Long Temptations Poems
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The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
temptations, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Custody of 2020 EyesMonks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority,
to avoid appearing too curious
too available
too...
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Categories:
temptations, games, gender, health, poverty, psychological, racism, slavery,
Form:
Political Verse
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy TaleOnce Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
temptations, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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:
temptations, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Righteous LoyaltyEnvironment of elegance emerges and Solar System shimmers anew in our lives
We need and want to shine...waiting till the Kingdom of Glory arrives...arrives...
Burn negativity into the flames
I’m sick of your silly little games
Burn negativity into...
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Categories:
temptations, depression, hope, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
A JourneymanA Journeyman
Prologue and Epitaph:
I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone
1) Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle...
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Categories:
temptations, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
VictoryWhen I was a boy I wanted to be Martin Luther King,
For his life sings of the strength of unconditional love,
Which can only come from above,
But when I became a man, I gave myself to...
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Categories:
temptations,
Form:
Bio
Poems About Children ViPoems about Children VI
Playmates
by Michael R. Burch
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far...
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Categories:
temptations, child, childhood, children, love, school, teen, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Is the Devil Real, Who Really Rules the WorldIs the Devil real? Who really rules the world?
Some say the Devil is just the evil inside each of us. If that is true then he is NOT a real person. Some have seen the...
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Categories:
temptations, christian, evil, god, gospel, halloween, jesus, religious,
Form:
Didactic
Lilith WaitsLilith Waits
Lilith waits as she surveys, all her brutal yesterdays
She cruelly paved with stepping-stones of broken hearts and human bones.
Her lips turned up at their red corners, she grins at all the...
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Categories:
temptations, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Bad Boy Gone GoodYour life is a sandwich with many layers
Your knife slaughtered me as you bewitch my mind with thought-slayers
Coming undone by this bleeding hate-love relationship
You tease me with insults that make me wanna cry, but...
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Categories:
temptations, deep, depression, happiness, boy,
Form:
Free verse
Consciousness correctionClutching the moment
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away,
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white, plunging into the thought,
A blizzard erasing the gentle flames,
Sheltered by...
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Categories:
temptations, appreciation, god, heaven, hope, joy, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
History's Sad SongHistory's Sad Song (Revised)
throughout my life
I've heard many a sad song
relating to the lyrics
that seemed to play too long
way back during the Crusade
where religious debt was paid
by the bloodlust of so many
could not ye God...
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Categories:
temptations, introspection, life, , western,
Form:
Free verse
A Matter Of Faith
When I was a child, I wondered
Was deep sleep, death?
Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?
Waking up, I found the people around me were the same
I was the same too, nothing changed
This cannot...
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Categories:
temptations, allusion, creation, faith, god, metaphor, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Crazy MeI feel like hurting myself, I’m sorry, Lord
Don’t know why I feel the urge crawl into me
With crooked, malicious, wicked discord
I need scars of soaring, eager sympathy
To be my shadow beneath me
I love the...
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Categories:
temptations, angst, crazy, desire, endurance, psychological, strength, stress,
Form:
Lyric
Letters For People Part 6Dear people,
A true Voice speaks pure truth in two tones.
Real Ears can only hear one.
Get one half of two true whole truths,
...
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Categories:
temptations, america, angel, anxiety, confidence, fire, heart, humor,
Form:
Epic
The Adverse World CompleteI can’t stand getting worse and worse by the fast-paced minute
So, set me free from me, colliding and breaking bit by bit
Show me the way in which I should go, Lord of Light
Show me the...
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Categories:
temptations, angst, endurance, hope,
Form:
Free verse
I Ain'T a Game To Play With - Chapter 1 - Betrayal Snipped Heart Strings- Written August 11, 2018
Exhausted, you're playing as a suicidal victim once more
Confusion sucked me dry all the more to the deep core
Thaw me like frozen ground beef…
Give me some microwaving relief
Hate the actions you make...
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Categories:
temptations, love hurts, lust, men, moving on, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Destruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen GroundsDestruction, As Kali Walks Upon Earthen Grounds
Goddess of Destruction that teams with the Lord of Lusts
As wrathful winds bequeath savage ravaging gusts
Hades match, that has destroyed many a soul
World and darkness combine to...
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Categories:
temptations, art, conflict, creation, dark, death, evil, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Survival In the Midst of IgnoranceMy prayers are not asking you to
save me from my enemy.
My children have turned their backs.
They praise dance with many
Adversaries-
When they need be refuking,
protesting and rebuking.
Among-st those who...
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Categories:
temptations, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form:
Classicism
Unassailable PurityIn a moment
Ten turns to twenty,
Then, thirty to forty,
Then, fifty to sixty…
In a moment…
Blessings are forgotten,
Sometimes simply ignored…
While hope is found in hearts
Who know the meaning of real love,
Love that abides in the soul…
Who knows...
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Categories:
temptations, blessing, christian, faith, forgiveness, god, hope, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
The Flood, Christ's Death(Necessary, Sufficient – Why? How?)
Was the ‘Death of Christ’ needful? Can ‘Mind of God’ change?
Might the rainbow then signal ‘Repentance,’ a sign
God does grow and responds too, to changes wrath wrought?
Were there souls saved by...
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Categories:
temptations, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Anyone CanAnyone Can steal; Anyone Can lie;
Anyone Can cheat and then deny.
Anyone Can be resentful and bitter,
Give up easily and be then, a quitter.
Anyone Can allow themselves to hate;
Feed into their ego and perpetuate.
Anyone Can serve...
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Categories:
temptations, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth of Churning of OceanThere was a war between Gods and demons,
The Hindu mythology says with reasons;
This went for long with full-fledged fights,
Each troop spending sleepless nights;
Dead remained dead and the gods did realize,
That it's not in their...
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Categories:
temptations, myth, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Enhanced VisionsThings can be intimidating within this future of life as we know
like a luring spiritual souls path intricately lingering
departing its everlasting glow
Nullifying life’s hardships
Prospering life’s greatness
Alluring as my mindset is trying...
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Categories:
temptations, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme