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My Hell

I fall down
deeper and deeper
into oblivion
nothing
only darkness.
the sounds of evil
dripping into my ears
slithering farther
and sliding down into me
filling me with echoes.
terror courses through
my veins
into each cell
turning them against
me
they are no longer mine
they follow another
a stronger...

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Categories: prodding, betrayal, death, evil, fear, horror, pain, suicide,
Form: Free verse

Packed Up Pachyderm

You know when I think about it now and what I have to do,
a lot of you folk out there would have a bit of envy too;
you see I'm a 'lacky' for a vet, well...

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Categories: prodding, humorous,
Form: Epic

Never Alone

A young girl who’s lost & wandering in the darkness cries out

“If there’s a God out there please save me!”

The darkness replied with silence

But she kept listening so intently to the nothingness around her,

Clenching and...

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Categories: prodding, anxiety, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form: Free verse

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling...

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Categories: prodding, adventure, america, animal, celebration, confidence, february, spring,
Form: Rhyme

Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day

Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shadow of a doubt. Aforementioned site chosen for...

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Categories: prodding, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth, february, immigration, places,
Form: Rhyme

Deepfake

I’m so siced about the Barbie movie. I just watched the latest trailer. I felt a fluttering in the stummy.

Peter’s birthday was May 1st. “What do you want for your birthday?” I’d asked.
“A flash for...

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Categories: prodding, birthday, boyfriend, confusion, humor, paris, romantic, write,
Form: Free verse

An unexceptional turning point in our marriage

An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...

unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
and her significant other,
which occurred years ago
courtesy justice of the peace)
attended by...

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Categories: prodding, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, betrayal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

The Beauty of the Seasons

Summer magic, Winter delight, Spring fresh, and beautiful Fall.
The diverseness of the assorted seasons tends to delight us.
Each has its own ambiance and nuances, after all.
Some years they arrive with less fuss and muss.
Summer is...

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Categories: prodding, seasons,
Form: Chant Royal

The Unborn Dreams of a Fertilization 1942a Long Journey a Long Lived Nightmare Part 1

The unborn dreams of a fertilization  – 1942
A long journey  – A long lived  nightmare

The journey begins without knowledge, just passion.
Life emerges, fights against the prodding at childhood.
The nightmare begins with a...

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Categories: prodding, life,
Form: Free verse

Nicholas Street Jail

The structure is imposing, massive and fearful.  Built in 1862 as a jail and
gallows for the worst of humanity.  "Living"  conditions were sickening and
appalling.  The top floor was reserved for death-row...

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Categories: prodding, scary,
Form: Narrative

The Raven, Sequel - Part 1

Part 1 - A raven alone, ravaging around in the darkness..... 

i.

Ultimately aware, suspense is such, though truly I am sensing,

something dark diverting mind withdrawn, the silence muttered,

since melancholy holds suspicion where to probe now...

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Categories: prodding, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form: Rhyme

Brenda

I had to come round, word on the street tells me you were caught in

bed with big Brenda.

Well, let me just put that rumour to bed right now. I wasn’t in bed with her, she...

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Categories: prodding, giggle, humorous, romance,
Form: Free verse

Robbie - Ham Guilty For Gobbledygook

I, A. Robbie - Ham guilty for gobbledygook...
and ruffling turkey feathers!

An innocent A1 miss steak kin kith
once, a former main lion resident 
living social where Tigress and Euphrates 
converge and pool into Lake Wobegone ...

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Categories: prodding, 12th grade, 9th grade, adventure, allusion, america,
Form: Rhyme

Mine Nightmare With Social Anxiety

Mine Nightmare With Social Anxiety,...
Now Mostly Purged

Decades removed when body electric
felt tortured reverberated, and quaked
with MegaDeath repercussions tattooing, 
piercing, foisting, ensnaring, drubbing
 
drum beat indelibly 'pon psyche NON 
MEMORABLE years gone bye felled 
psyche with...

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Categories: prodding, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, fate,
Form: Dramatic Verse

I Cannot Word It Best

Where can I trace this finite feeling,
So that you may see it in its true form?
Upon your heart I would wish it would land,
Yet could my silly hands possibly reach there?
Such an affecting grasp it...

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Categories: prodding, crazy, longing, love, lust, meaningful, romantic love,
Form: Free verse

Gift of Forgiveness

1 John 1:9 KJV - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Forgiveness gift
wondrously precious
granted by God freely
packed with compassion bliss
along...

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Categories: prodding, blessing, christian, faith, forgiveness, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Ashes Fall From the Joss Stick: Finger Bone

My name is Devi, a foolish name really for it means Angel, and I certainly am not. The city of Phnom Penh had been our home, father was a professor at The Royal University. I...

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Categories: prodding, death,
Form: Prose Poetry

Empty Nest Syndrome, Plus Lapsed Romances Revisited

Empty nest syndrome, plus lapsed romances revisited...
courtesy Matthew Scott Harris
sentimental memorialized mental archive

No matter mine eldest daughter
(born December 22nd, 1996)
starred circa within storied
Matthew Scott Harris family
rendition of Breaking Home Ties.

Now interspersed with
following recherché trivia:
originally titled...

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Categories: prodding, abuse, anger, bereavement, cry, daughter, father, introspection,
Form: Bio

Seasons

Spring — a life anew

Prodding rays of warming glow,
sunshine.
Crusted ice and snow
slowly melting into trickling drops. 
First to bloom
a crocus blue, a tulip tries to rise.

How long the wait
and freezing rain
chilled the weary bones.
Heat up...

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Categories: prodding, seasons,
Form: Blank verse

Exposed To the Core

I didn't want to offer him my life but discovered it was not mine to give
When he entered my world my heart beat to the rhythm it chose to live
My muse was awakened from many...

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Categories: prodding, books, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Hiroshima Poems I

Hiroshima Poems I

Let Us Be Midwives!
by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Midnight...
the basement of a shattered building...
atomic bomb survivors sniveling in the darkness...
not a single candle between them...
the odor of blood...
the stench...

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Categories: prodding, child, children, eulogy, father, mother, war, world
Form: Verse

Finality in Silence

Finality in silence.
Cut to the core
Moving through stone as darkness through nights gaze.
We ponder
Ever wandering
Always wondering 
Seeking direction in infinitive paths.
We are nothing 
But we are something. 
We are made, so shall we be in...

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Categories: prodding, god,
Form: Free verse

The Evil Twin, Part Ii

II.
It was brutal chance he’d found Paul’s ranch house,
and killed the two cowboys who had stayed behind,
he and his two men took turns with Ella,
left a note saying they’d ‘enjoyed his new bride.’

Ella was alive,...

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Categories: prodding, brother, corruption, drink, family, loss, meaningful, sad,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Finality in Echoes Silence

Finality in Echoes silence.
How the echo filters reality
Cut to the core
Moving through stone as darkness through nights gaze.
We ponder
Ever wandering
Always wondering 
Seeking direction in infinitive paths.
We are nothing 
But we are something. 
We are made,...

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