Women Rose Poems

When I became nominated for ’Fabulous Over 40’ for the National Breast Cancer Foundation campaign, I became passionate as I campaigned for votes and donations....

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I listened to leaves rustling the other day; talking in a dialect of tree
As I lived in a waking dream; that evening, their words became...

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Powerfully building inertia, runs a silver metallic flow of positive thoughts as I sleep
Omni-rivers of mercury heavily weld my mind, repairing lifetimes of weighted hurts...

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{August is Woman’s Month in South Africa. August 9th is Woman’s Day. August 8th is an opening of the Lion’s Portal to Cosmic Strength. This...

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Do not produce children
telepathic hypochondriac...
don't transform girls
  in symptomatic blind
don't do women
changed functions
think of the wounds
Like splenic roses
But oh don't forget
the rose of the...

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Petite sweet deception-free promises
Blurred the air
Trusting hope
Deep deliberate ingestion of my own fantasy
The air was cool and refreshing
But exhaling nothing but warm beer and salsa
I...

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Hail Mary
Full of Grace
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou among women
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb
Jesus
Holy Mary Mother of God
Pray for our...

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Hospital visit

I sit in the waiting room there are no magazines
to read anymore, everybody has mobile phones look
at photos of themselves and friends.
 I drink...

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Women in my family…

Silence the darkness, the doubt
With smiles, like buds flaring out into petals
Vibrant, dancing in shimmering whispers
Like stars who kiss the night, reflecting
Hope...

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Miss Gladys befriended me at church
Invited me to her house for rose tea
Her table was exquisitely set with lace and doilies
Embroidered napkins, and beautiful flowers
She...

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In Verona, his hand’s steady and grand.
Grateful eyes - he sees the gold in her.
With pomp regret, dear Mary’s knees, like sand.
The dynamite of God...

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Trust is a rose
to be offered to the courted woman...
The sage offers a wise woman,
But fools offer the smart women...
The fake ones offer the faithful...

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Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.



Brut (circa 1100...

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Life was never boring,
Selling roses from my shop,
You were invited to visit and
You’d learn men’s secret affections.

The first to arrive was the usual fare
A well-built...

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On the side of the road to the Small Mission
Of Nuestra Senora del Los Milagros
A white rose stands under the shadow to peace all divisions
Protected...

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