NO KINGS
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We our blessed with many freedoms in America…
We may not always agree on what freedoms each of us select…
and where we often get into trouble is when our opposing views of freedom intersect.
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Categories:
impartially, america,
Form: Rhyme
Echo's Spiral Inward
...An echo is felt, touched, recalled,
it drums against our hearts,
strikes softly upon the ringing
shell of being.
An echo hammers upon an open door,
it is unconcerned with any closeted desires,...
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Categories:
impartially, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Oath Breaker
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With one hand laid upon the Holy book
The new Judge raises her other hand high.
She swears an oath that millions before her promised:
Faithful service, unbiased justice, no compromise.
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Categories:
impartially, judgement, political, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Flickering Reflections-No Place Like Hume
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The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume,...
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Categories:
impartially, philosophy,
Form: Epic
Preposterous Eros
...Preposterous Eros
by Michael R. Burch
“Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga
Preposterous Eros shot me in
the buttocks, with a Devilish grin,
spent all my money in a rush
then left my heart...
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Categories:
impartially, desire, love, love hurts,
Form: Epigram
Who Pulls Our Breath
...who pulls our breath
and then exhales
rhythmically
by day and night
to find out
we follow the breath
becoming one with the flow
without interfering
silence
makes breath shallow
akin to...
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Categories:
impartially, god, silence, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Gentle Zephyr
...The wind can be temperamental
It certainly has confusing moods
Remember the mistral is elemental
And ofttimes is prone to brood.
Hurricane, squall ruination bring
Harmful tantrums evo...
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Categories:
impartially, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Eros and Cupid
...POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cher...
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Categories:
impartially, cute love, desire, god,
Form: Epigram
Detachment In Attachment
...My mind fluttered its wings for its journey
towards spirituality at my adolescence,
as childhood was just study and play
while daily morning prayers a dull ritual.
In my teen, I used ...
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Categories:
impartially, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Heat Lightening
...Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlight...
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Categories:
impartially, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet
Chiefs of Mischiefs
...Chiefs of mischiefs are-
Vulnerable honourables
Who wear the outfit of oppression
And vicariously dishonourable
Upon putting our nation to recession
Chiefs of mischiefs are-
Magnanimous messe...
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Categories:
impartially, corruption, freedom, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Erroneous Paint Masked Surfaces
...Millions were deceived in my name;
Coated faces everywhere in my name;
Brutal wolves in a sheep’s clothing;
Like a deadly sea where all kinds of evil is unseen;
By their fruits, my name is painte...
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Categories:
impartially, cinderella, hate, magic,
Form: Free verse
Chaos of Mind
...Chaos of mind Eating, inching, scratching, crawling.
Deteriorating the tissue of my mind.
Enveloping miasmic corporeal vibrations.
Sounds that stretch, twist, and creak.
Leaking emissions eva...
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Categories:
impartially, addiction, anger, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Free verse
End of Terrorists
...Found bloodied and mutilated bodies of
religious extremist murderers
As cadavers they lie beside
unshelled bullets and shells
Now lay dead, frozen with souls taken,
unmoved
Masters,rai...
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Categories:
impartially, death, dedication, destiny, evil,
Form: Free verse
Ablaze - Part Three
...[Continued from Part Two]
The elder took no notice of risking life and limb.
Hither, thither ran the children, glancing up at him,
while indulging mindlessly in each impulsive whim,
with no a...
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Categories:
impartially, allusion, destiny, fire, life,
Form: Narrative
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