Love On The Ground Poems

When my mother discussed his story,
I was tragically shocked and enraged.
How could someone kill a teenager?
Assuming Yoshihiro was a trespasser?

An exchange student, a young teenager,
From...

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The Tapestry of Leaves
Michael R. Burch

Leaves unfold
as life is sold
or bartered, for a moment in the sun.

The interchange
of lives is strange:
what reason—life—when death leaves all...

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In the land of silvery mists, where dreams touch the ground,
A being-abyss struggles, wishing to rise in docile flight and facing a deep fear,
Striving to...

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in church congregate
our sins God did consummate
new life will be grrreat

when I cleaned up ground
it will look nice all around
being safe and sound

my house seems...

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She bursts into her room shattered,
For everyone else, she didn’t matter.
Giving them every love they deserved,
She derived every betrayal meant for her to be crumbled.
She...

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The shoreless avenue
Is the theological dogma,
Lingered in the deepest shaft. 

The prestige of the pure
Is the most honest conversation. 

These shall cover the hunger 
Of...

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"Ground Level Entry"

“She fits the bill”,
they say it 
insouciantly

visions of being 
carried in the beak 
of a bilious pelican 

where it builds
its rudimentary nest, 
it...

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I allowed a hand to
    pluck me from my garden...

Friends picked up my crushed petals
when they fell like tears to the ground
without...

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In skydiving, you jump out a plane from thousands of feet in the air 
Headed straight for the ground your only trust and savior is...

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I
awake,
to movement
up the stairway,
along the hallway,
stealthily to my door.
I cower, crouch down, hidden.
Then hear the bedroom door unlatch,
hold tight my breath through purs-ed lips.
I know...

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All within the taiga glade,
Their raiments gilt in comely shades,
The burgess shrives vagrant souls.
A garth of god for men alow.

Whereinto the roots may grow,
We wayfarers...

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We used to have the sturdiest of houses, 
standing alone atop the tallest mountain.
There were always earthquakes,
But they did not affect us so high up.
But...

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WE WERE DESIGNED TO GIVE
When we learn to really care
And truly want to share
We know that we have found
A safe and solid ground
Life will be...

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LOST AND FOUND
No way out of this mess
No way to peace in my mind
Wandering in a maze of distress
Not even looking behind

Joy had departed for...

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POSITIVE ATTITUDE
Be positive, my love, the future is near,
Don't let today's trouble cause you to fear.
This moment will pass so the next may appear.
Past gives...

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