Ocean Sin Poems

(prelude) 
 
  the buzzing of the evening insects 
  presage evil ! 

  here are black wolves ! here are ghosts...

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I haven’t words for explaining,
Reasons aren’t within my grasp.
I don’t know how to speak of then,
Without reflecting shadow of doubts.

I know that the past can’t...

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(I)
Lust, 
the colossal burden 
its jagged edges 
chisel into my 
crystalline spine 

(II)
Lo! 
it appears that 
fragmentation swamps
my fragility, 
my feet, in mimicry 
of origami,...

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As a new born baby,                    ...

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The warm eyes of yours undresses me 
You are affable to others
The cold heart that I only see
The true nature hidden within me bothers

I like...

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The waves are crashing,
Under them I am drowning,
Fighting them I am thrashing
As this wave is crowning,

Fear engulfs me
As the sea surrounds.
When I open my eyes...

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Without faith, we float on streams of the ocean,
This unbelief is like the turning waves of the sea,
And doubts might be bathed in that stream,
of...

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I'm hanging from a thread
I'm on the edge of a precipice
The heights are unfathomable
The depths unreachable
A step will mean a fall

I'm hanging from a thread
My...

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F aith from God is free for the taking.

A ngels are heavenly beings.

I n prayer I find God's answers.

T he Son of God died for...

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I hear the ocean
I feel gusts of wind on my arms
I sway
I get sentimental
I get sad
What is it all for.
We will die not knowing.
Nothing matters.
But...

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Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in...

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A thirst for truth in an ocean of lies,
A painting, replicated
Their typical guise.
The appearance of good
Peel back each layer,
Morality submerged, as it all becomes grayer.

Time...

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Faded colors of youth
Melting with the devils passion
Dancing with demons

For God once said, 
Hold your heart
In darkness let it shine

Yet, Loneliness seeps through our pores....

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everybody put their hearts together and prayed a black cloud to linger over
everyones homes, crawling under everyones skin.
this is the heart of man? like a...

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In the shallows at the water’s edge
Lay stones of many sizes
All glistening as the sun shines down
As yet a new day rises.

Some appear round, others...

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