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Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
exchanging, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
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With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
exchanging, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
U Can 2U can 2 was on the license plate of my
store manager brown Benz where a dead man
was found in the trunk Alston Isadore defense store
manager at Fort Sheridan Army base Ronald Reagan...
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Categories:
exchanging, business, chicago, death, film, money, words, writing,
Form:
Acrostic
On Coincidences - Both Audio and Text - True StoryThis is a totally true episode from our 40 years spent collecting antiques -
You never know for sure what lays ahead in life, my friend…
And here’s a tale I love to tell, and...
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Categories:
exchanging, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
The Bate's Motel Does Exist - 1st HalfHere's the scoop, friends...like a bunch of my pieces now posted - and coming soon - this is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted...
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Categories:
exchanging, humor,
Form:
Narrative
All Is Fair In Love and War - Right“I prob’ly shouldn’t be telling you, Marge, but...knowing I can count on you to never tell another soul...get a load of this!
Just as I was hoping, my biggest prayer was answered - and after barely...
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Categories:
exchanging, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Wisdom's Healthy Passion"We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and consume our will."
Rumi (M. Mafi,...
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Categories:
exchanging, health, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
SplintersA crown that is broken cannot be fixed
It has to be replaced
Changed
Because a crown that is broken
Cannot be turned into joy
So why exactly
Do you make me sad
You broke my heart...
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Categories:
exchanging, absence, angst, anxiety, betrayal, growing up, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Earthjazz CommonsZeroSum Spirit
bicameral begins
playing through Ego-Eco Me.
Nondual trinitarian bilaterality
of a Mother Scaling Tree
forecasting and shadowing
WinWin
healthy branching
and rooting properties.
Spirit consciousness,
DNA with RNA tribal strings
of multicolored cooperative intelligence.
ZeroSpirit
fractal-seasoned
developing psychology
phylogeny
homology
toward
WiseElder WinWin GoldenRulology.
ZeroAnimated
AcclimatingMundi,
full-mooned Boody
multiregenerational cosmos
where ev'rything grows living out
and fades...
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Categories:
exchanging, addiction, community, health, humor, integrity, music, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
I'Ll Be Back To Stay - Both Audio and Text“I’m sorry that it’s been so long,” the old man told the tombstones, scanning them that brisk fall day, in 1969.
“It’s not that I’ve forgotten you. It’s not that I’m not proud...
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Categories:
exchanging, memory,
Form:
Narrative
The part of me That Never LivedIt is with tears in my eyes that I write these verses of hope, it is with tears in my eyes I climb the mountain of joy and stands on top of it and...
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Categories:
exchanging, america, best friend, city, community, dance, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity
from heart to lung to brain
you’re a...
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Categories:
exchanging, abuse, addiction, angel, depression, forgiveness, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Elsabob Comes To the ForestThe forest had enjoyed a magical transformation.
Dusk had ushered in the firefly brigade.
They lit up the pond area like tiny LED lights.
I could see they were excitedly motioning to the faeries.
Although I do not speak...
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Categories:
exchanging, animal, fairy, fantasy, friend, friendship, nature, tree,
Form:
Narrative
God Is Humor SensedLove wants nothing to do
with the everyday affairs of men.
Love's only intention
is to catch the lover!
Rumi
God wants nothing to do
with the routine affairs of men,
God's only intention
is to catch the lover's attention!
I wonder if Freud's...
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Categories:
exchanging, confusion, god, humor, identity, nature, psychological, science,
Form:
Free verse
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
...
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Categories:
exchanging, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Allah's Health Care LamentI would add to all Evolutionary Cooperative Warriors
a nuance regarding my teleological
raison d'etre
defined as "freedom to choose"
as not necessarily sufficient to define my purpose of evolution
v. purpose of devolution, decay, death.
Earth's regenerative evolution
slow-grows freedom to...
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Categories:
exchanging, allah, analogy, feelings, money, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
Transgenerate RootsMy grandparents' grandparents,
all sixteen,
digging roots through cultural meristems,
young adults,
adolescents during Time's 1880's,
post Civil War birth of Sir James Crow monoculture.
What would we name this self-hatred,
this lack of compassion and gratitude for help
for human nature's lavish...
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Categories:
exchanging, culture, gender, history, nature, philosophy, racism, time,
Form:
Free verse
Uniting Easter's Earth DaysLet's imagine that you are,
like Buckminster Fuller,
karmically absorbed with Unitarian genes,
were there such a thing,
which of course there are not,
but perhaps something like an evolving Unitarian Universalist post-millennial teleology.
Basically, some shared sense of...
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Categories:
exchanging, earth, earth day, easter, math, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Free verse
I'M BackLast year you beat me up
And poured vinegar in my cup
Last year you humiliate me
And hire criminals to torment me.
Last year you deny my friends and families
The natural right to be happy
My children went to...
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Categories:
exchanging, blessing, character, corruption, courage, happy, miracle, time,
Form:
Free verse
Inside the Winter Wild
"Inside the Winter Wild"
Inside the Wild,
Winter races
towards Time
like a runnaway train
it’s shadowy
and dark,
yet, inside Winter,
the wild keeps
without fail
its burning light,
a passion play
for everything
and all,
along the way
discovered
in...
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Categories:
exchanging, christmas, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Art of CaringI will admit I was a tightwad, though that fact shames me now,
As never changing mountains, often colorful mists will allow!
I never meant to be unkind, but only endeavored to be practical,
Like the moon exiting...
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Categories:
exchanging, art, care, fantasy, love, magic, people,
Form:
Couplet
Creolizing GraceWe often lament long-term effects of slavery
on those enslaved across multiple generations.
Enslavement leads to addiction and codependent denial,
then is taught and mentored to enslaved children,
also separated from family and sold,
until third generations and beyond
were dressed...
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Categories:
exchanging, addiction, culture, gender, health, love, racism, slavery,
Form:
Political Verse
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 5Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged...
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Categories:
exchanging, allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry
6 Hours Ago Today, November 20, 2015, My Mom Passed Away In Front of MeMy mom was everything to me
She was my every day, my every morning
She was literally my life and I lived every single bit of it, in her world
She was my inspiration and her smile, was...
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Categories:
exchanging, deep, emotions, goodbye, i love you, love,
Form:
Free verse
Cybersurfing Netizen FloundersCybersurfing netizen flounders...
analogous to a fish out of water
Ever since being a little gull hubble buoy,
I bobbed (while donning square pants)
like spongy flotsam and jetsam at sea.
Now as one decrepit
humble lumpenproletariat neopoet,
I experienced existence
with pronounced...
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Categories:
exchanging, 12th grade, adventure, age, angst, animal, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme