A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK: When My Life Changed Poetry Contest
...A CRACK IN THE SIDEWALK
Poem written for and submitted to “When My Life Changed” Poetry Contest, Kai Micheal Neumann, sponsor.
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Categories:
gauze, 12th grade, strength,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Censorship
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The red pen hovers like a hawk,
its beak sharp with erasure.
Words are stripped of their fever,
left pale, bloodless, trembling.
A thought, once naked,
is swaddled in gauze—
so the wound wo...
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Categories:
gauze, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Extinct Eden
...The skyline wheezes through gauze-thick breath,
its lungs ossified in scaffolded sighs,
where children etch constellations on smog,
and pigeons strut in soot-stained pride.
Dark as coal, and qu...
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Categories:
gauze, allegory, city,
Form: Free verse
Original Haiku 1 by Michael R Burch
...Original Haiku by Michael R. Burch
Keywords/Tags: winter, love, dream, kindness, sun, sea, leaf, leaves, autumn, spring, life, poets, words, stars, moon, war
Such a frigid winter day,
our word...
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Categories:
gauze, autumn, dream, love, poets,
Form: Haiku
the world is bleeding
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the world is bleeding
guess it always was
that’s not to say it’s pouring
or i know the cause
can barely see my own wounds
with eyes that ...
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Categories:
gauze, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Tanka
Morning Mist
...A hush falls soft on waking land,
Where silver threads through silence stand,
The trees half-dream in veils of white,
Bathed in the breath of fading night.
The sun, a whisper on the hill,
Spil...
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Categories:
gauze, beautiful, environment, good morning,
Form: Rhyme
Dawn
...Early, in the pre-dawn hush
I heard the robins sing,
and then a sleepy breeze awoke
and made the wind chimes ring.
Their blended notes in concert sweet
soon filled the morning air
as on h...
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Categories:
gauze, appreciation, beautiful, nature, sky,
Form: Rhyme
How to Make Love to a Didgeridoo 100
...She inhales the aurora,
breath laced with frozen with light speed
Pulsar fingers stretch through cirrus gauze,
her bodice bending like solar flares.
Astronaut
A quasar shudders behind her lip...
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Categories:
gauze, allusion, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Imagism
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI CONTINUES
...MY PRAYERS ARE WITH ALL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS MY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATION STEMMED FROM MY WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FROM JUNK SICK COPS BECAUSE ...
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Categories:
gauze, allah,
Form: Naat
Plagued by Memories - Apr 18, 19
...how long and sourly sobs the lonely heart
depends on how grave the weight which grieves the tears
pouring from the despondent spirit’s pores.—
a witness, too, will know the surly sort
of rain t...
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Categories:
gauze, anger, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Feeling Peaceful
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Drowsing on a grassy knoll, gazing out over the meadow
I watch
the early morning mist dissipate
Like milky white vapour of silken gauze rising skyward,
filtering through the tre...
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Categories:
gauze, environment,
Form: Free verse
PAINTBRUSH
...PAINTBRUSH
Fingertips the bristles of a
pagan paintbrush
painting a Tree of Life
on pacified cheekbones
instead of in liver
from whence it sprung
now it burns to feed
HeartSpace with wi...
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Categories:
gauze, allegory, art, body, color,
Form: Alliteration
A Lonely-Child Stranger Dancing Near The River
...{"I want to be at arm's length of people because I have met you. You reflect on what I believe and disbelieve.
You introduce me to a sacred hollow shallow cage you call your childhood home.
Howev...
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Categories:
gauze, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Death I Romanticize once I Think of You
..."With every fiber of my being, my eyes glimpse at my whole life gone avail and unjust; the sacrifice mother had made before birth was certainly not enough, wish I had gone through the flames of
Nor...
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Categories:
gauze, absence, abuse, addiction, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The way to joy, enjoy on the way
...Slow and serene could I walk at the jheel
If wore on my visage a pleasant smile,
Relaxed to core, deep-set laity to feel,
When weary thoughts were left behind to pile.
A seed of joy within sp...
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Categories:
gauze, journey, joy, peace,
Form: Sonnet
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