Political Christmas Poems

This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history? 

We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan....

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Before we begin,
I want to introduce
my most hopeful self

Before we begin
life's communication
we know love's energy

Mother and Child
intimacy
sacred mild
intricacy
integrity...

Resonant hearts beating
repeating
+1 then 0 then -1
circling around...

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Ghetto blindness this rhyme
Call the mountains to time
Melody beats and blows

The keep kissing your knees...

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Moscow 

The winter sun, the sense of the cold season!
Heavy snowfall was closing the window of my car.
Tire sounds echo in the tracks of the...

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It's 2022 and inflation is too high
everything too expensive to even buy
Christmas is nearing and Santa took a hike
But cheer up and smile with woke...

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Trump Poems and Epigrams VI

Poets laud Justice’s
high principles.
Trump just gropes
her raw genitals.
—Michael R. Burch



Dark Shroud, Silver Lining
by Michael R. Burch

Trump cares so little for the...

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What to gladly sing
about our global economic politics
and socially inept monoculturing predation?
divinely self-righteous 
missionary terrorist zeal
also known as religious
colonization.

Such global
and national
and local PatriarchalCapitalist
RightWing unhealthy issues

Seem...

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Erlenkönig also pushed forward the idea of the Council of Six.
Which was a wonderful idea in theory.  The council eventually became the
most powerful...

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The elf stared into his eyes for a very long moment, pondering his answer.  He knew this would change everything in the life of...

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At first, it wasn't my father's Oldsmobile.
Then, there came a longing for a new identity
with an invasion of one morphing after another.
Next thing I knew,...

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One last time
The stage is mine
The Media's stunned
That deal now canned.

What were they thinking
With clearly no inkling
I'd throw in a wrench
And create such a stench.

Congress...

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Red sky
fades
inside ears
poised toward greening
non-violet ultra recommunions,

So, also
noncommunion ZeroZones
of red
against green,

So
also
red/green
non-violent mediation,
ego/ecotherapeutic,

So
also
red sky fades
inside green/blue
yintegral yang
speaking "green regained"

So too
Christian
green/red
sensed newborn
divine/humane
light/power
ancient eco-messianic solstice 
fertile
non-violent celebrations;

So
also
red sky
light...

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Our president is playing scrooge just because he happened to lose. Our military he refuses to fund. Now he's off to Florida to sit in...

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The exodus is on course
Homeward bound, full force
Christmas and New Year cheer
Of the pandemic, we have little fear

The well heeled among us, lead the pack
Who...

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It is not necessarily established as True
that all capitalist
and patriarchal red roads
lead back to EmpireBuilding Rome

Ancient Rome as original win/lose supremacist Home
unveils no more than...

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