Long Birthright Poems
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I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
birthright, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
birthright, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
His Love Is Divine - the Bell Style~His Love Is Divine~
( The Bell )
Lord
Can really save
His Love is divine
With Lord nothing to fear
Life can be so hard
But with him soul safe
With Lord we...
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Categories:
birthright, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Twins, Part 1In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.
In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...
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Categories:
birthright, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose
Pirates Without ShipsBeware of pirates without a ship
like rebels without a transportive WinWin cooperative cause,
like ego-politicians without sacred ecological-economic portfolios.
One of the ways we communicate cooperative values
and choose not to communicate disvalues
is by how and where and...
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Categories:
birthright, addiction, anti bullying, courage, depression, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Parting Instructions For My OldestYou did not choose to be born,
much less Black Lives Really Should Equally Matter born
into this legacy,
your familial and civil Two-Connecticuts destiny.
I realize that,
And regret perhaps my own choices
in response to invitations for care-giving
and healthcare-receiving
were...
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Categories:
birthright, appreciation, caregiving, health, integrity, love, political, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Crop Failure - Bitter HarvestThe past can’t tell the future; I'd almost forgotten this,
The past six years had brought me higher yields than average,
Though expectations soared, now nada, nothing, zilch.
Our wheat fields decimated from the lack of rain.
And those...
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Categories:
birthright, anti bullying, bible, faith, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
World's EndPart 1
This is a true story about world’s end,
But don’t freak out for it was long ago
God’s message must have been garbled
That the prophet’s prophecy failed you know.
And since those days in fifty eight
Such prophecies...
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Categories:
birthright, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Vapor Barrier MasticOxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath of this wreckage, which was constructed-meticulously seeking absolute perfection…; only...
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Categories:
birthright, abuse, allusion, betrayal, character, deep, fear, humanity,
Form:
Didactic
Indefinable LoveIndefinable Love...
Duty without love makes us hard and dictatorial.
With Love, we are softer, have a clearer, wider understanding. And: Accountable for what we do and who we are.
Education without love creates efficient, obedient but heartless...
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Categories:
birthright, blessing, courage, deep, humanity, inspirational, integrity, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
What If-Trumptopia Nation Part 2Trumptopia
Let's be honest and real you have more bias then flammable steel?
What if Hitler found the truck was not alive but yeah he's a man?
Would if be fine if the only reason
Trumptopia
Why he won...
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Categories:
birthright, america, analogy, anti bullying, anxiety, confusion, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Palestine will be Free!!!POEM: Welcome to Palestine. The land of the prophets and the martyrs.
Let’s show show some respect, and bow down in humility…
Gaza may be small, but their angels are all over and as far as...
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Categories:
birthright, allah, christian, freedom, islamic, jewish, religious, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Finding Shelter During End TimesFinding Shelter During End Times (1)
Do you think you’d feel pride as the last soul alive
on a planet that dies as your knife pricks its heart
(not alone you’ve had help, the last lemming, perhaps,
to run...
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Categories:
birthright, faith, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Shangri-LaSo I wrote again. This took longer than it should have. Only fair to warn you, this is a long one.
SHANGRI-LA
Prologue
The village gates stood, like old men stand
Worn with age and bent by time
Rust had...
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Categories:
birthright, adventure, angst, death, faith, family, fantasy, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
Learning Healthcare SystemsMy educational system
has a diseducating problem.
How to engage young minds,
like young ideas,
easily distracted,
and potentially miseducated,
by vicarious
and often trivial entertainments.
Superficial disengagements
too much the reverse
of social capital investment
in re-educating research
fully engaged in cooperative design
Therapeutic redevelopment plans
by and...
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Categories:
birthright, anger, bullying, caregiving, education, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Great Little Englandskinny island rump
highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies
entity England
migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf
monarchs, priests and lords
relaunching history and hope, the...
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Categories:
birthright, culture, england, history,
Form:
Narrative
Addictive LiberationsI need to talk about addictions,
about my addiction issues,
and maybe yours.
Addiction gets a deserved bad rap
but that doesn't mean we have no more
than mean-spirited possibilities.
Our first addiction,
and, for the lucky ones,
the functional extended multigenerational
multicultural families
and...
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Categories:
birthright, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
DarkDark chances,
unhealthy and unsafe trauma
HiStories
Degenerating predative dogmas
not wanting to let go of ballistics
even for dawning light's sacred peace promise
to grab full-immersion hold
and heal dark mythologies
lose now and again later ecologies
repeat rehearsed
inside-only voiced economies
exploiting dark...
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Categories:
birthright, appreciation, health, humor, integrity, mental illness, peace,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just BecauseApprobation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because...
(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)
Incumbent upon me own
purring impetus, a sincere
desire arose NOT to ask
...
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Categories:
birthright, 11th grade, farewell, father, father daughter, giving,
Form:
Elegy
Prodigal ProductionsWhen 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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Categories:
birthright, brother, education, emotions, health, humor, peace, prejudice,
Form:
Political Verse
The Last Good Days of InnocenceWe were a generation free of super-technology.
Yes, we had our records and tv
and the airlines for speedy travel. And yes,
there had been wars throughout history,
but we had never lived ourselves through wars’ horrors.
WWI, WWII,...
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Categories:
birthright, people,
Form:
Free verse
Verses In Dialogue: Joyce and Atwood RevisedJames Joyce:
In winding streets of Dublin, I did dwell,
found Ulyssean tales to weave and tell.
In this modern age, voices rise anew.
What themes thrive, Margaret, in works like you?
Margaret Atwood:
Ah, James, your stream, like a cerebral...
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Categories:
birthright, appreciation, literature,
Form:
Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 49The following day Seileach made quiet arrangements to have the throne moved back to the old throne room, now the meal hall, in readiness for the events taking place in the morning. In the...
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Categories:
birthright, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Overjoyed-Originally Del ValleIf vain thy earthly hopes did prove, thou canst not mourn their flight; Thy brightest hopes were fixed above. And they shall know no blight—Anne-Bronte
Overjoyed ...
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Categories:
birthright, baby, birth, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Tender Start, Beautiful End*Image of an ivory cocoon extended home provided by Pixabay.
Tender Start, Beautiful End
Poetic Forms: Concrete
First betold,
for here are the I's,
it's not that we're parentless,
merely, multi-births scared dad
from the onset, then afterward,
mom just left us to...
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Categories:
birthright, age, growing up, insect, life,
Form:
Concrete