Long Earthbound Poems
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Poems About Icarus
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
earthbound, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Burning Logs
Each flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
earthbound, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Native American Translations
Native American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
earthbound, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
Juvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
earthbound, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Earthcafe Coop
In one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
earthbound, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Salat Days
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
earthbound, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
earthbound, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
earthbound, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Sublime Terror
Let's say I am an antro-privileged terrorist.
What would we be saying?
And is human nature supremacy
over all other less sacred nature/spirits
as monotheistically redundant
as anthro-industrious militarism?
If you are a HolySpirit panentheist,
is "religious terrorist" as oxymoronic
as using...
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Categories:
earthbound, earth, earth day, fear, identity, peace, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Creation Stories
A lovely outcome for our recreational journey,
or Way
or Truths,
or LoveLives,
whichever you prefer to pick out
from among this graced array,
tells a multi-generational creation story
of cosmic sacred ecology
and Earth's evolution revolutions,
drawing on and with
scientific deductive knowledge
both...
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Categories:
earthbound, community, education, health, integrity, love, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Transformational Curiosity
That's queer!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow
Sometimes,
OK, really too often,
I could use more courageous exercise
But, Other times
I'm more content, inviting...
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Categories:
earthbound, culture, earth, health, peace, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Political Verse
Red and Trueblue Family--4
Dear Siblings Three,
At least three of us four
have survived this first round
of sharing our seeing Reds
and our feeling Blues.
At this point
I imagine our eldest sister
reading with interest,
and/or possibly contempt,
and holding all these things
in her...
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Categories:
earthbound, christian, earth, faith, health, heaven, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Temporal incarnation of Aphrodite
Temporal incarnation of Aphrodite...
induces idyllic reverie
delight evoking similar surge,
when skirting, and eluding
fidelity defining the marital law
on par with courting in flagrante delicto.
After reading about
Greek goddess of love
fancy notion woke whereof
warmth suffused me
snug as...
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Categories:
earthbound, absence, adventure, angel, april, beautiful, blessing, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Holier With Thou
My continuing impatience problem
with smug fundamentalists
self-asserting holier than thou moral positions,
is that Christ's main point is not
Holier Than Others, like Chosen People
but Holier With Thou,
as one interdependent EarthBound BodyMind.
British King James monotheistic readers
digest at AntiLiteraturist...
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Categories:
earthbound, culture, god, imagination, integrity, love, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
The Blue Nazarene
“The Blue Nazarene”
caeruleum caelum
in nubibus
caeruleum
caeruleum caelum
in nubibus
de hyacintho nazarene
testimonium:
white stallions,
clouds commanding
Christus imperium
above all below
all below
now present to worship
a secular ghost
stopped dead in their tracks
those ridiculous battalions
games of war...
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Categories:
earthbound, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Hello Bad Boys
FINAL EPISODE OF PURE FANTASY
Hello Bad Boys!
The starry, twilight zone high above, this night
With it’s shooting stars, and the moon, so bright,
Looked heavenly, even Venus, was in sight,
It was clear, could see far and beyond
Across...
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Categories:
earthbound, earth,
Form:
Free verse
The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus
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The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )
Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
teeming in the angry hordes they may,
forget to pay...
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Categories:
earthbound, art, corruption, creation, imagination, mythology, symbolism, war,
Form:
Classicism
Twice-Told Tale
I was speaking with a bus driver mom
about her bipolar son withdrawing from meds
on a trial basis,
hoping to qualify for military service.
She was praising the strengths of her son's Christian school,
from which he is about...
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Categories:
earthbound, christian, culture, earth, power, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Part 2 - Earthbound Angels Made of Stone - An Epic
Those evil thorns of bitterness
That couldn't bear to see
This child so loved and so adored
By their father
Captain Lee
Until one day in early May
When she went out to play
In fields drenched in morning dew
Above...
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Categories:
earthbound, abuse, angel, baby, black african american, death,
Form:
Epic
Defining Trumpism
Let's talk today about Trumpism.
If this is a new word,
how is it different and the same as
Fascism?
Who is a Trumpian
more than a Republican?
Or do these two labels
show the same angry face
about a Crippled America
to you?
I...
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Categories:
earthbound, earth, education, health, integrity, peace, psychological, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Wounded Passions
Starting this unSabbath day
unusually seduced by full-color compassion,
with some competing-for-time distractions
in more sadly usual role recessions,
raises weak-day wellness questions
with healthy answering co-passion,
responsive responses more resiliently weekend resonations
than pathological ego-manic fear emanations
about my immediate physical future...
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Categories:
earthbound, earth, education, health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
As That Dawning Hour, In Her Journey She Knew She Was Too Late
Posted at my new blog -Lesser Known Poets Series- continued,
two poems written, honoring sixth poet chosen, James Thomson
his great poem- The City of Dreadful Night
BY JAMES THOMSON (BYSSHE VANOLIS)
(1.)
As That Dawning Hour, In...
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Categories:
earthbound, appreciation, art, creation, history, meaningful, poetry, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Look Ahead
When breathless pain of sorrow
Steals the joys of...
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Categories:
earthbound, beautiful, destiny, father, heaven, hope, jesus, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Flying Manual For Poets
This is meant to be a manual, a set of sober instruction
that you can use, once you get past this lengthy introduction,
as a “how to” for learning to feel what it feels like when you...
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Categories:
earthbound, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainbow Girl
I was an irrepressible and happy young woman, and graceful ballet dancer,
Who lived for twirling on a world stage, as red berries are shrub laughter!
I had practiced for so many years, striving to become the...
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Categories:
earthbound, beautiful, color, depression, fantasy, friendship love, girl,
Form:
Couplet