Ghost
...By Michael Parker
The winter storm has settled above me like a dark continent,
aubergine and gray, and has eaten the moon and her children.
The oracles, because of this, are choked and di...
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Categories:
thinnest, 12th grade, pain,
Form: Free verse
Political Stage
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The world’s a battlefield, a restless stage,
Politics a war, rage upon rage.
Nations clash with words and might,
Underneath the glare of a fractured light.
Donald Trump, a seismic leap,
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Categories:
thinnest, 8th grade, analogy, character,
Form: Burlesque
539 A ki labonye purno pran -Tagoreweb
...539
Spring reigning to the fullest brim , dancing on the exaltation, my athena’s kite!
A homecoming fest , the ecstasy, the zeal tapping on the rejuvenated chant, season’s delight!
The blossomin...
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Categories:
thinnest, eve,
Form: Free verse
What if it was a world of words
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And writers their disguise
Some traitorous tirade of tongeu twits torrentially
pouring their page on their hearts
Some surprise
I am the largest collection of leaves
Be leaf me
Wither...
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Categories:
thinnest, poems,
Form: Free verse
Beloved, how sad you tread into the mist of lost dreams
...Beloved, how sad you tread into the mist of lost dreams,
Wandering in the cold blue, befriending the forces that are your foes.
Beloved, how sad, born of magic, a soul crowned with whirlwinds of ec...
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Categories:
thinnest, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Surrender In November
...The leaf came down
it came down
it came down
from heights of thinnest twig
a fated swan
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Categories:
thinnest, age, autumn, beauty, fate,
Form: Verse
DANTE TRANSLATIONS
...DANTE TRANSLATIONS
Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
In Beatrice I beheld the outer boundaries of blessedness.—Dante, loose tr...
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Categories:
thinnest, christian, desire, god, heaven,
Form: Epigram
Sliding to the First Day
...It is summer,
and the umbrella men
are selling hotdogs.
A good-looking priest
enters Saint Pat's,
gangly girls giggle,
then make the sign of the cross.
Thursday is All-You-Can-Eat pizza da...
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Categories:
thinnest, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ghost Ship
...Like a ship that's been weathered and worn
her heart didn't survive the turmoil or storm,
all her dreams lay wrecked, shattered, and torn
her love like a ghost that finds itself reborn.
Now sad...
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Categories:
thinnest, feelings, love hurts, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Shinnying Up Trees
...I'd trek through the woods as a boy,
Nature was my one source of joy.
And She taught me things I didn't know,
many forgotten years ago.
I saw how the land would transform,
blanketed by...
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Categories:
thinnest, adventure, boy, fun, growing
Form: Rhyme
The Sweetest Ring
...if I were a tree, I'd have sixty-two rings.
The fifth one being the thinnest.
There was hardly any rain that year.
Blackness was at its thickest.
Everything was very still...
except for the shi...
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Categories:
thinnest, hope,
Form: Free verse
Polar
...Feelings are born of choice
You follow the inner voice
and decide Or not
Which is also a decision in and of itself
The easiest way to describe it is
Bi Thinking of the cartoon trope
Listeni...
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Categories:
thinnest, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Mnemonics
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What a strange word is mnemonic
far easier to say than to write or spell!
It sound like a disease or nonsense incensed to mislead
But after you get over that it makes sense
to use phase...
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Categories:
thinnest, language, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Massage
...Have you ever had a massage of any kind?
During the process,did you,your teeth, grind?
I always thought you get this tender,sweet, relaxing feeling;
Until I became a massage client who left squeal...
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Categories:
thinnest, pain,
Form: Rhyme
It Rises and Sets
...Life is like the sun. It starts by
rising but sometimes it starts
by setting inorder to rise at the end.
They say the earliest bird catches
the fattest worm. But there is a day
it will catch ...
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Categories:
thinnest, art, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
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