Long Deserts Poems
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Summer Solstice 2025
Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year
for people living
within the northern hemisphere.
Just shy of the supposed...
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Categories:
deserts, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, dedication, earth, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
deserts,
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Abecedarian
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems 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:
deserts, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Iv
the Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
deserts, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Marina Tsvetaeva Translations
I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
deserts, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 2
Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
deserts, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Mirza Ghalib Translations
Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have pronounced you a saint...
if only we hadn't found
you...
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Categories:
deserts, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth, urdu, women, words,
Form:
Verse
Healthy Politics, and Sex, and Religion
I hope I know what is healthy sex,
in an experiential kind of way,
and a trans-biblical swell known sway,
and I can imagine a world with healthier,
more cooperative, politically empowering days,
but I am clueless about healthy religion,
which...
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deserts, health, humor, philosophy, political, religion, sensual, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Terrorist Deserts Into Bountiful Rivers
I'm continuing to read Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
although now with Antonio Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the [WinWin Creolizing-Bilateral] Conscious Brain."
Right now,
Dr. Gordon is discussing various academic attempts,
and some of them actual...
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Categories:
deserts, africa, body, culture, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...
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Categories:
deserts, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Urdu Translations
Last Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...
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Categories:
deserts, desire, hindi, longing, love, nature, passion, urdu,
Form:
Verse
To Notnot Saint Hillary Elect
If you run into first smart 1970s feminist to become President Elect Hillary,
please relay this message,
if you would remain so kind
and thoughtful of our regenerative nurturing selves,
cooperating together.
I appreciate and applaud your ability to nurture...
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Categories:
deserts, caregiving, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Sought Deliverance
Listen to the encouragement in mind
And the people say it for you to find
Relief from the grief due to trials in its prime
You can be who you want to be, yes, this time…
I...
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Categories:
deserts, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging, pain, passion, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133
Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133
(Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the standpoint of the fair liana-like “lady” of the pliant bamboo-shoulders,...
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Categories:
deserts, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual, tamil, women,
Form:
Epigram
Prisoner of the Matrix Loaded
Prisoner of the Matrix loaded
Prisoner of the matrix loaded
Cattle within the herd
cages within the slaughter
Profiteers prey upon the wounded
Branded comodified beings consumed
In consumption
Led to the plunder of themselves
Within the plotted grids of bondaged earth
Still between...
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deserts, america, analogy, philosophy,
Form:
ABC
Mean Economists 404
This course will encourage aspiring cooperative economists
to distinguish between mean national incomes
and global median incomes,
with diverse long-term capital growth/evaporation trends
expected.
First,
imagine USA mean income, including investment income,
could approach $500,000 for two-parent working households
per year.
Are you kidding...
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Categories:
deserts, blessing, culture, health, humor, love, money,
Form:
Political Verse
Me and Me First
That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First"
(To mesmerise people He needed...
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Categories:
deserts, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets
Tardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets
Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size called ‘Tardigrades’ endure,
Were and are living and thriving, just about anywhere on earth.
From mountain...
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Categories:
deserts, animal, education, nature,
Form:
Verse
This Fighter In Me
To be quite honest, I don’t have a single clue what to write about
I would be more appreciative if I was by your side, for I adore you too
I want to make an experience that’s...
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Categories:
deserts, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
My Ring Trilogy - the Poems
You Know Who You Are!
I know that you probably know who you are...
Abusers who prey on women (or men) .
Your aberrance mostly extends to the weak,
Your generosity just serves other's pain
And, of course,...
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Categories:
deserts, hurt, jealousy, recovery from,
Form:
Blank verse
A View From a Window
As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...
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Categories:
deserts, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost and Found
I loved my job as a botanist, which took me to many foreign lands,
Like the golden sun rises smiling, to meet all our natural demands.
I was always marked for this work, ever since I was...
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Categories:
deserts, adventure, fantasy, flower, green, lost, nature, work,
Form:
Couplet
My Poetry Session of ANXIOUS sorrow
Hours and hours of wasting time has escalated my anxieties…
I'm sorry, God, I'm addicted to so many bad behaviors…
Powers enlighten my mindset, and flowers make me feel at ease
Dementia kicking in as I procrastinate and...
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Categories:
deserts, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
You Want Emotion
You want emotion...
Tell me, ask me, beg me to show you my soul, my secret place where my muses dwell.
My living hell. The tainted sea of all me, so what...so you can wash in the...
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Categories:
deserts, emotions, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Shame Just Came
Big boys get brainwashed by television
It's my mission to fulfill you with vision
America is going under these days.
All the countries around us aren't getting their ways.
Who's to blame?
Shame just came...
Out of nowhere for...
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Categories:
deserts, anger, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Free verse