Long Baptist Poems
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A Day Under the SunBlue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
baptist, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Doggerel IDoggerel I or Nonsense Verse
A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good,
half the Bible
is libel.
I came up...
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Categories:
baptist, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
Where Does the Butterfly GoWhere Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
baptist, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
baptist, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
baptist, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
TaporaLike Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to...
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Categories:
baptist, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
We Need a Savior - the Prose Poem Style~ We Need A Savior ~
( Prose Poem )
~O~
Sometimes when we think so much about tomorrow we get so concerned n stressed about it. In minutes or in...
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Categories:
baptist, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Balancing Work and PlayI was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's Baltimore Sermon.
Rev. Jaynes had a son,
a second generation Julian...
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Categories:
baptist, christian, destiny, god, health, history, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unforgettable Places - ActsI have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!
Tell me...
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Categories:
baptist, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
-mama Linda-You know some verse and poems are Fiction this is a True story that happen to me today...
______________________________________________________________
…Well, it’s 9:28 am…
On today August 16, 2019
I was on break twixt my job, of driving school children.
Was...
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Categories:
baptist, adventure, analogy, friendship, humanity, spoken word, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
A Poem For Sam CookeDecember 14, 1965
"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You a long way from Chicago, son?"
And Sam said, "What happened
Where...
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Categories:
baptist, america, celebrity, devotion, music, sorrow, sympathy, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Letter On a TrainI once met a gentleman on an Amtrak train whose name was Sitruc Nosttam.*He was some 20 years my senior which was a real treat to me because I have great respect for and love...
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Categories:
baptist, care, people, write,
Form:
Verse
Make Love To Me In That Ancient PlaceThe Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thrill, the Jin of your Jihad...
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Categories:
baptist, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
The Directions Nightmare - Both Audio and TextA month ago, ‘round New Year’s Eve, I headed out of town to spend a casual evening with a few old friends of mine.
They told me we would meet for drinks at “Rusty’s Iron Bar,”...
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Categories:
baptist, humor, , western,
Form:
Narrative
My Opinion On Religion Take 9My opinion on religion Take 1
I am in the unexpected throes of spring cleaning
Suddenly with no warning
7 people are unexpectedly arriving in a few minutes for an Easter lunch.
Easter lunch already?
Why didn’t anyone mention...
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Categories:
baptist, confidence, deep, devotion, easter, religion, religious, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Our Lives Are But a Blink - Both Audio and TextLife is way too short for some, and far too long for others -
“Says here, ‘Lester Kiblingworth - a former county sheriff - and oldest man in Sidwell, passed away at one-oh-three,’”
I announced to...
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Categories:
baptist, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of Freddie and FloThis is a story about Freddie and Flo,
They lived in Baltimore a long time ago.
It might be called a May-September romance
And shows how love can blossom if it's given a chance.
Flo taught Sunday School, her...
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Categories:
baptist, humor,
Form:
Ballad
One Man's Miracle(The Man Who Proved That God Is Real)
You told me you just want to know God exists,
Oh dear heart, I promise it's true,
I just worry the person...
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Categories:
baptist, faith, feelings, friendship, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Divine Comedy Translation Canto Xiii Hell Part 2(Continues after part 1)
Stopped to talk, and then “Since his voice now dries”,
Told poet to me, “your time don’t lose, be fast;
But speak, and ask him, if like that more arise”.
And I to him: “Let...
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Categories:
baptist, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Mr Smith and Mr WessonMr. Smith and Mr. Wesson
A brand new sheriff came to town
I'm sure he's not the last
We've had fourteen in the past year
They leave here mighty fast
Some can't stand the pressure
Others end up in boot hill
It...
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Categories:
baptist, america, anger,
Form:
Epic
Christmas Thoughts From My Friendwhen I went through the living room they had turned the lights off on the tree, all but the star, sitting at the very top of the tree above all the ornaments, still shining brightly...
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Categories:
baptist, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Aunt Dorothy FuneralAunt Dorothy Funeral
Written by Mel Brake
"And then, I will rise
nor more sorrow no more pain
and then I will rise when he calls my name.."
I thought about my nephew
at Aunt Dorothy's funeral
I wondered who would mourn...
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Categories:
baptist, death, faith, inspirational, life, light, loss, pain,
Form:
Free verse
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King JuniorThe revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the revered Martin Luther King Junior
honored as benevolent demigod figure
to...
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Categories:
baptist, abuse, age, america, angel, appreciation, birthday, black
Form:
Free verse
I Am Determined To Be HeardI'm determined to be heard
Through the walls
Beyond all That
Deafening windfall
My voice never deterred
Tasking freedom
dispensing wisdom
Offering up hope
I am the force, overheard
A solid speaker for the mute
Constant presence for the Word
I...
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Categories:
baptist, change, culture, hope, humanity, imagery, peace,
Form:
Free verse
SickBeing sick with a snotty nose
A cough, fatigue, one of those colds???
For goodness sake's everyone knows
Grandmothers are too sophicated
To wear anything but fancy clothes
Surely not a Kleenex box attached
To their chair, and looking unkempt
And...
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Categories:
baptist, feelings, funny, , memorial,
Form:
Rhyme