Long Axiom Poems

Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch

Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...

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Family. Love. BOOSTER


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Gone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would now be left displeased,
by hurried tempers bent on winning wars,
neglectful...

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When Einstein was asked, by a journalist, how he came up with the theory of relativity, 
he had no audience for talking about his use of Thought Experiments,
more or less what a group discernment facilitator...

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Unquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII

( No aspersions are being cast here, willingly or otherwise, on the fairer, stronger and infinitely more sagacious sex. Even if these over-used words are somewhat overloaded...

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Age is just a number
True, this axiom proves
Age, despite our thoughts
When we were so young
Is just that, a number…
It doesn’t make us ancient
It doesn’t make us pointless
It doesn’t make us redundant
Or reflect the silence of...

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In the kingdom of forgetfulness you've left me, dear friends of old,
But in my soul I bear no grudge, just an undying flame, bold,
You've planted in me the seed of longing, in the endless wasteland,
Through...

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Written: September 09, 2023
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In the area of dominion, where elitism wields
Altruism flickers as a beam of light in the field.
Some may consider this a sort of implausibility.
Yet, verity and equity will steer our ability.

Such as...

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Milton’s Paradise Lost is a book I sometimes dip into. For modern 
readers it does not lend itself to a quick browse. It’s pretty clear from the 
start who dunnit. 
My version in paperback contains...

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I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.
                  Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there...

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Seven years, one for each of the sages,
Who rose up to lay the law of the ages,
Lessons learned in love and depravement,
I've abused abasement to the point of containment,
A deranged modality attempts to explain it,
Cuz...

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Immaterial Soul 
A sprout abundant of immortal hope, 
a search of a pulse of love in his heart,
an empty threat vivid in a man of a dying soul, 
as the echoes in his heart race...

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she said i will be back in a jiffy
i said, dear, that is one-one hundredth
of a second
which is longer than a nanosecond
but i know your leagues
which are never lingering in parsecs
that adorable face she wears...

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Forcing his way through a ocean of iniquity and negligence,
As malfeasances and misconducts concoct a deadly storm of uncertainty,
Demons and guilt torment him,
Obstructions and obstacles challenge him,
Misfortune and tragedy overwhelm him,
As he is subconsciously enveloped...

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being adventurous mammalians
we seek to avoid the repetition of pain
and encounter the repetition of pleasure
which might be why the ones who have everything
take from those who have nothing
just to get a little bit more
in a...

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Azizam
I await the fall
The cool air
To seduce my skin
I await the kiss
Of your fall
The tumbling
Of your heart
Azizam
The world is tumbling down
Crumbling upon the ground
Like castles in ruins
Madness all around
The cruel, ole town
People running around
Like savages
I'm...

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Whilst at school, in the years gone by, when as a child,

Impish I was, and sprightly too, but not so sure of my mind;

Followed the old teacher’s dictum, “memorise by rote,

To succeed in life”, she...

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Along the glass of a lazy stroll, 
The jar popped open the doctor, 
Or so I thought, ‘cos attachment, 
Honour and protection was proctor. 

Amis of gel, congruence and ear, 
No disk did move my...

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"The scientific law of causality states every effect
(such as a fart)
has a cause
(such as beans for supper)."
-- beyond all Rational doubt
a deep Truth
to digest full

*   *   *

In a universe causal, alas,
no...

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The drowned (man), Translation of Etiemble’s poem: Noyé by T Wignesan

( Etiemble who devotes some pages in this only verse volume to translations was a stickler 
to the practice of reproducing the original in its...

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Perusing the tomes of esoterica,
One truth I've learnt indeed,
Not one book contains it all.
There's always more to read.
Axiom mixed with allegory,
Abstract salt and misty sulphur.
Is this that famous alchemy?
I'll find the quintessence myself.
I wonder will...

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I am The Artiste. 

I draws lines by cutting carcasses, among other things.

I am the crazed dancer, down pouring a diaspora of red essence and entrails as I sporadically spin.

I am the antagonist; the anti-hero...

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Wounds Into Scars
                 by Odin Roark

It takes not a wise man to know
What we resist
Will persist

So goes the healing...

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'Twas an emotional movie portraying the saga of a loveable chump.
'Twas about a hapless lad by the curious name of Forrest Gump!
He overcame handicaps that from birth were to be his plight,
And it seemed that...

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Go back with me
into that unborn time
of listening
to beating from within,
and muffled sound beyond the wall.
Choice cannot contaminate the mind,
itself a pinnacle of knowing
then with pure impression as its food.

A blessed state!
and sought by teachers...

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