Long Concerns Poems
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Poems About Dogs
Poems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
concerns, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Restoration Towns
I was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
concerns, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
As Time Walked By
These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
concerns, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
concerns, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy Climates
In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...
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Categories:
concerns, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Political Verse
Trump's Intake Interview
Hello,
you've reached the EcoTherapist Cooperative.
How can we help you
without bringing harm to Others?
That's a question I've never thought about.
I'm calling for the National Republican Party.
We would like to hire an EcoTherapist
for a consultation
during the 2020...
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Categories:
concerns, america, caregiving, earth day, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Wisdom's Marching Council
I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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Categories:
concerns, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
Portraits of Racial Politics
“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...
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Categories:
concerns, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
A Few Years Back and Forth
A few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he meant The ReGeneratively Nutritious Flowing Self,
but he was probably shy...
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Categories:
concerns, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Romeo and Juliet: the Remix
Three voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
Natural and Social Communication...
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Categories:
concerns, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
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:
concerns, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lifeboat the Sinking
As to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
concerns, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
concerns, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Dillen and the Dmv
TO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity
I don’t...
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Categories:
concerns, culture, discrimination, health, integrity, perspective, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
concerns, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
concerns, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Misguided Meditations
I am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.
My training
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.
Within this...
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Categories:
concerns, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Spineless In the Running
Was this a bold endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
In one sense I was caught between two poles apart concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish
difficult decision.
A decision that may...
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Categories:
concerns, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Let His Light Shine - the Candle of Hope Style
~ Let His Light Shine ~
( Candle Of Hope )
~O~
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with the Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the...
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Categories:
concerns, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
thin fractures
Thoughts can be thin fractures in the order of things.
Sometimes my dorm room seems a sterile sarcophagus, like an accusation, or an interrogation about my romantic choices, with nothing warm or inviting there. Sometimes I’ve...
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Categories:
concerns, drink, forgiveness, integrity, morning, romance, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Red and Blue Estrangered Families
Dear Siblings Three,
I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.
This is a variation on a diaspora story.
But, here growing physical distance
is seen more as a...
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Categories:
concerns, earth, faith, family, health, integrity, religion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part One
Unquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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Categories:
concerns, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
What Are We Learning
What have you learned from your family experience
that influences your position
on public health and safety,
national health defense
and economic offensives you might propose
for healthier individuals
and families
and nations
and even planet Earth, hopefully?
Could you give me an...
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Categories:
concerns, environment, family, health, history, language, mental health,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Supremely Courted Systemic Feelings
I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v isolated Individual issues
within a systemic set
of inter-related issues.
This comes to mind
as I listen...
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Categories:
concerns, culture, earth, education, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Love Brings Hope - the Tigerjade Style
~ Love Brings Hope ~
( Tigerjade )
~O~
Love brings Hope
Helps me cope
It's great when you possess them all inside your heart
Life without them, truly hard to continue, start...
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Categories:
concerns, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse