Long Arming Poems

Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
 
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...

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   Storms seductive desiring of dreams   
   Forms favoring moonlight of beams
    Craving hearts upon starlit nights
    Waving wands of unicorned flights
 ...

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Just as any polynomial "x"
equally absorbs
any bionic notnot polynomial
double-negative "y"

So too
any Positive, resilient
x-therapeutic health and nutrition practitioner,
nurse,
teacher of special challengers,
parent of special Lose/Lose esteem
with growing divisive nature/spirit beauty risks
grow opportunities to become a strong
and wise
and...

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When I read the Prodigal Son story
I do my best to find my own story
empathizing with both brothers
as victims of injustices
learned through self and other punishment
and economically dominant political control
by others,
heavily investing in self-victimizing images.

Then...

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The best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part IV

King Henry the Great
by Michael R. Burch

Long live the King! 
Send him victorious, 
happy and glorious, 
long to reign over us: 
Long live the King! 

Long...

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Yukon just coon sitter me a copacetic, energetic, ironic language lover (English is ma lingua franca late mother tongue), who waxes poetic, but tall so one babbling, creaking, and dabbling dis arming marine naval (gazing)...

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Love, Hate And War

Somehow, I felt unnaturally at peace at heart
Accepting all there is whether in reality or in dreams
I felt changed in finality from a past torn apart
Yet, I’m unable to realize what is...

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There is never an ending
		to the spending
	a world of paper
and plastic to collect
and horde
	clothes
	and cars
	and homes
	and jewelry
	and fine wine
	and paintings
	stocks and bonds
	vacations 
and expectations
entire vocations 
	devoted to 
disguising the numbers
the Caribbean masquerade
to volumes of recorded
purchases...

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I wonder if some part of me was running,
while I gathered up my thrills in wanderlust;
scattering them like dust to the fire, that feeds a lazy afterglow.
The Adventure of Wonder. The one I embellish just...

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April 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 10-12

Key Verse –1Chronicles 11:2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and...

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Stop! The violent protests and leave peaceful protesters out to make a difference strictly along.  Whether you are in law enforcement or the national guard. You need to pray for peaceful solutions!  But...

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Hot Is The Wind
One night can change things forever. Like the night the Americans came. One survivor went through hell to live. When the sirens went off, people pulled blankets over their heads rather than...

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Caring is cool, my poetry is revolutionary, 
im scaring a school, the team is on my back and i carry them to, 
the promised land, atlas shrugged and gave me you, 
the world on my...

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Voices of the silent whispers echo deeply disturbing fact 
debates hold principle those with brains tear down structures 
human rights ignored opening up a can of worms within morals 
where truth is hidden away questions...

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May 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 20-22

Key Verse – Job 21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY MASTER TEACHER
				
Lord God, You...

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no one saw it coming they never do
the phone poles were giving off sparks
dogs began to howl birds flocked to the sky
A Plymouth hubcap of immense proportions
quivered and droned in the air over the capitol
television...

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s/he works on the cutting edge
with eyes pasted to the screen,
knowing no limits &
no time constraints--- 
with all the funding one could possibly
handle, s/he’s
scrunched down in a lab at 
MIT or locked away in some...

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A voice from a woman that has emotional depth and concern for humanity is often shunned through strong arming of sources to discredit her psychological state.

If you steal from a children’s cancer research foundation, and...

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Skipping thoughts across gelatin rings.
Into the reservoir of Lethologica
freezing-mirror- reflecting.
Nothings back to me.
What once was so lucid, liquid transfusive, a free flowing mainline of Offering, conducive to something.
A hopeful seminary seminar.
Priestly Dreams: Turned Cold:
WaxingColdOfPrisonOfShielding
Unseen:PulseStar Bard
Hands:Snatching...

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Clever, Talented, and real my rhymes just swifter
Ain't got no muscle but i'm still a bra lifter
Fed up so that weed going straight to my lungs
Rappin like i'm black so they want me hung
Maybe i'm...

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God is our Comforter, securing our redemption
Indeed upholding us while transforming us toward new creation
Constantly guarding our souls by His protection so mighty
So we can comfort the hopeless while sharing salvation security.

God is our Comforter,...

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My God, I thank Thee for protecting me, securing my salvation
Transforming me through Thy omnipotent conversion
Guarding my soul by Thy mighty protection…
…So I can dwell in heaven’s mansion.

My Lord, I praise Thee, satisfied with Thy...

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May 17 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 28-30

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 28:13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD...

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L iving 
I n
F ear
E verywhere

Just as we live and just as we die 
We laugh, kill and crucify
We are no more our brothers than we are ourselves 
We are the players 
With the tools...

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Billy The Conqueror

Historians will tell you tales about William the Conqueror in times of old
and how he made for himself a terrifying yet interesting name,
but the King of all Creation has so named Billy the...

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