Long Iranian Poems

The Field
by Rumi 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field. 
I'll meet you there. 
When the soul lazes in such lush grass 
the world is too...

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Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021 

No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his salmagundi salad days, 
when oral blight smote 
left...

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Two of the greatest gifts that God ever gave to mankind                        ...

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Neda 
You died in protest in Iran.                            ...

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Burn
by Michael R. Burch

for Trump

Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.

Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.

Keywords/Tags: burn, earth, environment, fire, future, nature, natural, planet,  climate, pollution,...

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This self-explanatory English poem of mine was originally drafted Monday (evening) August 5, 2013, while I was still in Independence, Missouri. I revised it a bit in November and December of 2014, while “traveling” in...

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PREAMBLE
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What I witnessed on October 7 was indefensible. Just to be clear, Hamas are not militants or freedom fighters as many in the mainstream media would have you believe - they are terrorists. Israel is...

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"The Morality Police" 

hair showing
not used 
for drying feet

life 
of a young woman 
innocent

tortured, 
brutally taken
and murdered 

for what?

in the 
controlling hands 
of the Morality Police -

monsters are real, 
they do exist
there and here

many demons...

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Although President Joe Biden, the members of the EU and the United Nations
do not want the current Hamas Israel War to expand--it already has in both
Lebanon and Syria.  Not because of the nation of...

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Persia, Put and Cush will be with them, all with shields and helmets, also
 Gomer with all of its troops, and Beth Togarmah, from the far north--with
  all of its troops--the  many nations...

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rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.  Ezekiel 38:12

Q:  What are the modern day names of these nations: Sheba, and Dedan and the
     ...

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Q:  Who are the modern day  people of Philistia mentioned in Psalm 83:7.

A:  They are located in the region currently mentioned as Gaza, the western
      bank. ...

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President Joe' Biden's message to American families suffering from highly inflated prices of gas and the rising food prices is, "It is all part of the Liberal New World Order." They want American tax paying...

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Russia wants NATO's assurance that they will move no further east without guaranteeing that they will no further west. Turkey is still a member of NATO? Recently they have shifted their allegiance away from NATO...

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Why is that while Iran is threatening USA's citizens on our soil? They want to target the fifty-one anti-Iranian regime former President Donald Trump's administration. According to CBN News, they are asking their supporters to...

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The trilateral group of nations is meeting with the Iranian president in Iran. In the past Iran would call upon Russia for help but now Russia is being sanctified by the rest of the world...

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Shikwa
THE COMPLAINT(Poem)
https://youtu.be/mrgbbziN2so
Why should I choose the loser’s role? Forbear to seek what gain I may?
Nor think of what the morrow holds, But brood o’er woes of yesterday?
Why should my ears enraptured hear the plaintive notes...

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We were aware of Red China's Communist's President plans to achieve world dominion by 2035 or even earlier. But are we aware he plans "to flatten America by as early as 2025!" As well as...

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concerning Iran (a brief letter to the american voter)

dear miss or mister
still-believing-in-the-“dream”---
which face that you see being displayed on your
screens, 
do you think will get us into a war with Iran
first?

will it be mr. hope...

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after declining to succumb to the
romantic notions of
mr. majid mohavedi,
Amenah,
a once beautiful Iranian Woman,
ran from him
while he relentlessly stalked her for
two years until he found her &
threw a bucket of acid on her face,
melting all...

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transparency (another puppet in the puppet show)

when mr. hope & change ran for leader of the empire,
he filled those so desperate
with hopes that were ungrounded,
if not completely false---
for if you walk like a politician &
you...

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so much precious existence 
found me rooted with mouth ajar 
as sigh asper the dentin-cementum 
so mud dear reader (with dem perfect 
enameled pearly whites), aye har bar 
envy for those with a complete set...

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This a message to all so-called Americans, who are loudly chanting, "Death to America!"
Should be forced to leave America!  Either they are brain washed domestic terrorists
 or brain washed foreign terrorists, they should all...

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— This poem describes our journey from the reality of life to the truth of death.
— The introductory “then” connoting ‘in medias res’ is reminiscent of the opening of Dante’s journey to the inferno in...

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Q:   Why does the Sovereign LORD restore Jacob again?
       Ezekiel 39: 28-29.

A:  Then they will know that I am their LORD their God, for though I...

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