Songstress, For Nadia Anjuman
...Songstress
by Michael R. Burch
for Nadia Anjuman
Within its starkwhite ribcage, how the heart
must flutter wildly, O, and always sing
against the pressing darkness: all it knows
until at ...
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Categories:
unmanacled, allah, eulogy, poetess, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Pure Filth
...When the woollen industry died,
the reservoir that fed the old mill,
became disused.
The water meadow at its head
became a swamp.
Developers,
who want to build houses everywhere,
take one look...
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Categories:
unmanacled, environment, nature, pollution, water,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye, Tafara
...Fate propelled me into your belly
When my own prayers went unanswered
In the wake of the harvest of thorns
When the alien- buffered by our silence
Shackled, manacled and butchered
Those of us th...
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Categories:
unmanacled, betrayal, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse