Insomnia
...Midnight,
Hoots and despondent howls
From crevasses of puking earth prompt weakness at slumber
Webs!
They encircle the pin-line threads of silence, viciously muted,
Drawing porous patterns of ...
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Categories:
smelting, depression, introspection,
Form: Free verse
This turn
...My eyes swerved to someone
magnified my attention,
mesmerized in hyponsis,
felt like popping of faries bubbles down my mind,
couple of ladders to my comprehension,
I'm sliding smooth but hasty,...
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Categories:
smelting, color, feelings, fire, firework,
Form: Free verse
Circa 1886 Wealth and Influence
...
the High Honor
"boulé de tout fort"
or
"le coq d'une fort"
Early chemists hoped to turn abundant lead into precious gold. But dif...
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Categories:
smelting, character, guitar, marriage, money,
Form: Ballad
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden...
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Categories:
smelting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Heat Wave
...The Hedgerow birds are wilting;
and even the circling hark
gives them no alarm.
The hot irons of the sun
are smelting bones.
This listless stupor
threatens to unwind the mainsprings
of joy.
...
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Categories:
smelting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reinvigorating
...In the lapse of time
Here i am again
Smelting in solitude
Scorching in darkness
Searching in blindfolds
When all other seasons collapse
and glaciers starts melting
Spring reborns with surpri...
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Categories:
smelting, allegory, allusion, america, animal,
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Magnifier
...February 27 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 4-6
Key Verse – Joshua 4:14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they fea...
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Categories:
smelting, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Six Winters
...A heat wave in Winter does not a smile make.
To be lulled into relaxation would be a mistake.
Don't pray for the rain if you fear the storms.
Gulf heat greets the cold, and the clouds form.
Flo...
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Categories:
smelting, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
...Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
bet...
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Categories:
smelting, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Feeding the Hordes
...Enough murdering and burning my spirit.
Stop making fun of my heart and soul wicket.
Please have compassion and break the chains.
Quagmire for the bonded smelting to be flames.
Have...
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Categories:
smelting, allusion, bereavement, conflict, death,
Form: Sonnet
Heatwave
...The Hedgerow birds are wilting,
even the circling hawk
gives them no alarm.
All is too low to the baking ground,
the hot irons of the sun
are smelting bones.
This listless stupor
threatens t...
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Categories:
smelting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When Savages Sang Strongly 2
...Destiny demands that we be the debtor
that we sacrafice for the skin of our future,
We left the cradle of the Caucasuses to explore,
to plant the dreams of our Creator,
venturing into the virgin...
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Categories:
smelting, heart,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Poems About Icarus
...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli...
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Categories:
smelting, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Heat Wave
...The Hedgerow birds are wilting;
they will not sing
and even the circling hawk
gives them no alarm
for he also is weary
and tries only to catch a cooling breeze.
In the shade of a whit...
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Categories:
smelting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Stop and Shop Strike
...The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones.
In Game what’s not made plain
is the condition of the people
compared with warriors and queens.
There’s no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling,
p...
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Categories:
smelting, dream, food, sun, war,
Form: Verse
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