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he broke me

(A throw-back piece, a breakup poem from high school)

What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure I must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark.

Earlier, at school...

It was a clear spelling out, like steel cuts thru fruit.

As he spoke, he looked down and away, his gorgeous face blank and indifferent, as

Categories: shocks, boyfriend, break up, lost
Form: Free verse

Money Does Not Bring

Money does not bring true happiness,
This does not exist. Money releases and smoothes
The daily burdens and responsibilities;
It is a relief that diminishes the worries.

Being healthy is the ultimate state of happiness;
Being wealthy is the hollow state of happiness.
The concerns of securities show-up on the screen,
Attack the consciousness, and destroy the spleen.

The fear of death makes

Categories: shocks, abuse, addiction, emotions, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

corn shocks

harvest has ended 
corn shocks made by Amish stand 
lining empty fields

Categories: shocks, art,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Aisle of Shocks

reflecting what ceases
a season from fully blooming.
Spring ‘21 was set to boost,
but mom died and I couldn’t 
take those walks, except
down the aisle of shocks.
Autumn ‘22 brings covid
not a rousing stroll, indoors.
I have invited Autumn in.
     H o p e -    a door.

9/24/2022

Categories: shocks, angst, seasons,
Form: Free verse

Among the Greatest of Shocks

Among the greatest of shocks
What some never from birth
Recover from. Life itself!
Living's for lack of mirth.

This one has all the symptoms.
Who cant abide in each;
Love's worthiness, their person.
Their world, as out of reach.

Categories: shocks, pain,
Form: Rhyme

No More Earthquaks Or Shocks In Love

Sans further passion
    .. of strong earthquakes in my chest ...
      soft love full  action ...

Categories: shocks, allusion, love, metaphor, passion,
Form: Haiku

After Shocks - Revised

It's after the 'landslide?' Thieves stole the election!
This traitorous scum bag's a Russian invention,
But 'Charmin' (1) for Putin (that's on a good day!)
For the dark side of Trump's just black art on display!

Who’s sure what this Russian prick knows that we don't know?
His strength, the weak worship, on knees (that's 'for damn sho!'),
So sad (though

Categories: shocks, hilarious, political,
Form: Rhyme

The Wonder Boys

The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
 
(for Leslie Mellichamp, the late editor of The Lyric,
who was a friend and mentor to many poets, and
a fine poet in his own right)
 
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites?amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true .

Categories: shocks, magic, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet

The Funeral Dream Shocks a Vision

Sleeping in the bones of humanity
A fear snarls complications and apathy
As humid poverty dies ingesting vices 
While tossing dice into the digital
Scream as surrealistic executions
Rifle through old files yellowed
The answer is never bound but held
Loosely by iron-hands of iron-men
As women wearing polite lies ring bells 
Applauding ejaculations from hell

At once a sickness ferments lock-jaw
Gnashing us

Categories: shocks, dark, deep, imagination, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Shocks of Electrifying Emotion

There is a magnetic field
That is keeping my love sealed
A force so strong it is intense
Just like and electric fence
That shocks me each time we touch
But I just can't get enough
Of this static overflow
I am just about to blow
And release a shock so large
The amount of my discharge
Will send waves of love right through
The core,

Categories: shocks, love, romantic, , cute,
Form: Rhyme

The After-Shocks

As I closed my eyes to sleep
I dreamt of that trench stinky and deep
That lovely place they called Da Nang
That I now recall with a terrible pang
The war had to be fought they said
I signed the slip and sped
As I lay bleeding in that hole
Men beside me broken and never would be whole
Mortars hitting hard

Categories: shocks, warwar, me, war,
Form: Rhyme

Charles Darwin Shocks the World

Charles Darwin Shocks the World

By Elton Camp

Darwin’s father made it plain as could be.
“When you grow up, go into the ministry.
That’s an occupation respectable enough.
The schooling it requires isn’t very tough.”

A respectful son, he tried hard to obey,
But learned he didn’t believe that way.
Some church doctrine he couldn’t accept.
Of reason and common sense it was

Categories: shocks, historylife, life,
Form: Rhyme