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Various Heresies
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch

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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?

Isn’t it silly, Willy...

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Categories: flashes, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form: Verse



Willy Nilly
Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
 
Isn’t it...

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Categories: flashes, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form: Verse
Doggerel I
Doggerel I or Nonsense Verse

A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch

Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!



Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch

If God
is good,
half the Bible
is libel.

I came up...

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Categories: flashes, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form: Limerick
Poems About Poems Ii
Poems about Poems (II)

Kin
by Michael R. Burch

for Richard Moore

1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...

2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...

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Categories: flashes, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Rejection Slips 2
Rejection Slips 2

The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
 
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
 
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,

the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
 
the face in the...

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Categories: flashes, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form: Free verse



State of the Art Ii
State of the Art (II)

These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. 



What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch

What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer 
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...

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Categories: flashes, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Let Me Give Her Diamonds
Let Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch

Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.

Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.

Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.

Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.

Let me...

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Categories: flashes, valentines day,
Form: Verse
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch

“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.

“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.

“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...

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Categories: flashes, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form: Free verse
Zen Death Haiku Ii
Today, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch  

This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...

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Categories: flashes, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form: Haiku
Modern Sonnets I
MODERN SONNETS I

I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.


Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch

A poem...

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Categories: flashes, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII

Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...

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Categories: flashes, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form: Sonnet
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW

This world? 
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last? 
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...

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Categories: flashes, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member MY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
BLINDING FLASHES FROM MY EYE SOCKET BEING CRUSHED MY NASAL ARCH NOSE FRACTURE RHINOPLASTY SURGERY HELPS WITH MY AIRWAYS THE SEVERE TRAUMA ON IMPACT SEVERE CAR ACCIDENT TWO MEN ON A LADDER ADJUSTING THE STREET...

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Categories: flashes, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member The Gift
From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashes, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashes, humor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Rhine Salmon Complaint Translation of Etiemble S Complainte D Un Saumon Du Rhin By T Wignesan
The Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin

						For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
 rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashes, nature,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Story About Santa Contest
Sponsor: Carol Eastman

Long before Christmas had become a jolly folklore,
I met a grandfatherly man...
He was clean shaven, tiny and crabby,
And always wore a floppy black suit, his name was Mr. Atnas.

See, I was at such...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashes, christmas, joy, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that inhabited the clean air
that once use to live there.

he made...

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Categories: flashes, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Health Predicts Safety
In some primordial 
wandering birth-canal way,
I imagine we all experience traumatic excommunication

An internal climate PanDemonic
cerebral yet narrowly competitive 
win/lose health today or safety tomorrow survivalist
life or death revivalist

EcoFeminist MotherYang Warriors for GreenPeace Experience
or DeGenerative LoseLose...

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Categories: flashes, education, health, history, integrity, light, peace, planet,
Form: Political Verse
The Woods of Four dimensions
Washed ashore on the lost island

Skin already peeling on the beach

Burning from the hot green summer sun

Meat melting off to become bone

Jumping back into the water

Cooling off with the clams and fish 

Washing the sand...

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Categories: flashes, appreciation, creation, happy, mountains, sun, sunshine, teen,
Form: Free verse
In the Arms of Peace-Abiding Angels
I don’t know what I know
I fly like an eagle – just go with the flow!
I don’t know what I know
I don’t know what you’re thinking about 
But I can tell you’re puzzled in your...

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Categories: flashes, adventure, angel, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Margins of Pandora
Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun

The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia

Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...

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Categories: flashes, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tale of Dark Angels

                           Expectations high did not pan out  ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashes, angel, anger, angst, character, god,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member The Promised Release From the Very Darkest Evil
The Promised Release From The Very Darkest Evil
        ( Free verse, narrative, horror)

After she had finished hurting John, she saw bright stars.
No, not the first time but as...

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Categories: flashes, art, creation, dark, death, horror, imagination, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Uncontainable
Uncontainable

(Music playing)

“I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
and I’ve been waiting for this moment, for all of my life, oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord,...

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Categories: flashes, character,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things