Long Extinction Poems
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Burning LogsEach flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
extinction, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
extinction, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
extinction, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
extinction, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
Red and Green ChristiansLet's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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Categories:
extinction, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Heat LighteningHeat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .
Quiescent unions...
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Categories:
extinction, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
Animal 'Quackers' - Comments and Response From Poemhunter========================================
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Lora Colon – Poemhunter.com
Okay, Long Tooth. You have some explaining to do. Really. I'm not sure what you are trying to say in this poem.
I 'sort of' get the...
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Categories:
extinction, appreciation, engagement, humor,
Form:
Didactic
Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
extinction, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RINGLegacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
extinction, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
extinction, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poo Poo BirdThey pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it with tackle and rope
Now King Arthur declared in a boisterous...
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Categories:
extinction, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
extinction, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Creation StoriesA lovely outcome for our recreational journey,
or Way
or Truths,
or LoveLives,
whichever you prefer to pick out
from among this graced array,
tells a multi-generational creation story
of cosmic sacred ecology
and Earth's evolution revolutions,
drawing on and with
scientific deductive knowledge
both...
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Categories:
extinction, community, education, health, integrity, love, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Tasting Africa, One L----Ick At a Time - Part 1Tasting Africa (One L****ick at a Time) Part 1
(Though the title's a joke, my limericks are not!)
1. Life's Always an Adventure (Morogoro)
Can one's life be that safe when all live in a zoo -
Friend on...
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Categories:
extinction, africa, appreciation, journey, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems IvLOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...
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Categories:
extinction, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Restoring Inside JusticeHealing Win/Lose EgoNomial Intent
We belong together
Through all kinds of colonizing corporate weather,
We belong creolizing together.
So sings my mitochondrial DNA
when I listen deeply
to all prior matriarchal regenerations
speaking in still
soft
timeless win/win voices
Especially about polycultural outcome...
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Categories:
extinction, culture, education, grandmother, health, integrity, language, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"
The Reptilians
war daily
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts
and oily palms
profiting from all
the soft-boiled
foxes on the run
cerebral cortex bound
thinking they are free-willed
and...
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Categories:
extinction, horror, humanity, war,
Form:
Free verse
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:
extinction, caregiving, earth, health, integrity, love, poverty,
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:
extinction, perspective, philosophy, universe, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Is There An Exclusive All-In-One Principle‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. ‘
...
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Categories:
extinction, philosophy, death, art, dark, art, dark, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Blueprint For a KingdomYou have fixed all movements within time
every trails destination have you outlined
no creature can operate ...
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Categories:
extinction, analogy, bible, creation, faith, life, paradise, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
When Was It Ever GreatAsk if we'll ever see the end of wars and you're bound to hear,
that it will never happen, not in a thousand years.
I hear you loud and clear, but I just don't accept it.
For someone...
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Categories:
extinction, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Existential Crisis Still Encompasses Mein Kampf Valentine's Day 2022Existential crisis still encompasses mein kampf Valentine's day 2022
The following lines written disjointed fashion
attempting to mimic strategically
moving pieces erratically on chessboard
ideally yielding ultimate resultant checkmate
opposing men captured for the queen to use.
Jurassic throwback terrible...
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Categories:
extinction, angst, endurance, february, how i feel, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Etty's PenMy heart failed a few times again today, but each time it came back to life.
This is no time for poets and philosophers.
***
It is strange that in such a short time a person can come...
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Categories:
extinction, courage, dedication, eulogy, fate, holocaust, inspiration, life,
Form:
Free verse
Overarching GenocideOverarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...
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Categories:
extinction, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse