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Spiritual Mahjong Your Move LordSpiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord
Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before it begins, before I begin?
If so, then to what purpose...
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Categories:
finished, bible, christian, death, i am, perspective, religion,
Form:
Free verse
King of Kings??1 Kings 5:3-5 NIV??
[3] “You know that because of the wars waged against my father David from all sides, he could not build a temple for the Name of the Lord his God until the...
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Categories:
finished, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
finished, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
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:
finished, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
finished, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
finished, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
finished, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
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:
finished, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
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:
finished, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 86 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Young Solomons Exclude DesharahDate December 31. 2040
Damian Stood on the ground floor
Of the new Mansion while
GrandDad Hakim rested In the
Living room watching TV. The
First level was half complete.
Damian thought the pace needed
Quickening. He would have...
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Categories:
finished, angst, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 73 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Historical Hakims' Hit the Road10 o'clock am the morning
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July
Morning of 2038. They had a Bicycle
Expedition to tend to plus a newly
Minted swimming pool...
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Categories:
finished, cancer, missing you, nonsense, rude, scary, visionary,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 97 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Times and ProjectsDate: December 2042
Early afternoon, Damian was
Busy in his den planning the trip
To Trinidad. He called CJ first
To confirm his commitment to
The project. "Hey brother you
Still on for that trip we spoke
About."...
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Categories:
finished, absence, allusion, earth day,
Form:
Alliteration
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
finished, surreal,
Form:
Epic
Chapter 119 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damali Desharah DJ: Desharah's and Sedanah's New DigsDesharah woke early morning 8 am.
She wanted to check out her new
House. But she waited for Sedanah
To come out of her dreams.
"WAKE UP SEDA." They roomed
Together. That's what her mother
Wanted....
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Categories:
finished, absence, confidence, voyage,
Form:
Alliteration
SweetspotsCould you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for cooperatively organizing positive
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?
Try...
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Categories:
finished, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 15 -- Damian and Polly: 2025 Another Year With PollyA cool February evening Damian was
Asleep. He felt somebody rubbing
His chest. "Leave me girl." Polly
Rolled out of bed and announced
"Damian, you should move in with me!
I want you to move in! Wake up...
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Categories:
finished, friend, good night, happiness, passion, women,
Form:
Alliteration
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
finished, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
finished, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse IiiSalve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
finished, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Finally Saved Part 1 - Translation From Rabindranath TagoreThis is a translation from a Poem (Title - Niskriti) by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate philosopher poet (1861 - 1941) from India. The story successfully depicts the status of women in a patriarchal society of nineteenth...
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Categories:
finished, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
finished, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
finished, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Thelma Lou - Both Audio and TextThe biggest funeral I've ever attended...
Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across from Ron’s DX, in Abilene.
They had an old brass register that rang when it was...
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Categories:
finished, heart, love, memory,
Form:
Narrative
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
finished, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
finished, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic