silver
A river reflects in its face
Water tinted a reddish hue
Sweeps along the scythes base
But iron and silver do not meet
Until the...

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a rattler flicking its 
split tongue...gathering
chemical messengers~ Prairie Dog
without a prayer

vulture, periscope downward
navigates a granulate sea, 
follows the wavering flow of tracks~
just over a grilling...

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It's about to be the realist it's ever been
The gong is struck ringing the beginning of the end
All the want to succeed all the desire...

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Master, I visited your head statue, it was an unforgettable moment
              ...

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"Kalapana fishing village laid west of Mount Pu'u O'o. Our home was behind the church that sat on an abutment tip that rose slightly higher....

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"What sort of world
be home to those
who goes about
judging all souls
of what they do
be right or wrong
and how'd they know
of this-and-that
be bad or good
be alsoooo,...

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