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Come Jesus Come and Rescue all of us

Many have seen, with their own eyes,
Large signs of Christians crosses
Right in the middle of the cloudy skies.
Giving us our blessed assurance while
Giving unto all of tear drops of purest
Joy in all of our eyes.

Many...

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Categories: wide open, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose


When It Struck 11

When it struck 11, I sighed in relief
When it struck 11, I haven't felt grief
The time kept ticking on and it wasn't brief
And I'm so… patiently shaking like a leaf
Vigorously feeling vital everyday...
Every minute...every second...come...

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Categories: wide open, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse

The Payload

"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
like school fish released 
from the tight confines
of a course rope...

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Categories: wide open, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
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Grand Mother Eartha's Dream

My husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day

She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes

Because,
you know,
or maybe not because,
how would I know?

Dreams about Her Straight White AlphaMale trauma
were...

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Categories: wide open, culture, earth day, health, mothers day, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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Chapter 96 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Boundaries Regulations and Frustrations

Date:  August 2041

Members of the Damian fraternity 
Were relaxing in the backyard. The
Soon to be 4 year olds conducted 
Themselves in their sandbox.
The older children picniced on
The grass. Amadeus DJ Damali 
And Desharah sat...

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Categories: wide open, deep,
Form: Alliteration


Turkish Poetry Translations Ii

Turkish Poetry Translations II

Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...

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Categories: wide open, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form: Free verse

Rumi Translation: the Field

The Field
by Rumi 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field. 
I'll meet you there. 
When the soul lazes in such lush grass 
the world is too...

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Categories: wide open, earth, green, islamic, rights, soulmate, sound, words,
Form: Epigram

Rumi Translation: Birdsong

Birdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!



I choose to love you in silence
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I...

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Categories: wide open, bird, music, poetry, poets, song, universe, writing,
Form: Verse
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Azure Vistas



"Azure Vistas"

Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain falling petulantly on blunt contracts

I glimpsed the sweet refrain of a resurrection
swift upon a...

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Categories: wide open, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

My Spirit Animal

The soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...

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Categories: wide open, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form: Narrative

Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano

"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly grazed, then held long

slow, deep, warm and wet

The story is...

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Categories: wide open, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
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le livre bleu

“le livre bleu” 

Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers, 
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine teeth,
they drown their sorrows in their muses -
contemporary little monsters – Still Life, 
they call...

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Categories: wide open, muse,
Form: Free verse
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Tips For Modern Poets

Dear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry!  Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want it to be.  The rules are simple.  There...

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Categories: wide open, write,
Form: Prose

Longing For the Stars

My mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...

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Categories: wide open, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: I do not know?
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Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1

Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wide open, history, longing,
Form: Free verse
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Dr Time's Dipolar Rant

What's up?
Thanks for this interview,
old man.

You are either blind or confused,
but probably both.

Well, thanks,
and I appreciate you as well.
Now, I understand you want to talk about human consciousness.

We comprehend your language as limiting human consciousness.

Now...

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Categories: wide open, anger, culture, fear, language, love, nature, time,
Form: Narrative
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Rebuilding Paradise

Paradise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,

And/or 
appreciatively regarding both day
and dualdark
rich and fertile 
souled and soiled
recycling night.

So too
my personal
and political
and economic
and ecological
and theologically reformed...

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Categories: wide open, earth, eve, god, health, love, paradise, passion,
Form: Political Verse
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A Letter To Poetry

"A word like a river flows through the mind"                          ...

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Categories: wide open, poetry,
Form: Personification

When I Die

When my life has finally left me and my last breath has been shed
And the silver cord is broken and my bodies firmly dead
I shall hover near the body, download the scenes of this past...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wide open, bereavement, christian, death, heaven, inspiration, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
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Know Thyself

Know Thyself
(one of the two Delphic commands of Apollo)



For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                  ...

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Categories: wide open, god, me, world, voice, creation, fear, me,
Form: Elegy
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Know Yourself

For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                          ...

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Categories: wide open, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
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NOT SO SHINING KNIGHT

THE NOT SO SHINING KNIGHT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FIDELITY AND INFIDELITY INTO THE MARRIAGE LOTS OF NEWNESS WE DID EVERY THING TOGETHER VOLUNTEERING LAUGHTER LOVE WHEN MY KNIGHT BEGAN SPENDING WAY TOO MUCH TIME WITH...

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Categories: wide open, allah,
Form: Naat
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Chapter 24 -- Dolly Damian Friends and Family Part Ii

The fifth floor was decorated 
With fancy art work. Molly 
Rang the bell. After a few
Minutes an attractive older
Woman answered the door.
She threw the door wide Open 
After she saw them 
with Damian. "Hello Hello...

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Categories: wide open, confidence, family, feelings, friend, friendship, growing up,
Form: Alliteration

Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities

"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over 
amber gold wild bush...

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Categories: wide open, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form: Free verse
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I Cry

I cry at baptisms, funerals,  and touchy movies. There are more                       ...

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Categories: wide open, change, family,
Form: Verse
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