Long Love relationships Poems

I have had a highly redundant,
one might even choose polypathic,
graduate studies experience
spanning my adult life to date.

This began with a semester of Philosophy.
Just enough to learn I wanted something more experiential,
a more embodied communication environment...

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Poems about Things that Break I
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...

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When the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence 
loves homophobic St. Paul,

This felt like too much tolerating
an unconstitutional intolerable
absence of basic...

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My mother-in-law
drinks her morning gin
out of a pint-size Mason jar,
and self-righteously prides herself
for not wasting water by adding any in
and for not pouring or drinking
before her biscuit and red-gravy breakfast,
usually about eight a.m.
now that she's...

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-	Written August 11, 2018

I lay down in silent agony, left unsure,
Drowning in distress, yet happiness will be a stone, rolling back on me in an instant or in a moment…anxiety heightened 

You are chopped onions...

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As Life Time
Many children grow-up
Move~so faraway
Relationships~Life Moments
Never get to shared

As memo
You entered in this world
beholding Love~you
Watched you take First steps
Heard First words
Many ups~downs
Family Relationships with Love~Ties
Watched you grow
Oh.. how I Love you so

God given blessings...

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Insurrection
by Michael R. Burch

She has become as the night—listening
for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening,
reminds me of her, and the wind, whistling,
lashes my cheeks with its soft chastening.

She has become as the lights—flickering
in the distance—till...

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The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."  by Rabindranath Tagore

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Tasseled Dreams


The thought of the future we will never have was pollinating foul fuzzy particles in the air, 
slowly following the wake of all those tasseled dreams I held onto to for far too long....

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WE AS "ELECTRICIANS" REALLY NEED A GROUND FAULT CONNECTION TO KEEP OUR LIVES FROM BEING TAKEN AWAY,BY THE 'ENEMY" WHO WE ENCOUNTER EVERYDAY!!!! THE ENEMY MAYBE AT HOME,OR UP ON THE HIGH WIRE,AND WE NEED...

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With trepidation, a card from the Seer's deck, she drew
In hopes she get some insight on what she should do
Decipher why she attracts men that are afraid to commit
Continue to work two jobs, if not,...

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Every time I pass by Flushing, Bedford, or Lee Street in Brooklyn
I see Jewish people in complete uniform; most of them in black color,
their faith and loyalty to the Book of Torah makes me reflect
about...

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Am I even worth enough? I feel like every single time I think I’ve found the one, I realise something is wrong. My body is telling me something is missing, my heart is telling me...

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My Comprehensive Learning Disabilities!


Began as child with always failing standardized test because I didn't learn like my fellow classmates did
I couldn't comprehend anything or retain anything either
I learned that I had a comprehensive learning disability,...

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Right now, yourself is who you need to find 
Maybe you will never be mine
But one day you'll wake up with regret
Because You'll see I was yours to hold this whole time

Feelings, love, relationships, the...

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The one you wanted no longer wants you.
The love of your life is talking about they are through.
You tried and cried to save it all but what else can you do?
Release and forgive, going on...

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Did you want to come back home? Were you
buying me coffee but thinking of them? Did
your housekeys start to open their door and
lock ours? When I held your hand was I just
a placeholder, again?

Where did...

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Excuse me misses my intention is a moment of you listening,
Take a second from your mission I can guess your intuition,
Telling you that I'm a fool because I wanna talk to you,
Make you laugh and...

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Faster than two ducks
slick on the street or what
Wet on the Street or what
wet tires on a motor
Mothers on a motor
 the street or what
 up the come up
in up nothing hoe
in all done up
hoe...

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I am a walking novel
So many characters in one
So many chapters to unravel
My life has already been written and now I'm acting it out
The truth is I remember the beginning since I already experienced it...

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Have your wounds begun to pachyntic?
I can hardly feel mine anymore,
bathe in my sin
let me wash you with my skin,
shall I dedicate my breath to thee? 
Your tattoo sleeve glicening in this heat,
don't you realize?
These...

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She claims that when she was a child,
all that she craved mocked and beguiled.

The cool kids wouldn't play with her;
the others--she did not prefer.

In school and college, praise she'd earned
all went to others; she was...

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a Spanish sonnet

Passion thrives on forgiveness, oh my sweet.
Your scorn will reason well to wonder why 
I attempt a smile even though your eyes   
refuse to cherish blooms laid at your feet. 
We...

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SPACE
Our wonderful marriage had three keys!
Love, Compromise and SPACE were these!
So third and last is SPACE that I’ll write for you! 
Just in case you need a clue!
JoAnn loved books, painting, jewelry making and knitting
With...

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months, year, decades in the making..
this may how a love story develops..

sometimes, the girl or guy next to us..
maybe the person of whom we have been waiting for..

frequently and fervently, we pray to God..
that He...

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