Long Foresees Poems

Salat 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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I aped to a blue heron to a man who wrote his deed.
Once you're at the final of the story, no woe is needed.

If death appeared to be appropriate, life would be aimless.
If you have...

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This is the other side, the eternal space hidden...
A world without skin and flesh, 
the perfect nightmare relents.

Before and after... and even now, since then does not exist...
Yesterday and today... as time ticks away, 
dying...

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"No poem can encompass mother in entirety.
A mother is too lofty to fit in a poem" -
Quote by author
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Mother is an emotion
Mother is feeling
Mother is love
Mother is  ambition
Mother is a service
Mother is patience
Mother is...

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Life gets in the way and somedays I find it hard
To even laugh or play - after all is said and done
Have I even prayed? 
The gratitude that I should
Have shared with my God, the...

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The Bishops bathe in Babylon
while Princes, prancing on the lawn,
watch Queen deflowered, pale and wan.
            The King dares not defend her.
The Horsemen, holding broken...

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continues from part 1

And I to him: “Show me where I can find,
If you want that I bring your news then up,
Who is who foresees with so bitter mind”.

Then he put his hand at the...

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Joy and smiles characterized the atmosphere to meet my arrival.
Given an identity and welcomed with a bitter and a soft taste.
Deaf to the excitement around me, crying was all i did 
never realizing those were...

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The god of greed, of power and of haste
Has wrought in silence all the joy of Love
From hearts of men and, in his anger, placed
His shield of gold upon the throne above.

Far down below, among...

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Man has lived a hard life
While trying to live free
Voting and living in fine
Houses never intended to be
Somehow treated badly while 
Others took away their families
Rosa Parks wanted her rights
In Montgomery Alabama

God knew the struggle...

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Words, both nouns and verbs,
Fall from her pen,
Erasing the darkness, spinning light
Into a gentle caress, a kiss
From the spirit who believes,
Who aches to release the dreams,
All the precious feelings, the sentiments,
Who agree…

She creates her moments,
Through...

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Do not stand at my grave and weep
If you can't offer me goodness now
That I am blosoming with life ventures.
The better angel of our black nature
Might not know a poet but a poet lives
With his...

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Much to my chagrin
barely discerned, noticed above
the celebratory Republican din
the commander in chief
all smiles with engined

haired cohorts evincing
ear to ear tousled grin,
feather in cap for apprenticed
president and kin,
which exemption, sans suspected

collusion deflated balloon,
asper impeachment with...

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Can't take no more

I just can't cope anymore,
The pain is debilitating,
The addiction consuming,
Both exhausting.
The dark corners of my mind are closing in, there all I can see clearly,
The demonic whispers fill my ears loudly,
I feel...

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Demitrios the golden Spartan captain sets sail for Italy 
against the western wind; he will certainly mourn Piraeus,
and with sorrow-striken eyes, he'll invoke Poseidon. 
Then he'll depart carrying the long hunting horn.
The small vessel will...

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Written: August 10, 2023
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In the density of dark—a tale unfolds.
Where shadows dance and secrets are told,
A candle—golden before my eyes,
Illuminating truths, where darkness lies.

Such a flame, so delicate and bright,
Casting its glow, vanquishing the night,
Flickering...

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My Super Power Is Contest
Sponsor: Lewis Raynes


I have many powers handed down from generations,
   My father gifted me many obscure competent abilities,
      My favorite power is the capability...

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It isn’t weak when it pleasures me
It’s more profound in informing details in leaks it only seeks sensual desire
The way it’s too tight it swipes me right off my feet just to flee off the...

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you shed blood
there where they stop bleeding
your hyaluronic lips whisper
fifty-three year old grievances
for colleagues in the hospital's green uniform
sometimes you clean the apartment
enlarges the thickness of constricted veins
take off the shoes that gather dust
revolves layers...

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The bad year befell when the prior had passed so well,
With no warning night descended and a charmed existence ended
As a starving bird of prey came to roost one average day,
Ate the blue out of...

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Prizing self entails being true to who you are.
There are flaws and candles that ignite the air.
Man must determine his trifles and vision.
to be known for his victory, not his omission.

Everything vibrates and breathes with...

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Life is but a corridor, and death is the only door
whatever you take with you, is yours forever more
time is as a fleeting shadow, passing days are not perceived
when you realize your loss, it will...

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The One who writes the music
In notes of hope and peace,
Leaving out the darkness, embedding
Grace that relieves…

The One who writes the story
Between joy and faith,
Echoing life through the pages
Inspiring such thanks….

The One who writes the...

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When we travel through the solitary road
Not taken by many of those happy crowd
Hardly we glimpse the direction board
Rather drench in the showers of depreciative words

Pondering over our desired destination
Wondering about the mystical citations
Dreading the...

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Here comes the bull:
     strong, vibrant, towering,,,
     Decided, looks prepares
     the attack...
     Quickly, shoots,
     Anxious...
...

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