Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories:
infernos, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse
hiku - smoldering
...infernos raging
thunder splits smoldering skies ~
monsoons spill forthwith
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Categories:
infernos, beautiful, conflict, nature, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Passions Unchained
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As the brilliance of the setting sun
creates ripples in the sea.
Your bikini kisses pure white sand,
setting naked beauty free.
Soft curvaceous flesh so smooth it glides
disappears beneath ...
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Categories:
infernos, beautiful, emotions, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Shadows of the Valley
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Run faster—looking back will be your downfall.
The screeching of the infected gains intensity.
Drag the razor wire barricade across blistering concrete—
scraping rusted metal, shards splinte...
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Categories:
infernos, art, dark, gothic, myth,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
infernos, dark, deep, fire, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Mannequin of Metaphors
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When the
malevolent moon
drapes
black current vines
around my neck,
etching
the blood of betrayals
in my white-whirling wings ~
I cease to scream
in sanguine sighs
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Categories:
infernos, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Night awakens in the chaos of infernos imploding beneath the darkened sky
...Night awakens in the chaos of infernos imploding beneath the darkened sky,
It stretches, casting its tangled locks over the deep silences,
Shedding the seraphic blankets of the winter moon, golden ...
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Categories:
infernos, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Happiest of Times
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It is the happiest of times
It is the saddest too
It all depends on your chimes
If they’re sunny or blue
Tying oneself to all that’s external
may lead ...
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Categories:
infernos, happy, sad, smile,
Form: Couplet
Wild Is the Night
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Wild Is the Night
Night wakes
In atonality of imploding infernos
Stretches,
Toss...
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Categories:
infernos, angst, night, storm, wind,
Form: Free verse
Barren Page
...this barren page, screaming, crying
yelling through the winds,
inviting me to begin again,
always, to just begin
again and again, tempting my pen
tempting me to just begin, begin
A G A I N...
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Categories:
infernos, light, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
DANTE TRANSLATIONS
...DANTE TRANSLATIONS
Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
In Beatrice I beheld the outer boundaries of blessedness.—Dante, loose tr...
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Categories:
infernos, christian, desire, god, heaven,
Form: Epigram
The Dance Of Anger
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Unkept promises are like brutal blows,
ruthless ripping words are the harsh slashes,
they strike unaware where latent hope grows,
and cleave through ruptured heart as it crashes.
The mind ...
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Categories:
infernos, analogy, anger,
Form: Sonnet
Under leaden skies where shadows gather
...Under leaden skies where shadows gather,
We look back at the great tragedy of the ages,
Since the Enlightenment, we admire the shattered dreams,
Where optimists, as architects of false hopes,
Hav...
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Categories:
infernos, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I am
...I am…
Washing a stormy night clean, its promise
this empty grave,
where sunshine suddenly erases the shadows,
who sigh like dejected, broken tears,
surfacing in the dewdrops,
lifting the dar...
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Categories:
infernos, faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational
Form: Free verse
In the g'night of space
...There's a solar wind that's contained; in the night of space
Shadows find nowhere to show; the inner light of space
Impossible to touch, it leaves us; without a trace
Frozen rings of breathing s...
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Categories:
infernos, deep, solitude, space,
Form: Ghazal
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