Long Extend to Poems
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Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
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Categories:
extend to, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
extend to, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
In the WildIN THE WILD
Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At 6 o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that we have missed...
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Categories:
extend to, adventure, africa,
Form:
Rhyme
Custody of 2020 EyesMonks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority,
to avoid appearing too curious
too available
too...
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Categories:
extend to, games, gender, health, poverty, psychological, racism, slavery,
Form:
Political Verse
In the Wild Re PostIN THE WILD
( Re Post)
Early one morning, we begin our drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At six o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that...
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Categories:
extend to, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Seek the Lord Everyday - the Tanka Style~ Seek The Lord Everyday~
(Double Tanka)
Extend God's Love now
Show to others the right way
In bad times just Pray
Don't let worries ...
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Categories:
extend to, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Cooperative Family PoliticsI think he's talking about a cooperative bicameral political system,
with "How to talk to the other side".
And what could that possibly mean, dear Yang?
Well,
I was watching this Ted-talk from Marin,
by Robb Willer, as I anciently...
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extend to, culture, earth, family, freedom, health, humor, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Social NondarwinistsWe need to talk.
Is this one of those times
where you need to talk
and I must pretend to listen
while you rant?
Well, yes,
if you could extend this favor.
Your topic?
Social Darwinism.
Isn't that the birthplace of unfettered Capitalism
and Fascism
and...
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Categories:
extend to, environment, gospel, health, humor, psychological, social,
Form:
Political Verse
After School Jam SessionHow was school today?
Fine.
Did you learn anything important?
Maybe. I'm not sure yet.
Really? What are you considering?
We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.
Maybe I skipped that day
way back in premillennial times
before Permaculture Design had taken...
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Categories:
extend to, culture, earth, education, environment, health, humor, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems 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:
extend to, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - IWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
extend to, evil, holocaust, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Rhyme
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IMY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
extend to, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
The MirrorThe Mirror
When I look in the mirror I don’t see me, I see who I used to be. A little lost girl that was so abused and so misused, so ashamed of who she...
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Categories:
extend to, change, child abuse, endurance, family, growing up,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
De Malificorum FaciendisON EVIL DOINGS
I blame all of it, the evil doings, on boredom.
It is a widely unrecognised source of wickedness.
Unfortunately, it certainly is.
The absence of purpose is not a lack of things to do,...
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Categories:
extend to, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Revolutionary PlutocracyThose who get,
get more.
Those who want,
want more.
Evolution is not survival of the fittest species,
but thrival of the greatest fit with least endosymbiotic change required
within,
whether we speak of polycultural enrichment
or meta-paradigmatic revolutions in understanding multicultural enrichment.
Evolution...
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Categories:
extend to, health, love, political, science, wisdom, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiiMy most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
extend to, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Speaking With Donald JohnI was speaking with my good friend
Donald John
the Evangelist for AntiChrist
the other day.
And I had to ask,
Donald John,
Why are you so against health care
for all our not yet slaughtered
and otherwise dead already?
Except perhaps health services...
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Categories:
extend to, earth, education, faith, health, integrity, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Mothmananxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidable -
eighty inches tall,...
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Categories:
extend to, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery, myth, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
Let's Be KinderIn his essay "Let's Be Reasonable"
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;
This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback...
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Categories:
extend to, health, humanity, integrity, math, political, power, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of CharityAn Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
extend to, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
Follow the Nutrient StreamRegenerating light
reiterating bright as dual dark
fertile shadowing sighted polypathic light
when notnot night.
Healthy sight
as notnot dissonating blight.
Languaged cognition, thought, beliefs, ideas,
a LeftBrain Yang capacity
to extend internal emotional life,
evolving shared eisegetical stretch across a range
of empathic-trust to...
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Categories:
extend to, culture, earth, education, emotions, happiness, health, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Cooperative StartsWho wants to join a sacred cooperative
with both divine and humane purpose,
secular meanings
with organic liturgical rites
of seasonal passage?
Indeed,
who would not
should ego's veil descend
like commodified energy's nonrenewable extinction;
LoseLose trends of nihilism
within psyche,
fascism
within a paranoid society
which...
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Categories:
extend to, caregiving, earth, health, integrity, love, poverty,
Form:
Political Verse
Struggling LoveI know
you know
you stole our property,
our mutual possession,
our sense of co-ownership,
of belonging together
to grow our health forever.
I know
you took it for your sole ungrateful possession,
to use for your self recreating purposes,
not a subject for open...
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Categories:
extend to, loss, love hurts, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Souls On FireWe have been observing the expanse of the parched land for many years, a land that stood the test of time and captivated by myriad dreams unfolding through the footsteps of the ages thus penetrating...
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Categories:
extend to, adventure, nature, wisdom, work, universe,
Form:
Prose
Knowledge Is a Genie Once Let Out of the Bottle It Cant Be Put Back1
Profound insight climbing the mountain
The higher you go the more beautiful view
Opens up wide spread in front of you
You see the world under your feet
Overwhelmingly liberating experience
Shocking overpowering, and scary
You play walking on...
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Categories:
extend to, allusion, deep, humanity, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse