Resolutions
...As autumns of dear life, I endeavor to face,
Reminiscing in springs, memories I retrace;
Cognizant that splendor of seasons will end,
Seeking amends, life’s goodwill I befriend;
Resolving to sh...
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Categories:
incongruence, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Wish Upon a Star
...Of energy that’s sent by you,
’Tis more than likely none gets through.
And when you wish upon a star,
The odds, more likely, aren’t than are.
And when you try to bring good luck,
things are as a...
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Categories:
incongruence, christian, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Hymn To An Art-O-Matic Laundromat
...Hymn to an Art-o-matic Laundromat
by Michael R. Burch
after Richard Thomas Moore’s “Hymn to an Automatic Washer”
O, terrible-immaculate
ALL-cleansing godly Laundromat,
where cleanliness is n...
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Categories:
incongruence, america, analogy, art, baptism,
Form: Sonnet
Leaking You
...Sometimes is it is the smallest detail
The inconspicuous that gives it away
The wrinkle at the corner of your eye
The slight curl on your lip
The altered tone in your voice
You try to hold it in...
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Categories:
incongruence, identity,
Form: Free verse
Forlorn Hope
...Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple mornings
Echoing exuberance of seasons’...
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Categories:
incongruence, lost love, moving on,
Form: Verse
Divine Alignment
...Midst “incongruence” inevitable
between dictates of mind and beats of heart
personhood’s wholeness from the very start---
that’s my plea through the Saviour Who’s able.
When visited by ...
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Categories:
incongruence, blessing, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Incongruence - Landay
...Loud crass din of ego prejudice
Recognises not innate urge of our innocence
10-October-2020...
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Categories:
incongruence, innocence, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Threat of Extinction
...Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed
Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts
A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning
Letters ...
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Categories:
incongruence, poems,
Form: Free verse
Crying After My Horse Bolted
...Disaster knell, disaster bell, disaster cell
Fly into my matrimony faster
When in a short time spell
I choose to plunge my home into a cluster
Where nonsense and indifference
Grow a foothold
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Categories:
incongruence, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Honesty of Love
...the spiritual dots connect, but an atheist would
Commit me for the conclusions I draw...
And why not?!
I'm losing my mind.
All of the incongruence makes sense...
All of the sense makes sense...
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Categories:
incongruence, allegory, , atheist,
Form: Free verse
S O W E T O
...Some place somewhere,in nowhere
Oh! come dearly wind,come to the place and everywhere
Were it not bad of you to bend and bypass us in your haste
Eternal it would be-had love been bethrothe'
To th...
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Categories:
incongruence, africa,
Form: Classicism