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Beware the Ides of March 2023
Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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Categories: flightless, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Renee Vivien Translations
Renee Vivien Translations


Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped in flightless wings.

It's getting late; soon we will sleep
(your eyes...

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Categories: flightless, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form: Sonnet
Parasite
I
The beggar outside the supermarket
You swore was picked up later
In a flashy car
Sat there in the sun for 8 hours
While you pissed & moaned
All the way home
To your bookless
Mausoleum 
With a chlorinated pool
Where one day...

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Categories: flightless, political,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel birth cords sinuous 
sensing the ground   seeking the...

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Categories: flightless, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Judas Like Tan
""Child's Play""

You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise, 
You scream bloody murder 
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict A 
Your eyes hide the truth, like a lost domain...

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Categories: flightless, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter, deep, depression, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Winter's Empress



             Her adorned stars, crackling overhead 
                ...

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Categories: flightless, art,
Form: Rhyme
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part Ii
Ten: A New Global Health Scare, 2003
After accumulating reports 
of a mysterious respiratory disease 
afflicting patients and healthcare workers 
in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, 
Singapore and Canada, 
the World Health Organization 
issues a heightened global...

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Categories: flightless, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, anniversary, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
We Need Rough Men We Need Tough Men
Sleep O’Sleep we all must be,
Tucked ourselves between pillows comfy,
While Rough men fought and sacrificed bled,
That’s what the Great Winston Churchill said,

All is talk and talk with words,
None does deeds, all flightless birds,
For those who...

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Categories: flightless, inspirational, international, military, peace, political, war, world,
Form: Quatrain
Fallacy, Misinformation and Contradiction
Society is rife with statements of misinformation, fallacy and contradiction
To say otherwise would be to argue that our settlement was a pleasant eviction
If you are to believe what is in the following first lines
Then perhaps...

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Categories: flightless, angst, confusion, funny, people, america, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Aroha Nz
this is my song,
  my love song of you,
    my land, my heart

             love for green ferns
  ...

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Categories: flightless, love,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 12c the Fireflower
Chapter 12 (c) The Fireflower (continued)

So forthwith it was decided 
That upon the next day’s dawning 
They would send a party swiftly 
Inland by a river valley  
 
They would climb to highland forest...

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Categories: flightless, adventure, africa, animal, history, mythology, nature,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Great Fish Maui Snared
With canoe and hook of a jawbone
  below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
  leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga 
 (departing place of the...

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Categories: flightless, home,
Form: Rhyme
To Live, Flightless Birds
A single branch, clawed and pecked, fickle and straining,
Lonely Nestling and father, paw and peck at their home
Lonely branch, spasms in the wind
Nestling and father paw and peck, yearn and whimper
These Flightless Birds, on a...

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Categories: flightless, caregiving, childhood, death, dedication, depression, faith, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Ides of March 2018
ever since Homo Sapiens didst
   insinuate, elbow and barge
humanity at the mercy sans, small, medium
   (Strunk and White) elemental forces at large

which indiscriminate merciless whims extant
ask Homer Simpson or Marge
g'head and...

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Categories: flightless, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Free verse
Memoriam For Donald B Buchanan
Who will weep for my noble prince? Who will cry
With belly swollen with sorrow, and tears long
As the Black River? Who will hear the clouds sigh
And turn black over red clay, and being strong
Not feel...

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Categories: flightless, death, faith, friendshipdeath, death,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member That Was Then - This Is Now
“Freedom is just another word for nothin left to lose.
Feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues” ~ Janis Joplin ~

    Life was filled with laughter.
    ...

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Categories: flightless, freedom, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Albatross
I see it now
flying low
over silver-spumed waves.

I am a watcher
I can enlarge the picture
        zoom in
look into bright midnight eyes
        as...

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Categories: flightless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Even More of the Flightless
3 
Pay attention! 
Important chicken poetry coming up, 
though no binary fantasies shall deconstruct 
into raucous biddy enjambment. 


4 
Grandfatber always kicked Grandmother's chickens away 
while he sat whittling under the Oak, 
Those ruddy, Cherokee...

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Categories: flightless, bird, child, memory,
Form: Free verse
Living Your Dream In 2015
Our dreams, our callings and our reason for being
We need to hold fast to them if success we hope to be seeing
For if we lose our dreams, those core longings that help us to cope
We'll...

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Categories: flightless, christian, devotion, dream, faith, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Broken Wings Unsheathed
Resurrections lone fallen spiritual being, kneeling within the darkness of mine
Own tormented soul, broken, fractured at fetters ivory appendages, a flightless
Angelic Dark winged angel standing alone, weeping in the nights blackened clouds of utter blindness,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flightless, angel, beauty, fantasy, imagery, imagination, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope Painting GF Watts
This poem is based on the painting of George Frederick Watts in 1886 
                     ...

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Categories: flightless, dream, feelings, heaven, hope, loneliness, love, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Hospital Bed
If you were to find an old 
calendar, strap it to a hospital 
bed,
tie it down by its weak ends, 
and then sea section the belly 
of it's pages, you'd find the 
winding roads of...

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Categories: flightless, growing up
Form: Personification
A Safe State of Affairs
Better safe than sorry?
Fallacy.
I say, better sorry than safe.
Even if brought, calamity.
Safe never dreams.
Safe never changes.
Safe found no new thing, new places,
a new people's strangeness.
New cultures, new stars, new planets.
Safe hides in fortified sameness.
Safe only...

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© Ryan Tyler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flightless, for her, for him, kids, passion, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Aye Am the Questioning Sort
The more I learn, the more
     I realize how little I know…
which insightful, gutsy,
     entrancing, catchy apothegm

     attributed to Socrates by way of...

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Categories: flightless, 12th grade, atheist, dad, deep, power, strength,
Form: Free verse
Comunidad Sin Alma
Too busy they were
the passing conglomerate
focused on pavement
eyes ever forward
with their get there stare of hedonistic servitude
trailing their marching tempo of mobile phones
hard in the glass
hard to their homes
disguising all those battered egos
the ranks and...

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Categories: flightless, community, culture, environment, perspective, social, society, urban,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs