Matter
...You won't be remembered as a marvel
Or a joy or a pleasure or anything
You won't be loved or hated or thought of
Your memory will marinade in malaise like nothing
Will your friends think of ...
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Categories:
tongueless, angst, death, life, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
The Ministers of Madness and the Surgeons of Suffering
...Surgeons of soundless suffering, led by ministers of madness,
The dead drown whilst muttering of intolerable sadness.
Atop the tallest towers of the dark city
Aloft spires of insanity, so do the...
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Categories:
tongueless, angst, character, corruption, death,
Form: Narrative
Each Passing Cloud
...In the ebbing glory of the night
As the moon with a pallid face
Moved away and hid herself,
The sun with his lustrous rays
Appeared through the cracked walls of the sky,
To wake the...
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Categories:
tongueless, sky, universe,
Form: Free verse
Land of the Seven Suns
...' The gods' spake to all who had 'wide' ears...
but all they heard was Apollo's muse....'
How leavened my soul to search,
wooly and wild to the waxxen wind,
how swift my wi...
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Categories:
tongueless, heaven, hope, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Classicism
Sonnets Xcviii-C
...Sonnets XCVIII-CII
Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the...
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Categories:
tongueless, bible, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
Addiction To Prison
...A culture steeped in retribution
becomes blind to freedom's contributions
accessed best through healing restorations,
trust,
virtual stuff
for democracies most resilient.
A society resisting ...
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Categories:
tongueless, earth, fear, freedom, health,
Form: Political Verse
Hall of Silent Women
...Hall of Silent Women
in valhala
in a far corner
of this martial paradise
is one small unobtrusive hall
above the heavy iron door
these words are faintly inscribed
“ the war department
re...
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Categories:
tongueless, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
There Is a Truth
...There is a night
so dark, yet so bright.
Only the blind sees through.
There is a song
so loud yet inaudible.
Only the ear-less discerns.
There is a food
so sweet yet so bitter.
Only the t...
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Categories:
tongueless, desire, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Sapphire Eyes Saved Me
...SAPPHIRE EYES SAVED ME
Wrap me within sapphire eyes that saved me
Caress my thoughts as my lips kiss your all
Softly, hold me as you set my spirit free
Fingers meet unveili...
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Categories:
tongueless, celebration, feelings, life, love,
Form: Villanelle
The Evil Eye
...The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed disse...
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Categories:
tongueless, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Plethora of Poetry
...~STRIP TEASE~ Featuring:) SKAT
Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along the line of a sweet tooth temptation
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Categories:
tongueless, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration
Land of the Seven Suns
...How leavened my soul to search,
wooly and wild to the waxxen wind,
how swift my wings though my fancy yearns,
catching sights amorous upon its brim;
The cradled seeds of creation
...
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Categories:
tongueless, creation, hope, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Somewhere Between Star Dust
...Some where between star dust
And fissioned syllables
Our moonstruck lives gazed at
No more, context in un-utterables
Becomes the strangers at the door.
We have lost crown and glory
To thresh diction...
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Categories:
tongueless, religion,
Form: Free verse
Perception
...PERCEPTION
Before the abyss, I had it all
Letting go of all I see
My friend, I hope our time won't end
It took a short time for you to notice
Without knowing who I am
We talked, we became friends
...
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Categories:
tongueless, abuse, analogy, art, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Jamaican Elegy For An Intellectual (Rex. R. Nettleford) Part Ii
...Tirelessly rising, like cerosee tea to them, and apple to me
Tell them I am the Sankofa of the morning, shall we dance again
I was the Nightingale Midas could keep in the cage, the new sea
To sail...
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Categories:
tongueless, death, dedication, historydance, write,
Form: Elegy
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