Long Immolated Poems

Watching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me; 
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation. 
—Ono...

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As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me; 
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation. 
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch

Submit to you—is that what you advise? 
The way the ripples...

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A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...

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Unquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX

(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the expression of utter exasperation, and perhaps there’s also the slightest...

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Emotional guillotine clefts
     irredeemable psychological umbilical accord
witnessing heart breaking,
     woe-begotten inhumane rip cord
gut wrenching shuffle board
     (indiscriminately sporting)
     most...

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Far from the madding crowd
I treasure the myths you gone through
Once I walk down the streets of legends
Even the weeping dusts reminds me of 
Bloods, who immolated their lives to you.
 
Oh Calcutta! You live...

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It is Good Friday
Remember, remember
When, for Jesus, everything was nasty and sour
When things were very bad for Jesus
Yet, we don’t say: bad Friday
Afterwards, so everything could be good for us
Jesus was slapped
Jesus was kidnapped
Jesus was...

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I burnt myself on a funeral pyre so often

only to rise and melt my wings on ascent


Then I tried Odysseus’ underworld instead

but Ariadne’s thread did not glow in the dark


When my Trojan horse stopped at...

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" Mephistopheles became a river whose current flowed in the wrong direction,
he believed that suffering could be eradicated from life,
absurd as lead being wieghtless,
his deviance led him to challenge my hegemony in the meditterranian world
during...

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When the repellant acid rain came,
the silica image gloomed darkly
into sobbing disintegration

Embers of flickering hope
smouldered deep in the heart of despair
Passion dying to be re-ignited,
only sparked
a saline immolated tearful incineration

Distance was a skeleton key,
overcoming temporal...

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It was the most unnatural fire
rising from the ancient pit of souls
It ascended from the deepest abyss
Flickering images of unspeakable woes
To say it was not of this world
would be an outrageous understated call
Dante himself could...

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As cotton clouds fade under blank blackness,
I sigh as stars stare at my moon.
My breathless quill feels no pulse, but it beats,
unable to find admiration for an empty page.

I bleed tears. I've not yet cried...

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they slipped with the lobotomy

red-hot poker in the eye

electrocution grilled her mind


bonfire of insanity

a straight jacket squeezed the last drop of lucidity

but she would not see the light of the day

leeches drank happily in search...

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I used to live in France, near the Champagne region.
My favorite Notre Dame cathedral is not the one in Paris;
Rather it is Notre Dame de Rheims.

After many battles, Jeanne D'Arc helped the Dauphin Charles
Be crowned...

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I rode a rocket past the moon,
I walked the face of Mars,
And when I tired of the Milky Way,
I took off for the stars:
Alpha Centuari -- Sirius--
Then on, through Galaxies
I rode my spaceship everywhere
--but only...

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I had a dream to dissolve my body
Into harmony and song. 
Not to be appraised course or consequence,
But the ecstasy for which I long.

I’d seen sparks pique, however, now they taunt
Ere each breath, each glare...

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Tibetans,
Burning, 
The flames everywhere.
One, two, three.......
Already self-immolated,23.
How many sparks will be?
Hundreds or thousands,
Maybe even more....

Gunfire,
Tibetans shot down, 
One after another.
Now
Twelve Tibetans lie down in the blood,
Their bodies wrenched away
Never back.

Caught
To the jail.
An eagle snatching a...

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Moonbeams slide
Control the tide
Guide Oceans apart 
Eco collapsing background 
A shooting star for true dreams
Never has life been so zombie-like
You are your own addict
A mutant destiny

Ocean’s apart odd people aside
Muck with her smile and ill...

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Moonbeams slide
Control the tide
Guide Oceans apart 
Eco collapsing background 
A shooting star for true dreams
Never has life been so zombie-like
You are your own addict
A mutant destiny

Ocean’s apart odd people aside mess
with her smile and ill...

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Eternal glory to the Lamb.
That whom brought eternal peace.
Eternal glory to The Lamb.
That whom brought eternal peace.

We worship you,we exalt you.
Your is the glory,forever amen
We worship you,we exalt you.
forever glory amen Lord Jesus.
We worship you,...

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No one is here
In this office room
Without me to feel you lonely

To you and your naive movement
I'm immolated just; I look at your simplicity
And fall in your love

Table, chair, computer, tube-light
Calling bell, daily attendance- nothing...

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New Years began this year
Amid global poisoning

Gertrudes’s skirt began to burn
At the edges

Sirens blared, and some attempt
At presidential communication
Seemed comical

Leaping to my sister from being
Immolated....... prevented the President's
Message connecting

I may seem slow at this verse

...

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