Sickle Sang - When my Life Changed
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Written: August 15, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: "Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not wo...
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Categories:
renounce, analogy, change,
Form: Free verse
Renunciation
...Look at body-mind as a car we drive,
from which upon death we will disembark,
so we renounce goals for which we did strive,
sailing in the void on an upward arc.
This world is a dream, so it’s ...
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Categories:
renounce, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Eclectic Notions On A Sunbeam
...Eclectic Notions on A Sunbeam
I cannot see inside your mind unless it’s telescopic
On bended knee it rains sublime with the next contentious topic
I’m rendered please into decline as I am inc...
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Categories:
renounce, life,
Form: Rhyme
Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare
...Harried Harris heir still feels horrid courtesy heist he doth declare...
Earlier this merry month of May
a goniff who possibly did gossip
about his/her surreptitious exploits
when he/she brazen...
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Categories:
renounce, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Offspring Of The Floating Potheads
...They inhale the poisonous substance,
adduction had no power over resistance;
their brain's responsiveness is too slow:
look at them: their glance is so mellow!
This is the offspring of the floa...
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Categories:
renounce, addiction, culture, drug, family,
Form: Rhyme
Sing broken beyond mankind ii
... When the river failed I was asleep and the birds breaking to air made no sound
because I speak
IN
T oppressors tongue
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Categories:
renounce, america, nature, political,
Form: Free verse
The Preemptive No
...Before you ask
The answer is no
I will never surrender courage
For a place of defeat and storage
I will not abandon faith
For a worthless attachment to an uncertain estate
I refuse ...
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Categories:
renounce, allegory, betrayal, perspective, pride,
Form: Rhyme
SO THAT WE DO NOT GET LOST
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We must never renounce
the dignity of being...
So that we do not fall
into the hasty,
cunning nonconformity of non-belief...
Let us reach the chimera of dreams,
even leaving...
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Categories:
renounce, allusion, analogy, blessing, extended
Form: Prose Poetry
Trump verses and other mild curses
...All for the price of a dozen eggs,
America stands on shaky legs.
Globally, the claim is heard ~
"The US ~ laughingstock of the world,"
as daily, we star in our very own theater of ...
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Categories:
renounce, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Spur of the Moment
...When you plan something spur of the moment,
At first you feel proud and in charge,
But the longer you think,
It will end in a blink;
Then the doubts stumble in and loom large.
I need time to m...
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Categories:
renounce, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Stillness in The Storm
...Stillness in the Storm
It isn't too far from a conceivable image,
To perceive the vast and forgotten knowledge;
What was and still is a, yet-lost tho recoverable innate and
usable norm,
We h...
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Categories:
renounce, extended metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
Perhaps primordial humans have fewer illusions to shed, fewer chains to break
...Perhaps primordial humans have fewer illusions to shed, fewer chains to break,
While we, in the labyrinth of modernity, drown in waves of deceptive teachings,
A soul must be ready to let go of ever...
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Categories:
renounce, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Better not to search too deep in the shadows that envelop us in the quest for another realm
...Better not to search too deep in the shadows that envelop us in the quest for another realm,
For the panacea offered by illusions and promises remains just a dream of escape,
Anesthetizing us in fo...
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Categories:
renounce, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Gunter Grass 'What Must Be Said' translation
...“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”)
by Gunter Grass
translation by Michael R. Burch
Why have I remained silent, so long,
failing to mention something openly practiced
in war games w...
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Categories:
renounce, international, islamic, jewish, silence,
Form: Free verse
O Mighty One
...Why must disobedience always prevail
in our present days of perfection and self-greed?
Why can't we bow our heads above abhorrent Hell,
admire creation and discard false creed?
O Mighty one, er...
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Categories:
renounce, emotions, fear, forgiveness, future,
Form: Rhyme
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