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Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
unrelenting, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
unrelenting, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Water, 30 random word promptThe weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my...
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Categories:
unrelenting, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
unrelenting, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
A Journey Into Transformation
War shapes the warriors it touches, leaving behind vestiges that linger in their lives long after the battlefield fades from view. In Recon Marines: Searching for the Real Enemy, we are thrust into the unrelenting...
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Categories:
unrelenting, brother, grief, hope, memory, silence, strength, war,
Form:
Haibun
The Labyrinth and the GardenerA pondering of multiple raindrops from a detrimental storm onto the empty fields, crashing into them as hard and loud as clashing metals. The depth and existence of love weighs over any deprivation an unexpected...
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Categories:
unrelenting, abuse, allegory, corruption, extended metaphor, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.”
– General George Pickett
Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched with war's haunting gaze.
A mind torn asunder...
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Categories:
unrelenting, death, history, slavery, violence, war,
Form:
Ballad
PART OF ME: A FALLEN CHILDPart of my soul severed by their ruthless oppression, demoralization and exploitation of a frightened and abandoned child.
Part of me drowning in detrimental sorrow as a 10 yr. old coerced by the evilness on the...
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Categories:
unrelenting, abuse, anti bullying, child abuse, childhood, for
Form:
Free verse
Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awryAshen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry
Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though no fault of his own
the raging bullish conflagration
a taste of inescapable...
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Categories:
unrelenting, cry, environment, fire, humorous, inspiration, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
The Cold DoorknobsThe Cold Doorknobs
I.
I am sure there will be that profound moment in time
when the dog out back will stop its incessant yapping,
Its unrelenting impulse to belch out its interminable wails,
alas, to inform its...
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Categories:
unrelenting, death,
Form:
Free verse
Portrait of a Hanging
With the opening of my fortress cell,
solemn-faced men come locust invading in
Their mouths smile not, and eyes neither grin
as ceremonial words pursed lips expel
A deer thought escapes ... my life nears its end!
And I feel...
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Categories:
unrelenting, dark, death, horror, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Approximately Three Plus Days ElapsedApproximately three plus days elapsed...
without yours truly experiencing urge to defecate
Neither bloating nor constipation
arose, but one nondescript anguished
logophile anticipated intestinal blockage,
hence prophesying worse case scenario
I (predicated in direction for an adult)
ingested three Dulcolax tablets
and subsequently...
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Categories:
unrelenting, adventure, america, anniversary, beautiful, courage, family, july,
Form:
Free verse
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
unrelenting, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Aliens! I shouted above the roar of the blaze"Aliens!" I shouted above the roar of the blaze.
Please rescue us from this godforsaken place
veritable hellscape, where angels fear ingress.
Just then an unexpected pleasant distraction
woke me from induced stupor linkedin to Los
Angeles fires jump/kick starting...
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Categories:
unrelenting, 12th grade, america, bereavement, earth, fire, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the FaceGrant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of the late...
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Categories:
unrelenting, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Support Your Local Po Whet Hick Bummer Ie MeSupport Your Local Po' Whet (Hick) Bummer, i.e. me
Freedom from onset of pervasive gloom
(attendant with profusely perspiring palms,
hut tree men duh us aggravation), would be
a dog send to this melon collie bow...
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Categories:
unrelenting, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel, conflict, integrity,
Form:
Bio
Glory To the Ukrainian Freedom FightersGlory to the Ukranian Freedom Fighters
Democracy and freedom are under attack
Beaurocracy and greed man,
Don’t let this war criminal come back
Putin is lootin’ the streets of Ukraine
His crimes against humanity are bordering on insane
His unprovoked aggression...
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Categories:
unrelenting, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Things Never SaidThe Things Never Said
The terror…
The only things ever said about my daddy’s WWII service were that he’d been to New Guinea where he’d ridden on a truck full of soldiers by a river without a...
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Categories:
unrelenting, christian, fear, may, political, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Illogicality of CommonsenseBy Stanley Collymore
At first I wasn’t in the least interested in you.
But then, why should I be? You, after all,
are an unmarried and out-of-work mum
just turned 23 and, additionally and
quite evidently...
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Categories:
unrelenting, love, life, life, mum,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ability To Defecate Wildly Swings Both WaysAbility to defecate wildly swings (both ways)...
between incontinence and constipation
Irritable bowel syndrome i.e.
the former excretory bout I address
the above (polite way to phrase diarrhea)
and avoid moon efficient cheekiness,
yours truly doth buttress,
a literal warranted pain in...
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Categories:
unrelenting, 12th grade, adventure, desire, health, imagery, recovery
Form:
Free verse
ColonisationBombarded by myriads of daily data without cease,
I suggest a forthright discourse on this topic,
carousel of trend and sound adherence merely looming?
some unwitting sentiment an aspirational diction,
reverberation or innuendo pending aftermath augur,
the world...
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Categories:
unrelenting, august, courage, deep, freedom, future, mystery, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Her Last Reflection
Her soul cracked, cheeks burned, eyes swollen with sorrow.
She saw her cheerful past walking by the corridor, head held high.
She once bloomed like spring’s lavender, fragile yet vibrant,
But she never felt it—not...
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Categories:
unrelenting, freedom, hate, heartbreak, loneliness, peace, strength, women,
Form:
Free verse
Speechless Part 1As scented air aroused my misty mind,
her shadow broke the early morning sun.
Aromas wafting from the morning grind
seduced a thought that she may be the one.
I sensed her very essence from afar,
unnerved, I sought the...
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Categories:
unrelenting, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The KrampusBeware the wrath of the Northern Polar boogie man,
The Anti-Clause, a legendary beast of nightmarish voracity,
From folklore mythology, a dark creature of demonic prowess,
Lurks in the hidden shadow realm, in a freezing forbidden zone,
Of...
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Categories:
unrelenting, christmas, fantasy, holiday, imagery, international, myth, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Midway IIAs frothing wakes unveil a racing tide
a frontal surge unleashed intended taunt,
‘twas but a strafe to lead the prey outside
then strike a blow amidst the faring jaunt.
To draw first blood, then front them with...
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Categories:
unrelenting, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets