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Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines

Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...

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Categories: epistle, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Food glorious food

Food glorious food

Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...

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Categories: epistle, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli

Sonnets XXXIII-XLI

The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch

She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...

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Categories: epistle, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form: Sonnet

Echoes of the Angel's Fallen

Invocation to the Muse

From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly, 
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...

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Categories: epistle, allegory, angel, christian,
Form: Epic

A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholia--Part I

(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

...

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Categories: epistle, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form: Prose

I Was There

Where was I on "Bull" Conner's day,
When the world saw white-hate on display?
Attack dogs, hoses, and lawmen's feet,
Blacks felled like timber on a southern street.
As fists and batons flayed the air,
Hate left the wounded laying...

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Categories: epistle, emotions, imagery, perspective, racism, remember,
Form: Rhyme

A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholia--Part Ii

(continued from, "An Epistle Warning against Melancholia: an Allegory--Part I," where somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the...

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Categories: epistle, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form: Prose

Earth Round

There once was a messiah with crown
so heavy it caused him to frown
when he gave it away
some folks say to this day
it grew lighter while revolving around.

There once were most men with dementia
so heavy it...

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Categories: epistle, adventure, birth, blessing, humor, passion, peace, political,
Form: Limerick

I Discovered Miscellaneous Meaningless Hodgepodge

I discovered miscellaneous meaningless hodgepodge...

dating back circa: Age of computer antiquity
mine signature worthless gibberish
found Earthling dumbfounded
for further waste of time inquire
about trivial details constituting 
more'n six electronic new pages
the following an excerpt from book of
Matthew...

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Categories: epistle, absence, adventure, character, dream, eulogy, history, march,
Form: Free verse

Employment Quest Sought December 11th 2021

Employment quest sought December 11th, 2021

Across cyberspace,
the following epistle
yours truly (me) doth lob
as the figurative pressure
tightens on the virtual knob,
I would moost certainly benefit
from a part time job
hence this rather goofy atypical reply
crafted (at initial
ten...

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Categories: epistle, adventure, america, angel, appreciation, blessing, celebration, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Rant

considering the inanity of writing a poem
 without  any idea  of a subject
  to write about has not deterred me 
from blindly filling the first sentence with words of little or no...

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Categories: epistle, life, natural disasters, work, me, write, me,
Form: Bio

What Witnesses Say He Taught About God

"Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done," I began to sing during three weeks of prayer from 9 in the morning till 5, a full "work" day. I challenged my church, If you want the...

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Categories: epistle, god, jesus, philosophy, power, prayer, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry

Crazy Like Jesus

all that really matters is that you have a true faith
there's no time to pause nor a reason to hesitate
Paul writes this epistle to the Galatians
about what it takes to be a faithful Christian
he tells...

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Categories: epistle, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, uplifting, god, old,
Form: Epic

Broken

Every time you walk into my space, 
Everything that’s real about me,
Gets erased.
Somehow, it always ends up
My mistake—
Comatose I am,
to my own fate.
I have decades, years
Not knowing how--
Can I fix this ever,
 If not now?
Every...

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Categories: epistle, abuse, child abuse, depression, endurance, freedom, little
Form: Rhyme

Lord God, You Are My Compassionate Leader

September 11 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 20-22

Key Verse – Matthew 20:34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

LORD...

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