It Is To Be
...the choir chimed in
a chorus of rebuke
or stones we'd hurl
abusing the adulteress's skin
shoot your pocket rocks
passing judgment comes down
like diluvial rains splashing
gory-red upon yo...
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Categories:
purists, faith, fate, hope, jesus,
Form: List
Newport 1965
...Newport 1965
(Or Dylan Goes Electric)
This was the dream concert
folk was at its peak
Pete Seeger, Joan Baez,
Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary
Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash,
Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and...
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Categories:
purists, music,
Form: Free verse
Not of Flowers or Fashion
...
Tonight I write not of flowers or fashion
Instead, I write of dreams and passions
Prithee, poetry purists, please forgive me
~ Not to pretend such potency I cannot see
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Categories:
purists, dream, passion, poetry,
Form: Couplet
CONTRARY
...CONTRARY
A poem personified, it could be me
Yet to embrace analysis, I am averse
Words should flow at their own pace
Precise syllable counts are a disgrace
And a volta can be an empty purse
S...
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Categories:
purists, poetry,
Form: Verse
Doing the Dogg
...Doggerels, *raunchy rhyme*
Are what purists call crap.
But who has the time
To listen to those sap?
We Doggerelists,
Rhymers unstable,
Are going to persist,
Whenever able....
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Categories:
purists, art, humorous, literature, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Leeza
...(Leeza, my roommate Lisa’s little sister, was off-tha-hook earlier this summer)
thirteen
peach flesh
fabuk buster
nu-metal priss
sexless breasts
bitten fingernails
dirty babyskin fe...
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Categories:
purists, emo, growing up, humor,
Form: Free verse
Where Nights Reign Sans Dawn
...My love of nature began
With an awe-struck scan
Of skies, how starry strings pan
Out to yon of yon,
Nights where reign and there’s no dawn.
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Tanka |03.06.2021...
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Categories:
purists, nature, sky, stars,
Form: Tanka
Ode On Old Virtues Ii
...Let me not play tuneless in today's time,
Some purists sure get praised as Gandhian,
Yet, crass nevertheless is no more crime,
Old values are hailed may be in heaven.
Whilst weighing values for...
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Categories:
purists, life, truth,
Form: Ode
Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of John Keats's ''On the Sonnet''
...“On the Sonnet”
by John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be const...
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Categories:
purists, england, fate, literature, muse,
Form: Prose
Prophecy: Listen
...Listen
by Immanuel A. Michael (an alias of Michael R. Burch)
1.
Listen to me now
and heed my voice;
I am a madman, alone,
screaming in the wilderness,
but listen now.
Listen to me now, an...
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Categories:
purists, america, god, judgement, rose,
Form: Verse
The Most Wonderfullest
...My brain is one of the most wonderfullest
Don't like to brag but gonna open it to tourists
So they can observe
How I manipulate words
Which will surely bamboozle literary purists...
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Categories:
purists, allusion,
Form: Limerick
Let's Do Better This Year
...What’s going on these days~
Is the world flip flopping on its side?
It’s the fashion of the day
To declare how we’re offended
No matter what was said
Or what we imagine was intended
We’ll put a...
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Categories:
purists, anxiety, christmas, holiday, hope,
Form: Free verse
In Dark of Night
...Unending strip of ebony darkness
lying lost unseen under moonless black sky
it’s beginning and end upon the land
lost in black shadows cannot be seen
deeper darkness moves within
flowing sm...
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Categories:
purists, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 44 'Nobody Wants a Well, When There Is Sadness'
...Nobody wants a well, when there is sadness...
A few drops are enough, to bring on rain!
The world is full, of sorrow, and of madness!
Nobody needs the bottom of the drain...
The purists count emP...
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Categories:
purists, appreciation, humor, hyperbole, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Honest
...
I don't fight for the rules. Fools fight
For the right to use tools. Cool nights
Might cause fright for ghouls. Jewel light
Gives us reason for fuels. Cruel sprites
Shed light on shimmering...
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Categories:
purists, america, how i feel,
Form: Haibun
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