Depression Natural Disasters Poems

that dark place had returned although 
I tried to conceal it but there it was again 
it had been years through medication therapy 
mass singing...

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In the land of the inherently interesting,
I sit above and watch the vastness of this divine story.

Where spirits live in moving clay,
and the clouds above...

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Dan, 

Dan is the man that tells all. 
He lets us know the world, 
is upside down, and turned around. 
He lets us know it...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Poems about the Coronavirus II


This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless...

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How dare you show up 
unannounced
Changing the way I live
my best life
Coming all up and thru here
confining me inside the prison
of my own insanity
I want...

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I could care less about 
getting a haircut or 
finding hair color to 
dye my nappy roots
So what my nails need
a fill and my feet...

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Suck  ups,  breathe deep
Unfortunate  clamor for  relief
Old  folks  kept  for long term storage
Wild  masses  forage ...

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Locked up, on lockdown.
Doctors on board,
Polices on roads.
Fighting against,brute devil.
Think about the future,
Vanishing wonders of science.
Inevitable truth of life
So! Where are those people,
Who thinks to...

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Update of "A Litany in Time of Plague" 
by Michael R. Burch

THE PLAGUE has come again
To darken lives of men
and women, girls and boys;
Death proves...

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Whispers and innuendo, 
 Partisan politics tearing us apart,
Grandstanding and deflection,
Are we not placing the horse before the cart?

A divisive President
This much we all agree,
But...

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Loneliness:
https://youtu.be/ZkwaiIGoyT4
There is Lonliness everywhere. 
My fate, I have faced failure on the road of my real love content.My dreams are broken,there is a disappointment all...

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On this bed of roses my teardrops fall, 
As clouds begin to darken in the sky, 
And vines have grown across the garden’s wall.

A bird...

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See that vessel back there
Just claimed by the storm
The whole crew is expired
Some had not yet been born
There’s no sense parsing gestures
Or mincing words this...

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Natural Disaster

You have the compassion of a blizzard and the patience of an avalanche
Your derision trickles like a monsoon.
You drown me in disdain.
Flooded by your...

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