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Premium MemberA 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

Premium Memberthe 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

Premium MemberDawn

...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

Premium MemberDOMESTIC 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

Premium MemberPlagued 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

Premium MemberFeeling 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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