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Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon 

Elocution lessons for the morality police 
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique 
Revolution from the poor, downtrodden and bleak 

Ageless reckonings that are born...

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Categories: contradictions, life,
Form: Rhyme



Observance
Observance
by Michael R. Burch

Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...

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Categories: contradictions, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form: Sonnet
Love Poems V
LOVE POEMS V

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love...

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Categories: contradictions, birth, confusion, crush, dream, joy, kiss, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Exodus To Genesis
With Julian Jaynes
we find an egocentric languaged LeftBrain
developing reasons to sacredly love our healthy RightBrain inductive-integrative SacredPower feelings of Earth's co-relationship with LeftBrain's Self-ReGenerating Identity
of BiCameral Ego/Eco-Consciousness.

Later on in the evolution of Positive Psychology,
we find...

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Categories: contradictions, culture, health, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1
[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.

But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...

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Categories: contradictions, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Misanthropic Melodies
Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a doctor drunk on gin

Valiant human beings with virtue among the discord
Salient...

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Categories: contradictions, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails  
the scent of soil and...

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Categories: contradictions, dream, innocence, journey, loss, memory, mystery, nature,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand...

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Categories: contradictions, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mr Contradiction
By definition, Mr. Contradiction asserts the contrary or deny the truth of something. He admittedly is hypocritical and controversial, and most often, he refuses to surrender. He fights until only death or doom defeats him....

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Categories: contradictions, america, change, community, courage, discrimination, society,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”

Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows itself well deep
to be turned and touched,
substantially labyrinth

The Open 
is lead  
further in, and...

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Categories: contradictions, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment

Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...

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Categories: contradictions, adventure, community, universe,
Form: Sestina
My Thing Is This
As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in shambles, gaze upon the...

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Categories: contradictions, corruption, education, environment, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Journeyman
A Journeyman

Prologue and Epitaph:

I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone

1)	Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...

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Categories: contradictions, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Blink
Anything can change in the blink of an eye.
You could win the lottery and the next day you die.
These thoughts and feelings make it very hard to even try.
But if I said, I was giving...

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© Onyx Perth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contradictions, anger, childhood, dad, family, memory, mom, trust,
Form: Rhyme
As a mortal man of threescore and five years
As a mortal man of threescore and five years...

I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, or biography
that since the advent of Homo sapiens
avast number of civilizations
and their...

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Categories: contradictions, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, humorous, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Truth Is Still the Truth
I'm searching far and wide for the facts, getting my hands dirty in the process
When we conquer nations, I say bloodshed and they say progress
I have no desire to be burned at the stake
Simply practicing...

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Categories: contradictions, corruption, political, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Liaison Dangereuse
“liaison dangereuse”



Tear a thin line 
along my skin
softly velvet
finger tips 
no nurses gloves

down my neck
along my throat
with something
sharp like words
on a tongue

like I’m
one of the 
gentility heard
soft as a block of butter
hard from the fridge
I'll...

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Categories: contradictions, addiction, senses, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Seen and Heard
In my                                 ...

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Categories: contradictions, america, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Animals, lyrics
It was a party of fleas who dropped some tea into the sea,
Created a baby that left its mommy,
Now there is an elephant and donkey in the room,
So, lets ask, who’s the bigger a--? 

A...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contradictions, animal, november, satire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member In My Opinion
Everything that’s happening this year
was all planned out.
That’s what Agenda 21 (declared as false online)
 is all about.
Documents related to the plan
are out there in the world for anyone to see.
When I first heard about...

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Categories: contradictions, political,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member I Still Believe In You, a Letter To America
Dear America.

I still believe in you.
No, I'm not saying that I always believe in the people that make up America.               ...

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Categories: contradictions, america,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sufi Monk Credentialing
This self-explanatory English poem of mine was originally drafted Monday (evening) August 5, 2013, while I was still in Independence, Missouri. I revised it a bit in November and December of 2014, while “traveling” in...

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© Moji Agha  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contradictions, community, courage, fairy, freedom, funny, islamic, political,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member The Other Side
To those people who spend most of their life
surrounded with worldliness its cares and strife
this piece is dedicated it is my duty to convey
without any effort not to I'd be left in dismay.

One should always...

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Categories: contradictions, dedication, education, extended metaphor, home, journey, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Simulations and Symphonies
Simulations and Symphonies

Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need invitations

Caring for what others naturally overlook
A watchful parent, a well written book 
Beauty that...

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Categories: contradictions, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream Awareness - Quiet Reflection
Written: April, 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann

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From a deep weariness of the soul 
to the discomfort embedded in our bones. ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contradictions, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things