JERICHO AWAKENING
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JERICHO AWAKENING
Deception has always been
A strategy and ally of injustice;
Veiling its ruthless deeds,
And shifting attention
From aged-old atrocities,
While living and percolating
Behi...
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Categories:
percolating, allegory, america, corruption, encouraging,
Form: Prose
I Breathe You In: 200
...As the ethereal guitar mesmerises
My soul responds
As if I dipped into a melodic bath
Of perfectly curated
Lovingly tempered
Heart massaging
Candle flickering
Water
A fragrant tune invad...
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Categories:
percolating, blessing, dream, guitar, happy,
Form: Free verse
Eruptions
...It's percolating from below.
If lava ain't allowed to flow,
you'll see something more abrupt.
One day, it must erupt.
A pompous, boring oration
continuing without cessation -
trying to liste...
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Categories:
percolating, humanity, psychological, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Rumors
...Rumors can be fascinating,
hearing about others speculating,
wondering what is percolating
seemingly out of the blue.
I always find it fascinating
and, to be honest, kinda hair-raising,
to he...
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Categories:
percolating, anxiety, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Wouldn't life be grand
...I wish I were a fancy artsy
living off my creative exploits.
I'd wish to mingle with its class,
commune with the type of people
who live and breathe for art.
I'd wake up every morning
perc...
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Categories:
percolating, appreciation, art, color, creation,
Form: Free verse
Sunrise and Sunset Routines
...Breaking up the day into coffee and cabernet,
energy and relaxation, sunrise and sunset routines.
—by poet
Sunrise coffee, percolating,
poured into four seasons.
As soon as the mug’s ...
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Categories:
percolating, day, night,
Form: Free verse
JERICHO AWAKENING
...Deception has always been
A strategy and ally of injustice;
Veiling its ruthless deeds,
And shifting attention
From aged-old atrocities,
While living and percolating
Behind invisible Jericho wa...
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Categories:
percolating, allegory, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Prose
Banned Book Club VII- 1984
...Midtone grey surrounds what’s left of a man’s soul
Scenes of biblical abominations troll
Inky are the hellish horizons appalled
An okay is needed for anything at all
Manipulating truth determin...
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Categories:
percolating, anxiety, books,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Zen mode
...flickers in space reveal
God’s light percolating through its pores
we should be wonderstruck but are not
signalling that orientation
is now empty of all concepts
as also nonchalant to revelatio...
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Categories:
percolating, space, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Spatter Riot
...Spatter Riot
Percolating slowly through the thin orange sheep skin,
The poison of chaos oozes through widening pores,
Bringing to boil the spattering seed of evil.
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Categories:
percolating, bereavement, violence,
Form: Free verse
The grown Dove searches for mud
...The grown Dove searches for mud
to disparage its mother
who granted them this pure white.
Lord endow me with divine purpose,
help dry this dirt on the earth
a brown ocean, swelling, percolating....
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Categories:
percolating, 12th grade, creation,
Form: Free verse
Cryptic Christmas Carol
...'Twas the night before death...:
All sleeping...who will breathe their final breath?
Cryptic creatures climb throughout the homes
searching for souls that shall seep away from their bones.
Music,...
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Categories:
percolating, adventure, blessing, fire, journey,
Form: Narrative
Epigrams V
...Epigrams V
Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars
applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry?
—Michael R. Burch
Teach me to love:
to fly beyond sterile Mars
to percolating Venus.
—Mic...
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Categories:
percolating, irony, jealousy, judgement, life,
Form: Epigram
Yearn
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Written: April 15, 2024, For Constance La France Y words Contest
Rumi Quote: "Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Y...
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Categories:
percolating, analogy, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
What The Roses Don't Say
...What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch
Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...
They sway, bem...
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Categories:
percolating, angst, fear, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
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