Metaphor On The Rocks Poems

I was standing on the grounds of myself 
barefooted standing erected stance tall on top of the terrain
 I embrace His breath of life 
His...

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We sight them useless
       stones, boulders, rocks and pebbles
          ...

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Every summer Mother’s folks would take us to their cabin. ‘Twas neither big nor fancy. Had no furnace. No TV! 
The cistern pump beside the...

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Think outside the box
Shed your shackles, chains and locks
Break through all the rocks

Stones will drag you down
To the depths until you drown
An albatrossed clown

Free your...

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Stones I Have Known

I know that stone - scoured smooth beneath the tread
Of workers' feet too early out of bed.
It sparkled finely to my childish...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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On Jingxi River boatmen are very careful with big rocks found,
No news about boat-capsizing is heard all the year round. 
But in smooth rivers where...

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Rock that is fine,
Rock that is course.
Rocks to obtain,
Rocks of remorse.

Rocks of shame,
Rocks to release.
Rocks to reclaim,
Rocks  accumulate.

I carry these rocks everyday.
These rocks are...

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Even Rocks Can Cry



Even rocks wear away with time
and the demands of strength.  These
seemingly immoveable objects,
deflectors of life’s raging torrents,
sun warmed seats of contemplation,
bearers...

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