Long Folds Poems
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THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
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Categories:
folds, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
folds, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
folds, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Where Does the Butterfly GoWhere Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
folds, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Whats Behind the CurtainI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
folds, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
BehindI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
folds, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
folds, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Revolutionary StoryThey called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and YinYin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet privately erotic,
not so much politically and economically
where Yang could not...
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Categories:
folds, health, humor, joy, life, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
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:
folds, car, crush, desire, love, lust, sexy, teen
Form:
Sonnet
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
folds, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
2 Versions of 4 SeasonsThese 2 different versions are separated by nine years
Part 1
MUST BE SPRING
Small speckles of wild grass
Looking like tiny green drops
That had fallen to the earth
Were the very first sign
Waving in the...
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Categories:
folds, lost love, seasons, time,
Form:
Prose
Old FriendsQuakers build their cooperative politics
on following consensually-held fertile lights.
Buddha adds,
Follow your TruthLight,
back through our universal co-arising (0)-spacetime equi-valence
dualdark Out/In Breathing-Landscapes BiCameral MindBody Balance,
ecology of birth through regenerate rebirth
of eco-ego-cooperative Zen-Zero-investment
Earth-0-centric Health EcoReGenerativity,
Creativity of Love and...
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Categories:
folds, destiny, earth, earth day, freedom, humanity, light,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Straining TogetherOur cognitive and emotional struggles against dissonance of all varieties,
and struggles for more love and consciousness and health
work better as decompositions laid out between Ego and Eco,
as cooperative nondual co-arising partners,
Left and Right MindBody
of one...
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Categories:
folds, body, earth, environment, humanity, humor, identity, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Revolution In HandWorth Two in a Buddha Universal Bush
Our permaculturist agenda,
primal principle of economic/ecological design,
is developing,
spreading,
hunting and stealing into fissures
fractally fracturing Business As Usual,
competitive monomials unveil Transitional Dual-Destiny of Time.
Nothing any one person or nation could do
or...
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Categories:
folds, culture, faith, math, nature, philosophy, psychological, science,
Form:
Free verse
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CRISIS TEAM IDENTITY FRAUD AGAINST CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM: HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: HELLO I'M AGENT BROWN IN DIRE NEED OF THE FBI HELP AFTER I CONTACTED THE FBI ABOUT THE ARSON MURDERER OF 9 CIRO GARGANO AND HIS...
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Categories:
folds, america, analogy, anxiety, military, passion, poems, remember,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
ChernobylChernobyl.
A nuclear disaster, in the Russian town Chernobyl,
An odor-less killer, the invisible force.
As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,
We must cool it down, before it blows.
Evacuate Pripyat, the employee’s town,
The town of 35000; first...
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Categories:
folds, cry, death, sun, world,
Form:
I do not know?
Fr Time's Endless Newyear ProposalDear National Science Foundation--Economics Department:
So,
here's what I want to learn,
or research,
if you will.
Why do we have a Financial Sector,
Business and Industry Sector,
Religious Sector,
Education Sector,
Health Care Sector,
Food and Nutrition Sector,
Services Industry Sector,
and a Political Sector,
an...
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Categories:
folds, adventure, birth, business, destiny, dream, humor, life,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Fat People - XxixUnquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX
(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the expression of utter exasperation, and perhaps there’s also the slightest...
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Categories:
folds, abuse, chocolate, depression, health, humor, hyperbole, natural
Form:
Epigram
Variations On a Cultural ThemeIt was sometime back in the 70's,
my later 20's,
I woke up one morning to realize
EgoSelf as an often dissonant nest
of natural systemic TaoEarth,
a mindbody bicameral treehouse
in some way that felt socially
and economically
and perhaps even...
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Categories:
folds, beauty, earth day, light, paradise, political, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Easter Sunday(Notes:
1. Ancient esoteric teachings state that
"The Christ" is the divine blueprint for the man
imaged in the likeness of God. This is the divine
destiny for each soul that walks the path of life.
2. ...
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Categories:
folds, celebration,
Form:
Couplet
The Good GirlThe Good Girl
Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...
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Categories:
folds, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Prose
The History of a Wasted Mind
“The History of a Wasted Mind”
What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got down with the dirt
The History of a Wasted Child
The History...
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Categories:
folds, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form:
Free verse
Minds Coarising HeartsIn our Physics Departments
our most salient awareness
grows
of those nature-spirit entities
most easily seen
and heard
and smelled
as animated and animating,
sometimes more,
sometimes less,
in our daily ritualistic lives
of solids
and liquids
and gases
and plasma
and bilateral neural pathways
of interdependent communication.
In our MetaPhysics Department,
still...
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Categories:
folds, art, earth, health, integrity, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Hokey-Pokey Taoist DanceWhat goes up
must come down.
What goes out
must come in.
What goes before
must have also come behind.
What folds
must unfold.
When time is knotted
it must unknot.
When space explains radiantly
convexly
then time implies mutually gravitationally and cooperatively,
and concavely.
What information organizes square...
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Categories:
folds, joy, love, math, nature, peace, psychological, science,
Form:
Free verse
Road TripRoad Trip
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few...
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Categories:
folds, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Rhyme