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JESSICA DAWN NWAD ACISSEJ

...JESSICA DAWN NWAD ACISSEJ

Jesting with shadows, A twin's eerie grin,
Echos of laughter where the black cat has been.
Skeletons waltz by the dim candlelight,
Sister, you are the one who loves th...

The Weight of Elsewhere 'Part Three'

...To: The Country of Absence  
Date: January 8th, 2025  
Subject: Application for Residence  
Focus: Tentative hope

Dear Canada,

Here, in your vast territories of snow and possibility,
I draw...

I Just Don't Know Anymore

...
The stars once whispered secrets in the dark,
Now silence hangs like frost upon the trees—
No tender sign, no ever-burning spark,
Just shadows drifting over cold distant seas.

I held a truth ...

Learn Your Place In Society

...Prosperity proved no defense against the years or changing fates writ in the stars - nor masters of arms foresaw the weapons that unseated their lineages, leaving only ghostly bones where legions ral...

Dirt Road

...We built this house
On a dirt road at the edge of the forest
And between two coyotes dens
So it’s hard to know if the howling at night
Is sibling rivalry or civil war
Serenade or sacrifice

Th...

Dandelion Woman

...Oh look here— behold a dandelion woman
the original wild flower!
I go where I want to go
I grow where I want to grow —
don't matter if   y o u   say no

dandelion wine summertime
relax and rec...

She stereotypes all Men

...Her disappointment
Has outlasted her a lifetime
She now hates all men
Because of one awful man
Stereotyping sadness
...

The Secret of Survivors

...No other people has endured the constant persecution
     3,330 years of constant suffering
   From the Egyptian Pharaohs' enslavement and buffeting
     down through 20th and 21st century executi...

Mods Won

...I really like pretending
Especially at night
Then I can pretend
That I lead a different life
But when I am awake
I play Elder Scrolls 5
And distraction that it brings me
Makes everything alrig...

A Picture That Has Outlasted Time

...A picture that has outlasted time
allows memory to remain sublime;
wide smiles on sun-tanned faces,
bare feet on warm sand dunes!

The windless and gleaming sea 
seemed vaster than the greenest...

The Ruin In a Modern English Translation

...THE RUIN 
an Old English poem about fate & destiny
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

well-hewn was this wall-stone, till Wyrdes wrecked it
and the Colossus sagged in...

Spouse Sets Obstacle Course Endangering My Life and Limb

...While sidestepping impediments,
Achilles heel stricken with paralyzing zap
chronically inducing captain klutz
to bemoan and yap,
i.e. (think) booby trap
strategically laid down by the missus -
...

Lost In the Mists, Parts I-Iv

...Lost In the Mists Parts I - IV

                                               I.

I ask these things, not understanding 
Accepting
The ephemera of answers:

How is it we come to be together
...

Pushkin Translation: I Loved You

...I Loved You
by Alexander Pushkin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
I loved you once … perhaps I love you still …
perhaps such erratic flickerings remain.
But please don’...

I Surrender

...I surrender,
I have fought the good fight,
I have outlasted most,
In the fight that is seemingly lost.

I will leave the battlefield.
To spend more time with my grandson,
So one day in the fut...

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