Lyric Power Poems

Basic Training
Ft. Leonardwood Mo.
Combat Engineer Center
1961

The major difference I found between obedience,
and whitewashing a coal bin with a toothbrush.
While one was intent on dominating my...

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by Max Burchett

Hard to know
What is real now.
Who to believe,
Who will deceive.

This is truth
As I know it,
Yet I never say, my truth,
Since surely truth is...

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Why, oh why have we pushed them down,
The indigenous, our women, all of them.
Their voices are all lost,
And all to what cost?
How do we revive...

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Memories from 2020: 

TAKING BACK
Artist: Michelle Morris
Artist's Description
When we're let down by love and feel betrayed, we need to stand up and take back our...

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This Earth's a place we call our own
When we can stand with Her lands
And look within great loves we've known
For hope that we might share...

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Me: "Bing, the intended rhyme scheme for the poem below is ABABAB; and I made additional changes in line 9 of the poem in order...

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I am rising
By Michelle Morris
04/02/2021 

Rising...
    (Rising...)
Rising... Oh-oh... 
    (Rising... Yeah...)

I never liked your vicious games - 
The pain...

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Life is precious and powerful. Enjoy it.

Life's power will find a way
By Michelle Morris
06/01/2023

Everyone's afraid of losing control
But life cannot be controlled
It is wild and...

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[This is dedicated to the twelve people who identify as my bosses.]

I had twelve bosses — soon to be eleven 
They’ll be crunchin numbers in...

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Relics, relics sad and lone,
Cromwell's head and a single bone
that William the Conqueror left on earth
prove today of petty worth.
Oh that now those proud in...

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Are you ready to greet 
this new day, Dillen?

To get up off your 
couch-chilled feet,
to bring new warm meanings
to life lived without deadly restraint
embraced with...

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THIS LIFE!!!

It's a shame 
How the world's grown into a game 
Everyone playing to win at the expense of everyone 
Even if it will take...

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Please don't be mean to me
Don't shut me out.

Please be kind to me
Don't blame me
for all this pain about

Please give me a chance
to dance
to different...

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voice of power, voice of power 
Heavenly Father voice of Power
 Morning higher
 Hallelujah
 voice of power
 choice of humanity, God's strong tower
Chanting ...

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Please be mine or nobody,
your years won't be wasted
for loving me and having faith in me;
I have kissed you before anybody would...
please be mine or...

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