Shikata Ga Nai
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Pervasive personal questions people ask,
shredding to shards what truly is me.
The pieces are of no use to them though,
the effort seems at times
to stem from veiled spite,
incisive curiosi...
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Categories:
articulately, character, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Taking The Stage Rondine
...Taking the stage so easily,
the rousing solo of a rose;
Such a dance with melodic prose,
this impromptu jam leaves you free;
Beneath a soft swaying palm tree
a garden of animus grows;
Taking th...
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Categories:
articulately, emotions, flower, music,
Form: Other
Its Given
...“Its Given”
Its given living life intentional I awake daily in attunement living life on a purpose for a purpose
Germinating my flow
My ambition is struggle driven
My strengths derived from resil...
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Categories:
articulately, encouraging, growth, motivation, recovery
Form: Free verse
Hope, Love, Fear, Despair
...Why are you so glim?
Is the world around so dark and grey?
Are visions of life the scars left behind?
Putty melded, folded, twisted and bent
Articulately fermented bonded, ready to present....
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Categories:
articulately, analogy, angst, change, deep,
Form: Rhyme
On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation Goethe
...ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones,
like yesteryear’s
fading s...
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Categories:
articulately, best friend, body, death,
Form: Free verse
No Mark
...No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
...
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Categories:
articulately, break up, change, divorce,
Form: Verse
Invoking Unfinished Godsongs
...My autonomous ego's life
feels unfinishable,
unthinkably mortal in future disconnection;
an unfinished compassion life,
unfinishable love,
an unpolished divine icon
of Earth's self-promulgating...
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Categories:
articulately, earth, god, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
The Owl and the Pussy Cat
...The Owl And The Pussy Cat By Edward Lear,
He, this poet was in top gear.
Exciting, extraordinary excellent read,
Oh the Owl and the Pussy Cat the child does need!
Warming well-being, whimsical wr...
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Categories:
articulately, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Einstein Speaks
...Old Albert was frustrated.
He knew his famous ego-identity came from this solar eco-system
with four interdependent dimensional voices.
He felt his own original moment began with ZeroSum nutri...
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Categories:
articulately, age, death, depression, dream,
Form: Political Verse
Truth Isn'T Truth
...Attorney Giuliani,
concerned about perjury charges,
declares sometimes Truth is not True
So I suppose
Fake is not necessarily False
and it's OK for us to believe
whatever feels most convenie...
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Categories:
articulately, betrayal, leadership, passion, patriotic,
Form: Political Verse
Waves
...Enjoy these 9 haikus I have written shortly, yet articulately. II think you might find this one a treasure to cherish! Enjoy~
Your love drifts away
Yes, you move me like brave waves
Your love's...
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Categories:
articulately, beach, cheer up, cool,
Form: Haiku
So Let It Be
...I don’t answer
Intensely personal questions people ask
For these shreds to pieces what is truly me
The pieces are of no use to them though.
The effort seems to stem from veiled envy
Incisive ...
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Categories:
articulately, me, psychological, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Trivia Night
...Trivia Night
I follow every backroad and freeway to see where they lead
And I look to the pages learned people read
I look at all the flea market uniquities and antiques,
And the things they’re...
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Categories:
articulately, devotion, history, humanity, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Life's Disaster Management
...Resilience planning
is to Disaster Management
for a crippled community,
As Permacultural planning
is to Anger Management
for growing Ego Resilience.
When WinLose cards are dealt
by climates...
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Categories:
articulately, community, growth, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
Mute Lovers
...There they go
A Lover and his Lass
They talk, they laugh.
Emanating no sound,
For theirs...
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Categories:
articulately, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
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