Long Dilution Poems

It is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.

It sharks, 
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...

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Trump Poems and Epigrams VI


Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for you are my retribution.

May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger and deeper moats
as part of my sweet...

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These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems...


Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for *you* are *my* retribution.

May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger...

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The blood is dripping 
Greed creeping
The towers tipping
The powerful sipping the sweet tea
Made from the blood and sweat of poverty
Exploitation
Rules the nation
Propaganda at every station
Look and see
There is no more you or me  
Just...

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We cannot do without water,
But it could do without us
If we choose!
 
Bodies of living things are made up 
of mostly water, squashy plants,
Blood and Lymph  included too. 
Without Hydration, the skin as well...

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A Student of Love (for Life)
Chapter 1:
I’ve found stagecoach to love is a pumpkin on wheels
whose door opens for you when your guard’s at low ebb,
and you dare to step in (though all magic is...

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"Though my actions, sometimes selfish and oppressive on the surface, inevitably land myself in a pit of dispair, yet for those of my supposed oppressors, repeatedly reap a formidable benefit.
Now this is not to say...

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Tomorrow is an illusion
It relies on assumption
Of the planet’s rotation
On the seasons’ migration
And the moon’s revolution
On man’s innovation 
And his evolution
For his interpretation
Or insinuation
And theorisation
On Law’s of gravitation
Using invention
And his powers of investigation
And logical deduction
To...

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‘Sincerity claims focusing concentration not allowing dilution’ -  Poet
     
            
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No more new year resolutions,
 no more lie on government restitution,
 no republic can survive its dilution
 no more pandemic blues,
 no more wild-eyed cons[iracy cues
 no more revenue that's due,
just a prayer for every...

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Now and Then in 2017©

There was a time when I was younger
That there was this constant hunger
	
Time has passed and the years have flown by 
Sometimes joy and laughter, sometimes a good cry

Vows kept under...

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Will it be from tribulation that shall cause us to separate
The stress of a situation causing us to chose such a fate
Each day brings a new trial weighing upon our shoulders
As there, just underneath, that...

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Will the Twenty First Century be the end for Homo Sapiens?
Can human minds and psyches stand up to the speed of change being metered out?
Today, we make more decisions in a day than were made...

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LET NATURE LEAD
refine our ways… let nature lead
define the paths of all creation
aline the equilibrium… succeed
fine weather helps procreation…

should we continue to live a lie
would lead to our total devastation
could be that all world life...

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it is circulated deep into the soil 
that you’ve wore the dress of paraffin 

in the multidimensional wind of the winter 
the cash-memo of the recently purchased 
gold-bangles 
would reside for some time more 

then...

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I have a a newly repaired heart
it's recovered after so much damage
and through the pain and tears
I've always seemed to manage 

My heart is warm inside and 
the ice has chipped away
and each and everyday
it...

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Elements of a Dram

Earth, with a fertile ground used all year round
Strong and consistent and new growth persistent
A yield from a field, and a brood of oakwood

Fire, with the strike of a match, we start...

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Earth, with her fertile ground used all year round
Strong and consistent and new growth persistent
A yield from a field, and a brood of oakwood

Fire, he strikes a match, we start a new batch
Set smoke in...

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A cellular division and weakening, 
at each sever and subsequent split, 
emotions diffused, dilution of feeling, 
by fractions, bit by bit. 

Every letting down word, every reason, 
every tactical blind, each excuse, 
are delicate chisels...

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A cellular division and weakening, 
at each sever and subsequent split, 
emotions diffused, dilution of feeling, 
by fractions, bit by bit. 

Every letting down word, every reason, 
every tactical blind, each excuse, 
are delicate chisels...

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Read
Trees (solidity presenting)
Fluttering leaves
The light kissed plants merry with the wind free and clean
The rain stream glimmering to
a speckled burst of sun
Gentle easy rolling chuckle of
The sighing creek
Uncluttered sea green
Ah read the ripple (and if...

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MY BOYFRIEND’S COMPULSION LIES IN THE STREETS
HIS CONSCIOUS RESIDES
DESIGNING THE PATH OF GETTING HIGH
HE KNOWS NOTHING ELSE, HE OFTEN FORGET ABOUT ME
 
I AM AN AFTER THOUGHT
FOR WHEN HE BECOMES SOBER
MISERY RESIDES WHEN THE DRUGS...

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As ego identity gradually recedes
centred in tranquil inner quietude
nestled in a continuum of stillness 
bliss throb increases in magnitude 

Occasionally acts need to be done
compelling indulgence of attention 
yet recognising divine as the mover
we act...

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I have no time for thinking or imagining a better future and a better life.. to rely on the self made man and seek for material success..
Time stops.. 
I’ve just break the clock.. 
It was...

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THIS LIFE OF MANY ILLUSIONS,

DILUTION OF TRUTH,

AND HOLOGRAM DECEPTION.

THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY

OF EXPERIENCE AND

THE DUALITY OF THIS DIMENSION,

LEAD US WONDERING IF WE WILL

FIND OUR WAY TO TRUTH.

WHAT IS BEYOND SPACE AND TIME?

OUR TRUE IDENTITY LIES...

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