Baser Poems

Obedience

...

      Obedience is worship at our core, 
respectful gratitude, 
in practiced restraint, 
armored Saint parkour.

Obedience helps you to be still 
as you are shown the way.
A north star com...

When Love Dies

...You lash out, speaking ill of love,
reeling from wounded feelings.
And your pain fuels the anger
that battles forgiveness for control.
Someone has hurt you:
and you want to send that hur...

Someone's Sitting

...Someone’s sitting on my bench!
Of course, it isn’t mine
And so the person perching on it
Isn’t out of line.

Still, every time I’m out here,
It’s the place I choose to sit
And plunked down som...

There Is Beauty In the Ugly

...I sing of the afternoon of life, 
Of beaches shifting in such tiny ways;
Throes of death is what they are,
Under the light of a softly dying star,
When eyes full of wonder and hope 
Stare into a...

The Essence of Yom Kippur, Outside of Synagogue

...I’m sorry, honey.
  O.K. I accept your apology.
No, wait. Hold on.
  What is it? 
I mean it. I'm really sorry.
  Are you?
Yes, I am.
  How would I know?
I’ve thought about what I’ve done.
  ...

Hoc Est Corpus

...Hoc est corpus*, hocus pocus
Legerdemaine, a shift in focus
Hoc est corpus, from the Mass
Hocus pocus, parody crass
Transubstantiation phrase
Ridicule, to baser plays 
Papists, Protestants at o...

Changes

...I ponder and ask myself Why did I not become a writer.
The career path that I chose involved much more speaking than writing.

I have always wished that my voice tone was much baser than tenor.
B...

Moose Elk

...I sensed I was being watched by an animal.
Human? Probably not; something baser.
Perhaps a rabbit, a rodent or a bird of some sort.
This is the Yukon, if it is something white, it will be difficul...

Sometimes From Nothingness

...Sometimes from nothingness 
Fantasies will appear 
The fertile mind awake, 
Envisions hopeful scenes 
Future paths we may take. 

Sometimes from nothingness 
Come visions from afar 
Teaching ...

Advice To the Earthling, From What You Would Call An Alien Being

...From all worlds and time’s eternal outer reaches,
Where the Creator is perceived to dwell.
You try to learn what your told He teaches,
Regarding Life, the Universe, Heaven and Hell.

The soul is...

All Embracing Heart

...the void absorbs 
vast array of energy orbs
viewing with non-judgmental eye
arms open in embrace, none does it decry

life giving light of the sun blesses one and all
even though but a ...

Turkish Poetry Translations Ii

...Turkish Poetry Translations II

Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Was there ever anything lik...

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations

...Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems

Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish Na...

The Echo Returns Not

...We see their subterfuge 
A low animal cunning
Geniality a camouflage 
Deviousness concealing

We recognise but judge not
For as at this coordinate
Moving in a narrow ego slot
Baser instincts ...

Released

...The baser instincts
  within a higher calling
   —pain rewrapped in joy

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)...

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