Confusion Leaving Poems

Half concealed her devotion
and desire to be with me
half disclosed she curses
to have me hear her
might I
remedy her need
The confusion of Introduction
The havoc of struggling
to...

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In the darkest fields are my robes of blood
Soaking and cursing me every night to shed.
Little through the valley lies my heart; 
When I met...

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We live in a world
Where everything is fast and new
We chase the latest trends
And discard the old as obsolete

We don't have time
To listen to the...

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In the past…
Mingled with joy and hope,
There is pain, confusion and doubt
Dread that breathes mystery, 
Melancholy and fear – anxiety
Expressions of a moment
When darkness followed...

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Friend or Foe-- Knock, knock, who's there? Stop playing those stupid games with me. Don't I know you from somewhere? We could have carried on...

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Day Dreams

I love to have daydreams, 
about the nighttime. 
I believe I can see it all 
clearer in the light. 
I am not afraid of...

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Driving deep the liquid pleasure 
Into electric flesh and wires, static

Feeling the rush of white light 
Burning all visions of memories in angelic fire ...

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I am death I am freedom  I am crying on my knees
I see glory I see sunlight I see him as I kneel down...

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Sharp eyes dimmed ,a last spark of life 
Looking puzzle and questioning 
Into my soul went his silent plea,
As if to say whats happening to...

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After the aftermath 
of the cisterns quieting,
a moth flutters free 
then drops into the nest 
of sounds that crickets weave.

all of our away-words 
wait the...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Mercy.
I wanted to beg you a couple of times...
to have mercy on me,
mercy on my skin,
on my mind.
But there was nothing that I could possible...

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I am leaving whichever  way it goes
I am leaving to end this miserable show
I dont know where I am going but
I am leaving, I...

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Dream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch

Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your...

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Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind...

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