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Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
cooling, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Enola GayEnola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
cooling, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Early Poems IiiJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
cooling, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Earthcafe CoopIn one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
cooling, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Fishy Science School of Geometric ArtsMath speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.
Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...
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Categories:
cooling, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form:
Political Verse
The Bone Idol[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
cooling, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree 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.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
cooling, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
UnleashedI got up this morning in a good mood
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...
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Categories:
cooling, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form:
Narrative
Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
cooling, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
A Greener Bodhisattva WorldThis is the third time
I've read Beyond Religion:
Ethics
[non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-violent]
for A (not "The") Whole World
[ZeroZenZone Universe, psychological and politically eco-logical].
In the second, of two, sections,
the Dalai Lama discusses,
in most excruciating therapeutic detail,
emotional positive v negative...
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Categories:
cooling, beauty, green, health, humor, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
cooling, history, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 12His words stung me, as the cries from the maelstrom seem to retort
Their scattered, foreign words and wails retching their say
I listened, almost mesmerized,
Pulverized
“Come,” Said he,
With threatening authority
Upwards, higher than the balcony from which we...
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Categories:
cooling, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, conflict, hope, muse,
Form:
Free verse
What If - New UpdateWhat if…
If fear did not guard and watch over me?
My seeds of shame and doubt
Would timidly venture out
And finally sprout,
But as they reached the light,
Like a vampire, would wither and die
Without the protection of night.
Or:...
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Categories:
cooling, conflict, courage, fear, inspiration, longing, motivation, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Nervana - You Got the Nerve*warning: sexual theme*
My mind and heart of gold...
Never once...growing mold as we both grow old
Nervana sells out
I'm without a doubt
That I will love you till I die
That I will love you as long as...
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Categories:
cooling, deep, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Unwoven MemoriesI grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.
The boxers outnumbered the...
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Categories:
cooling, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Halloween Poems IiiNo One
by Michael R. Burch
No One hears the bells tonight;
they tell him something isn’t right.
But No One is not one to rush;
he lies in grasses greenly lush
as far away a startled thrush
flees from horned owls...
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Categories:
cooling, angel, dark, eve, evil, fear, gothic, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
RewindRewind
By Julia Shaw
At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding day so exciting
And marry again the man I found so...
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Categories:
cooling, appreciation, child, daughter, life, nostalgia, time, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Matsuo Basho New Haiku TranslationsMatsuo Basho New Haiku Translations
Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for the worm
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dusk-gliding...
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Categories:
cooling, animal, death, earth, life, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Like WaterLike water
I was the river
You were the sea
I dissolved into you
And thought I was free.
Out of the cage I flew
But landed on my knees
As I tried to flee
The heavy clouds
And storms, of responsibility
Your love...
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Categories:
cooling, allegory, betrayal, confusion, courage, trust,
Form:
Rhyme
Burnt Aqua
"Burnt Aqua"
I can taste the sun
on my tongue
it spills down
my throat
like burnt aqua
healing the beating frisson
I am ebony inside
shading in my shadow world
some somnolent soul
waking from slumber’s dream dance
a small death in life...
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Categories:
cooling, death, dream, life,
Form:
Free verse
Dandylion
"Dandylion"
The guy was a
Dandylion
there was
no denying it
full of promises
and making wishes
residing over
this new world
poetically
speaking, he
shone like
the Sun
he sat on his throne
for all to see
the mane man
roaring non-garrulous
declaring
to...
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Categories:
cooling, dream, humor, muse, word play,
Form:
Narrative
Of Fawn and FairyInside this forest
so bright and mild
a fairy lived
her name, Wonder Child
For all the forest
knew of this girl
to which they knew
she would change the world
A fawn she crept
upon one day
it sensed no danger
no need...
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Categories:
cooling, animals, mother, beautiful, beautiful, fairy, love, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
Her Broken WingsI had a vision
standing on a grassy knoll
surrounded by threehundredyearoldfortifiedwalls
The sun ...
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Categories:
cooling, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly CherishedWhen In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts and...
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Categories:
cooling, art, beautiful, longing, love, passion, romantic, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Goodbye To HomeSand in my lungs and in every nook and cranny possible, nothing out here not even a simple bush or tree. Everything is dead and dry as a bone. My own skin holds no life,...
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Categories:
cooling, art, me, woman, old, me, old,
Form:
Epic