Long Beatitudes Poems

Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.



Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It's not that every leaf must finally...

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Rejection Slips 3

Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch

Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)

When editors reject my poems, did I slip...

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These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...

Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

for Jim Dunlap

Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.

Be one with the...

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"Salvage"


Salvage the fixating salvation 
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming 
the ladder from the deep of all things 
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping 
dissolved...

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Rejection Slips

With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...

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"Sick Art"



I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys 

I am a ghost
of my former self

ears lent to hear 
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...

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We all feel like
dying to get out of here
at least sometimes;
a meeting
a relationship
a job
a car or bus or airplane
a house or apartment
a nation or state
a Party or clan
a faith community or PTA.

This is about the...

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Dear fellow poets – the young and the young once,

Modern poetry to me is “today’s poetry.” It presents poetry from the hearts of current writers using their own unique styles, which are influenced and inspired...

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Aunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.

She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving EarthMother
indigenous wisdom choices.

Aunt Mary was a serenely quiet mentor
and suspiciously...

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"STRONG"



A child finds strength 
in the holding of his hand
The Beatitudes in his mind 
repetition 8 times cast
whispers the loneliness
in a Man -

Who held his hand?

Like Bede, venerable,
he's counting beads dropping 
like blood drops, 
steel...

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*Image of The Nativity by Pixabay.

MOST BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS POEM

(Pre The Epiphany)

THE WORLD VERSION:

Twelve Drummers Drumming.
Eleven Pipers Piping. 
Ten Lords A-Leaping.
Nine Ladies Dancing.
Eight Maids A-milking.
Seven Swans A-swimming.
Six Geese A-laying.
Five Golden Rings.
Four Calling Birds.
Three French Hens. 
Two...

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I'm planting trees today.
Cherry trees in front,
Peter on the street,
Paul in the middle,
with Mary closest in toward the house,
all on the far side of our gravel drive.

On the same southern side,
along my neighbor's new above...

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Familiarity breeds contempt. Silence is golden. Ignorance is bliss
Yesterday I realised that these famous lines are Brevette. Brevette says much in just three words. Format is noun -  verb - noun. Subject - action...

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Children's Poems III

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;

there...

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We all receive praises, avails, beatitudes, and blessings throughout our days, 

Within that knowledge the Lord does find ways to bless us all in his particular ways, 

And now it appears within your life he...

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6)  Q: What is meant by the sixth Beatitude in Mathew 5:6: by "blessed are they which 
          do hunger and thirst after righteousness?"

 ...

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Beatitudes blessings and commentaries Q and A continued:

3) Q:   In the third Beatitude Matthew 5:3, what is meant by the poor in spirit? 

     A:   The poor...

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A:  10)  We address the prime example of verbal persecution for righteousness sake in 
             the form of today's cancel culture....

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"And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set his disciples came to him his disciples came unto him. And he opened his moth and taught them saying."Matthew 5:1-2

1)...

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"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with the wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:...

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Journey Journal Page
12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
By Leon Enriquez



Joy to the World

Start with your heart to know love’s art:
String well each part as joy imparts;
Faith knows deep peace as hope greets cheer,
Love anchors lease with all...

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Q:  8) What is meant in Matthew 5:8 by " blessed are the pure in heart?"

A:   To be pure in heart probably also means neither to be defiled or
   ...

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If Jesus Christ were walking among humans on earth today,
he would believe that no suffering person would be thrown away.
He would tell there is a lack of compassion, he would warn us
about having  a...

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Firmly established Golden Rule justice
is not fluidly tipped out.
Yang has a firm grasp, does not easily let go,
as LeftDeductive Dominance tends toward internally competing constipation,
and emergent fat deposits.

From generation to great regeneration, 
Yang's universalist power...

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The Life we now live seems but a deceitful drain
Rules abound that keep us all in chains
When will our saviour show us 
We are in his favour

Blessed are the rich for they can afford the...

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