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Psychologically still thirteen

Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship, 
(whereby one or the other of us)...

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Categories: civil war, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form: Rhyme

Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures

I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...

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Categories: civil war, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form: Prose Poetry

Azure Vistas



"Azure Vistas"

Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain falling petulantly on blunt contracts

I glimpsed the sweet refrain of a resurrection
swift upon a...

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Categories: civil war, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T Wignesan

Translation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan

Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...

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Categories: civil war, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Living With Uncertainty, Chaos and Corruption

The world is constantly changing 
People are steadily rearranging 
Life seems to be a gigantic nightmare 
Keep moving, but never getting there 

This country was built on the backs of slaves 
Our ancestors buried in...

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Categories: civil war, confusion, corruption, spoken word,
Form: Free verse

The Daily Show and Tell

Dear Toni,

I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.

I'm also not sure where we first went wrong,
but I'm sorry for once having thought you...

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Categories: civil war, family, health, humor, patriotic, political, psychological, science,
Form: Political Verse

Ali's Song

Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...

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Categories: civil war, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form: Verse

Being American

I live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...

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Categories: civil war, america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form: Dramatic Verse

My Odyssey

Here, I am...
Retired,
Happy,
Sitting on the relaxing throne of my age,
Reminiscing what I went through in life.
A mere spectator I have now become,
Observing in silence the works of men,
Having no worries
Of carrier advancement,
Of acceptance,
Of recognition...

My only...

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Categories: civil war,
Form: Bio

The Maid of Orleans

Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace her forehead like a crown;
Her thick and shining braids that...

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Categories: civil war, christian, conflict, courage, england, history,
Form: Couplet

Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 26

“From that point forward Reginn, of the Ibero Clan, along with the Erin Clan
and the Second Ibero Clan slowly stripped more and more control away
from the King.  Reversing much of his progressive policies. ...

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Categories: civil war, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

Jim Crow's Demise

Hello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things you might already know. My name is Jim Crow, and...

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Categories: civil war, race,
Form: Prose Poetry

And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War

And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War

Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.

President...

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Categories: civil war, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, age, america,
Form: Rhyme

Children Are Why We Need Higher Taxes

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for improvements. 

Some of...

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Categories: civil war, child, education, school, , 9th grade,
Form: Prose

Move on over ole Joe

Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United...

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Categories: civil war, america, anger, anxiety, care, faith, grave, political,
Form: Free verse

Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 52

“Now, if we can get these proceedings under way,” began Seileach.
     “No,” exhorted Rian!  “I demand to have more information about what is occurring here before we proceed.  It...

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Categories: civil war, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic