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Falling Into Place: Solace Solitude
Let me take a little sip
Of your blessed, breathtaking brilliance that will numb...
This pain I have in this heart of stone
The voices in my head won't leave me alone
I thought I was on my own,...

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Categories: rejected, deep, desire,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Rumors
Rumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020

By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally 
How Wuhan, China gave it birth

Maybe aided by our government
To make...

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Categories: rejected, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Below the Horizon - Shallow Shame
Agony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity 
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...

Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...

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Categories: rejected, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
Yellow Winged Angel
I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness, 
without want to weep and moan,
He was dreaming among heartless
building cloud castles alone.
He was waking up...

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Categories: rejected, abuse, angel, angst, philosophy, solitude, yellow,
Form: I do not know?
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3

Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch

Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)

When editors reject my poems, did I slip...

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Categories: rejected, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Warrior
“Warrior” 

When the Argonauts, came across 
the abandoned Starship, they 
found within the wrecked 
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message. 
It took several attempts to 
reactivate, but when opened, 
the following was translated: ...

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Categories: rejected, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Heavenly Father - the Couplet Style
~ My  Heavenly  Father  ~
( Unrhymed  Couplet )



~O~


My sweet Heavenly Father, help me to serve You better in all this day 
And with Your Holy Spirit guide me each day, as...

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Categories: rejected, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Before the Day Ends
I saw a girl at the museum. I had to take her number
It was like my heart woke up from a long slumber

She was admiring a Picasso painting.
 I knew nothing about art so I...

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Categories: rejected, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member History's Greatest Miracle Play
History’s Greatest Miracle Play

Let me tell you a story - Prologue

Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...

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Categories: rejected, jesus,
Form: Narrative
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips

With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...

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Categories: rejected, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...

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Categories: rejected, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...

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Categories: rejected, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member We Need a Savior - the Prose Poem Style
~ We Need  A  Savior  ~ 
( Prose Poem  ) 
 

~O~


Sometimes when we think so much about tomorrow we get so concerned n stressed about it. In minutes or in...

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Categories: rejected, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With All His Love - First and Last Style
~ With All  His  Love  ~
(  First  And  Last )


~O~


 Each day give thanks to God above
 His love He sends us as a dove
 Gives his blessings right...

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Categories: rejected, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love and Peace - the Mirrored Hourglass Style
~ Love  And  Peace ~
(  Mirrored Hourglass   )



~O~



Pray God for  Love Peace today
Love comes from the Lord
He sets us all free
Changes all hearts
Makes us strong
In Him
In Him
Makes us strong
Changes...

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Categories: rejected, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style
~  SEEK  THE  LORD  ~
 (  Star  Of  David   )



~O~
 

God
For sure
Knows  sees  all
Wants best  for  you
He  sure loves  us...

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Categories: rejected, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Call His Name - the Pirouette Style
~ Just  Call  His  Name  ~
 ( Pirouette )


~O~


In Him find Love, Hope, Peace 
In trouble, call His name 
He'll respond Your call 
Come in heart, live in you 
When you...

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Categories: rejected, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us 

we go about our...

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Categories: rejected, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative
Your Sanity
Stuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane 
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity? 
Has it transformed to insanity?
I like the way you make me feel
Oh, you don’t...

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Categories: rejected, anger, angst, appreciation, beauty, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You'Re My Light - Davedas Concrete Candle Style
~ You  Are My  Light  ~
( Daveda's  Hybrid  Concrete Candle)



~O~



 Dear 
 Lord 
 You're 
 My Light 
 You give 
 Love Hope 
 Peace Joy 
 In You...

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Categories: rejected, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flickering Reflections-No Place Like Hume

The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume, born in Edenborough, was a philosophical skeptic.
Born in 1711,...

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Categories: rejected, philosophy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Territory Trample
Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning

Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...

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Categories: rejected, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A Most Courageous American President For the Ages
A Most Courageous American President for the Ages

I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take a moment to
share some of my reflections on the life and distinguished public
service of the late 41st...

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Categories: rejected, america, celebration, character, inspiration, patriotic, political, tribute,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler...

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Categories: rejected, horse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Our Pandemic Responses
EcoPolitical Responses

Resonant empathy
trusts co-empathic experience
and cooperatively communicated reflection,
dialogue,
discussion,
discernment,

Multilateral paths toward shared values/disvalues
InBetween win or lose risks
misvalued as unfortunately necessary
forces of natural/unspiritual history

Of squandering opportunities to notice
PolyPathically resilient value systems
culturally 
bicamerally robust,

Politically 
and economically
and ecologically
and theologically
and...

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Categories: rejected, caregiving, earth, games, health, heart, integrity, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things