Long Current Poems
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Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
current, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
current, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
current, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family AffairsNext day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The Hakim
Children...
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Categories:
current, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form:
Alliteration
Energy's Dying WishSo, if I understand correctly,
you want to respond to inevitable energy descent
by upgrading incentives for cooperative communication,
positive information expansion,
research and regenerative design,
implementation,
and ecopolitical evaluation strategies?
Yes,
because we achieved current WinWin cooperative communication
and organic networking capacities
by virtue...
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Categories:
current, culture, deep, games, green, health, language, science,
Form:
Political Verse
The Flash Mob ApplicationI'd like to apply for a permit
for a protest march
on the Washington Mall.
Lovely idea.
But, we're only issuing Mall permits
for Song and Dance Events.
I think this might be a violation of my Rights
to Free Speech.
I see...
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Categories:
current, america, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, music,
Form:
Political Verse
kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight
your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...
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Categories:
current, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Universal Credit UnionStepped inside Bucky's Universal Credit Union today
to ask what could I invest in
with least risk
and greatest potential for self-optimizing return?
He invited me to sit down
to consider cooperative transactions
as our intentional understory
camouflaged within our ecotherapeutic relationships,
like...
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Categories:
current, earth, nature, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
Answers Without QuestionsWhy do questions hope to end with answers
while answers seem to never end
without yet more questions?
As a case in point...
How are the Case Studies of economic and political history
different than Einstein's Thought Experiments?
Wait a...
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Categories:
current, feelings, health, humor, integrity, language, relationship, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Healthy Politics As UnusualCreolization,
soars Dr. Jane Anna Gordon,
turns our co-empathic evolving democracy project
into a verbal,
active,
regenerative more,
degenerative less,
occasionally Elite-Pirates v NonElite-Prey revolution,
and even more unconsciously occasionally
Elite/NonElite Creolizing-SelfReGenerative
crave to grave
multicultural Earth experience.
What could all this Elite and NonElite...
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Categories:
current, beauty, body, community, culture, health, philosophy, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Prescribing Rebirth To Dt2DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my feminist work as ecotherapist--
so...
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Categories:
current, birth, body, culture, health, humor, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Psychotripic Theory of EverythingCompassion co-arises nondually
internal-external.
Today I want to talk about possibilities
for integral polycultural dynamics,
which are systemic relationships,
correlations,
between LeftBrain deductive ego-mind,
RightBrain inductive eco-body,
and a boundary between these bicameral landscapes,
which we call unconsciousness.
The feasibility
and health value
of recognizing this...
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Categories:
current, community, political, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
CommonSense Political WorkPartyEcoMinisters of Earth Rights
CoArise!
EcoLogicians of resilient encircling might
CoArise!
EcoLegislators of bicameral balancing disposition
CoArise!
What is our highest and best CommonSense
of currently elected policy-choosers?
Where are our optimal health outcomes
of proactive CommonSense?
What does vast emptiness of positive results
suggest...
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Categories:
current, addiction, community, creation, culture, health, political, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Everyday ChristiansI would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.
I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...
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Categories:
current, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI 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:
current, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
current, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
current, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
current, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 46Over the next two evenings after the Council had recessed, Seileach visited each of the Councilman who had voted to release Dyndoeth in an effort to assess their feelings about whether they were inclined to...
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Categories:
current, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Lifeboat the SinkingAs 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:
current, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes
"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"
“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”
This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...
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Categories:
current, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Water, 30 random word promptThe weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my...
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Categories:
current, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
current, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Working With TheoriesI'm working on this Systems Theory
All existing formal religious traditions
and informal spiritual experience
of Great Sacred EcoLogical Transitions
[e.g. Holocene to
Green AnthroScene;
HolySpirit to
Whole Holonic Natural Communion Systems]
Originally,
through our divine monotheistic
and/or polytheistic
and/or atheistic naturalistic branches
shared as...
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Categories:
current, anxiety, appreciation, culture, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Political Science of Organic ClimatologyPolitical Science is the compare and contrast study
of governing authority powers
with concomitant economic responsibilities,
and...um...opportunities,
speaking perhaps too candidly.
Why not other powers,
nutritional loves that can be owned only cooperatively,
can be, and would like to become, health invested,
but...
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Categories:
current, beauty, earth, health, love, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry