Long Purged Poems
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Justice Is Crying In the Street
Oh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
purged, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
purged, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-Xvi
Sonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
purged, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rilke Translations Ii
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
purged, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Spineless In the Running
Was this a bold endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
In one sense I was caught between two poles apart concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish
difficult decision.
A decision that may...
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Categories:
purged, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Kingdom of My Embrace
"Years” and “Distance”, phantoms of the dark that do their evil
in the quietude of the everyday, coming and going without so
much as a footprint or a whisper, and taking the most valuable
possessions of the heart,...
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Categories:
purged, absence, appreciation, children, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
Rilke Translations I
Archaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
purged, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
I Got Friggin Heebie Jeebies
I got friggin heebie jeebies
Cuz buzzards circle o'er me
eyeing these lovely bones prithee
id est Roy L. T. Canard, Si
hence impossible mission
to be lovey dove vee.
Vague remembrances of dream
which recurred with frequency
transfixed by...
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Categories:
purged, angst, anxiety, betrayal, community, environment, faith, how
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Not Done Yet
I am not done yet until all of you speak the truth, I am not done yet until I obtain justice for my brutal youth, you kick me around like ball and blame me for...
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Categories:
purged, business, confidence, corruption, death, deep, endurance, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Autumn Atonement - Continued
How we loved the same
Foods, had the same dreams,
Wanted the same future, longed for the
Same life together, loved the same movies
And songs and books and colors and clothes
And people. How we knew what the other...
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Categories:
purged, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
A Walk On the Beach - Continued
(Part Two)
I go back to a time, (one of many), when we were there, caught in the rain
and salt mist ... little droplets would form on your eyelashes like diamonds, as
if giving value to those...
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Categories:
purged, beach, loneliness, lost love, passion, sea, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Solutionist
SOLUTIONIST:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
VERSE 1:
Drenched soul placed on a bench,
Avengers revenging not ready to repent;
Edge of grudges they always entrench,
Dreading of fate, that's what they depend.
Trends and hypes risen from their wrench;
Pitching and hitching...
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Categories:
purged, allah, angel, god,
Form:
Lyric
A Vow of Paradise
I made you a vow of paradise
Though I knew I could not find the time
To show you how much I cared and treasured
The sincerity of your love and devotion;
I wanted to take you to my...
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Categories:
purged, allegory, cheer up, christian, feelings, garden, hope,
Form:
Free verse
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:
purged, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, fate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
I'LL have an entree of air to go please, with a side of Imagination
#GRAPES, {BLACK} HIGHEST ANTIOXIDANTS IN TACT, FACTS!
BLUEBERRIES, VERY ENTHUSED FOR THE HEALTHIEST BERRY, BUT AFTER AN HOUR, MY HUNGER SUCCUMBS TO THE "BLURPLE" POWER...
IN MY SINCEREST EFFORTS!
FRUIT ALONE MY "SATIETY" DOES NOT CONDONE...
IT...
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Categories:
purged, emotions, encouraging, food, health, imagination, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Eyes That Look Are Many Eyes That See Are Few
" You saw my tomorrow, seated on your yesterday's laps,
Dirty-duty rusty and arrogance humming,
Bathing in the smokes of marijuana, basking it malodor,
Yet, you didn't bother to wash me your words of corrections.
Did...
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Categories:
purged, bereavement, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Breathing While Thinking
Yang unveils landscapes of textured thought
while Yin brings climates of swelling and ebbing feelings.
Together,
yin affective unconscious
with yang deductive conscious labels and language of natural,
and sometimes oddly unnatural, uncomfortable, relationships,
humane consciousness
searching for divine polypathic continuous timeless...
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Categories:
purged, caregiving, corruption, growing up, health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Open the Floodgates
(Fictional, but based on the real experience of one of my close friends who lost her daughter in an accident)
As I sat on my desk,
Hurrying with my pent up work,
A scrap of paper, left...
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Categories:
purged, angst, child, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Road
Suspended in perpetual animation
There is a light at the end of the tunnel
From hours of travel though inches gained
Spewed forth from the bowels of existence I stand
Before me lies the road
Like a pond turned solid...
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Categories:
purged, beauty, brother, courage, depression, faith, family, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Come, You: the Death Poem of Rainer Maria Rilke
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, you—the last one I acknowledge; return—
incurable pain searing this physical mesh.
As I burned in the spirit once, so now I burn
with you; meanwhile, you consume my...
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Categories:
purged, cancer, death, depression, fire, health, pain, surreal,
Form:
Verse
Million Manias -Chapter 2-
I remember when it rained outside my window
I remember our laughing fits, sweeping away the sorrow
I hope that your dreams come true tonight
I cope with the pain in my heart of might
Can't you...
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Categories:
purged, deep, depression, emotions, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
Naked Truth
Fruitful days are filling up the piles of treasure mesuring the misogyny it shouldn't be a topic of forgery while waiting for break outs throwing correction direction of stereotyping the tipicallity of capabilities in abilities...
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Categories:
purged, absence, africa, art,
Form:
Free verse
Colour,Flash
Fruitful days are filling up the piles of treasure mesuring the misogyny it shouldn't be a topic of forgery while waiting for break outs throwing correction direction of stereotyping the tipicallity of capabilities in abilities...
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Categories:
purged, africa, america, art,
Form:
Classicism
Reprimand
I'm in charge here
I am your chieftain.....your Lord and Master ...
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Categories:
purged, inspirationaleducation, may,
Form:
Narrative
Nadir
Summer's salty doom knocked
ruggedly as I lay on the
sheets of tormented
threats and turmoil.
Jerks at the slightest beep.
Gasps at a faint knock.
Soaked in muddy debts
of frauds. A muscle pull of shame,
death's soulful companion....
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Categories:
purged, cry, dark, deep, desire, hurt, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse