Rachel Marchand
...When the devil comes
For you
He will be in disguise
To take you by surprise
And free you from
God’s defenses
Trick the trust
You have in your senses
The devil he cheats
Wins your trust by de...
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Categories:
marchand, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Breath
...It is God’s will that I breathe.
I was a fatidic plan; thus, I
Breathe; But I never gave
Permission to do such. I
Was never given a choice.
How is it that I breathe! I burn
Frankincense...
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Categories:
marchand, timechild,
Form: I do not know?
God Is
...God is a vibration,
Confusion of man’s contemplation.
God is a vibration,
An angelic infusion unto redemption.
God is more than art;
More compelling than Sartre:
God is the universe made expl...
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Categories:
marchand, faith
Form: I do not know?
Want of Penelope
...I think with my atlatl,
My love; for I see thee
Within my psychic attic,
My love; for my heart
Has become an abstraction—
A Shakespearean metaphor—
I am infatuated, my love:
I feel so del...
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Categories:
marchand, angst
Form: I do not know?
Refuge From Athena
...Athena looked into my eyes,
The frigidity of her heart
Softened. Athena panic’d
Within innocence of my
Eyes. I couldn’t help but
Crumble at her feet. Athena
Burst into tears. We held
Eac...
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Categories:
marchand, lost love
Form: I do not know?
Ambivalent Existence
...I have lived as a shadow;
Destined for political battle.
I have lived as a shadow;
Searching unto death for identity.
I have lived in a cave.
I am more than an ex-slave.
I am spirit; I am a d...
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Categories:
marchand, black-african amer
Form: I do not know?
Growth and Fears
...I confess. I have come
to reckon death, as royalty.
To perish is to live. I
have learned to die freely.
Somewhere within a trance,
I came face to face with love.
She has devastated me unto l...
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Categories:
marchand, lifegod, god, me,
Form: I do not know?
Depth of a Woman's Love
...It is different than mother’s
Love; for it is Anitya; but it
Becomes concretized, once
Her psyche has fallen in love
With thee.
Mother was a woman of golden
Lightening; for she gave un...
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Categories:
marchand, lovewoman, love,
Form: I do not know?
Hushed To Silence
...Hushed to silence the city sleeps
The calming of hatred and angry eyes
In the plains of Heaven angels weep
For lives of untold lies
In which the city cries.
Tis the soul that warms the night
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Categories:
marchand, death, faith, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Quintain (English)