Fortunate Failures of Fallacy and Regret
...Fortunate failure of fallacy and regret
Contortionist cartoonist illustrating what id like to forget
Proportions of misfortune that I have to measure then reject
Insubordinate illusions of what th...
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Categories:
insubordinate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Seal fin de siecle with unheard celebration
...Seal fin de siècle with unheard celebration
though two thousand nine hundred
will be here in seventy five years,
a mere blink of the eye
never to early
to think about fêted occasion
which mar...
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Categories:
insubordinate, america, anniversary, betrayal, cry,
Form: Free verse
Ephemeral Laments of Technicality
...Ephemeral Laments of Technicality
Qualifications of a criminal mind
Magnifications of virtue in all of mankind
Qauntifications of meaning you cannot seem to find
Fractal notations in dreaming t...
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Categories:
insubordinate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Twenty first century civilization gone I askew
...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.
Ah... what luxury to wax poetic
as freedom to trumpet thoughts,
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty ...
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Categories:
insubordinate, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
She Was Very Pretty
...She Was Very Pretty
by Michael R. Burch
She was very pretty, in the usual way
for perhaps a day;
and when the boys came out to play,
she winked and smiled, then ran away
till one unexpectedly...
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Categories:
insubordinate, boy, daughter, girl, hair,
Form: Free verse
Labor Day 2022
...Courtesy of one or more tradesmen,
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready
and willing to acquire money
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or
be...
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Categories:
insubordinate, america, appreciation, celebration, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Never Again
...Pulled together
by a magnetic avoidance of loneliness,
fueled by an insatiable ardor
to evade a shortage of love.
Mutually splintered souls searching
for a place to embed and
implement a façade...
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Categories:
insubordinate, abuse, addiction, hurt, violence,
Form: Free verse
Labor Day 2021
...Courtesy of one or more tradesmen,
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready
and willing to acquire money
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or
be...
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Categories:
insubordinate, america, anniversary, celebration, history,
Form: Rhyme
Twas Fortnight Before Inspection 2021
...Twas fortnight before inspection 2021...,
Not a human creature stirred, nor seen
throughout Highland Manor,
property carpeted in lush green
gently hilly terrain,
(a deathlike stillness desce...
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Categories:
insubordinate, abuse, anxiety, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
Labor Day 2019
...Courtesy of one or more tradesmen,
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready
and willing to acquire money
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or
be...
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Categories:
insubordinate, america, appreciation, celebration, dream,
Form: Elegy
Why I Should Win 1st Place---
...Why I should win 1st Place---
Without me being, temperate or insubordinate;
Why I should win 1st place in this contest is, this...
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Categories:
insubordinate, analogy, community, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew
...Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...?
Methinks perchance man
kind always vain
n'er did appertain
moral hike polar opposite
from human being:
uncivil, unethical, unsocial,...
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Categories:
insubordinate, america, death, destiny, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Twas the Night Before Inspection
...Twas The Night Before Inspection...,
Not a human creature stirred, nor seen
through out Highland Manor,
property carpeted in lush green
(a deathlike stillness descended un keen
hilly qu...
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Categories:
insubordinate, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Pandemically Pacified
...You can keep your suicidal suit wardrobe wars...drawers of destruction
In your consumption of insubordinate illusions...intrusions of insanity
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You can keep your vanity and desir...
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Categories:
insubordinate, conflict, corruption, society,
Form: Free verse
Writing On the Ground
...A ventured stroll away from talk
taking in all superfluous detail
allowing it to fill my corrupted senses
an escape from the tedium
it invites me to escape from the routine.
To open new ways of ...
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Categories:
insubordinate, city, creation, environment, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
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