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In Search of Soulful Riches

O, these fine, fashionable, fondlers

Of pondering wisdom’s,

 

In the idioms of earthen

Consents,

 

Gray case encrusted,

Attitudinal cements.

 

Parapet and barrier,

Laments of rancid carrion.

 

Self bestowed upon slinking shoulders.

 

Into the Frey of Man speak,

Into the realm of blood and bone,

 

Ejected into the otherings

That man alone bestows.

 

Upon his brothers ****** brow,

Upon his trodden heart,

 

They seek definition

In epitome

 

In enfilades of bias and violence.

 

They languish under opinionated stars,

Under sun’s of blood red risings.

 

O that the voice of this could only die a death

Befitting some horrid criminal,

And peace come in its stead.

 

A vision of a dreamer

A poet writing wishes

Clichés of lost hopes

In search of soulful riches.

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Written by
william-b-burkholder
American
Published
Jan 2, 2011
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1/2/2011 copywrite, W B Burkholder, (all rights reserved)

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