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Adieu - Part 2The tears flowed and I still smiled,
My body and spirit and mind,
Were still in that state of residual bliss,
Soaking in your sweet smile,
And savoring the moonlit skin before me,
But my soul was being torn asunder,
And...
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sobbing, heartbreak, love, passion, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Rilke Translations IiCome, 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:
sobbing, tribute,
Form:
Verse
A Wisp of ThoughtThere was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...
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Categories:
sobbing, beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic 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 lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
sobbing, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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sobbing, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
A Night On a WharfA Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
sobbing, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Loves Trial 5The Trial 5
Workers in the courtroom were making last minute sitting arrangement for Poetry Soup’s poets who have been following the case.
Their comments after reading the transcripts, were seen by Love. She...
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Categories:
sobbing, heartbroken, hurt, judgement, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Adopting YuaThe dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...
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sobbing, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
RetributionIn sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...
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Categories:
sobbing, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
A Rhyme Into My Active Prescription Medication Addiction, and the Start of My RecoveryTRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc
I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting,
Finally a nurse...
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Categories:
sobbing, addiction, child, cry, emotions, evil, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
Part 2 You Have To WhistleNeither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
In...
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Categories:
sobbing, child abuse, giving, i love you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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sobbing, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Flagan the Dragon Part2The Tale of the Bumpalump
After the Knight had unraveled...Flagan decided to travel
and get away on a long holiday.
He thought it quite grand to visit a new land
and...
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Categories:
sobbing, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sandless Sand CastleThe Sandless Sand Castle
Let me tell you about my eldest brother.
I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...
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Categories:
sobbing, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
You MatterThe last time you felt good, you played along with them, and they were fooled
The feeling inside was blue and you always considered the suicide rendezvous
It’s when you can’t laugh or cry, and feel it’s...
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Categories:
sobbing, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
sobbing, absence, appreciation, children, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
Fluent In CryingI have to admit
The school where I work
Needs everyone to be
Able to speak Spanish.
Because the parents do.
We are an 82 percent
Spanish-speaking community.
I’ve taken Spanish 4 times.
And I have failed Spanish 4 times.
I have no idea...
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Categories:
sobbing, 2nd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Am I Turning Into a Lizard Serial KillerHmmm, where do I start? With deep sighs, I am sighing right now.
I just finished burying 2 lizards, and my heart is heavy...
Let me back up a bit...bear with me if I might turn out...
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Categories:
sobbing, angst, animal, how i feel, sad, sorry,
Form:
Narrative
The Night I Grew UpDad, I remember well the night I grew up.
I know you remember that night too...
I know you never forgot this happening:
It was 1966, an early Fall night, around 10:30...
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Categories:
sobbing, 9th grade, brother, confusion, father daughter, father
Form:
Bio
The Table - the Difference Between Heaven and HellThe Table
...
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Categories:
sobbing, heaven, humanity, imagery, inspirational, joy, love,
Form:
Narrative
The WallWinnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain,
while she washed away her bloody pain.
Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings it loud, she sings it strong,
walled in where she does...
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Categories:
sobbing, birthday, character, child, child abuse, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Part Two- Gunshot Wound To the Heart- a Short Story From My Memoir - a Journey of Roses and ThornsIt was a hot summer day. Harry had stopped by Grandma's house and offered to take the two little girls down to the store and treat them to an ice-cream cone. Grandma, thinking...
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Categories:
sobbing, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 2Their rending cries, when all is still, reecho in the moonlight;
They lie about in fitful slumber on the ground at noonlight,
Their virgin hair spread in the dust; for nothing really matters:
Who then will see their...
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Categories:
sobbing, assonance, bible, courage, daughter, farewell,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 20It was a bitter morning, the ground hotter upon my flesh
I kneeled at the center of the pit on the twentieth day,
Remembering a tune sung so long ago,
A great song grieving for the incessant wars...
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Categories:
sobbing, growth, heart, life, loss, mystery, pain, war,
Form:
Epic
The Doghousewhen I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when I met you I was dying. I hadn’t eaten in...
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Categories:
sobbing, for her, love hurts, miss you, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse