Long Commandment Poems

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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I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death...

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"Worship in spirit and truth"

With Easter approaching, many people Christian and non-Christian are exposed to this celebration and may have questions concerning the various teachings, rites, rituals and traditions that are promulgated by public worship...

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The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five


Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings his dreams were all blurry in his head.
And what about...

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Sister
Love your brother ALWAYS

If you are older, hold your brother’s hand;
If you’re the same age as he;
Stay within his and God’s plans
Allow him a hand to hold, 
a shoulder to lean on, 
And an ear...

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STOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR

This journey has not been a fanciful adventure, 
we're all settlers in  these dynasty of neo-colonialism 
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes 
victims of civilized inducement, 
terms of...

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Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations

Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting, 
paradigm of mortality.

Since January first
two...

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Sitting atop a large flat stone in an open field
Brushing aside his long silver locks
Bringing to his lips a long clay pipe
Steadying for a light, his gnarled knuckles make this a fight
His sandals dusty, brow...

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In Michigan, the weather can change for the worst in October.
This particular Halloween came a blizzaring.
The lights went out and in a dark, dark room, candles were lit; therein, the opaquest narrative was captured.

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With the...

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There is a day of rest for you and me
A Sabbath day of sweetest harmony
Where God and man converse and blessings dwell
and sacred hours are spent to be made well

It is the seventh day, a...

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The Uyghur Empire’s ruler where the sun rarely blessed

Travelled to the Northern bank of the Luo in contemplation

And stayed in a tomb for three days after battling Yan

Thus, four angels of the Faith of Mani...

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Climate change,
like most,
if not all,
unwelcome change,
too often violent and deranged
and hopelessly redundant,
remains conservatively controversial
as to who started It.

Yet this issue of inheritance
fades into insignificance
when confronted by our tsunamic evidence
of who is secularly
and sacredly
responsible for healing...

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MY Vow to God

Gathering in the garden of paradise
all the angels busy making arrangements for 
this great auspicious day
Cards are been made with golden threads
Flower arrangements with the most beautiful colours
Each colour reflecting a message...

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Sitting by my window with sounds of bird telling
some men busy working constructing a new home
far at my sight a mountain range overlooks at me
wondered what rhyme I am going to make

so title came fast,...

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I am at a distant, I stare at you bloom,
My heart is eager to smile,
But my memories and my present sight,
force not to.
You need broad shoulders because the rains shall rain.
I want you to know;
They...

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"Assurance of salvation and Jesus calls us to love one another."***

Assurance of salvation. ***

"And what is it that God has said? That He has given us eternal
life and that this life is in His Son....

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She struggled frantically as she was yanked from the bed
Hauled into the street straight to the temple, no match for her rabble size
With bare foot struggling to find their footings
Hammered fear, cold deafeningly in her...

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Many preachers around here are false.

That is why so many are lost.

They walk the earth like they,

Are the Creator and become,

Haters to those who have,

Nothing but God.They have

Been given silver and gold,

As gifts and they...

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THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF "THE LIVING GOD"!!!!HOW WAS IT DONE? IT WAS "DONE" BECAUSE "GOD" WANTED A "SON"!!! THERE COULD BE "ONLY ONE".......SON....!!!!  JESUS CHRIST WAS AND IS"THE ONLY TRUE SON OF "THE...

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"kill them before the end of this week," he said. 
She ignored his commandment. 
" put quicker killing poison  in their foods," 
He insisted.  
"Why? 
How can I do this mass killings 
of innocent people?...

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My S-a-l-e-w-a

Before you say “I do”
Think deeply before given your precious life
To that person you think you love….
Since marriage is not worth rushing in, for rushing out sake 
Since it is not lived in other...

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The bible say's 
you'll know my people
by the apples that fall from their tree
but what does that mean

The apples are, the fruit from the tree
the product that the tree produces
the fruits of religion
are sometimes creating...

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Dear God,                                 ...

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February 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations 
Based on Deuteronomy 15-19

Key Verse – Deuteronomy 15:2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he...

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learn about bavila 
As bavila  always
claiming to be Israelites
You may ask,
"Is it true?"
Culture and traditions of Bavila
  refer to Deuteronomy 
and mosaic laws .

1. It is disgusting
for Muvila man to sleep
with  a woman who is...

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