Long Divines Poems

Various Heresies 3

Breakings
by Michael R. Burch

I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.

But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...

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Instant individual redemption
from predative enculturation
is overly spiritualized,
under naturalized,
rightwing evangelical dogma
more likely found in empire-building
strong business-loyalty development texts
than multi-enculturing
re-connecting
re-ligioning nature/spirit scriptures.

If spiritual 
and capital redemption from baseline natural evils
is good news for individuals,
yet inapplicable to global...

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Galactic Strings or Void of Space?

A poem’s akin to a necklace, one fashioned
of water-worn pebbles (from rarest of realms),
stone cold truths tumble-polished, love’s chord weaves together.
Do fossilized beads left behind in Life’s wake
spark faint hint...

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*Image of Thunder & Lightning by Pixabay.

The Stranger
My life warps by its beasts of woes
depression dogs my day
at night, stress drains my restless soul
the wrongs have no delay

Myself am I, forsook decreed
hope laid by things...

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Expiry date               
                 14.

I taught...

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My pride    for the Girl Child
       
Adorned with beauty
Carved in sensitivity
Nourished in humility
Crowned in glory
Yet denied of my pride
 
I weep that I might find my...

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My pride    for the Girl Child
       
Adorned with beauty
Carved in sensitivity
Nourished in humility
Crowned in glory
Yet denied of my pride
 
I weep that I might find my...

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7:13
The coldness came quickly
The darkness began to spread
Violent tongues were lashing
Evil fingers pointed at innocence
Thanks and forgiveness had been forgotten
O' DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, how might we stop this
TIC, TIC, TIC, TOC
The sand is moving fastly
It...

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Immaterial Soul 
A sprout abundant of immortal hope, 
a search of a pulse of love in his heart,
an empty threat vivid in a man of a dying soul, 
as the echoes in his heart race...

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Life is a series of events, changing seasons. I must search, look for the reasons. Worried about triumphs and trophies. Forgetting I'm not measured by victories; But by my growth, how I've evolved. How I...

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She (For Whom the Snake Coils)

Does danger dance to flutes played by your breath, 
emerge from basket’s depths to haunting tunes? 
It’s superstitious myth that weaving snake
can hypnotize and freezes victim’s feet
when cobra rises writhing...

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Heavens doors shined bright on one man, When God gave him what he never said he can, 
her beauty flowed like lifes waters that rushed into his heart.
filled it like the earths oceans, 

she made...

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Be it that I am doomed to walk the Earth
In fear of time - measured in mere fractions;
Starlight grants me comfort with twinkling mirth,
Lost in wakes of dread deeper than oceans.

I'd ask what it means...

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I wasn’t born with a silver spoon,
Neither on the night of full moon,

Yet,
I was showered with their grace,
They were divines in human face,

Nothing in my life I was denied,
They were the ones, who were my...

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Wrought iron gates greet the eyes
Looming like deception and lies

Such a petty endeavor to seek valor
With such a ghastly pallor

This place was supposed to heal
But trapped is all I really feel

The walls look down upon...

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Can you imagine God that laughs?
Well I feel sure I can!
When “Christians” flock to Church in droves
Though sinful to a man.
A God who tolerates the gaffs
That we plunge in his side,
Though we may pray for...

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There is a spectacle that divines 
A specialness, reflective best. The
Blessed. Yet I am surprised that 
This shrine time is of disingenuous 
Kind. And I alone surmise for I can
Only survive if I mind my...

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HUMANNESS
-the quality of being human-

Angels or Demons?
No, we are Humans.
We preach divinity or devilish?
No, we preach Humanity.
Oh! Although in the logical world!

Divinity is for the divines, not us.
Devilish is for the demons, positively not us...

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When darkness falls on the fortunes of men
And dark clouds of shame gather about their brows
There're stars that rise deep in their eyes.
There they stand frozen
Beaming forth a message 
For the shepherd of men to...

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Distant space departing realms of conscious warmth
Voicing reason to an end within the persons hearth
 A fire with pit to poke and prod dissolving spirit 
Harmed retreated into a place where safe
The Avatar a being...

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I  LOOK UP TOWARD THE MOUNTAIN’UP ONTO HEAVEN I SEETHE FATHER AS I’M PRAYING 

I look up onto the mountain, and I’m explaining
Explaining, the reason for my worship;
Is cause He’s able, He’s the almighty...

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Apostle is a priest
Eternal Son is the Apostle of Eternal Father
Eternal Father gave the name Christ when He was baptized by St. John the Baptist
He ordered the 12 apostle to preach His Gospel

He was the...

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There are baskets full of something's;
     While there are barrels filled with nothings;
     And as I reply, no ones reading my divines;

     There...

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Never have I had fear for flying darts
My tingling thoughts of the world was weird
Many told of nature's hard hazards
Beauties I saw instead of dirties

So was my heart as a dove
Peaceful in a world full...

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YESTERDAY

A FEELING FREE,
COOL AIR 
SOUNDS OF GEESE,
PHEASANTS,

ROOKS FLAPPING
SAWS BUZZING
FEELINGS QUITE,
 LIKE RUSTLING LEAVES
A BREEZE NOT HERE

STRANGE LIGHTS, 
THRU CLOUDS 
FROM HEAVEN STREAMING
FLATTENED GRAYS OF LIGHT SUPPORTED

ROLLING FIELDS OF SHEEP CONTENT
IF THEY BUT KNEW, 
THEIR DINNER...

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