Best Indictments Poems

You have stained stars in your eyes tonight,
a gold glitter asunder as vast as any Past
stuck fast on this moon light sight,
give me softly the...

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Oh! The lighting bugs they light up with cry.
Tis a bright light, Oh! What an excitement;
A monster sails up in the dark night sky!

Its big...

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When I dare return to the pages of my past

Turning each one with embarrassment and shame

With regret, remorse and self incrimination

I finally come to you

Like...

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Native American Translations

Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk...

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Black Magic Potions
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Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch 

(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)

I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually,...

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I'm on the path to a massive collapse like the NASDAQ
I never asked for your lack of compassion so you can have it back
and love...

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a life
sized to daily care
which does not occur
regularly nor properly

they don't care

It's just a mere fulfillment of
inflicted patterns
pushing you
to die through those papers

(don't sign them)

they've...

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though she tells herself she trusts him
the minute he is out the door for an extended trip of business
she finds her way to his desk...

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Keep the Lid On
There is no reason to throw away years of progress for a momentary,
    fit of anger,
   ...

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Cry for Justice
Once again the cry for justice rings out,
    another young man of colour cut down,
     ...

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These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my...

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So, I’m a Nazi poet because I promote wearing a mask,
Why do people write such ridiculous indictments, I ask?
‘Tis no problem if you believe differently...

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Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch

Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.

And she is the myth of...

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Radiance
by Michael R. Burch

for Dylan Thomas

The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted,...

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