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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine

     ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered 
after assassinating Julius Caesar.

     Alternatively...

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Categories: rebukes, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form: Free verse

The Dance of Salome

The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,  
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...

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Categories: rebukes, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form: Narrative

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of time 
can be made to go in reverse
a more exemplary version
to...

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Categories: rebukes, absence, adventure, age, birth, creation, family, history,
Form: Rhyme

Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms

(or swing sets and monkey bars)

A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet 
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
finds me reminiscing...

When, scads of light years ago
(half...

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Categories: rebukes, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse

Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

October seventeenth
nineteen hundred sixty one 
and October seventeenth
two thousand twenty four
represents, signals,
and traces sixty three orbitz
completed round the sun.
by one cherished,
(despite lapse of calling,
emailing, or texting),
nevertheless loved,
and prized...

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Categories: rebukes, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing 
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product 
eternally preserved within 
annals, chronicles, epistles, 
et cetera of human civilization 
and it's discontents...

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Categories: rebukes, adventure, america, angst, anxiety, crush, environment, hate,
Form: Free verse

The Prophesy of Invention

Prophesy of Invention

Compositions of profound illumination resonating from a prophetic musician 
Impositions that compound remuneration as the economists of capitalism demand an inquisition 
A tired physician’s diagnosis that confounds all surgical precision 
A technician becomes...

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Categories: rebukes, life,
Form: Rhyme

King Henry VIII translation by Michael R Burch

Love ever green
attributed to King Henry VIII
translation by Michael R. Burch

If Henry VIII wrote the poem, he didn’t quite live up to it! – MRB

Green groweth the holly,
so doth the ivy.
Though winter’s blasts blow never...

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Categories: rebukes, bird, heart, love, pain, time, war, winter,
Form: Rhyme

The Lord’s Cry to His People

Behold the time is no longer near;
It is now. I have shouted, I have whispered,
And still, you do not hear.
Let the one with ears listen

For when I and My grace depart,
There will be no more...

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Categories: rebukes, 12th grade, fate, humanity, jesus, relationship, religion,
Form: Free verse

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
(thus forever experiencing craving to eat cheese)

Nothing but gridlock traffic
(far as thee eye could see)
heading east on Schuylkill Expressway
(oxymoronic name for quickest route
into center city, albeit Philadelphia),

yet this...

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Categories: rebukes, anxiety, books, childhood, creation, dad, education, father
Form: Bio

Out of the Same Mouth

I wonder what would Jesus say
If He were to walk into the fray
Would He point and accuse
The volatile atmosphere confuse
Would he spend time to malign
Place on forheads, the devil’s sign
Would He just point and then...

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Categories: rebukes, how i feel, introspection, jesus, judgement,
Form: Couplet

Tribute To Women

Born into the lap of loneliness
Adam paced restless up and down
God knew he badly needed a mate
And willed the solitary man, a companion
Nonpareil in beauty and grace,
God wanted her to be the marvel of marvels
With...

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Categories: rebukes, angel, beauty, bible, women,
Form: Free verse

The Morning of the Hurricanes Part 1

The Bishops bathe in Babylon
while Princes, prancing on the lawn,
watch Queen deflowered, pale and wan.
            The King dares not defend her.
The Horsemen, holding broken...

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Categories: rebukes, fantasy, morning,
Form: Rhyme

I Speak

Speaking to my mirror, my words get virtual

God created the world with beautiful words

Let there be light, let there be life

But when it came to man, he stopped, he can’t be created with words

So in...

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Categories: rebukes, anti bullying, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

The Vanished

VANISHED

We are the echoing voices crying within the darkness,
Melting mists of vapor co-existing amongst the living,
The ambling drifters shifting between reality and limbo,
The vanished.

Displacement malfunction, the frozen chill in one’s space,
Happening without explanation, the corporal...

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Categories: rebukes, adventure, history, imagery, imagination, inspirational, visionary,
Form: Free verse

Gibbering Jabbering Gibberish Haint No Recipe To Sound Glib

Ofttimes yours truly assiduously tries to adlib,
but blubbers like a landlubber
at sea treading water donned with bib
(that doubles as yellow
spongy bobbing life jacket)

furiously doing doggy paddle
riding the next tidal wave
hoop fully washing me ashore to...

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Categories: rebukes, addiction, assonance, blessing, confusion, destiny, happiness, hope,
Form: Free verse

Circa October 7th 2020 Papa Passed Away

Professed paean pronounced
and adroitly produced
upon spirit of deceased
named Boyce Brandon Harris.

First year anniversary since
cremains distributed across four winds
his soul remains alive within me.

Impressed upon mine consciousness
birthdate announcing home birth
April 9th 1929, my father
gasped his first...

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Categories: rebukes, absence, death, eulogy, father son, hurt, loss,
Form: Free verse