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Treatises Poems - Poems about Treatises

Premium MemberIt Is To Be

...the choir chimed in 
a chorus of rebuke 
or stones we'd hurl
abusing the adulteress's skin 
shoot your pocket rocks 
passing judgment comes down 
like diluvial rains splashing
gory-red upon yo...
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Categories: treatises, faith, fate, hope, jesus,
Form: List

Premium MemberLife Eternal

...Let us not be slaves
to cycles and numbers,
stars are infinite we know...

Like, travel a sea

despite our direction

on their own waves come
and go, schools of little fishy
on and on flow ...
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Categories: treatises, christian, growth, humanity, inspirational
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberIn the arteries of my ancestors flows a river of untamed hope, older than the first spoken syllable

...In the arteries of my ancestors flows a river of untamed hope, older than the first spoken syllable,
Deeper than the caves where forebears painted bison and dreams with blood and burning charcoal,
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Categories: treatises, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Are we all mysteriously Sinful?

...Title:

Are we all mysteriously
Sinful?

(A lone voice whispers)

In the beginning 

Did you secretly 
Walk like a curious
Enigmatic Charles Darwin

Looking
Whilst
Lost in Youth

See...
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Categories: treatises, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

After drenching biblical rainfall

...After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.

Once drought stricken vast landscape
...
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Categories: treatises, adventure, africa, august, earth,
Form: Free verse



Yuletide pageant merry go round

...Yuletide pageant merry go round

Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style 
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart 
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two ...
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Categories: treatises, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Equality Meets Us At the End

..."Death comes equally to us all, it's true,
No matter who we are or what we pursue.
It doesn't heed our wealth or our fame,
Taking us all the same, without a name.

Before death, we may hold powe...
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Categories: treatises, abuse, allah, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberOn the Origin of Life

...Man has mused over life’s origin for ages.
The thoughts and treatises of the sages,
filling tall tomes tallying thousands of pages,
tell of evolution in stages over millions of ages.

Life, some...
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Categories: treatises, christian, creation, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Various Heresies 6

...Various Heresies 6

Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch

The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.

Good mot...
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Categories: treatises, atheist, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Various Heresies 3

...Various Heresies 3

Breakings
by Michael R. Burch

I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.

But gods without compassion
ordain...
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Categories: treatises, america, bible, christian, god,
Form: Verse

The Cape of Good Hope

...Far away on distant horizons, lies the world that we want to see,
It is true that we are blessed, but do you think we are truly free?
Those who have fought and died, would certainly hope that's tru...
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Categories: treatises, hope, , western,
Form: Rhyme

Yuletide Pageant Merry Go Round Second Time

...tender petsmart impact, where world wide web populated 
with sacrificial pacification sans deity 
via oblation, immolation, flagellation appeasing Dominatrix
borrow wing, vis a vis amalgamated viz...
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Categories: treatises, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than Cumulative

...Yuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited

healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive 
in into neat stac...
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Categories: treatises, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Yule Tide Pageant Merry Go Round Second Spin

...such heretics pitched headlong 
into fiendish frothing furnace
forcing obeisance toward primitive popular 
identified, honored, glorified father figure
expressing devotion re: 
decking the halls...
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Categories: treatises, allegory, america, anniversary, candy,
Form: Elegy

No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part I

...Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu 
to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School 
   (situated at crossroads – then beau
colic rural routes of Evansburg Road and Ridge Pike), where nary ...
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Categories: treatises, growing up, hilarious, life,
Form: Free verse

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