The future of my Illusion
...As always, in the days before you arrive, I fall ill.
A premonitory sign of the melancholy to come.
Some part of me is staging an intervention.
But doubled over, I double down.
I tell myself i...
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Categories:
treacherously, heartbreak, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
The Lie
...The Lie
I am an insect waiting to be squashed!
I stare hard at the ground
as if fascinated, enthralled by it
while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt
wait to gouge and burrow out
any self-belie...
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Categories:
treacherously, anger, anxiety, father, father
Form: Free verse
old age is yell
...my fingernails are treacherously filthy
not merely dirty
disgusting
they have hardened and yellowed
old age is a yell...
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Categories:
treacherously, age,
Form: Free verse
Blame
..."A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." _ John Burroughs
In the Garden of Eden, an ominous silence spread.
From the Heavenly Paradise, a...
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Categories:
treacherously, betrayal, break up, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
No One Noticed the Angel
...no one noticed an extraordinary white angel
she was the only brightness of the day
but we were not looking out our windows
peach pastel sky had never looked so dull
roads were treacherously icy
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Categories:
treacherously, angel,
Form: Prose Poetry
In Whole
...I have died a million times,
And this has shaped my soul,
But I need to die again,
And give Thee my life in whole.
I don’t yet know how to,
Or if I even want to yet,
But I know if I don’t do...
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Categories:
treacherously, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
This Is How
...
This is How
(the Dastardly Deed Went Down)
Brown shirts, black boots
Shaved conscience, paramilitary spooks
Marching turncoat lockstep to the Bennie Arn band,
fo...
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Categories:
treacherously, freedom, political, power, violence,
Form: Ode
The Game of Thrones2
...O The Pestilence ripens in the fields
as pest harvests the shops and till
Harvesting of diminished yields
To !REAL CONSPIRACY!
Sovereignty-PIRACY, tips the scales of justice,
feilty, unity, i...
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Categories:
treacherously, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Cool Cats
...Tiny little cat soul
Loyal as can be,
If I did not feed her
I know that she’d feed me.
Though dogs are mans best friend
If food will go astray,
They’d take the food from anyone
Hence they wo...
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Categories:
treacherously, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Night
...The goblins were getting the house ready for Halloween night
They had placed their creaks and crevices with sounds of fright.
The jack-o-lanterns were lit, glowing with eerie all-knowing smiles.
T...
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Categories:
treacherously, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Song of Amergin: Translation
...The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I a...
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Categories:
treacherously, ireland, myth, mythology, song,
Form: Free verse
Noahs Ark
...As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noa...
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Categories:
treacherously, innocence,
Form: Haibun
Stalemate
...We became blind to His love for us
Failing to honor Him in our worship
His choices now offend us
And our offerings now offend Him
Our hearts refuse to take Him in
So, we go through the motions
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Categories:
treacherously, bible, heart, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Is His Cellphone Dead
...Is his cell phone dead? Is he dead? What is happening?
I stare out the window for the sixteenth time.
It is windy out there. I can hear the howling.
Has he been in a wreck? Is it time to call the ...
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Categories:
treacherously, voice,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Rufus and Bill
...Now the sun and the sand were treacherously hot
and not a place for Man or a Beast.
As you must be audaciously quick to find a good spot
or you will number among the desert's deceased.
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Categories:
treacherously, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
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