Dark Hyperbole Poems

I'm the version of you that didn't break.
Didn't shatter into useless pieces, broken haggardly upon the floor.
I can feel you,
See you,
Hear you,
Smell you sulking in...

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I feel myself trapped in an endless repetition  

Effortless to rationalize each day away
But the sleepless nights bring clarity
A hazy clearness in a cold...

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NO More day NO More night
Rainy sun and blue moon in the half-light of day
Dancing with green silence
NO more music caught red-handed
by the simultaneous clash...

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I’ve been to the edge of the abyss, the deep dark dungeon that is love
I fell and kept falling, my heart continually being consumed by...

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What looks sexy
and aesthetically pleasing
on Society's well-endowed Page

May not feel so hot
when StraightWhite Daddy's capital-headed
economic fornication systems
lead toward Great White Father's abortion
of global green forests
and...

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Ah... tis nothing greater than...

malfunctioning heater 
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.

While scrolling thru 
poems crafted yesteryear,
I chanced to...

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your place is not 
between the stars
but in my heart
to light the dark
that kill the love
i' felt inside
when you was 
passin thru my life...

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phoenix questers

yes…
out of the deep
dark stagnation
of malignant
apathy
we must pull
ourselves
upwards to
eternity
and beyond
to that synergy
which will take us
to the
liberated journey
where
we shall bask
in the aurora
of history makers'
spirits glorifying
the...

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US AND THE STATE OF THE WORLD

With our present world encapsulated
In a shell of abject tragedy, it’s becoming
Painfully difficult to pen pleasurable words
Of the beautiful...

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Light crashes sounds like brittle glass 
Slashes shards across my worn aching eyes 
The colors reak of deep rot like blues 
Creeping green burning acidic...

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I can EXHALE

Not every day
Not every moment
BUT… 

I can EXHALE

The Corona virus still runs
RAMPANT
But the ORANGE plague
Has been removed
Has been dulled
Has been silenced

SILENCED (at least...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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hey pete
by Michael R. Burch
 
hey pete,
it's baseball season
and the sun ascends the sky,
encouraging a schoolboy's dreams
of winter whizzing by;
go out, go out and catch...

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Granite monoliths get raised to the dead,
engraved markers, inked by light and shadow.
And with the moon shining high overhead
Juliet seeks to find her Romeo,
amidst gravestones...

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The mobile is ringing.  It gets closer and closer, and louder and louder.  It has finally arrived at her ear canal.

She meticulously rolls...

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