The Journey Within
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“The Path towards REMEMBERING is not for the weak. It is priceless. Move inwards, without faltering & know that you are held.” Poet
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Categories:
slogs, allusion, change, character, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Our Search For Another Earth
...Astride galactic spiral's reaching arm,
Our Earth in silent space displays its charm
Within the endless bounds of cosmic space
As if destined to hold a timeless place.
A small part of our homeb...
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Categories:
slogs, destiny, earth, environment, future,
Form: Rhyme
The Pearl From the Coal
...The Pearl from the coal mines
The wonderful age of thirty is Sathyaprakash,
He’s a vegetable vendor with a pushcart,
At the end of the day, as the Sun is setting ,
He returns home to join his p...
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Categories:
slogs, 7th grade, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Point Man Blues
...“The point man blues” begins . . .
He slogs along all day in the oppressive heat; Constantly fighting the jungle that reaches out around him, always, it seems, trying to take him down. His eyes, h...
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Categories:
slogs, war,
Form: Bio
Primo Levi Holocaust Poem: Shema
...Shema ("Listen")
by Primo Levi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable homes,
who return each evening to find
warm food and a hearty welco...
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Categories:
slogs, holocaust, house, jewish, men,
Form: Free verse
Praying Hard For Snow Days
...I was born in the hearth of the snowbelt
knee deep winters-pond hockey
a long driveway with a small coal shovel
pegging cars with snowballs
long slogs to school
slow brained learner
like an ic...
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Categories:
slogs, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Woman
...She Fights like a Warrior
Her performance is Outstanding
She slogs like Men
She conducts herself like an Actress
She sings like a Nightingale
In the world of Education,
She is a Teacher.
In ...
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Categories:
slogs, 6th grade, woman,
Form: Free verse
Are You
...Diatonic tree's,
slimy grease,
clanky careens-
and dodgy reefs,
slogs of sleeves
of Bogs of things,
one character breathe's,
another is obscene,
have you not heard of a ......
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Categories:
slogs, abortion, adventure, allegory, allusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Unplanned Spin
...The Day you came to his life as sparkle sunshine…
He had one more day to cherish it with wine…
From the day of your existence he was always there for you…
Just he wanted you to bloom and make hi...
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Categories:
slogs, dad, daughter, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal
The Fathers of Summer
...The quiet rain dispelled any thoughts of a rain out.
It was Fenway, it was Father's Day,
And within the sacred realm of wooden bats,
Unswung and dumbly waiting,
There is the halcyon hope of imp...
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Categories:
slogs, familyday, father, rain, day,
Form: Free verse