History Relationship Poems

I stand with a treasure map,
no X to mark the spot.
A scattering of clues,
roadmaps of endless dots.

Your name is on an envelope,
surely that’s proof enough?
But...

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Biographies of different kinds,
Orwell with Atwood, intertwined,
Old books, new books, a thousand rhymes,
Keeping their words, holding those lines,
Singing caged birds, sit whistling chimes,
Histories, mysteries, marking...

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you want the commitment,
you want to be loved -
though, you need to know me,
in order for this to work out.

i need to be free,
to not...

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beak
of the plague mask
    lest I smell
your rotting bodies
    strewn
I smell your crosses
  daub your doors
I smell your...

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Inspired by, and adapted to, the classic Jane Austen novel, "Pride and Prejudice". 

Pride and Prejudice 
By Michelle Morris
04/03/2021 

Why won't you let me in?
Why...

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In your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...

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At the dawn of our relationship, I believed in unaltered sincerity,  
When skeptical voices foretold the end, I found stars of hope in my...

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we stood
were well

you pushed 
I fell

they came
I hid

she ran
I did

they chased
I stopped

she turned
I dropped

they shot
I died

she fled
I sighed

they went
her too

I died 
for you

.. I died
.....

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Relationships,
like resonance,
feel sacred to me
in a way that individual things,
like trucks
and guns
do not
survive long
without significant depreciation

Despite impressive commercial value
when first assembled.

Feelings seem organic
to neurosystemic me
in...

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it was a day
not unlike this one
when an archaeologist
… sore knees
… paint brush
… Friday fingernails
held my earthen skull
in his hands
and spared me a thought
his dirt-stained...

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The US and Japan
    How did that end
  Once sworn enemies
    Now fairly friends  

  Russia...

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Enjoy your weekend and my new lyrics, inspired by a dramatic love story. 

We have history
By Michelle Morris
08/09/2023

When I'm lying in my bed alone
And I...

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"All a man really wants, is a girl who looks good in a bikini." - Jack Freestone

New Jersey feminists burnt bras to send swimsuit pageants...

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Words in the Wind

By Mark D. Stucky
Winds carried away the words
that Jesus, the Word made flesh,
wrote in the dust,
while sitting near a trembling woman,
who was...

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Whispers of the wind mid swaying trees
Tell the story from so long ago
"The silent song of the sighing breeze"
Enthralls those who listen to its flow...

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