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Poetry · I’ve written and enjoy reading poems
Greg Burns · Answered July 3, 2020
How can I be a contributor to Joy of poetry?
If you look at The Joy of Poetry Space using a browser, you’ll notice a right hand sidebar discussing submissions to the Space. That gives some insight into how submitted content gets approved or not within that Space. I’ve mentioned similar in my answer to the question “How can I write in “The Joy
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Can you share some of your own written poems?
This is a poem I wrote after my first suicide attempt. My best friend found me and called 911. WHEN HOPE IS ALL I HAVE Lying here alone with metal to my head, Listening to the silence, still in my bed. Fingers clenched, ready to fire…to end, Hoping for a savior, a loving friend. To help me… from mysel
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Poetry · Writer and avid poet
Today feels like missing you, With a Summer breeze to brush my cheek like a fleeting kiss Taking my mind on a trip to reminisce Today feels like missing you, The sun shining so bright and beautiful reminding of your smile Reminding me that once we talked
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Engineer at Openreach (2013–present)
I don’t regret being a smoker. Cigarettes have been a comfort That something to do when nothing could be done. The blind burn before the shot. A tiny warmth on a cold night Something shared between friends and strangers. That nothing that makes destitution
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Poetry · I am Starpoet.com since 1995 on the Internet
A Starship Waiting Starships paired, Backdrop Sunrise, One to lift today, A second flight test And this time, Sticking the landing. Crane in the flame zone, Moving safe distance, Starship Ten on the other pad With Nine go for launch, Just another day o
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Poet, Editor and Publisher
This is a poem about the transience of memory, a common theme in my poems beginning in my teens. Memento Mori by Michael R. Burch I found among the elms something like the sound of your voice, something like the aftermath of love itself after the light
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Bystander (2017–present)
FORTUNE
I lay coins on railoads
yet I never wait for a train
for I am old enough to know
trying to survive is dying as well.
Here, in these darker lonely nights
my roots have found acceptance.
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Lives in Bootle Liverpool
Poet’s Corner
She came
and gave me all she had,
and went again as silent as the night
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The Silence of Night Soulful Loneliness The empty streets of mind The desolate wandering soul The eyes devoid of dreams The Mundaneness of Existence The hollowness within Don’t really know Emotions do still exists Empathy do persists Or all this is an illusion
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Former Lecturer at Higher Education (2001–2017)
Whispering Words They’re trying to do me a favour Trying hard not to make a sound Sometimes I hear them whispering Saying auntie is busy she’s writing now I’m sitting, deliberating, debating Thinking of words worthy to write But every thought is so politica
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Former Elementary Education
He sent iris falls where the wind could carry, Salutations pressed by lips benumbed, His bouquet, I took, to a heart succumbed By glass figures — a people of menagerie. *** Yet my vase cannot host all of his beauty So I wrap his stems in cradling arms, What l
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Give me a chance Give me a chance Don’t despise me Beyond the borders of tomorrow I’m past grief, worry and tears I’m past almost any sorrow But still I want you in my life Without you I’m not myself I’m going to keep you under my wings I’m going to dust you on yo
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Bassus, Stop Trying to Break Up Cynthia and Me: Propertius 1.4 Why, Bassus, do you praise so many girls, Why do you try to make me change, to give up My mistress, to forsake her for another? Why not let me pass whatever time is left In that bondag
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BA in LGBT Studies & Filmmaking, Media, Movies, Sarah Lawrence College (Expected 2022)
What time of day do you find the best for writing poetry?
Either as soon as I get up or late at night. Sometimes in the middle of day but that’s rare
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Master Colorist/Stylist/ Owner at Studio 27 (2019–present)
What poem does this generation need to hear?
Anything by Walt Whitman especially from leaves of grass
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VOICE OF THE OCEAN I lost my soul at sea; I found my heart in the ocean. A spirit came to me over the waves, And freed my mind in the wind. A wandering soul have I, A questioning girl inside. Following the wind; Softly crying, I hide. Whispering voices in my
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Poetry · Published 6 volumes of Poetry.
Gathering….. in the jagged rush of meeting old family brothers become strangers stacked with old memories packaged in grey hair and wrinkles and once-upon a time recollections of a rapidly receding past. how young we feel again. the trees w
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When we don’t know What we are doing with Life When we stumble on every step Which we take We should sit down n introspect What has really gone awri In the Winning Formula of Life !! Are we in to Something Which we know but tend to deny Some call it, “A Mid L
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I really don’t get upset Even if someone comes or goes Even if some Rememberances flood in Even if some memories do fade away I really don’t get upset :::::::: I really don’t get upset To pull along in a relationship Or to break it n move on Or someone trying
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Poet
& BEYOND
eternity is nothing
one giant nothingness
suddenly i realized
in my nothingness
that i have reached
eternal nothingness
by actually being
& doing
absolutely nothing
in the present
& beyond
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Poetry · Joy of writing
Poetry and Short Stories
Let me Open your book show me all pages read unread lionized, not only those you want world to see. . Let me see depth of fissures, hidden beneath rough exterior with inspiring tenacity. . Let me be your song your heart’s been longing, pour into each other coalesced
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Words that Flow through your Gut and Heart. Doreen McCulloch !
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Your haiku horoscope Aries Same old taken for granted Ari. Someday you’ll show them all. They’ll see! Taurus Love beckons this week, Tau, but when you get closer it’s waving bye-bye. Gemini Time for a fresh start, Gem. If
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In an attempt to demonstrate that not all couplets are heroic, I have created a new poetic form called the “Less Heroic Couplet.” I believe poets should abide by truth-in-advertising laws, even in their nonsense verse! The rules for the form are simp
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Poetry · Published 6 volumes of Poetry.
afterparty… the lights have softened music pulses slow wine glasses see table top rings the curtains remain closed with sleep nagging the edges of day where have all the people gone why has the celebration shrunk into memories what have i p
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Circe Reflecting as She Slops Odysseus’ Crew
The mating habits of these swine
Are not for the proper and priggish.
They grunt and snort and squeal and whine:
They are horny and quite piggish.
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In the Gap There is a knot hole in our picket fence. Its rim is thinly glazed with an ice skin. Clear, frosty daylight fills the hole and darkness Envelops the dank air behind old wood. It is a double fence. Or more precisely, Two rows of picket
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Studied at Ged (2017)
You An arrow to sharp thorns and roses. Painted a path to black to white. A garden hidden in the dark inspires. Reading skill from sharpness to beauty, fished from out the deep, catches little moments of beauty. A message ever so lovely, so clearly. A co
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Former Assistant General Manager at Taco Bell (2008–2010)
What time of day do you find the best for writing poetry?
There really is no specific time that I decide to write, most of the time it just hits me, or comes to me and then I write it out. My writing has always been more of a spontaneous, or spiritual moment that manifest’s and I just go with it
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Former Market Inspector at Abingdon Street Market Blackpool (2002–2011)
Fanfare For the Common Man What Fanfare shrill does dress the common man, In Trumpet’s still a brill’ant span in heat, Whose tone pitch’s beat be pure in heaven’s scan, To resonate in noble cymbals sheet. Then in a consconance of timbre’s hue, Whose Forte
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Systems Engineer — Safety at Various Companies (2008–present)
What’s a particularly unusual time or place where the writing bug has bit you?
What’s a particularly unusual time or place where the writing bug has bit you? I spent the 1980s competing in triathlon. My training rides were usually upwards of 60 km and one day, to fill in time, I started composing limericks about the towns I …
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