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Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
extract, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
extract, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
extract, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
extract, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems IiiPoems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
extract, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
extract, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Trump's Intake InterviewHello,
you've reached the EcoTherapist Cooperative.
How can we help you
without bringing harm to Others?
That's a question I've never thought about.
I'm calling for the National Republican Party.
We would like to hire an EcoTherapist
for a consultation
during the 2020...
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Categories:
extract, america, caregiving, earth day, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
extract, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
extract, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Voting With Our FeetIt seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
extract, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 141-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Business inventoryDate: August 2050
10:45 blissful Monday morning
Damian was in his DHRR office
Peering through the panoramic
Window. As he met on Skype
With investors and his brothers in
The office. The Hakim family was
Willing...
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Categories:
extract, allusion, business,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 137 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Damian Hakim's Realty Rentals and Condominiums Date: April 2050
Damian's definite definition was on
Full demonstration display as he
Walked the treadmill for 30 minutes.
Then bench pressed 30 minutes. Rested
Then an hour later,
Still early morning. Calisthenics
"This was the...
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Categories:
extract, birth, confidence, deep, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Seeking SanctuaryDiaspora Dwellings
On my way into our sanctuary
this past Sunday morning
a woman I had met in choir
was strangely inclined
to share her family history.
Her dad came over from Ireland
because he wanted better business opportunities
for his healthy future.
Here...
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Categories:
extract, earth, family, green, health, history, home, travel,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Upon Waking
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like dull background noise
through the fog of dream
the sound of the gamble...
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Categories:
extract, gothic, muse, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part OneRosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz
Prologue
This is a rather grim epic poetic tale of Rosalia, a 16th century German witch who terrorized villages, destroyed the lives and corrupted the souls of many...
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extract, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Grandmas PortraitThere was a noble sadness hiding in her eyes.
She wears a smile, though elements of insecurities
Trembled in its corners...
Dignity and suffering, combating
for the control of her expression.
Hiding the battle scars of her life;
Intending to...
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Categories:
extract, appreciation, eulogy, grandmother, inspiration,
Form:
Blank verse
World BleedersWorld Bleeders (#777 words)
If you claim to be sane
in this crazy whirled we live
I pity the world in your domain
in that you forget to forgive
I think your normal is abnormal
You must be one of the...
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Categories:
extract, change, dark, death, earth, evil, political, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Purge Our ConsciencesFrom my lowly bachelor’s house
Proudly christened ‘Embassy Fair’
I woke up to the chirping of birds
On the trees above and across the vale
And the riverine bushes in-between
I woke up to the crowing of cocks
And the mooing...
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Categories:
extract, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Arabian Days and NightsI guess the candidates and polity saying "no"
to Earth's human refugees
during this their Thanksgiving time,
did not finish their Darwin biographies.
While endosymbiotic evolution,
indigenous to any one species,
can devolve to survival of the fittest,
this is most likely...
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Categories:
extract, allah, beauty, islamic, love, peace, political, thanksgiving,
Form:
Concrete
She Hasn'T Killed Me YetShe Hasn't Killed me yet
58.
...
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Categories:
extract, blessing, humanity, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots VSpawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...
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Categories:
extract, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Conditions of LivingThe Conditions of Living
Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation
Instead of chronic devastation
Process the abject consternation
From contrived over-saturation
And acute mass manipulation
That should be in legal confiscation
Truth found...
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Categories:
extract, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue TeasersUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers
Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky...
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Categories:
extract, animal, girl, humor, irony, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"
Silence
calculated and distinct
conspiring with rules
plays within the
confined squares
of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves
untraceable
unpredictable
irretrievable
in the opening move
the long-legged fly
is caught in the web
silvery and slippery
life remains...
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Categories:
extract, courage, dark, faith, love, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
The Sheriff of NottinghamThe Sheriff, not a pleasant sort
Was learning of a bad report
About a soul, Who stood defiant
And swore an oath, to topple tyrants
Who once was noble, but now has strayed
Hell bend upon his rebels...
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Categories:
extract, fantasy,
Form:
Epic