Long Defiant Poems
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Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
defiant, 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
defiant, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Games We PlayYang, dear.
Yes, my lovely Yin.
Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.
Really!
How sexist?
Well you seem to associate competitive ZeroSum WinLose
with strong aggressive patriarchal effectiveness
for defending...
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Categories:
defiant, birth, games, gender, health, history, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama NasserThe Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story...
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Categories:
defiant, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict, courage, devotion, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Theories of Every Big and Little ThingKey CapitalistYang/CreolistYin EcoHistoric Concepts
I find a fuzzy irony in this morning’s early search for a new journal notebook, having filled my last from what had been, five years ago, an inconceivably high pile of empty...
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Categories:
defiant, culture, earth, health, history, political, science, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dear NeighborsDear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
behind me, on the...
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Categories:
defiant, baptism, health, heart, humor, passion, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ending In a Deadly Minor KeySo here's my question for this dawning day,
like a WinWin ruminating message in a bottle
floating through a LoseLose climate sea
felt still foggy from last night,
some mysterious how now;
One of many
health related strategic WinLose issues
tuning out...
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Categories:
defiant, anger, anti bullying, dark, fear, green, grief,
Form:
Political Verse
Sun God's Original IdeaI'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.
Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might recognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NegativeYin Balancing
compassionate/revenge YinFractal-Dialectical DiPolar
appositional
negative co-relational,
co-arising side.
Just as my Yin Compassionate/Immune Empathetic/Aptic Elation
emerges...
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Categories:
defiant, earth, health, sun, time, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
defiant, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Be Human For a DayThe World has been playing a game
Oh what a shame
The world has been playing a game
This is insane
Leaders come and leaders go
Leaving me to continue the show
Leaders come and leaders go
Repeating the show of long...
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Categories:
defiant, america, business, character, corruption, crush, desire, environment,
Form:
Free verse
July BrideI was so anxious to get away but I did not realize what was on the way
I got a standing ticket because all the tickets have been sold out some on the black market, others...
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Categories:
defiant, betrayal, endurance, environment, friendship love, happiness, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Seeking the Boundaries of Love's Depths and Her HandPoem One: Inspired by my reading of -Lady Labyrinth's---magnificent
poem , "Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"
(1.) Poem One
Seeking The Boundaries Of Love's Depths And Her Hand
The air, its surging breath sings
into the...
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Categories:
defiant, appreciation, art, beauty, dedication, love, passion, poetry,
Form:
Romanticism
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct,
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...
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Categories:
defiant, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
Part One - a Gunshot Wound To the Heat - a Short Story From My MemoirGUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEART
From a two-room schoolhouse high on a hill over the Fundy Bay, I sat at an old wooden desk daydreaming. The ink stains and etchings which were dug deep into...
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Categories:
defiant, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Sacred RegenerationIn Regenerative Design,
dialectical cooperative contrasts
need not also mean
suspiciously diabolical
competitive win/lose opposition
to our own internal RightWing
self-righteously
kinda venomously professional
commodified LeftBrain dominant encultured
prejudiced inside privileged
ego-supremacist voices.
In Regenerative Communication,
sometimes questions
are expressed as peace-intended
hypothetical Truth Statements,
awaiting sacred polycultural transubstantiation
through...
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Categories:
defiant, health, integrity, music, passion, peace, power, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
An Eternity IStood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle
Of beer, ...
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Categories:
defiant, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Velvet Glove CompartmentAge defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers
slid over an intermittently scratched carbon black handrail she...
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Categories:
defiant, adventure, age, birth, celebration, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form:
Prose
The Postelection SurveyThis is not really a test.
More of a survey,
so there are no right or left answers.
Did you mean to say
Answers are both right and wrong?
Yes.
Isn't that what I said?
Not quite, but go ahead.
How would you...
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Categories:
defiant, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Empowering PassionIn passionate psychology,
powers of proactive compassion
are generally thought of in personal
and familial
interdependently relational
perspectives.
In political science,
large-scale powers for proactive compassion
resist reactive competition to merely overpower the opposition,
preferring pro-active energy for liberal love
constrains against investments in conserving...
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Categories:
defiant, caregiving, education, health, integrity, nature, passion, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer's Poem Thaye Yashoda By T WignesanTranslation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer (circa 1700-1765)’s « THAYE YASHODA » by T. Wignesan
This devotional song and poem in Tamil (the principal Dravidian language which has spawned over twenty languages in the southern Indian...
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Categories:
defiant, god, mother, religious, universe, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 55“You may be right, Rian.” Joulupukki started again, “If you look at the door you will see letters that are inscribed into movable tiles.” They all stepped closer to get a better look....
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Categories:
defiant, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Herstory from Battlefields to LaboratoriesHerstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
Beneath stardust's scattered gleam,
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.
Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise, a chorus harmonizing,
...In this vast, of an eternal fold.
I am...
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Categories:
defiant, freedom, girl, history, literature, march, rights, women,
Form:
Narrative
Earth's Messiah VocationGeorge Lakoff, in The Political Mind (2008),
speaks to permacultural tension within democratic governance;
between conservative competitions for sufficiently orthodox authority
and progressive movements for more cooperatively integrative empathy.
This purpose of mind,
or human consciousness,
is to evolve further humane...
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Categories:
defiant, creation, earth, environment, health, nature, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Yangwin-YinwinShe started our discussion of EgoWin-EcoLogicalWin
Eastern NonDual CoArising Political Theory,
by reminding us that Deductive LeftBrain
has not always been WinLose competitive dominant;
there was a prior emerging moment in prehistory,
more of a herstory,
when WinWin cooperative EgoYang and...
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Categories:
defiant, earth, games, health, humor, passion, teacher,
Form:
Political Verse
Art TherapyMy daughter,
with Oppositionally Defiant Chaotic Disorder,
has taught me a role-play therapy,
in which we Both-And build a back-and-forth story,
she plays me,
more or less,
and I play her
Mulatta as I inductively feel her
in my RightBrain resonant positives
and...
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Categories:
defiant, culture, earth, family, health, humor, parents, political,
Form:
Political Verse