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Happy Valley
It was a strange and unexpected experience.
Suddenly, I found myself in a place called Happy Valley. A man was on a park bench gazing upon the trees as if listening to a particular...
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Categories:
humanity, hyperbole, myth, rights,
Form: I do not know?
Labour DayWritten 28 April 2024
“Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.”
Joseph Joubert
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Categories:
appreciation, inspirational, jobs, rights,
Form: Rhyme
THINKING ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL poetrix
Whoever thinks evil does not think well
If you imagine you think...
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Categories:
allusion, evil, language, rights,
Form: Free verse
Freedom Of LifeAssisted dying should be a freedom
who are you to keep me breathing
Abortion rights for those who need them
opposing strangers for no reason
Opinions of others sometimes offend you
laws should never be...
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Categories:
rights, abortion, america, england, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Wishing for DawnMadness I see about me everywhere.
I think by now we’re past the Aquarius phase.
I want to speak out, but do I dare?
So easily offended are folks these days.
How much longer will the nonsense stand?
Any politician...
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Categories:
rights, war,
Form: Rhyme
Villanelles IIIThese are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems...
Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch
My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for *you* are *my* retribution.
May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger...
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Categories:
rights, america, anger, community, money,
Form: Villanelle
Jolly TripSo it goes as it was planned, relatively fine
Or in case it isn’t, one can change the view
From the vast perspective of the God’s design
Aren’t we doing well what we’re able to
Or in case this...
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Categories:
adventure, creation, philosophy, rights,
Form: Rhyme
Lost and BlackA black girl lost in the world,
Feeling like she doesn't belong,
Her skin is a shade that stands out,
In a society that tells her she's wrong.
She walks the streets with a heavy...
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Categories:
rights, adventure, africa, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
rights, words,
Form: Monoku
Where Brenda Sleeps
[verse]
My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long.
Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong.
For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a danger.
A strange logic, but to reality they were a stranger....
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Categories:
rights, crazy, family, mental health,
Form: Lyric
Reflection of redemptionA thief, a murderer, an arsonist
Before all these I was someone’s child
An embezzler, a liar, a con artist
Before all this I had big hopes and plans
Yes I did it
That I don't deny
But what gives you...
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Categories:
rights, anger, corruption, death, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Her Fair-Skinned Form Is More Than I DeserveHer fair-skinned form is more than I deserve;
because her skin is light, and mine is dark,
like Tristan and Yseult's love which King Mark
forbade, we're banned...
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Categories:
rights, color, discrimination, love, prejudice,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Insignificance of Skin ColorThe color of love will prevail: we, white,
black, yellow, red, shall pacify the clash
between good folks and ignorant, white trash,
haters who oppress others without right!
In...
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Categories:
rights, america, color, hate, prejudice,
Form: Italian Sonnet
I amI am
I am man
I am nature
I am of life and of death,
I am lesser
I am greater
I am of right and of left,
I am mechanical
I am manual...
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Categories:
humanity, perspective, rights, self,
Form: Rhyme
Facing Life's CrisesHave we embarked a Ship of Fools
By forsaking the Golden Rule?
And, have we formed a neutral state
Sitting astride the Fence of Fate?
Our devalued civility,
Desensitized humanity,
Deprecated charity,
By deranged personalities.
Appeasing now a mindless guise -
Alternative truth's specious...
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Categories:
rights, angst, fate, humanity, identity,
Form: Rhyme
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