Hate River Poems

Where is my Moon river
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There are actual people
half woman half man
running mornings and
dream people in movies
half language half light.
Tomorrow is John’s funeral.

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This is my minute
my moment
Oops, gone!

Anything can happen
if...

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Every year, there’s a menorah
As a neighborhood display,
But when I walked past, I noticed
It was missing – what the hey?

So I went to check it...

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My joyfulness is a fountain, overflowing with delight
for the wondrous gifts I find in Nature, day and night

Colors of dawn and dusk fill my heart...

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I see in my dream, the red flowing river,
Red not from its source, but the shed blood of nations,
From Africa my motherland to Europe.

I hear...

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That is the jetted sky a forgotten eye a pirates patch when swords clashed everything that melted when the ice was frozen everyone everyone has...

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Drowning in our incubus sleep,
phantom enemies are devised.
Easy answers for night terrors.
Social purgatory for the stranger,
Our river Styx for the brown ones.

Our fortress must wall...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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As this river gives
Not giving a damn
Emptying the lake of hate
This ecosystem dies
But was it ever alive?
Surviving in my illusions
Confusions of my soul 
The depth...

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River of Hope

Winging on the winds of time are memories
that we can catch, pull ashore and fondly cogitate
In the river of remembrance, float our paper...

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The river flows like our lives do
From one point to the next
Whatever we do

The river flows until its dry
It’s time to spread the wings 
It’s...

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The River

Floating with the passion of ease,
We follow the river hoping to find peace.
For we know fighting the current, we'll drown.
Lost and not found.
With all...

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Touch the rising mist of cherry smiles
Herald cries of joyous miracles aflight,
Echo brisk allure of God’s spearing light
Cry in the bosom of Abraham’s seed
Refrain the...

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At the place, been the ruins imperial,
In the ominous midnight we`re lost-
Not belongings, but some immaterial.
Been so long, broken straight — it`s a trust.

Searing beams...

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Peace Like a river
I had a very clear vision in my mind today,
Of a river flowing and gently making it's way,
To the sea where all...

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