My Pen Is Weeping Blood
...My pen is mourning the agonies and the sufferings
Of my people, who are drowning in the sea of misery.
My keyboard' strokes are shadowing the slow rhythms
Of the wandering beggar, who's...
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Categories:
meagerly, abuse, baby, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Alphabet Soup
...Alphabet soup
. for public domain
A freshly polished silver spoon easily whirls
warm pasta letters in a China bowl,
while Poetry struggles meagerly
to stir his spirit, enrich his soul.
He...
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Categories:
meagerly, age, old,
Form: Free verse
The Spaces Between
...No Particle Theory can ever be Unified –
for there is always the space between...the
unknown that separates while binds us
in a matrix of primitive wonder. Dark
Matter is only dark to those accu...
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Categories:
meagerly, creation, imagination, inspiration, light,
Form: Free verse
Stay, Oh Glory
...stay, oh glory —
dwindling at night,
stay — and go,
as such does the light.
the silence within, the deafening talk,
all meagerly wait as you two come forth.
your mind and your soul, unite...
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Categories:
meagerly, fate, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
Even the Good Will Be Judged
...Even good persons will be judged for their character
for not having done enough when they could have,
ah, the judgment of the condemned will be harsher;
some believe it's a bluff, and they contin...
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Categories:
meagerly, appreciation, blessing, character, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Even the Good Will Be Judged
...Even good persons will be judged for their character,
for not having done enough when they could have;
ah, the judgment of the condemned will be harsher...
some believe it's a bluff, and they con...
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Categories:
meagerly, appreciation, blessing, character, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Swoon Song
...Swoon Song
by Michael R. Burch
In this ordinary swoon
as I pass from life to death,
I feel no heat from the cold, pale moon;
I feel no sympathy for breath.
Who I am and why I came,
I do no...
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Categories:
meagerly, absence, anxiety, bereavement, death,
Form: Verse
Ali's Song
...Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their me...
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Categories:
meagerly, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination,
Form: Verse
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
...Two sons had equal
shares, younger squandered and lived
a lowly life, he returned
and begged forgiveness
father rejoiced with a feast
asked irked eldest, discernment
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Categories:
meagerly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sedoka
Titles Are For Reference Purposes Only
...Content in my reason, I indulge my future distress
Feckless friends and fiends lie...together
Our homemade misery surmounts
Indeed, we do have a habit of making habits
This Intention for conten...
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Categories:
meagerly, addiction, allegory, depression, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Oh No Mister Bill Not Another Car Repair
...Oh No Mister Bill! Not Another Car Repair!
Aside from vehicular insurance, you
must be aware another
reason car ownership
finds me being privy
to possessing Hyundai Sonata (2009)
title purpos...
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Categories:
meagerly, angst, break up, father,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Chasing Hopes
...And who am I?
Am just another man with another name
With dreams bigger than his height
Hopping for the best
Trying harder to keep the faith
But fire rains on him
The man who prays for refuge
C...
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Categories:
meagerly, depression, desire, humanity,
Form: ABC
Early Blossoms
...All England, blinking nervously, is out!
A little mild spell, much to our surprise,
has brightened frowsy February skies.
We sniff the air with nostrils schooled in doubt.
Baffled by balm, ...
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Categories:
meagerly, romantic,
Form: Sonnet
Hiding In Summer Nights
...My air conditioner goans
In the noon day summer’s heat
While unseen… except to me
I watch winter running about
Seeking shelter
In the far shady left corner
Of my meagerly furnished living...
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Categories:
meagerly, change, summer, winter,
Form: Prose
Encouragement and Growth After Self Cleansing
...okay i have taken the bumpy road journey
i have paid for my bad and wrong everything and then some
i have watched, heard, and listened to other peoples' excitement
now it is my turn to feel the br...
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Categories:
meagerly, growing up, growth, how
Form: Free verse
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