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Poems About IcarusSouthern 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:
exhaled, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young SolomonsDamian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be leaving today...
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Categories:
exhaled, adventure, birth, business, father son, women,
Form:
Alliteration
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
exhaled, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.
...maybe it's been a while since...
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Categories:
exhaled, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Maya 2Continued from Maya 1
At length, when the womens' screams had ceased
and the sound of the thunder had stopped,
he gathered his courage and withdrew himself
from his hiding place beneath the corn.
He left the hut and prostrated...
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Categories:
exhaled, allegory, conflict, courage, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
If You'Re Like MeFear of Climate Success
If you're like me,
which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience
to Zero,
Regardless,
if we're like we used to be
when we were born
with all the potential integrity neurons
of the uniting universe,
Through childhood...
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Categories:
exhaled, childhood, green, health, integrity, nature, psychological, time,
Form:
Political Verse
A Sustainable SanctuaryI'm in the process of joining a Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary
communion of All Souls,
in Connecticut.
This is not my first time joining a new intentional good-faith community,
but it is the first time I have signed a...
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Categories:
exhaled, community, destiny, green, health, humanity, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
The Pepperman and the Ancient World of Wisdom Part IvAFTER MANY THOUSANDS
OF STEPS
I BECAME VERY COMFORTABLE
WITH MY SURROUNDINGS.
I STARTED TO THINK
OF ALL THE EVENTS
LEADING UP TO THIS POINT.
I OPENED THAT DOOR
IN THE UNIVERSE.
I CHOSE TO OPEN THAT DOOR
I WANTED TO KNOW
WHAT WAS...
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Categories:
exhaled, perspective, philosophy, universe, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon Healthy TimeOnce within eternal time
of pre-LeftBrain domination,
I recall breathing in
EarthMother's richly hued nutrition,
and this Other inhaling me,
purging lungs of misperceptions
that I was Her
any more or less than S/he was me.
We owned this communion together,
sacred breath...
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Categories:
exhaled, birth, culture, history, integrity, nature, science, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updatedCaptain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated
Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary
after Grahame Wood
determined to meet
the evolving needs of the community
opened the first Wawa Food Market
in Folsom,...
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Categories:
exhaled, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Exit StrategyTo prepare for final cosmic breath
exhaled
echoing first breath
inhaling
waiting to exhale
silent sacred pause
for Earth's final soliloquy
Terminating all humane
and inhumane futures,
healthy
and disturbing relationships,
elegantly excruciating ecstasy
Leaving hell
without receiving Heaven
Surrendering commitments
to health
and lack thereof
Future obligations
and past assets
Resigning...
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Categories:
exhaled, age, appreciation, death, grief, health, integrity, loss,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Chapter 38 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: the Master Plan IiOne year Passed Damian Junior
Was 15 months old. Damian
Graduated from West Virginia
University institute of Technology
With honors and an
Associate of Applied Science
Degree. His whole family
Attended the graduation and
Congratulated him with...
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Categories:
exhaled, allusion, appreciation, business, emotions, father son, graduate,
Form:
Alliteration
Silent GodI don't know,
S/He said,
(right winged left
exhaled downstream
past everyone's egopaled head)
If God is dead
and also much too Capitalistic,
LeftBrain dominant hegemonalistic
(like water to a philosophical shark)
If God is straight
and white
and a patriarchal supremacist accountant
calculating monoculturally ambitious values
Then...
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Categories:
exhaled, earth, health, humor, integrity, power, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
The Beginding(Door bell rings)
— The damn dog barks and a voice is heard. Arms stretch, forming a letter Y. A head shakes. Dimples become this smooth cheek; lips form a letter O... Exhaled respiration sighs; the break of...
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Categories:
exhaled, adventure, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation, art, assonance,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Fire In the Heart of Our Darkneswe sat, my brother and I
leaning against the old wood pannels of the room
the smoke engulfed us like breath
as the threat of violence loomed
his voice was quiet still
passion and regret burned in his eyes
when he...
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Categories:
exhaled, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Mothertree IntegrityHow might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?
A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and more disabled
and WhiteMale monotheistic
How might even Republican Red MotherTrees
avoid secularized Self-serving
by Capitalizing...
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Categories:
exhaled, appreciation, earth, health, humor, integrity, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...
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Categories:
exhaled, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than CumulativeYuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited
healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive
in into neat stack of wrapped gifts, when...
what! out of thin...
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Categories:
exhaled, 10th grade, 11th grade, appreciation, creation, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 5Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 5
Anulom Vilom or The Science of Alternate Breathing
HOW TO DO IT
Take your right thumb on your right nostril and while pressing and closing it inhale a deep slow...
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Categories:
exhaled, health, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 74 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Love ProtocolThis was the explicit exploration
Exasperation Continuation.
Molly laid across the bed with a
Pair of lacey underwear. Damian
Adored the exhibition. Her subtle
Sensuous submission. He reached
For her hips as she slid beneath the
Sheets he removed...
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Categories:
exhaled, business, deep, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Liberating MigrationsI was listening, last night,
to a sympathetic defense
for conserving liberal arts
and producing deeper and wider liberating sciences
including healthy democratic
politically empowering science.
Once again
I am hearing about the persuasive prominence of identity,
how we label our ego-political selves,
as...
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Categories:
exhaled, earth, health, identity, integrity, metaphor, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Following Our RulesIn our Sharing Circles
we have a ground rule
to share a one speaker at a time floor
and unitarian silent listening support
And rules to not share uninvited commentary
suggestions
verbal agreements or disagreements
during, and after,
this formalized Circle.
Speakers are invited...
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Categories:
exhaled, community, culture, earth, freedom, health, integrity, music,
Form:
Political Verse
The Difference In the Stories We Want To TellOhh I could have sat with my heart
--elevated with dribbled echoes--
ahhhhhh until it yet exhaled the tarnished seams
capturing only the quiet current lapping
and soaking dirty steel embankment
along the river’s edge beneath the...
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Categories:
exhaled, death of a friend, music, nostalgia, river,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Yuletide pageant merry go roundYuletide pageant merry go round
Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals
and...
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Categories:
exhaled, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration, chanukah, christmas, december,
Form:
Free verse
Beloved RefugeesMy LeftYang eye and ear,
and maybe throat
and hand
and probably vocational foot
remain adamantly persuaded
My most successful time for deep ecological listening
and watching
is immediately after inhaling a vast theological lungful
preparing to speak my WiseElderness
into the remaining yin...
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Categories:
exhaled, caregiving, community, education, humanity, humor, integrity, love,
Form:
Political Verse