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Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of...
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Categories:
flooding, anniversary, change, life, people, storm, usa, world,
Form:
Narrative
Signs of the times Q and A
Q Did they really make a practice sacrifice of a red heifer on the temple mount?
A There's a great deal of speculation with both parties making their educated
hypotheses: They...
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Categories:
flooding, 10th grade, 12th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form:
Prose
But as the days of Noah were Matthew 24:37-39
"But as the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.
"For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying
and be given in marriage, until...
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Categories:
flooding, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Bilateral Creative Thinking Sequel
Last half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:
In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable]...
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Categories:
flooding, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Snapshots
Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
flooding, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xlii-Li
Sonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
flooding, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Ono No Komachi Translations
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
flooding, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
flooding, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Water, 30 random word prompt
The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my...
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Categories:
flooding, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Stardust and the Ivory Castle
Once upon a time there was a castle made of pure ivory. Pillars pale and barren, holding a surface of grace and elegance. This castle was the home of a mighty unicorn named Stardust. She...
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Categories:
flooding, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
flooding, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 6
Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments,
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...
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Categories:
flooding, adventure, character, gothic, heart, love, philosophy, power,
Form:
Free verse
Being American
I live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...
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Categories:
flooding, america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 20
After Bréagán left the courtyard Erlenkönig began his own preparations for the upcoming fight. He did not have time to think of the elf's self apprehension. He knew that because of the chiding...
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Categories:
flooding, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
flooding, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
The eye of the storm
Huge fluffy clouds began to form over
Sanibel Island as the salted gulf splashed
against the rocks around the lighthouse
coastal waters rose up as a calming coolness
carried this gentle warm breeze over to...
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Categories:
flooding, allah,
Form:
Nonet
Blues Boating Home
Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy
Through co-empathic singing passions
which may,
too often,
feel stressful
Irritating
depressing
stormy
before unconditional win/win regard
for Self AND Other
reconnect,
Like EgoTheistic re-ligion
and EcoMatrimonial
indigenously multicultural
ecowomanist wisdom
Of Ego/EarthTribe mutual MeWe...
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Categories:
flooding, culture, earth, health, integrity, love hurts, mentor,
Form:
Political Verse
Peach Drenched And Tanterlizing Irasistable
My receptive wide adoring eyes rested within the ambient light and bathed in The Shadoe and shade of the scene
Where before me a paragon of sublime refined beauty
So sensually seductively and arousingly delightful...
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Categories:
flooding, appreciation, desire, dream, fantasy, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 67
The half elf watched as Lumi spoke with Chroí; then, in the center of the circle the soil began to move and from it appeared the Garden Elf. He said nothing, he never spoke....
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Categories:
flooding, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Love You Messages
When the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence
loves homophobic St. Paul,
This felt like too much tolerating
an unconstitutional intolerable
absence of basic...
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Categories:
flooding, health, love, peace, political, power, race,
Form:
Political Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 13
“Are there many Fairy Folk other than the elves?” Joulupukki queried.
“Not so many as before the humans took control of the world. The ones left behind in Erin...
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Categories:
flooding, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Burning Truth Steps Forward
Something that stuns me from revelations awakening
All good people of the world see you Isis
clearly diamond cut your scale tips heavy
with the wealth that's stolen from foreign lands
to build weapons of...
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Categories:
flooding, abortion, addiction, allusion, betrayal, child abuse, creation,
Form:
Verse
Rough Roads To Roam
The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...
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Categories:
flooding, culture, earth, humanity, planet, world,
Form:
Rhyme
For Spacious Time
I need some natural,
organic,
spacious kinda time.
Where is nature in this time,
my time,
our time?
Perhaps nature is to time
as solid forms are to flowing recreation,
as body solidarity is to mind creativity,
as Yang is to Yin,
as Full-Blown Climaxing...
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Categories:
flooding, culture, love, music, race, sensual, society, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Being Bob
Being Bob
Bob, is just an ordinary guy in every sense of the word. Five ft eight inches tall, a little on the chubby side and has lost most of his hair. No one pays much...
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Categories:
flooding, angst, anxiety, character, confidence, desire, environment, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative