Christian Gender Poems

Here I am standing in this secluded space with the pillow of hope hanging over my face, I cannot go backward or forward, I am...

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The rain it pelts
The lightning crashes
A shadowy figure
Through streetlight dashes

The strangers meet
The wine is poured
To infiltrate
The secrets stored 

The army man
The cook, the nurse
Field questions...

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You look just like your mother my relatives often cry and when they do the words fall upon my ears like knives. 

They say I...

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"In the dawn of creation, a question we ponder is, Why did God make man, in slumber, to wander? Before crafting the counterpart, female and...

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Don't try to make me just like you
I must cherish my free speech and thought
If I just clung on to your point of view
I’d relinquish...

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"We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord
We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord
And we know...

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“Lost Pantheons” 

Alexandrine tragedies
Racine diamond-edged
come and go 
French letters 
blown like leaves
straight up 
into the rarefied air
scattered like lovers
against a body 
of purple vain poetry...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Black vs white vs dark skin vs “yellow bone
Men vs women vs straight vs homosexual
Poor vs the rich vs Afro vs weave 
Christian vs Muslim...

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Nonbeliever
by Michael R. Burch writing as Kim Cherub

She smiled a thin-lipped smile
(What do men know of love?)
then rolled her eyes toward heaven
(Or that Chauvinist above?)....

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Careless Thoughts

Honest whispers, 
from somewhere unseen. 
Things we should not, 
dwell upon. 
Life's mistakes, 
sometimes, 
without…
“Do Overs”.

Punished in this world, 
saved in the next. 
God...

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Judging Others…
whimsical law?

It is a kangaroo court, 
and the clowns have just arrived. 
Dressed in suits and ties, 
eating pies.

They think they know best, 
they...

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Evicted

Lost our place… again. 
The reason, we could not pay. 
We needed and wanted to stay. 
There was just no way. 

The snow is cold,...

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Ratify Femininity to the nation grown from women			
Women born and bred yet they still deny
How many would it take to rectify?
Maybe a man not given...

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My older sister,
now in her early seventies,
which was about the last time
she enjoyed a new idea,
in the early 70s, possibly earlier,
I would guess...

She moved to...

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