Short Scoffers Poems

Follow fast though these streets of the dark unforgiven
Where street lights shall lead without resistance nor trouble
This marching accord dodging scoffers least shadows
Where the scorned for their truth 
lie unjustly ridiculed 



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I do not know if been a wall 
makes me less important?
All the walls around me are cracking
Scoffers questioned my stand
But i know she will be happy to 
have me as a wall
My uncrack wall is my pride
And a treasure to whom my 
hallowness shall be defile


awoh awoh...

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It was a love or hate her ,state of affairs!
Other's praised her works,but some groaned 
 over her controversial policies!
As it was,the funeral inspired many scoffers,
if few sympathetic mourners!
But,where I come from we do not despise the dead!
Whether they led a good or bad life story!

chipepo lwele...

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Those scoffers 
    who do not 
believe 
         utopia is
possible 
      are dead wrong 
One day we will see shining lights 
and golden sparkling cities 
   Clear, beautiful air 
     and sweet songs in the air 
    which will cut deep 
     into the heart 
          Perhaps, just perhaps 
you can feel this in your heart 
     if you let go of your darkest fears 
and turn your eyes onto the future...

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I sit here in my home on the Lower East Side
Awaiting the High Holidays
The years have come and gone 
and they have not always been easy for me
Believe  me - I am not the best Jew in the world
But I do attend on the most sacred of days
I write poetry on various topics - including Middle Earth
Bur scoffers non withstanding 
I will pray to the creator and I will continue to love 
our lovely blue orb...

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Precipice
by Michael R. Burch

(for Jeremy) 

They will teach you to scoff at love
from the highest, windiest precipice of reason.

Do not believe them.

There is no place safe for you to fall
save into the arms of love.

Keywords/Tags: father, son, love, true love, fall, falling, falling in love, scoff, scoffers, heights, precipice, arms, touch, emotion, emotions, relationship, relationships, girlfriend, women...

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The masterwork of Cabbala is the Zohar 
I took a glance at it today 
in the mystical bookstore near me -  Namaste 
What I read about was the importance of the Sabbath
I usually attend services Friday night at the Reform temple near me 
The presence of God can be found 
if you open your heart to it
The scoffers non withstanding 
the Sabbath brings peace and healing 
and is something to look forward to 
after the week's toil...

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I hear voices in the night
Calling, calling from distant shores
Winter winds cool my body and awaken 
my inner spirit
I cannot put these feelings into rhyme
But after a brief glimpse 
of my inner space 
Let scoffers beware!
There will come a time when they 
shall be exposed 
as I view the winds 
which will blow away sorrow 
as they have in the past
and as they will in the future 
Distant shores are reaching out to us 
and we must respond!...

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Poetry's a tough business, you know
   Each new poem reinvents the wheel
   Staring at a blank page takes nerves of steel
'Rest on your laurels?' -- You'll have nothing to show

I've heard that writing poems is an escape
   But why flee something easy to do
   Like nuclear physics or perfecting Kung Fu
Let the scoffers try to get into 'poetry shape'

As for me, I'm off for a round of pre-poetry drills
   ~ So my pen is primed to deliver thrills and chills!...

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Downwind 
a dream like apparition 
appears
  Glowing like a lightning bug 
He illuminates the night 
He has the power
to change lives 
If you are open to his 
particular version of the world
Then you can much 
by simply seeing him 
This luminescent being 
has been given divine power 
Let the scoffers beware!! 
The light he gives off 
can cut through the blackest of nights
and the vision that he represents 
has the power to change the 
parameters of earthly life...

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The essence of Rondeau is rhyme 
as space is circumcised by time,
yet rhyme alone is nor enough
for line and meter can’t be rough
to craft your poem line by line.

The second stanza helps refine
the heart of your poem sublime
and make your lover gasp “hot stuff!”
The essence of Rondeau.

At last to sestet, do we climb
verse which does your poem define
so let not fear your pen handcuff
press on your scoffers to rebuff.
Now for your opus, bells will chime.
The essence of Rondeau....

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