Long Adolph Poems

See
by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...

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ALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS

These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...



A question that sometimes drives me hazy: 
am I or are the...

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First they came for the Muslims

after Martin Niemoller

First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...

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I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the standards 
Of modern verse and composition, 
Lyrics fluidly written, 
Perfect...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)

These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew. 



Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch

I...

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A Place Not Meant To Be
           
PART: II            (699 of 1487 words)

#9: Days of...

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The blue sky with its bright light is moving over my head and the
wind is dancing in the poppy bed, the deers are scampering on the
shores and here you are holding up the process and...

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Disembarking from the Stygian ship

New arrival:      They just gave me this button and T-shirt. I know what the 
           ...

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Q  Why did God create some human vessels for honor and others for wrath?

A  Just as a potter created some vessels for beauty and others for chamber
    pots, containing human's...

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Although President Joe Biden, the members of the EU and the United Nations
do not want the current Hamas Israel War to expand--it already has in both
Lebanon and Syria.  Not because of the nation of...

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Die Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books")
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires.

Then a banished writer, one...

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"Satan is a Socialist," by Dr Jennifer Clark
on Tuesday's Sid Roth program.
February 23, 2021.***

Satan, was a liar before the beginning of
recorded time. The Devil caused one-
third of the angels. That were placed
under to him causing...

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More than seventy years ago, during WW 11, the original Axis of evil nations first existed.

It was the nations of Germany and of Japan that spear headed that former Axis of evil nations. Concerning the...

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When I feel compassion
with my positive needs
for love
health
trust
safety,

When I feel compassion
for my fears
wounds
negative fortress wants
to overpower perceived threats
against my egocentric compromises
with ruthless capitalism,
soulless patriarchalism,
strategic genocide,
extractive ecocide,
smug and heartless anthrosupremacy,
aggressively diseased LeftBrain dominance
inside my ruminating self
as...

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For my 2013 New Years Resolution
I'm going to lawfully and legally purchase myself a gun.
I've never been pro or con regarding guns.
I've always remained very indifferent towards them.
I'm not buying a gun because I feel...

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Dedicated to Donald Duck


You are greatly admired
By the following
The deplorables

Kellyanne Conway
   She will con you all the way!
Adolph Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Mussolini
Sarah Palin
Pol Pot
Vladimir Putin
Saudi Royals
Palestinian boils
Tayyip Erdogan
Rudy Giuliani
Mike Pence
Chris Christie
Fran Drescher
Denis Rodman
Jesse Ventura
Astor Mark...

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An overwhelming feeling of fulfillment

As if I'd searched the exterior of mother earth for all eternity,

Finally reaching the core

And there he stands

He is love!

Employing every ingenious piece of man made apparatus I could obtain.

Attempting to...

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Love is one of life's greatest mysteries
It is the driving force
which shapes man's destiny
It is the very foundation 
upon which life itself is built

Love leads 
life follows
Love is a way of life
One cannot detach oneself...

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Have we gone to far to take it back?
    Like a fast running train that has jumped it’s track
Can we gather the pieces that we’ve thrown away?
    And seek...

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            Holocaust Helga


She knew she was like a star, so bright,
Everything in her world was just so right!
With nobody, she would she ever ...

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cattle trains on track to nowhere

selection …right left right left

the smell of burnt skin fear and violence

compost of history for the rose garden

gold teeth extracted prior to death


a lethal injection as an experiment

twin studies stark...

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Ah yes, dear friends
You have earned it
You deserve it...

Martyrs for the cause
a most WORTHY cause
which includes beheadings
(They had it coming) 
burning people alive
(They had it coming)
killing children
(They had it coming)

Un-believers!
Filthy Infidels!
Destroy them all!!
Most especially:
The Great...

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Was not every one a child?
Joy to their mother and father
And growing up as a kid
With wonder and laughter

Then they go to school 
Playing games having fun
And become a voice for others
When they don’t have...

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sergeant pepper smokes his stogie in a capsized submarine-
lucky lucy clad in yellow wears her purple diamond ring
rainbow demons play gin rummy on a sunlit july morn-
captain kirk on planet cestus wrestles with a lizard...

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*I admit we're putting on quite a carnival for the world to see.
putting our worst clown foot forward.
Fighting one another over rolls of toilet paper
scorching our foundation
juggling our humanity.
Because of an exception to the rule-a...

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