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Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the woods, crackling
within the sounds of leaves
invisible dead things speaking 
underfoot...

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Categories: branded, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?

The wind...

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Categories: branded, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort 
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats 
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...

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Categories: branded, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse
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I am a mom, an artist, and an office monkey.
 

14 contests • 2 lists • 1...

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Categories: branded, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Cruel Link In Their Chain
  Another Cruel Link in their Chain 

1.   Beginnings

Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
	and he suckled her breast till the end.
The slaver sought cash, bestowed mammy a thrash,
	sold her...

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Categories: branded, body, life, men,
Form: Ballad



Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography 
qua zee mow toe natural formed...

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Categories: branded, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form: Rhyme
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
Neigh say being  corralled & cult shod 

"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I 
bring death to tyrants.”

Above the fray of twittering, 
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified, 
yet vilified...

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Categories: branded, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form: Free verse
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color  
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred. 

Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...

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Categories: branded, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its existence,
a kind of deactivation, fuzzy borderline hanging, 
backing the art...

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Categories: branded, muse,
Form: Narrative
Oppressor and the Oppressed
Oppressor and the oppressed.

Who is the oppressed and who is the oppressor?
Who has the right to beat a random person on the street?
Who has the right when to pronounce a person guilty or to see...

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Categories: branded, bird, character, corruption, future, nostalgia, drug,
Form: Free verse
Prisoner of the Matrix Loaded
Prisoner of the Matrix loaded
Prisoner of the matrix loaded

Cattle within the herd
cages within the slaughter
Profiteers prey upon the wounded
Branded comodified beings consumed
In consumption
Led to the plunder of themselves
Within the plotted grids of bondaged earth

Still between...

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Categories: branded, america, analogy, philosophy,
Form: ABC
The Silver Axe
He wondered with horror how so many memories, so many forms to be branded on his skin and engrave there.

Then the wet rattle of a twisted throat, and he beats his last breath to his...

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Categories: branded, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Isothymia
Catharthis...
neglect of the art and it's form is such a beautiful start
let go of the pain
let go of all emotion
the hatred is spread thin
Touched and such beautiful notions
I know you are striving
to be with you're...

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Categories: branded, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails beneath the moon’s cold stare.
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace in my gut
     No slumber dreamt; no...

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Categories: branded, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic, horror, pain, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my nerves, 
so I simply stood there observing his silence.

His philosopher...

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Categories: branded, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Santa, Professor Rumbold And Bob
'Twas the night before Christmas and outside was blizzardly
Mrs Claus was busy hanging baubles on the Christmas tree
Santa felt cold and shivery and was succumbing to the flu
And told Mrs Claus "I'm feeling ill, what...

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Categories: branded, christmas, humor, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Gone and Hopefully Permanently Forgotten
By Stanley Collymore

Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live, as they’re no longer
around, is the lame and unconvincing excuse
that’s...

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Categories: branded, funeral, life, woman, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Connections
I can feel this thread running all over me, it’s like I am connected to the deep blue sea and the current is pulling me into the deep dragging me towards an unplanned destiny; the...

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Categories: branded, appreciation, beautiful, business, caregiving, confidence, courage, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Pressure
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pressures of the norm,
going beyond the storm.
branded by the stigma;
persecuted by other's feedback,
false insecurities,
lacking humility.
judged by the trauma,
hindered by all the drama.
toying with the hurt,
random ego sanity complex.
confusion with reality;
fantasy fanatics,
backsliding with...

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Categories: branded, growing up, inspirational, life, people, stress, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who Is Killing Our Nation
Our country is full of hypocrites 
who stand up against nothing and bend over for everything 
the peoples amendments pushing European agendas upon us for change 
towards liberal law in our downfall
 
Unto our sovereignty...

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Categories: branded, betrayal, patriotic, poverty, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frustration
Frustration

These days my frustration is digital in that `Brave New World'
                        ...

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Categories: branded, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tragic Climates For Comedians
If we invested more educational mentoring time
sharing our own mixed-use and neglectful abuse
poetic wisdom stories,
and less time memorizing exegetical LeftBrain histories,
we might more cooperatively learn to live healthier together
and to internally die less, apart.

An under-exploited...

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Categories: branded, culture, earth day, education, health, power, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Gott, Oh Machtig, Trump Iz On the Warpath Again
Gott, oh mächtig, Trump iz on the warpath again!

Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists 
will apply figurative screws  
in an effort at blatant mud slinging ruse
exercised courtesy mail in ballots, 
or...

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Categories: branded, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Preyed Upon Victim
I’m sure you don’t remember me
Yet forever branded upon my memory is your evil spree
I was far from your only victim
You and your pack bullying ever so gruesome 

You first noticed me in the 7th...

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Categories: branded, bullying, character, childhood, judgement, , 7th grade,
Form: Narrative
Ode To Mother
Ode To ‘Mother’ Creator ©
Not only is it a marvelous happen chance in being able to have ‘shares’ in Mother Nature’s flora creations 'first hand'---
But, we are then granted to sit before her, these ‘set...

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Categories: branded, art, autumn, caregiving, change, character, desire, encouraging,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things