Long Romanticised Poems

I'm determined to be heard
Through the walls 
Beyond all That 
Deafening windfall

My voice never deterred
Tasking freedom 
dispensing wisdom 
Offering up hope

I am the force, overheard  
A solid speaker for the mute
Constant presence for the Word

I...

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" Tortured metaphors
                           spilling from tequila lips,
  ...

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As the glistening jewels 
         of snow cascade like 
ballerinas pirouetting 
      to the crescendo of time, 
choreographed from porcelain 
 ...

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The photos we keep 
By Michelle Morris
29/11/2020

The photos we keep hold so many memories of the past and we relive those moments each and every time we see them again...

Sometimes we have to let them...

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Broken Back

They use words like
Cold
And 
Crossing
Sighs
To describe something romanticised
 
Obscured verbs
In which to hide
To hide
Romanticised
The suffering
Without a name

It asks you not to worry
A vacant voice
Verbalised
Tears
She cried
Lies

Nomenclature of disheartening
Hope
Borrowed between shadows
Between hearts
Flowers
And chocolates

At peace
At last
Unburdened
Released
Love
Child

Romanticised
To a...

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"Arma virumque cano"

No more the Viking sagas
Singed by the dragon’s breath
No more the valiant charges
Into the Valley of Death.
No more the knights of chivalry
Bewitched by a maiden’s pallor.
No more the sword-drawn cavalry
Galloping with dash and...

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~Gypsies Tramps and Thieves~
Gypsies what do we think, the word is coupled with hate
But were the original gypsies - aware of their fate
The Egyptian forebears were exiled from their home
Supposedly for hiding Jesus so too...

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If you were a poet 
how would you write about me?
Would you flaunt my insecurities 
or bury them deep? 
Would you showcase my demons 
or smother them in a blanket of equivocation? 

If you were...

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CONSIDERATIONS
unconscious
  reverence
  profoundly
different
sit
tendency
 hope
is the spring
exquisite
& mysterious

the forgotten
 fact
 supposed
enough
 by these
existential moments
 became more
abstracted
prefiguring
  diversion
or expectations

 purely derivative
of  condescension
deepened
with every
passing
 illustration
precipitated
in
bright colours
& pattern
 of
inventive genius
 in
 plain sight
ignored by
generations
of
reminiscence
  romanticised

authentic
proof of
supposition
 that reveals
 more about
the fantastically
once
suppressed

 a proliferations
suppressed
of
 fiction
active assertive
&
&overdone...

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Another year has come and gone.
There's so much that has gone on!

Life has thrown you quite a trial
Yet you face it with a smile.

Marriage can be overly romanticised
Or sadly can be criticised.

But what is seen...

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Auto-annihilation is stupid, 
It breaks hearts, 
And ruins lives,
I hate that I was ever self-destructive, 
I rue the day I became entranced 
By its shadowy charisma.

Ethanol is a thief of youth:
Poor Jo-Jo was right 
To...

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