Long Usa Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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usa, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
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Verse
RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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usa, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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usa,
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Abecedarian
Various Heresies 3Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
The Battle Hymn of Covid19I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warnings. I hope...
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usa, america, death, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Enola GayEnola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
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Free verse
Various Heresies 4Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
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Verse
Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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usa, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
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Political Verse
Victories For LoveThe problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral,
concern.
This primal problem of militarism by historic default
is that it is an intrinsically...
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usa, health, history, integrity, love, mental illness, military,
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Political Verse
Wisdom's Marching CouncilI know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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usa, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
God As Brown As An EggIf God is EggWhite
then Tao is His embryonic EarthYolk.
Why would you say such a confusing and silly thing?
What is the difference between a Paradise Tree of Life and Death
and a Great Chain of Being?
Is this...
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usa, earth, god, health, history, motivation, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Healing a Trumpian GodI remember several prayers
to invoke God's blessings on America,
a reminder of traditional political
mindfulness?
Fundamental lack of awareness
of righteous economic investments
in win/win GoldenRule
positive social-psychological security.
No one "keeps"
or "makes"
this confederation of uniting states great,
unless we democratically...
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education, faith, health, hope, integrity, religion, usa,
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Political Verse
Why Blackwaters Cause BrownfieldsIf I have this right,
and I almost certainly don't have this Left-Deductively right,
our Environmental Health and Safety Protection Agency
and our Public Health and Safety Education Department
have recently co-invested in BlackWater WinLose EcoPolitical Empowerment
through PublicSector Piracy...
No,...
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usa, confusion, culture, health, humor, integrity, peace, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Today Is DifferentToday is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.
Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacred
happy secular "Amen!"
Our nearly fearless Editor and Chief
calls for political "ACCOUNTABILITY!"
like...
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usa, america, health, integrity, prayer, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Political Verse
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
usa, courage,
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Narrative
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
usa, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...
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Categories:
usa, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
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Prose Poetry
Perennial ProblemsI suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.
Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or culture
or language
or even your attempts at communication
quite the same since...
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usa, culture, history, humor, philosophy, religion, science,
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Political Verse
Exegesis of Original IntentThe ugly head of the Original Intent issue
co-arises with what were our ForeFather Patriarchal Patriots
thinking and feeling to leave out prohibitions against antiChristian degeneracy,
and to put in permissions for antiChristian degeneracy.
No.
Wait.
That's not right.
We could not...
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Categories:
usa, body, destiny, earth, health, humanity, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Same Ol' Song and DanceAs I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and dance,
tragically sad, yet also bilaterally bound with happier...
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usa, community, dance, humanity, humor, integrity, love, music,
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Political Verse
Sandy Hook Poems 1Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we may,
that the truth of our Love may be spoken;
then, when...
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Categories:
children, school, student, usa, violence, war, youth,
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Verse
911, 20 Years Later20 years ago, ...
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usa, america, new york, september, war,
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Verse
Thomas JeffersonIt interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing minds
of original democratic declaration and constitution shaping times,
as they listened to their...
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Categories:
usa, culture, happiness, health, humor, independence day, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse