Long Fraying Poems
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Let Me Give Her DiamondsLet Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch
Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.
Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.
Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.
Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.
Let me...
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Categories:
fraying, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !
Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
Anyone can ‘make it’
Never more than aspirational
Structurally delusional
Always susceptible to its
Achilles heel of...
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Categories:
fraying, conflict, corruption, leadership, power, racism, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
Kajal Ahmad Translations KurdishMirror
by Kajal Ahmad, a Kurdish poet
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
My era's obscuring mirror
shattered
because it magnified the small
and made the great seem insignificant.
Dictators and monsters filled its contours.
Now when I breathe
its jagged shards pierce my...
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Categories:
fraying, arabic, bird, conflict, earth, home, sun, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Pool SharksPOEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Shark
by Michael R. Burch
They are all unknowable,
these rough pale men—
haunting dim pool rooms like shadows,
propped up on bar stools like scarecrows,
nodding and sagging in the fraying light...
I am not of them,
as I...
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Categories:
fraying, poems, poetry, poets, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Voyeurcold rain
to slow-streak the
glass I watch you through -
you and your
christ ...
the ginger bread man,
sugar daddy savior, all that
I was not, (and less) ...
choices of
compromise, to provide
the lifeblood of your
"needs" ...
you, admiring
your bullion reflection in...
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Categories:
fraying, analogy, angst, heartbreak, imagery, lost love, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Have a Lovely DayHave a lovely day
Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day when life addresses me much deeper
Found within in a headline...
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Categories:
fraying, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
A Sky of WaterA Sky of Water
Arabic Poem By: Falah Al-Shabender*
Traslate By
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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A sky of water
Doesn't blaze in a glance;
It follows us, as we head towards it,
Fraying its essence,
And transcending in its mysteries;
Emptiness .....
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Categories:
fraying,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Who KnowsShe feels the urge to ask,
And in a different time she would have,
I guess it’s just another mask,
Removed by hands of time.
A child asks a mother in attempts to understand,
A fool asks a brother for...
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Categories:
fraying, angst, anxiety, character, depression, growth, happiness, strength,
Form:
Free verse
On the grand stage of the world, under lights of dreams and flickering charmOn the grand stage of the world, under lights of dreams and flickering charm,
We dance our illusions, beneath arcs of sun and mysteries fashioned through dreams vast and warm.
Freedom, a chimera of thoughts and rustling...
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Categories:
fraying, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Another Teenage OutburstHere it goes again, can't handle this
Though entirely used to it
What more relief can writing bring?
It all but drowns the rest all out
And I'm sorry I couldn't be all the things
I made you think I...
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Categories:
fraying, angst, depression, devotion, lost love, love, sad,
Form:
Blank verse
Crucified Currents of Choices Currently Choosing
in the beginning of a prior life
i took my first breath in the heart of a pyramid
shrouded is lapus lazuli light emitted from sandstone walls
singing a song smiling in Winter Worn Waves
written by the water...
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Categories:
fraying, beauty, blessing, forgiveness, humanity, prayer, spiritual, together,
Form:
Free verse
Broken BirdThey clipped my wings, yet I still fly
Thrown off a cliff to chase a lie
Now I fall through the clouds
A broken bird left to die
A single wish to give me strength
My salvation is bittersweet
Its form...
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Categories:
fraying, dedication, depression, extended metaphor, hope, imagery, mental
Form:
Ballad
DecayedAge is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald
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In a world where decay is dominant,
Arctic tundra is melting, and...
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Categories:
fraying, analogy, angst, bereavement, care, creation, devotion,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Brotherhood of the BlankHi, how are you, my name is blank to your sight just another passer-bye,
Nice to meet you, others of your gentle gender call me Mr. Blank,
Since to you all my name matters not nor the...
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Categories:
fraying, confusion, depression, life, love, sad
Form:
Rhyme
DanglingIf anyone told me they planned on killing the things inside me,
I know they are lying, everything inside me already feels so dead,
All of my inner self is dangling from a string, it makes my...
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Categories:
fraying, faith, inspirational, love, recovery from..., me, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Stepping On St Augustine Two Months Past February.He's
sorry
for what he's done....
he's
apologetic, but the moon
she's crumbled in my palms and drenched
in my tears.
I rub my hands across my jeans and shoot stars across my ripped up, tarnished wardrobe
maybe he'll witness me before he...
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Categories:
fraying, loveme, kiss, me,
Form:
Free verse
Poverty UnkindIn a World brimming with wealth and grandeur,Where opulence dazzles on every corner,A tale unfolds of disparity and strife,
Where poverty thrives, tormenting countless lives.
Inflation, a cruel tempest, engulfs the land,
Whispers of hunger and despair, hand...
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Categories:
fraying, america, life, sad, together, visionary,
Form:
Rhyme
Do Not Listen, Part Iii(The final part of my serial "Do Not Listen" poem. I had written this months ago, but hadn't felt confident about posting it--until now and with a few edits.)
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Do Not Glisten, Child! of my early...
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Categories:
fraying, childhood, dark, happiness, lost, surreal, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Pale Silhouette of DeathI dwell in desolation, damned in a fathomless abyss.
What sin have I committed to live a life such as this?
Without a window I cannot gaze upon stars above.
What hope is there for me to ever...
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Categories:
fraying, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Journey To VaranasiDelhi seems closer than it was last time.
After a tea with GST,
on to a backstreet of Varanasi,
Untouched by authority;
ignored more by memory
than darkened by amnesia.
A huge...
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Categories:
fraying, god, places,
Form:
Free verse
For Alma ChristieWhen Portland is soaked wet with rain
And the rivers overflow
When soil washes away again
And no sunset is aglow
Do you climb the hill to DeMonteven
And look with longing towards the cove
Does your heart search trees and...
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Categories:
fraying, friendship, nostalgiaheart, longing, memory, heart, longing, memory,
Form:
Verse
PainPain
Clad in cloths that will, one day, decay from
- once all is gone – the loss of what housed some
of what the spirit, the soul would not hide
from eyes - willing to see – on...
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Categories:
fraying, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
My Resolutions For 2023As the current year is quickly ticking away
The time has come for me to share,
My resolutions for the coming year:
What all steps I shall take in life to fare.
Every new year is a time to...
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Categories:
fraying, forgiveness, friendship, future, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
The DarkroomIs it not enough that you’ve hung me beside
myself from your fraying rope - tendered by
graying wooden clips with rubber fingers?
Must we really soak on dry until we are sepia
toned under-developed photographs, left on...
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Categories:
fraying, introspectionme, red,
Form:
Free verse
Compassion's ConfinementCompassion sings in velvet vibrato violin strokes, thrumming upon
an ivory frame suffused in dulcimer tones of need.
Half deaf we echo broken words, sharp jagged phrases, defining
the borders of empathy, binding the reach of the heart.
Compassion...
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Categories:
fraying, faith, hope, humanity, imagery, metaphor, society, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse