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Sisyphus Silence
...Sisyphus’ Silence I sit, a silent, carved-out zone, A soul entrapped, unlit, unwhole, The majority’s tide grinds flesh to bone, While others’ feelings wallow, roll In mud that clings, ......

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Categories: unwhole, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tessellate
... “Tessellate” on the surface it’s easy to see we tessellate inadvertent decorative ostentatious flirtatious lives taking risks with the other sides planned str......

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Categories: unwhole, earth, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative



Heartquake
...Rivers run from the corners of his eyes, Heavy currents ramping over high cheeks. No longer present is the stoic guise, Evidence of a broken heart from deep within it leaks. Windows of a beaten......

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Categories: unwhole, angst, betrayal, conflict, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Hesitation Marks
...You could've just drank whiskey like a smart man Drown your sorrows in enough beer to drown a fish Smoked enough cigarettes to burn your house down Taken a walk Pull up your mask and walk in fo......

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Categories: unwhole, anger, depression, night, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wars Without and Within
... Since Adam’s fall the human race has been stuck in a hostile space. The evil forces wage a war, God’s pure image they seek to tar. This war is fought within our hearts, with thoughts that wo......

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Categories: unwhole, depression, emotions, inspirational, mental
Form: Rhyme



Dear Moon Child
...Dear moon child, Shining in the darkness, you’ve always had to be Facing every struggle and turmoil, constant calamity Your light so evident in the darkest of hour Beauty that blossoms, fulfil......

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Categories: unwhole, moon, nature, night,
Form: Rhyme
The Woodland Sage
...In a realm far and distant from our own, An ancient forest lay, its secrets unknown. A world where magic and nature entwined, Its spirits and essence not easily defined. Tales spoke of a wizard ol......

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Categories: unwhole, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If
...If you could hear echoes from my heart now, would you perhaps reflect and wonder how I have longed to hear your melodic voice flow in symphony with mine and rejoice. I cry out fo......

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Categories: unwhole, loneliness, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Ix
...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE IX Disconcerted by Michael R. Burch Meg, my sweet, fresh as a daisy, when I’m with you my heart beats like crazy & my future gets hazy ... The Less-Than......

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Categories: unwhole, heart, humor, humorous, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Silent Madness
...marooned -- unwhole as i am a piece of me missing adrift in its emptiness throbbing in angst furious at the impending silence yet clinging to it like i never want it to lift hovering in limbo......

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Categories: unwhole, lonely, longing, loss, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Projections of the Past
...I now see every perspective of how it was. But there is no denying I learned long before How to love someone despite both of our flaws. Lessons learned thru all that made me "feel" more. The pa......

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Categories: unwhole, longing, lost love, meaningful,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Late Evening's Meditation On Mental Agony
...My mind is leaden with the crush of pain—a numbness of the soul that's not an adrenaline rush; but leaves me feeling yet unwhole. Unwhole! Unwhole! And afflicted. How goes this night ......

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Categories: unwhole, how i feel, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Four Seasons In My Soul
...Look beyond this thick façade, You'll find four seasons in my soul, But take away a piece of Winter And you'll leave me cut, unwhole.......

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Categories: unwhole, seasons, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Various Heresies 2
...Various Heresies 2 You by Michael R. Burch For thirty years You have not spoken to me; I heard the dull hollow echo of silence as though strange communion between us. For thirty years You......

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Categories: unwhole, atheist, bible, christian, god,
Form: Verse
Reigned In Too Early
...Anonymous whispers, blowing secrets, softly blown air through lips, syllables like sidelong glances down cafeteria tables, avoid directness, avoid contact, see, girls nearly women don’t speak ......

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Categories: unwhole, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Free verse

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