Your anonymous blog
...Your anonymous blog
To my face you are kindness itself:
cheerful, always upbeat,
but in your anonymous blog
you rip me apart.
You press your thumb and forefinger on each side,
hold, pull ...
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Categories:
rend, anxiety, bullying, conflict, hate,
Form: Free verse
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited
...Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited
Upteenth instance where yours truly
experienced assault upon hindquarters.
A worse hellish fate than perdition
and the closest in...
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Categories:
rend, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Everything Has an End
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Everything has an END
The time I spEND
And sentiments I intEND
With my family and friENDS
But not with Jesus
Everything has an END
The breath I expEND
Trying to drive a point to its END
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Categories:
rend, jesus, philosophy, religion,
Form: Tail-rhyme
December 3, 2000
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To my complacent Ms. Crane
I am at odds my love, your comely visage has my heart rend. I struggle somewhere betwixt carnality and a fervent want of your attention. Oh! Ms. Crane, I do so labor...
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Categories:
rend, girlfriend, heartbreak, i miss
Form: Prose
Today's leaders
...From ashes of pain, true leaders rise,
Forged in struggle’s unyielding cries.
Yet now, from gilded thrones of greed,
False prophets spawn, with lies they breed.
They weave deceit, a cunning art,
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Categories:
rend, corruption, political,
Form: Free verse
Freedom Country
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I’m not speaking someone’s words
I don’t do somebody’s actions
Neither the Commons, nor the Lords
Represent my interactions
Journalists can rend the air
Formulating rather bluntly
What I a...
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Categories:
rend, irony, political,
Form: Rhyme
frost-byed
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a chill ...
not on skin - to marrow
if but for the frigid air
a horrid pattern would trace my cheek
though not nearly as horrid
as the one that faces me upon the glass
it is quite beautiful...
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Categories:
rend, analogy, break up, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
King Alfred the Great modern English translations by Michael R Burch
...KING ALFRED THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
King Alfred the Great (circa 849-899) was the first English king to be a notable scholar, poet and translator. Alfred has been credited with trans...
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Categories:
rend, earth, rose, song, stars,
Form: Free verse
Heaven’s Reflection
...In the city’s glow, where shadows meld,
And the hum of life endlessly swelled,
Lies a truth that no screen can show,
A place within where answers flow.
Even when clouds of doubt descend,
And t...
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Categories:
rend, hope, humanity, inspiration, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Qliphoth
...Through twilight veils, where echoes rise/
The hollow spheres in shadow thrive/
Unholy husks, where echoes moan/
A broken mirror, void and throne/
1) Thaumiel: Twin God's Divide
A realm where ...
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Categories:
rend, corruption, courage, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Prism of the Left Eye
...Twin eyes, twin perspectives
Pick your poison; they're both too hard to explain
The cloudy sphere raining down once again
While it's earthen brother quakes uncontrollably
Ten years passed as te...
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Categories:
rend, age, memory, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Spring's Abysmal Guile
...Spring’s Abysmal Guile
By Sy Roth
A vapor rises, rank as the charnel pit,
a corruption of a miasma vast,
as though some sepulcher, long sealed,
split its stony jaws to breathe.
Vile exhalatio...
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Categories:
rend, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'
...The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
Ascend with me, my American love!
Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together!
The Urubamba’s torren...
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Categories:
rend, america, earth, kiss, life,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts of a Border Collie While Pondering a Bone
...Thoughts of a Border Collie While
Pondering a Bone
Mine, mine, mine, I think
as I drip drool on the floor.
Bloody meat clings
tenaciously to the hard bone.
White fat, like veins of gold,
mar...
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Categories:
rend, dog, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Poison
...I threw the dice, wishing for it to land on the vertically,
I spoke complaints, hoping people understood it correctly.
My words are sharp like a sword, only my weapon in hand,
I cannot rest,...
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Categories:
rend, corruption,
Form: Free verse
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