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Birthday Poem to Myself
...Birthday Poem to Myself by Michael R. Burch LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence, Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous, but come! Come live among us; come dwell again, happy child among men— m......

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Categories: lessoned, birthday, dark, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Melody Maker
...Melody Maker The music in my mind plays softly. It is quiet today. I can write and enjoy each stroke of the pen as it touches the paper... like a lover for the first time with their deare......

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Categories: lessoned, celebration, forgiveness, mother son,
Form: Free verse



Various Heresies 4
...Various Heresies 4 I, Lazarus by Michael R. Burch I, Lazarus, without a heart, devoid of blood and spiritless, lay in the darkness, meritless: my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart. But th......

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Categories: lessoned, america, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Verse
Miles Yonder Ways
...Tantalizing thought whiff wafted on the evening breeze Both chapters and mistakes; Lessoned me Some chapters, I read repeatedly Some mistakes, I don't want to repeat again Yonder for miles, ......

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Categories: lessoned, 12th grade, absence, character,
Form: Narrative
Birthday Poem To Myself
...Birthday Poem to Myself by Michael R. Burch LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence, Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous, but come! Come live among us; come dwell again, happy child among men......

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Categories: lessoned, bible, birthday, christmas, god,
Form: Verse



Kimberly Hartzell
...(a salvation for my then junior high school youngest daughter afflicted with cognitive dissonance, who over the intervening years (mor'n half dozen Earth orbitz ago), I dashed off this poem witnesse......

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Categories: lessoned, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Absence of Discernmemt
...Wisdom tree is broken down, From the peak of hand in hands,it can't be replaced, When condition got worse, No leaves were found on its branch, Thinking I would survive through jungle of attenti......

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Categories: lessoned, absence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Damn Again
...Okay, so you come fill me up with your drama You didn't even realize I would become a problem You left me without a wave goodbye or a kiss to remember you by In my mind I said to myself Selfish ......

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Categories: lessoned, addiction, black love, desire,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Failure Teaches Success
...His result slip showed he had failed Friends celebrated their success But his parents and some he shamed Had pinned on him their hopes and focus His Dad said "For negligence, it's the price ......

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Categories: lessoned, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Micro Haiku Anthology
...my faith… tested each day young life lost.. sadness why not me... I’ve lived the taste of life… once sweet… delicate now… gone sour final hours… close ~ raw facts of life… pain… rap......

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Categories: lessoned, nature,
Form: Haiku
Kimberly Hartzell
...(countless years hug hoe ~ a half dozen) twas spawned a fondness for thee above named young lady, when first she got assigned to thine offspring a glint of genuine virtue grew into a shimmering......

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Categories: lessoned, angel, appreciation, beauty, care,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Storm Concrete
...The day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze, Sending leaves on the ......

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Categories: lessoned, school, storm,
Form: Concrete
Storm
...The day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze, Sending leaves on the streets twirling ......

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Categories: lessoned, courage, fear, metaphor, natural
Form: Imagism
Now and What Can Be
...I feel a weight lifted of my shoulders, Like past B.C. Olympians throwing boulders. The world overall is a place of wonder, rules made to be broken, and disappoint mothers. What if? Could it? S......

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Categories: lessoned, art, beautiful, feelings, future,
Form: Lyric
Blessed To Meet the Wind
...Blessed was I to see the wind And yes, I felt her breath. Her beauty held me spellbound to dream of unto death. She pranced lively never to trace, her ivory face was carved from grace. ......

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Categories: lessoned, freedom, happiness, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme

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