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Consecration, the Sun Bleeds over Seville

The beast Alhambra 
roared a violent psalm
Vile conversos
horrid moriscos, 
the heretic herds
A spear thrust into
our sun’s martyred ribs
Held in hateful grips
the yellow warblers
dripped in crimson sheen
Flying like Michael
the vengeful vassal
of Aragon’s decree
“O Torquemada
Hark the righteous call
King of Suprema
Execute them all!”
Cold unfeeling wretch, 
the flesh guillotine
Teeth clicking sparks
lit endless pyres
Three made Seville
weep at the sight of

Categories: heretic, christian, history, horror, islamic,
Form: Rhyme

Heretic

Giordano Bruno looked up at night 
Suggested stars were suns, not just points of light
Planets might circle those many suns
They might even have life, we might not be the only ones

The Church called his words a crime, not just a mistake
For this heresy, they burned him at the stake.
If your ideas undermine the narrative, you're

Categories: heretic, freedom, history, humanity,
Form: Lyric

Various Heresies 7

Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch

“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

We had a common sky
before the Christians came.

We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.

The common stars above us?
They winked, and would not tell.

Yet now our fellow mortals claim
our questions merit hell!

The cause of our damnation?
They

Categories: heretic, angel, atheist, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Various Heresies 6

Various Heresies 6

Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch

The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.

Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield no certainty of a resurrection.

Man’s tried them both, has added tears,
chants, dances, drugs, séances, tombs’
white alabaster prayer-rooms, wombs

where dead men’s

Categories: heretic, atheist, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Heretic Lunatic and Slug

Heretic, lunatic, slug went to tea.
Two were crazy but then there was me.
Raunchy laughter loud
Truly insane proud.
Restaurant clapped when we left there finally.

Categories: heretic, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Limerick

Fog

fog
by michael r. burch
 
ur just a bit of fluff
drifting out over the ocean, 
unleashing an atom of rain, 
causing a minor commotion, 
for which u expect awesome GODS
to pay u SUPREME DEVOTION! 
... but ur just a smidgen of mist
unlikely to be missed...
where did u get the notion?

Categories: heretic, atheist, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Theater of Utter Charm - Part 29

the footing on the flanks of the Hill of Beans
was worse than he had sussed
that drizzling pale morning
when the Sun was lowest
but beans be damned
and their counters with them
yes I know
a smoky mess
like most of what we see
and witness in the dawn
of the Era of Swans
nah I'm ting you
it's the Era of Dalliance
so dally as

Categories: heretic, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

The Hairy Tick

Of all the critters men have cursed,
The hateful hairy tick is worst.
His charm conceals a crudest quest
To snag you in his noxious nest.

Beware his lure! Don’t cross that line!
His bite will blight your nimble mind!
Once fooled, your failed defense will flee:
You’ll be as false and foul as he.

You’ll kiss your intellect goodbye.
You’ll sprout a vile,

Categories: heretic, funny, humor, humorous, religion,
Form: Rhyme

Theater of Utter Charm - Part 28

part 28

at least we know what to avoid in a civilization
hypnotism for one
and angst which merely resembles authenticity
by attempting to dissect the inconsequential
which boils down to the matter of
detecting the inconsequential in the first place
what is your species
popped up on my scope right away
in a rich blend of predictability
stamped out by the big variable die

Categories: heretic, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Theater of Utter Charm - Part 27

your first observation must be
I seem to be persisting LOL
it is easy to be dangerous these days
but deeper still is less a guess
than it was a thousand years ago
and what is revealed
can always be corrected
this is the secret process
for which there is no myth
it is the power of anomaly
from a drunken Oracle
at the Church of

Categories: heretic, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Heretic of the Modern Age

away with capitalistic free market enterprise
where the concomitant features of greed, power and wealth
fuse to form a pact of unrestrained mass-consumerism
while simultaneously obliterating any shred of a humanistic ethic.

the hollow emptiness of a hedonistic philosophy
representative of the western civilization
rings with the sound of falseness
from the belfry of commodification.

debunk the myth of the supremacy of man
where

Categories: heretic, bible, courage, destiny, devotion,
Form: I do not know?

Heretic

Heretic
your breath reeks
of brimstones ash
quenched with the blood
of martyred dreams.

I heard
hopes dying scream
as it burned alive
consumed by the flames
of your firey speech.

And now
you turn to me
lost Shepard
bemoaning the world's inability
to see your virtues.

I say
return false prophet
unto your true master 
spare me
your tainted sermons.

Categories: heretic, society, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Heretic

HERETIC
'Tis known you're not all there, all of the time,
but I'm submissive; more than I should be;
though heretic somewhat, 'twould be a crime;
in my belief, you're not more than I see.

My failing in your eyes, 'tis life to me,
my very breath, the only way I know
of reaching you, where-in I wish to be,
my being not

Categories: heretic, beauty, life, obituary,
Form: Sonnet