Sonnet Fate Poems

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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A sly inflection shifts the paradigm.
Rambling renaissance men without a clue.
Notable declensions; mismanaged time.
Skewing the truth and balance of value.

When paying mind to another's success.
Visibly...

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Mirrors to shatter as soon as she struts past
Her eyes can deceive the relief you perceived
Choke on your words, lose sight at her arrival
Unable to...

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When from a pure heart, arises intent,
ripples divine manifest a new fate
and the universe too grants its assent,
because it’s sacrilege to make love wait.

There being...

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A chameleon art thou, conceal that can 
And camouflage, to be called no less fake, 
That scarce can save self from a creeping snake… 
So...

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Once upon a time; hard to tell which piece.
Somewhere between reality and myth, 
lies forge an identity lost on peace.
Keen bellows; hammer strikes unveil the...

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RAPTURE

Revelation ignites the soul
And ecstasy will be the goal
Rapture is far from bitter gall
For some, the last gasp says it all

No longer knowing good from...

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When I see her smile, I fight off a tear,
for unrequited love's a secret hurt.
Because it's love, it'll never disappear,
often disguised as an innocent flirt.

Is...

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When you have lost a gem of priceless worth,
Do not mourn long, what you can't restore;
For in the sky a new star has its birth,
And...

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In life's vast stage, where heroes may disguise,
Not all in robes of grandeur, they arise.
Amongst celestial stars in graceful stance,
A hidden hero's love and kind...

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Chill confines a diary of absence
as September keyholes a papered wall.
A smirk tears a face--escapee silence
--styles wall with nothingness, dead ends AWOL.

A bottle of spent...

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To A Warrior's Creed, Valiant Death, Fate Oft Decrees

I follow the red line into hot, blazing Hell
with razor sharp long sword firm in my fighting...

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If innocence is as observed by me,
A carefree behavior is all we see.
In Its presence we know not, right from wrong,
And we will soon learn,...

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Romeo and Juliet; Stella and Will; Rose and Jack; 
In stories, novels, and films star-crossed lovers are many;
Though they love like cherubims, why do their...

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The Untruth Of A Lone And Erroneous Prophecy


What has a prophetic death done to this poor soul
the merest thought of sleeping under freshen sod
stir the...

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