Felt but Untold
...I feel, I feel a little bit more
Deafening silences of stories untold
Wrenching hearts, welled-up eyes
Suppressed screams weaving loving lullabies
I feel, I feel a little bit more
Breezes di...
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Categories:
unconsoled, courage, emotions, mom, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Red Dog Remembered
...A wrestlers kapi pup born in the town of Porapoo
Red Dog~The Pilabara wonderer with lurid tales' legion
A bold spirited canine he, an Aussie through and through
Roaming free the red earth of the w...
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Categories:
unconsoled, appreciation, celebrity, dog, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Barbie, My Doll - Ld
...The Lost Doll Contest
Sponsored by: Charles Messina
Placed 2nd
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Barbie was its name…
To me how it came…
Difficult to pr...
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Categories:
unconsoled, anger, friendship, happiness, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
God, Will I Ever Be a Man
...My God, why are you so quiet to your child?
You are noisy as trucks rumbling by remote
I see you in the terrors of the night glowing
I taste you in the night cloying in my throat
I feel you down...
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Categories:
unconsoled, absence, father, god, men,
Form: Rhyme
Outer Darkness
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with unconsoled cries
weeping and gnashing their teeth ~
their worm never dies
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for the Hell Haiku Poetry Contest
sponsored by Robert James Liguori
written on 3/26...
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Categories:
unconsoled, dark, horror,
Form: Haiku
Ode To a Perfect Catch
...To write! to truly write, to wield the pen
as but a mere extension of the mind.
Yet contemplating, I am wont to find
perhaps the glitch is buried there within.
For, so it seems, no sooner...
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Categories:
unconsoled, love, writing,
Form: Ode
When the Birds Return
...My transient small dreams magnified manifold,
over mindscape wide wings of desire they grew,
my constrained essence could no longer hold,
turning to beguiled birds in ardent sky they flew.
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Categories:
unconsoled, analogy, bird, dream, metaphor,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
The Angry Black Woman
...She stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at ...
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Categories:
unconsoled, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
My Small Dreams Magnified Manifold
...My small dreams magnified so manifold,
the wide wings of soaring desire they grew,
the miniscule mind could no longer hold,
turning to birds in ardent air they flew.
They sailed to horizon...
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Categories:
unconsoled, analogy, dream, hope, life,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
...Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?s...
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Categories:
unconsoled, heart, night, spiritual, wife,
Form: Sonnet
The Lingering and the Unconsoled Heart
...The Lingering and the Unconsoled Heart
by Michael R. Burch
There is a silence—
the last unspoken moment
before death,
when the moon,
cratered and broken,
is all madness and light,
wh...
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Categories:
unconsoled, absence, bereavement, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye My Love
...Goodbye my love
all thoughts…
and Visions of you
have fled My mind
Only to leav...
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Categories:
unconsoled, death of a friend,
Form: Ballad
The Last Leaf
...A leaf clings to a lifeless branch
In humble and tenuous hold
A limp and parched and fragile thing
Endurance unconsoled
In life, through changes, we must face
We’re sometimes lik...
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Categories:
unconsoled, change, life, strength, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Karen
...This was for keeps for all we knew
so far away so long ago
I really fell in love with you
before you played the second show
White lace and grace and promises
Beguile? Belong? Betroth? Besee...
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Categories:
unconsoled, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
I Have Learned the Geography of Grief
..."
I have walked the silent paths of grief
Sunless,dreary,cold and all alone.
I have slept on beds of winter leaves.
I know that death’s a greedy starving thief.
Although my heart weeps and my ...
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Categories:
unconsoled, grief,
Form: Villanelle
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