Fear Prose Poems

Villanelle
by Michael R. Burch

Is poetry mere turning of a phrase?
Has prose become its height and depth and sum?
What happened to the songs of yesterdays?

Does prose...

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When the words don’t lure me with their muse,
Desire to pour out hopes, dreams, light that bleeds,
Wetting the beauty of my heart’s best seeds,
Emptying the...

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For I know the plans that I have for you,"declares the Lord," plans to prosper you
and not to harm you, plans to give you hope...

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It was 2019 when someone accused me of being in denial of the privileges I had as a white man.  At the time I...

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Life Through the Spirit continued

The mind of a sinful man is death, but a life yielded to the Spirit is life and 
peace; the sinful...

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"Submit yourselves, than to God.  Resist the devil and he will flee [leave] from
you, "James 4:7. "Come near to God and he will come...

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When darkness descends upon an object,
it does not actually change that object.
It alters our view of that object, rendering
limitations of our relationship to its reality.

Therefore,...

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Do it with all of your being
What!?
Upward "movement"
As you have grown,
 to now from childhood.
Look at the sky
See the heaven
Fly high
With your free will and...

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Does doubt enter our minds 
only when we are 
unsure about something
when we think about something
see something
hear something 
or are told something 
that gives us...

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For the accuser of our brothers  [Satan], who accuses them before our God
day and night has been hurled down [to the earth].  They...

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* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once...

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Where does rage reside
when not in use
does it have its own little hidey-hole
like a fish in a coral-reef 
tucked away somewhere deep inside us
or is...

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It’s there in the darkest corner of his room 
there where he takes off his shoes and socks and just leaves them
the place that his...

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The new year found me alone at a deserted roadside,
not knowing where to go but thumbing for a ride.
The signposts displayed 2023 South and 2024...

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Many Biblical scholars, modern day's prophets and those who are having
dreams/and or visions--seem to have one common thread.  Referring backwards
into ancient Biblical Old Testament...

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