Long Assyria Poems

The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...

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Military maneuvers,
conducted by starship troopers,
make a Lot of king Chedorlaomer noise

Earhole space
penetrated by the Pentagon puffing pace ... 
stealth sound of smoke signals
Warning drumbeat signs 
of an incoming, deadly drone invasion

Attack helicopters hover
over tempting topography...

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There are several You Tube Biblical scholars that the current Israel VS Hamas
war which started on October 07, 2023 will expand into territory covered in
Psalms 83 commonly referred to:  The Great Northern War and...

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According to Psalm 83:9 Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength
to the children of Lot.  Selah

 The modern name of Assyria is Syria; whereas, the modern name for the
 children of Lot is...

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Commentaries by Holton and Dubarry

Q: Since the children of Lot reside in Israel's neighboring country of Jordan.
      will Jordan enter into Psalm 83, [even though our US's government is
 ...

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April 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 19-21

Key Verse –2Kings 19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master...

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I have written to him the great things
Of my Law but they were counted as a strange thing
My people have sown the wind but they shall reap the whirlwinds

Set the trumpet to my mouth
He that...

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Noah survived the flood with sons Japheth, Ham, and Shem.
Along with the animals of the earth, God spared them.
With floods, He vowed never again to do such a thing.
God made a covenant with Noah and...

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[REVISED 2024 April 04]

Shinar, some know as Mesopotamia, others as Assyria,
near the Euphrates River, a midday sun cast doubts of 
a weakened shade made idle by the pause of its agile
host, named Nimrod, son of...

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ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
PRAISE ELISHA'S GOD IN HEAVEN!


"Go dip in the Jordon", he said;
The prophet who must surely be mislead,
But after travelling to Israel,
I will test this cure though it fail.


ONE


I dipped myself in that dirty trickle
Laughing to...

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March 23, 2022 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 1-5

Key Verse – 1Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria,...

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Beneath an orange sky and huge rainbow, 
Mestor, free spirited son stops the flow 
over his dad Poseidon, 
God of the sea, rift widen 
climbs upon his narwhal, puts on a show. 

Setting off with...

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Mestor, son of Poseidon steady gaze
upon a dazzling mermaid saffron blaze.
Wind swept across her brunette
wet long hair, thoughts of a net
and human ways, hooted in shrill amaze.

Mestor woke amongst an ocean sand bed
of froth, sounds...

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Demons hatched from isolated shell
Has brought down to us hell
Simple men with simple lives
Introverts, quiet and withdrawn
Summoned to fight this cause

Trained as suicide bombers
Bomb strapped around their own bodies
Airplane hijacked
They blew up the twin tower
Train...

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The sun had grown dark on that fearful day
When Rabshakah, the Assyrian entered the fray;
Their armor and weapons glittered like gold
As they surged ’cross the plains to storm Israel’s fold.

But Hezekiah the king sought the...

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Time

Thou mighty monarch of “eartherial” scope, 
the vicegerent  and the viceroy of all fickle frame. 
from thy womb lonesome vial sprung, 
and the cavalcades of torrents bearing branches 

Time 
ere that chaotic cosmos regaled...

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 Crimson desire often keeps knitting a dream
I sail in an Egyptian boat in a blue river 
Warm my breath with the woolen heat of the steam
From the buds while in a blooming rose you...

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Hey you out there I'm here, but I'll sure let you dream
All you big boy burly sailors, I'll allure to your unseen

Even going back to my ancestors, away back, down Assyria way
Our goddess our love,...

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Balloons, bolix!
A ghostly flight…
A fight for airspace…
So much air…blowhard.
To sail the seas of America’s skies…
Look down upon the stretch of land.
It landed,
on the eyes of the Montanans.

Balloons, buffoons!
A clownish cloud
passing off a Casper-guise.
A surprise visit...

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Naught lowlife, but pro-life; pin-up; wildlife,
like the Mantis, or the praying Mantis,
cockroaches and termites, close relatives,
there are stick ones or grasshoppers, half-life.
A year's life, they are ambush predators,
female practices sex cannibalism.
Supernatural power behold-ism
Greece, Assyria, Egypt,...

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