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Sing broken beyond mankind ii
When the river failed I was asleep and the birds breaking to air made no sound because I speak IN ...

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Categories: ii, america, nature, political,
Form: Free verse
To bloom in Thee II: Onyx Rose in Bloom
Shall I compare thee to an onyx rose? Too dark for day, too ripe, yet not to rot— Thou bloom’st where sacred streamlets gently flow, Where dryads sigh and phantoms sing distraught. Twin serpents writhe along thy moonlit spine, Their glistened tongues sing out a breathless psalm; Your breath the zephyr through the cypress pine, A storm of touch disguised in...

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Categories: ii, appreciation, dedication, devotion, emotions,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Laundromat II
I decided it was time to move my load to the next machine. I also decided time to come forward and come clean, Saying you can keep all of my coins as a token of my love....

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Categories: ii, boyfriend, extended metaphor, lost
Form: Sijo
the things we see-II: River's Diary
March, 2025 She walked past me today. Her gaze hollow, her pace a ghost. I can see crimson threads weaving down her arms— not gloves, no. I think she’s going to the Cliff. I wonder if she’ll return. Most never did. April, 2025 She sat at the bank all day and stared at my ripples— It is what I’m proud of the most. I tried to sing for...

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Categories: ii, death,
Form: Other
The day a poet didn’t die-II: The witness
She’s at it again. Wasting my ink staging yet another death. I draft her crimson melodramas with third-hand metaphors as she sips on ‘hope’ like tonic laced with rust and wears ‘moor’ like thrift-store perfume. I thread her June into forced sonnets (poor things), before her gin drowned the meter in proofed regret. Even a pen gets impatient. Sometimes she pauses, as though it might save her— I...

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Categories: ii, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



our heros went to war
our heroes went to war also know what there fighting for, to give there life's to keep us safe to fight along to save human race. in our hearts we remember you know one knows what they really went through, to stand and fight and brother in arms, to pray to god as know its bad, remember the day...

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Categories: ii, brother, death, sad, sad
Form: Free verse
Premium Member May 8, 1945
Monuments went up commemorating the end of World War II It wasn't so long ago in Europe, their scars still show ~ A long and vicious war with horrific consequences So much to rebuild but it was the dawn of a new day Surely mankind had learned its lessons...

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Categories: ii, men, war, wisdom, world
Form: Free verse
For the love of a lieutenant
Tell me that story again, The tale of love and self-sabotage, Of doubt and valour, Of hearts and corruption, Where the days are adventure and the nights are a dream, The danger is adrenaline and the work is never done, We stand together on the brightest days, On the coldest nights, On your side I stood, though times changed Tell me those...

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Categories: ii, for him, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Armageddon, Lyrics
Broken souls and disillusioned dreams. (Drowning in a sea of dread…) Broken toys and angels without wings. (Fragile things…) Weep for the fallen brothers and infants without mothers. (No light, hopes where broken…) Pained tears encompass the empyreal rays. (No more days…) Pompous worlds painted in a destitute haze. (Where are we now?) Transmogrified in the iron flood. (Wash me clean…) Transmogrified in the spilled blood. (Still we...

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Categories: ii, death, war, world war
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 'Victory Day' for Whom
Hitler dead, camps liberated Justice arrived for those the West hated Germany squirmed at what the shocked world saw The Third Reich’s militia seized and declawed… 80 years later,...

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Categories: ii, hate, jewish, success, today,
Form: Couplet
Misunderstood II
Whispers in the dark Silence an audience I wish for an ear Never to hear But to understand Nobody there again in Fractured confusion Maybe.... Maybe... If I had wished you there Maybe you would've listened You didn't want to hear Be near With ...

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Categories: ii, silence,
Form: Free verse
Why Your Cities Burn, Part II
...Finally Gobayth came to a devastated mountainside, the trees and soil stripped away, slaves cutting out blocks of great size. They led him to a wooden hut where several gold coins were exchanged, the mine owner said, “Bring him out, fit him for his own set of chains!” He was forced out into the pit, driven forward by several guards, who showered him with stinging...

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Categories: ii, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Lao Tzu: English Translations II
LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I Be Like Water by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch The highest virtue resembles water because water unselfishly benefits all life, then settles, without contention or needless strife, in lowly cisterns. Weep for the Dead by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch When seeing mounds of the dead the virtuous weep for the loss of life. When one is...

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Categories: ii, death, heaven, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
Callimachus English Translations II
Callimachus English translations For Gail White To the Cup-Bearer by Callimachus translation by Michael R. Burch Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelous touch his hallowed ladlefuls. So beautiful the boy, Achelous, passing beautiful, and if any disagree, let me alone comprehend real beauty. Pitiless ship, having borne away my life’s sole light, I beseech you...

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Categories: ii, beautiful, boy, death, flower,
Form: Free verse
Josh Moore North Dakota II
TV news broadcasts the motel dark, she lies flat, belly soft with rabbit tattoos, ash smudged into the sheets. My boots drip clay and pesticide, fingers stained from counting nickels. Outside, a pumpjack bows to the ground, over and over, like it’s praying. She whispers something about escape. I kiss the scar beneath her jaw, taste motel soap and Marlboro light. The window rattles an oil train...

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Categories: ii, addiction, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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