Why I Left the Religious Right
...These heretical poems on the subjects of God, religion and Christianity explain why I “left” the Religious Right.
If one screams below,
what the hell is "Above"?
—Michael R. Burch
Religion is...
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Categories:
unsweet, christian, faith, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Breakfast
...My morning ritual cannot be called complete
Without cereal & coconut milk --unsweet! :-)
Oct. 8, 2023
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Coconuts Poetry Contest
Poetry Conte...
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Categories:
unsweet, food,
Form: Couplet
Peace
...Let my life be filled with peace
Let me not be filled with anger
Let me not speak unkind words to sour someone else's soul
Let me always consider other's and be kind to those who crosses my way
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Categories:
unsweet, anger, conflict, peace,
Form: Free verse
Our Father's Wife
...She welcomes us into her husband's home,
Serves us with best dishes,
And refers to us as her beloved children
When daddy wants to get us new clothes,
He asks her to escort him to the great shop...
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Categories:
unsweet, child abuse, family,
Form: Ballad
Never Put Any Dreams Away
...How disheartening and catastrophic a failure can be
seeing all falling apart before teary and frightful eyes
that shun all hope, it would be extremely hard
to rebuild what was lost to ashes, not h...
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Categories:
unsweet, betrayal, dream, emotions, future,
Form: Rhyme
Death Be Not Proud Ii
...Death be not proud
Life then takes not long
an ever felt pain
proud must not be
death
as a foe
cursed your existence is
a why question is born
left us unaided
careless you
unfair you
d...
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Categories:
unsweet, death,
Form: Personification
Compartments
...My love’s sole parts I’ll never itemize,
To hack and chop proves meet for butcher’s meat,
And corpses, coroners anatomize.
Why part my sweet when each sole part’s unsweet?
Remove a piece, and mak...
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Categories:
unsweet, love,
Form: Sonnet
What Has Happened
...Making uneven faces as you sit displeased
Something unsweet has you sour
With adoration.I try to console
Beginning to hold, shockingly pushed away
What has become of us?
The navigators have be...
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Categories:
unsweet, adventure, journey, july, poets,
Form: Free verse
I Like Things Regular and Complete
...I suspect in my feckless youth my folks thought me rather slovenly,
Obnoxious, averse to work and associated with dubious company,
But Air Force sergeants dealt discipline with lingo at times unswe...
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Categories:
unsweet, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Bleeding Roses
...Roses in the garden,
Roses in the world,
Barrened roses,
Roses impearled,
But now roses curled...
Peach roses show modesty,
Peach roses show gratitude,
However, they are often insincere...
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Categories:
unsweet, art, change, color, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Lemon
...By the mention of its name,
various ideas cross ur mind,
right from its bumpy body,
to its inner sore taste,
U decide on what to concentrate on,
U can see its use lyk medicine,
Digestion aid...
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Categories:
unsweet, adventure
Form: ABC
Coffee House
...She pours the beans in the most graceful way
Makes one think she has a way with the coffee beans.
There is triumph in the way she stirs.
The clinking of her spoon to the glass is music
Therapeuti...
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Categories:
unsweet, love, mother,
Form: Verse
The Coffee House
...The day he took me to Starbucks
I figured I was gaining in luck
Then all he did was complain
How the coffee wasn't humane
It wasn't fit for human comsumption
The tasty treat was dry, th...
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Categories:
unsweet, food, health, love,
Form: Couplet
Shackles
...It binds firmly
Leaving no room to ramble
Of an unsweet taste it is
Yet in naivety we hasten to taste of it
Until the flesh of our tender hearts
Are scarred by its unrelenting grip
The memories...
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Categories:
unsweet, love
Form: Lyric
A Funeral For Unsweet Tea
...The voice of a moth was all to come out
when I meant to to say I hate this life.
I meant to scream it with all the genetic coding
that allows such well developed emotions,
but what really hap...
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Categories:
unsweet, animals, caregiving, philosophy, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
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