Long Alarming Poems
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Poems of Recanted BachelorhoodPoems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
alarming, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
SeeSee
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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Categories:
alarming, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
alarming, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Today Is DifferentToday is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.
Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacred
happy secular "Amen!"
Our nearly fearless Editor and Chief
calls for political "ACCOUNTABILITY!"
like...
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Categories:
alarming, america, health, integrity, prayer, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Political Verse
My White House InterviewI was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it felt like an obligation
to at least show up,
although perhaps about...
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Categories:
alarming, caregiving, earth, health, humor, nature, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Prose Poems IiProse Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
alarming, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
No UmbrellaThere is always something to write about
I don’t know what you are talking about
There is always something to write about
So take out your pen and spell it out
I was trying to book a ticket for...
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Categories:
alarming, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, business, creation, rain, seasons,
Form:
Narrative
Saturday, September 23, 2023Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
alarming, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
10 Things I Hate About Me1 - I can't be alone
I struggle to be by myself because my dark thoughts come
But when I'm with people my heart is numb
On top of a lot of pain is what I built my...
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Categories:
alarming, deep, emotions, encouraging, growing up, growth, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Allah and Buddha Were TalkingYou know what I think sometimes?
said Allah to Buddha,
Of course you do
and yet you don't.
I think I gave this gift of language
because you have a uniquely humanurtured gift
of comprehending
and transposing
and translating languages thru-out each and...
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Categories:
alarming, body, health, mentor, political, psychological, religion, rights,
Form:
Narrative
Let's Be KinderIn his essay "Let's Be Reasonable"
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;
This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback...
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Categories:
alarming, health, humanity, integrity, math, political, power, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
In America June 14th Equals Flag DayIn America June 14th equals flag day
and in Pennsylvania a federal holiday.
"...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god...
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Categories:
alarming, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
All My PresidentsIt is getting to the place where free speech is no longer free in America. ...
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Categories:
alarming, america, presidents day,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Prurient InterestsLast evening I noticed another disconcerting Trump headline.
This felt and smelled more like a deadline
for disintegration
than a lifeline,
a bootstrap, if you will,
toward integrity of health and regenerative safety,
which I thought was front and center
in our...
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Categories:
alarming, culture, drug, fear, health, humor, political, prejudice,
Form:
Political Verse
Song From Beyond the Stars Part 3 Early Exchanges[R-F] = Roundling facsimile
[H-Z] = Human: Zenaide
[G-G] = Gaia-Google - Earth's world-wide internet mind
Dr. Zenaide Arnau, team leader of L 4 investigation
U.N. assignment to Space Station 1
supported by logicians, technicians, physicists and geneticists
unsure why assignment...
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Categories:
alarming, adventure, destiny, future, science fiction,
Form:
Verse
The Wound That Never HealsScience can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I was teaching Shakespeare’s 92nd ridiculous sonnet
to my...
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Categories:
alarming, christian, husband, mother, music, night, prayer, snow,
Form:
Verse
Yang Stresses OutYang dear,
could you please give us a brief LeftBrain summary
of relationships you find between
the language of Zero-Sum Sacred Ecology
and the double-bind information
PolyPathic = Not(NotPolyCultural)?
Sure,
just imagine your LeftDominant hemisphere
as your Western Colonizing hemisphere
yet not quite...
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Categories:
alarming, christian, earth, education, health, humor, integrity, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill ViolationsSevere surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations
Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting,
paradigm of mortality.
Since January first
two...
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Categories:
alarming, 12th grade, 1st grade, age, america, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Believe It Or WhatHe doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, I...
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Categories:
alarming, god, , atheist,
Form:
Prose
Santa, Professor Rumbold And Bob'Twas the night before Christmas and outside was blizzardly
Mrs Claus was busy hanging baubles on the Christmas tree
Santa felt cold and shivery and was succumbing to the flu
And told Mrs Claus "I'm feeling ill, what...
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Categories:
alarming, christmas, humor, snow,
Form:
Rhyme
A Kind Reconsideration of the Abrahamic Faiths In a Difficult TimeA KIND RECONSIDERATION
OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
IN A DIFFICULT TIME
I
I am interested in Moses,
the baby in the bulrushes
who eventually was able
to speak truth to power and
delivered his people to a
promised land
I am interested in Saul...
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Categories:
alarming, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Disempowering Viral ViolenceI am struggling
to avoid that "I told you so"
mean
and self-congratulatory voice.
I do feel under-appreciated
but I don't feel any happiness
about the Virus
as vindicator of my beliefs
about the political and economic power
of public health and safety platforms,
which...
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Categories:
alarming, america, community, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Satan Tries To Strike*** Satan Tries to Strike ***
By the house,
By the door
coming in
across the floor
To kneel by my bed,
My guardian angel came
Carrying ways to hold the peace
of our Lord,
To restore the joy in my morn…
And, to wait...
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Categories:
alarming, angel, christian, family, health, imagery, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
alarming, america, cry,
Form:
Personification
Chapter 55 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Vi"Morning time to rise and shine."
The two mothers started their
Own chant "MORNING TIME
THE MOTHERS SAID
CHILDREN GET OUT OF BED."
The kids protested throwing
The Covers over their heads.
The women began threatening
Them, Saying, "do...
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Categories:
alarming, celebration, child, children, conflict, cousin, cute, encouraging,
Form:
Alliteration