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Long Drumming Poems

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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: drumming,
Form: Abecedarian



Premium Member Healing Systemic Trauma
Can you make any sense of
systemic racism?

No more common sense than
too much patriarchalism--
all leftbrain-rightwing dominant things
oppressing sacred Earth's
polycultural win/win systems
promoting resiliently wealthy
resonant synergetic health

Care given
as received
in fruitful wombs,
like apple cores in transition
from refuse
toward rebirth

Maybe an...

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Categories: drumming, addiction, beauty, bullying, culture, health, history, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great. 

Lament to the...

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Categories: drumming, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort 
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats 
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...

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Categories: drumming, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...

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Categories: drumming, dark, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse



The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...

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Categories: drumming, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Children Iii
Poems about Children III

Miracle
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

The contrails of galaxies mingle, and the dust of that first day still shines.
Before I conceived you, before your heart beat, you were mine,

and I see

infinity leap in...

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Categories: drumming, adventure, child, childhood, children, dad, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You hack down everything you see, War God!

Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...

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Categories: drumming, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ghost Dance, Part I
1.

                                  ...

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Categories: drumming, history, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________

London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum 
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a museum
A thousand Terror Bugs were massed, in...

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Categories: drumming, adventure,
Form: Narrative
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: drumming, anniversary, appreciation, birth, birthday, endurance, fear, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mad Molly Shaw 2 - Molly Stands Firm
[If you’re a glutton for punishment, you
Can find ‘Mad Molly Shaw’ using the poems
Tag at top of screen]
              ****

Mad Molly Shaw wasn’t...

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Categories: drumming, western,
Form: Rhyme
Mystical Song of Trees
PRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...

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Categories: drumming, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Therapeutic Work and Play
You mentioned you work with a therapist.  

Has she encouraged you to incorporate centering exercises
and holistic thinking and feeling experiences
healing interior and exterior nondualistic climate events
in your everyday thinking/feeling mutually non-violent practice?

Has she encouraged...

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Categories: drumming, caregiving, deep, earth, education, green, health, love,
Form: Political Verse
Move on over ole Joe
Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United...

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Categories: drumming, america, anger, anxiety, care, faith, grave, political,
Form: Free verse
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel 
 soft it lay cradled  
rhapsodic rubicon...

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Categories: drumming, character, courage, death, emotions, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Epic
Two Doves of Red Lipstick
act i:
walk down the strip, the neon lights casting a gaudy glow on the fray. i meet my dealer, a facilitator of welcome distraction, and we exchange nods. i take a bump, and the rush...

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Categories: drumming, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Egotherapist Session
Have you been hearing voices again?

Still, yes.
No new ones, though,
since the Voice Against Death Investment.

So you're still hearing from the Forest Voices
which are actually more of a rhythm and blues chorus
made up of 4-part harmonic...

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Categories: drumming, earth, health, humanity, humor, mental illness, muse,
Form: Political Verse
An unexceptional turning point in our marriage
An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...

unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
and her significant other,
which occurred years ago
courtesy justice of the peace)
attended by...

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Categories: drumming, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, betrayal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family Health Assessment
I have watched my youngest son
while nurses give him baths
using diverse models of health optimization 
ranging from PositivEnergy Promotion,
restorative ego-eco
I-Thou therapies,
to lower, not too much NegativEnergy, concerns
for hygienic technology professional management,
anger and fear commercialized insurance...

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Categories: drumming, earth, education, health, humor, muse, music, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 3
They say the one you think of last before sleep,
Is the one you care for the most— the one you wish to hold, admire, love…

The two of us…beings of bravery,
Had labored all the night, 
In...

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Categories: drumming, adventure, allegory, anxiety, art, friendship, sympathy, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 9 helpless persons perished in Christmas day fire
Breathless panting as I sat waiting my abusive ex husband to return from his big job with Ciro Gargano dynamite gas cans golf balls with draino two hand grenades finally dust pans used to pour...

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Categories: drumming, allah,
Form: Kyrielle
I Wish For The Death of Me, My Ghost To Resurrect, and Haunt You Infinitely
"Silenced tears, muffled screams, A storm penetrating in your chest that seizes your soul, 
Is god watching the world burn? The bricks that create a barricade were the ones confiscated within me, and with mentioning...

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Categories: drumming, absence, addiction, anger, corruption, deep, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Feel Me
 Feel me an emotion deep inside your heart,a soft crimson rose reicarnated,
a red heart full of velvet petals ,birthed from a white wild simple daisy 
embroided in mystique passion,a bacchus of wine in finest...

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Categories: drumming, giggle, love, me, sweet, , Lullaby,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Vicissitudes and Succor
Are My Words So Foreign Or Obtuse 
That You May Not, Within Them, See Truth? 
That We Live Together Within, 
While Without We Share, What May One Day, 
Become A Common View; 
A Mutual Love...

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Categories: drumming, community, culture, destiny, faith, humanity, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things