Long Devoid Poems
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Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel lonely,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
devoid, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now Completed
Nemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
devoid, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Various Heresies 4
Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
devoid, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
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:
devoid, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Cleansings
Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
devoid, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Water's Weakness
There is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...
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Categories:
devoid, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Healthy Conversations
Life as active love
evolves toward more polycultural communication,
across both species and time,
within Earth’s Solar EcoSystemic Universe.
While this conversation includes human natured communicators,
we suboptimize our ecological balance
if endo-human discourse monopolizes our lifetime learning dialogue.
A life...
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Categories:
devoid, culture, earth, health, heaven, humor, math, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Medieval Poems Iii
Medieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
devoid, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...
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Categories:
devoid, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
- the Old Dark House -
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
devoid, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar Translation
Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
devoid, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
devoid, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...
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Categories:
devoid, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Witch At Inverness
Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.
With the Dragons gone and the...
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Categories:
devoid, adventure, children, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars 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:
devoid, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - I
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
devoid, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
devoid, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Jesus Messiah As Climate Bodhisattva
To my sisters,
and narrow-way brothers,
in Jesus Christ
as Supreme UnitingWealthyStates
sustainable legal/moral Savior
I reached U.S. voting age during the 70s.
During this time,
the Religious Right
and Republican Party Center
were about the same place;
not distinguishable,
inscrutable, perhaps.
In strong conserving defense of...
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Categories:
devoid, appreciation, christian, culture, health, history, love, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - the Challenge
My hair bristled in the crisp breeze
Excitement spreading throughout my body
Even the sudden cold amused my fingertips,
Tingles spreading through my hands and up my arms
Soon I would be there too. . .
In the murky shadows...
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Categories:
devoid, adventure, change, cool, imagination, music, sick, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Territory Trample
Headlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
devoid, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
EcoPolitics of Democratic Healthy Wealth
EcoPolitics intends to be culturally
and ecologically
normative,
improving in capacity to become historically descriptive
of healthy enlightened minds
in organically
and environmentally safe
empowered bodies.
Politics is about the effectiveness of power
in anthropological relationships.
Economics is about efficient financial resilience,
sustainable consilience
of...
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Categories:
devoid, culture, earth, health, humor, political, poverty, science,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
devoid, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
Birthday of beloved buxom babe I betrothed
Pardon my hyperbole if in fact such embellishment can be sifted out amidst the pretentious poetry and/or prose NOT aired to appear superior, but more so as passion for...
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Categories:
devoid, anniversary, appreciation, birth, birthday, endurance, fear, wife,
Form:
Free verse
Foggy May
This foggy sky
darkly and relentlessly rains
especially for an early May morning.
He is not prepared for darkness
seeping through new-born leaves,
not yet full grown into this year's trunk-lacing dress,
soaking up from saturated soil,
slurping into his compassionately
empathic...
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Categories:
devoid, age, culture, depression, destiny, earth, health, rain,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Increase In Head Size
Increase In Head Size
impossible mission to encapsulate notion
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male
blessed,...
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Categories:
devoid, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse