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A Poem of Ruth

The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...

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Categories: selfsame, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter


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In the Minds Fixed Eye

VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";   ...

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Categories: selfsame, myth,
Form: Rhyme
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Wherest Art Thou

Wherest the sunshine my dearest love?
Behind the hills yon, darkening skies above.
Wherest art thou dearest sweet friend?
Swept into the nights darkest end?
Whither thou goest, I shall go too,
forever to spend all time with you.
Voices now...

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Categories: selfsame, bereavement, bible, death, hope,
Form: Rhyme
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Way Up North

I was talking to my solitary self again, grumbling how life held no adventure,
And my parrot, Cherry, often echoed me, as moon echoes golden splendors.

She'd ruffle her feathers and preen, as she perched redly upon...

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Categories: selfsame, bird, dream, fantasy, happiness, imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Couplet

Song Lyrics I

Song Lyrics I

"We Came Together" was written as song lyrics for New Zealand composer David Hamilton.

Song Lyrics: We Came Together
by Michael R. Burch

We came together – people of two lands
so unalike, at first, we hardly...

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Categories: selfsame, community, discrimination, friend, friendship, music, race, song,
Form: Rhyme


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What's Behind Biden's Open Boarders and Why You Shouldn'T Support Hamas

It should come to you as no real surprise, that the selfsame pro-choice and 
infanticide of twenty eight days to murder their newborn children, who survived 
abortion.  Most likely even if they were never...

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Categories: selfsame, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative

The Complaint Part 2

The pageantries of mighty kings to us were shows that mattered not,
Beneath the shade of blades unsheathed in Kalima we glory sought.
Our only life was then to face the perils of Your Holy wars;
To glorify...

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Categories: selfsame, allah, faith,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Doubt not that I love you

DOUBT NOT THAT I LOVE YOU II.

Darling, I know that I can't be absolutely perfect; for as a mortal, I have depravities in me,
Which will always and constantly antagonize me in trying to be the...

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Categories: selfsame, courage, feelings, for her, heart, i love
Form: Quatrain

Virtual Trophies Wife For I

Virtual trophies (wife for I)... 

offered, husbanded, and collected 
when winning solitaire
Nothing beats that exaltant rush of adrenaline
watching the computer generated cards
automatically routed 
to their respective suite (spot)
(after they get turned face value up)
generates countenance...

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Categories: selfsame, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme
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Dawn Never Dies

I was a red-violet, sunny morning person, usually up at the crack of dawn,
When orange light poured from the east, upon revival, dewy green lawns.

With a cup of aromal coffee, I'd watch yellow sunrise creep...

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Categories: selfsame, beauty, color, fantasy, morning, nature, sun, world,
Form: Couplet

Tree

Flowers climb the branches
exhibit their full blossom
flowers visit drawing rooms 
They visit temples 
and then they vanish.
defying fixed shapes
rivers hasten to no destination.
carrying countless goals
roads get lost in a maze. 

Unceasingly
I stand
holding the selfsame earth.

Many...

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Categories: selfsame, tree,
Form: Free verse

Wet Desert Hope

Sad mother   ...   no son
Went off to war, never come home
No phone call, no letter come
Flowers planted in the garden,
came spring never sprung
Sad, sad mother   ...   misses...

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Categories: selfsame, angst, mother son, nature, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
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The Last Master of War

Not a true Choka...but uses a 5,7,7,5,7,7 format 
   -------------------------------------------------


Chill, steaming vapour;           
Silence over pale water;       ...

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Categories: selfsame, fate, life, loneliness, longing, loss,
Form: Choka

Unwana

Unwana, Unwana, I have chosen you amongst the daughters of men,
amongst the maidens of my felon tribe, 
to bear the torch of our waning kindred…

Unwana, I have chosen you, favoured one, out of the delights...

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Categories: selfsame, eve, universe,
Form: Free verse

Nothing More Frustrating Trying Damndest To Kindle Memory

(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin)

An effort to recall word, phrase,
musician... indigenous tribe...
most frustrating literary
endeavor to das scribe

aggravating enough to sub
bourbon spur teetotaler to imbibe
and/or nsync, whereby soul searching
devil's advocate demands bribe.

Lil brokeback Engelbert Humperdinck
(born Arnold...

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Categories: selfsame, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse

Mirrors Don'T Lie About Frank and Ernest Portrayal

Mirrors don't lie about frank and ernest portrayal...

Especially when giving cheeky badass
blemished physiognomic reflection
tricking me seeing displeasing likeness
Matthew Scott Harris, a grown lad brandishing
his treasured invisible cutlass
poised to strike, (where spiderlines
instantaneously provoked, webbed,
and frankly zapped...

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Categories: selfsame, analogy, atheist, extended metaphor, horror, identity, mirror,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Silent Code of the Animal Farm

The tricky question of how many animal farms we have
May be more complicated than most of us think;
There are at least some fifty-five animal farms in the world
Where wild mammals play and eat and drink.

And...

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Categories: selfsame, abuse,
Form: Verse

We Are All Waters

There is no ‘you’ or ‘I’
Except that you choose
to call the fat clouds a name
and make them feel like overlords upon the others.

And, there is neither ‘you’ nor ‘I’
when we collect in droplets into rain
and...

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Categories: selfsame, beach, together, truth, water, wisdom,
Form: Concrete

Serenity's Gate

I hope this letter, to you my daughters, becomes like a letter to a friend 
As we venture on this journey to its end
We'll start off like eager travellers, trying to share the selfsame track
And...

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© Mike Toole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selfsame, adventure, dad, daughter, growth, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Towards Deaths Door and Back

I hope this letter, to you, a stranger 
Becomes a letter to a friend 
As we travel on this journey to its end
Yes we’ll start off as mere strangers
Trying to share the selfsame track
And what...

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© Mike Toole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selfsame, cancer, death, encouraging, friendship love, health, hope,
Form: Rhyme

The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice

O cruel marraige,
That dost join souls,
And tear them apart,
By serpent's tongue,
Today, on Heaven's Eve.

Dead!

O Apollo, mourn,
Your daughter is dead,
And I with divine tongue,
Sing to mortal ears.

But no more...
My song is choked.
By these selfsame tears,
That once...

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Categories: selfsame, loss, lost love, love, love, passion, myth,
Form: Free verse

I

So here it is,
The soul transposed
That never could quite lose control
So here I am
And here I stand
A shell of what was once a man

I used to know love's sweet caress
I used to feel, within a...

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Categories: selfsame, death, introspection, love, philosophy, heart, heart, time,
Form: I do not know?

Art Disenchantment

I'd swear it was as if I've seen an authentic Picasso
By the way
I can't turn my eyes away
From yours that is. I love it.
I think, that wordplay will come a long way,
I keep falling for...

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Categories: selfsame, allegory, love, love,
Form: Free verse

In a Land Called Fantasy

The shadows loom above my head
Filling the village, we're full of dread

The mountains behind me shake violently
Yet I see something bright, near the sea

A break in the clouds, sun shines down
Upon Gossamer's Palace- like a...

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© J. Dover  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: selfsame, adventure, dedication, faith, fantasy, happiness, hope, me,
Form: Couplet
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If Only

Exegi monumentum aere perennius
Were that to be  true,I would clearly  be a genius
Like Quintus H.  Flaccus who presented us with that trope
Inviting every poet to share that selfsame hope
Of clothing our visions...

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Categories: selfsame, poetry, words, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
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