Long Encircling Poems
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Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
encircling, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
encircling, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
CommonSense Political WorkParty
EcoMinisters of Earth Rights
CoArise!
EcoLogicians of resilient encircling might
CoArise!
EcoLegislators of bicameral balancing disposition
CoArise!
What is our highest and best CommonSense
of currently elected policy-choosers?
Where are our optimal health outcomes
of proactive CommonSense?
What does vast emptiness of positive results
suggest...
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Categories:
encircling, addiction, community, creation, culture, health, political, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
encircling, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
The People with Wings
The People with Wings
It was a huge photograph of an eye – an amazing eye that now drew everyone to Mecca. It was said to belong to one of the ‘People with...
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Categories:
encircling, fate, future, myth,
Form:
Haibun
Where Gladiators Fought
Part I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
encircling, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Did You Ever Notice
Did you ever notice
our vampire legends
are almost always patriarchal,
sometimes even princely
and excruciatingly royalist,
elitist?
While witches plot and evil plan
in coven craven circles
more undershadow than legendary.
Wizards might be BullyVampire Princes
while witches may be victimized and therefore victimizing...
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Categories:
encircling, courage, green, health, humor, tribute,
Form:
Political Verse
To Grow Peace
To faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-informed learning theorists
and practitioners for resilient
mind/body peace,
Do not deceive yourselves.
Continuing to gaze and daze
on a monotonous monocultural path
Disassociating
internal v external
navel v social
my...
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Categories:
encircling, adventure, earth, education, environment, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Compassionate Returns
Your compassion reveals
mutual biological interests,
a powerful tool
for focusing fertile thoughts
and pent-up feelings
My passion regenerates
articulates
seeks to accurately label
read and process,
attend to your best nonviolent communications,
nonverbally hummed flirtations
of this
our potentially significant
Otherness.
These compassion communications,
positions,
postures,
poses,
plays,
prances and dances and trances,
Intuited...
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Categories:
encircling, culture, health, integrity, peace, political, power, strength,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Great Recycling Retransition
Icons are funny things,
she thought.
Heaven feels like a warm light circle
when we are thriving
and more like a cold dark triangle
of weaponed tipping points
against me
and mine
competitively not communicating
when we are barely surviving
above the mortally terrifying bottom
of...
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Categories:
encircling, health, identity, integrity, psychological, religion, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
UnSung IrReligious DisAuguration
How does it feel to you
when presidents proclaim anthro-supremacy
exclusively made
in one universal God's
straight WesternWhite monotheistic
over-Capitalized
autocratic entitlement
for a mono-polistic winner
to tax and spend against all weak
poor in spirit
vulnerable
disempowered
marginalized
despised losers?
How might Earth-dissociated
patriarchal monotheism have...
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Categories:
encircling, culture, earth, health, integrity, peace, political, religion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Therapeutic Talking
Talk therapy
among braver angels
and curious devilish advocates,
Evolves natural contemplative thoughts
of healthy minds and bodies
felt sacredly neuro-systemic
Organic
dynamic systems
reconnecting sensory consciousness
and mindful sexual experience
with worldviews recombining
Liberal YangTruth and Conserving YintegralBeauty
in co-empathic compassion
Nonviolently hopeful
win/win bicameral intelligence
exploring why
And healthy...
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Categories:
encircling, health, humanity, humor, peace, senses, sensual, stress,
Form:
Political Verse
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon read reliable publications...
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Categories:
encircling, abortion, abuse, america, anger, bereavement, emotions, history,
Form:
Free verse
Claustrophobic Centers
Much has been felt
then written
about loneliness at the top
Less written,
yet perhaps far more often felt,
about claustrophobia in the center.
Problems with delegation,
boundaries,
predictable timelines,
responsive management focus,
follow through performance,
closeted partisanship,
competitions to be heard
listened to
appreciated
respected
for our therapeutic,
and not...
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Categories:
encircling, appreciation, games, happiness, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
David Death
David Death
David Death was strong but handsome,
But he suffered from much discrimination,
Because his beauty was shaded, unlit,
Which found him called ugly and unfit.
He understood why this error occurred,
So always made...
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Categories:
encircling, computer, death, desire, internet, life, nature, self,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
The Holly Grove
Once Upon a long ago time, when the earth was full of abundant life;
and humans, who now have dominion, were but a distant star in the night…
Everything in this magical Kingdom had a spark of...
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Categories:
encircling, christian, community, creation, earth, fairy, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
In the delicious womb of all beginnings
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts
warm gurglings of God’s dream for us
Morning glories were waiting
deep...
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Categories:
encircling, allegory, creation, extended metaphor, growth, imagery, love,
Form:
Free verse
Small Powers Everywhere
This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine
Wide and longing
for committed dialogue
not surrounded
by elitist debate,
Win/lose games,
Zero-sum asinine assumptions
requiring ego-infested shadows
Resisting win/win opportunities
of healthy
democratic dialogue
Between constituencies,
residents sufficiently humble
to become students together
and unschooled
unprofessional parents
and not...
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Categories:
encircling, anger, beauty, fear, health, integrity, light, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Hell Translation Canto Xxxi Part1
The same speech before hardly could bit me
So that were redden both my cheeks for shame,
And after gave me comfort as to free;
So used to be the spear, I felt the same,
Of Achilles and...
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Categories:
encircling, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...
A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so as to not wake the moon, laying down its head...
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Categories:
encircling, beauty, color, memory, ocean, sea, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Surely Something
imagine, wonder, ponder, think
nebulous nothing is "surely something"
more than absence, spontaneous spawning on the brink
let's fantasise, let's dream awake
utter the dubious name of nothing
impostor corralled...
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Categories:
encircling, adventure, endurance, hope, philosophy, universe, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
Healthy Democratic Powers
I was a Taoist
philosophically and spiritually
metaphysically and physically
long before my Public Administration classes.
Which may be poignantly of interest
because the original Taoist teacher,
LaoTse,
taught sensory experiences
of Yang-testosterone energy
and Yin-estrogen synergy
for a bicameral governing audience
with questions about how...
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Categories:
encircling, earth, education, environment, health, integrity, psychological, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ringing Sea
Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in speculation;
when the sounds of waves from far nimbly...
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Categories:
encircling, appreciation, beach, blue, character, dedication, deep, devotion,
Form:
Personification
The last petal - the last grace
As the Autumn falls
The jays sing
A melody -a tale the old wives would sing
While the sun fills the sky dripping
With gold as honey to the brim
I catch sight from my window
Vines and creepyard...
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Categories:
encircling, angst, autumn, beautiful, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Beannchor Looks On, Fabulous Pivoting Place
molten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
belly-belching landform
oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
land-bridging, submerging
any one place moving astride, stutter-shifting
continental drifting world
climate...
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Categories:
encircling, future, history, ireland, places, sea, society,
Form:
Dramatic Verse