Long Foundations Poems
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Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where 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:
foundations, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
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:
foundations, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
foundations, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
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:
foundations, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Creation Stories
A lovely outcome for our recreational journey,
or Way
or Truths,
or LoveLives,
whichever you prefer to pick out
from among this graced array,
tells a multi-generational creation story
of cosmic sacred ecology
and Earth's evolution revolutions,
drawing on and with
scientific deductive knowledge
both...
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Categories:
foundations, community, education, health, integrity, love, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Where is the Shining City on a Hill?
Where is the shining city upon a hill? ...
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Categories:
foundations, america, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Justice In the Quest For Love
I saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...
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Categories:
foundations, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Wall
Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain,
while she washed away her bloody pain.
Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings it loud, she sings it strong,
walled in where she does...
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Categories:
foundations, birthday, character, child, child abuse, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
The Enchanted City of Dual Realms
The Enchanted City of Dual Realms
In the sprawling labyrinth of concrete towers and spectral glass,
where skyscrapers, like ancient obelisks, pierce the celestial veil with unyielding ambition,
serpentine rivers of fortune murmur in arcane tongues, their secrets...
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Categories:
foundations, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Perspectives Miscellaneous
Good new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my sin,
peace,wholeness and...
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Categories:
foundations, life, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Fibonacci
To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
foundations, war,
Form:
Epic
Describe Heaven For the Beauty
DESCRIBE HEAVEN FOR THE BEAUTY
For the beauty of heaven Golden gates, made of gold;
Environment perfect temperature not hot nor cold;
Holy dwelling of the Most High Lord ;
For the beauty of heaven;
Can't even begin to comprehend...
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Categories:
foundations, celebration, dedication, encouraging, heaven, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Overarching Genocide
Overarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...
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Categories:
foundations, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Potlatch Cafes and Gardens
Dear Covenant to Empower Children, Inc.
I was in a Potlatch CoHousing Cafe
just the other repair-invested day
for both ego and eco therapy.
Our host introduced
this Potlatch SkillShare event
speaking to himself:
The less I share skills and resources
on cooperative...
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Categories:
foundations, caregiving, children, community, garden, health, home, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
No God of Mine
Cement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.
Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...
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Categories:
foundations, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
La La Di Dah Dah La
Earth dwelling mongeese are neither toys nor coins and pedalling backwards then forward is not considered the primary way of jet propulsion off a very high hill. So one two ping means fried rice coming?...
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Categories:
foundations, allusion, baptism,
Form:
I do not know?
On Resilient Health
I am reading my Resilience Systems Manual,
avidly,
like an underfed developer
hoping to strike gold
while laying healthy habitat foundations.
Today I see Community Resilience mention
Tipping Points,
dipolar appositional,
when exceeded
on a WayTooMuch Yang OverInvested
Western dualistic
nature ain't spirit
so divine couldn't...
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Categories:
foundations, environment, health, humor, integrity, science, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Medicine and Sickness
Medicine and sickness satisfy each other.
MotherEarth is medicine.
Where do you find yourself?
Zen Master Yunmen
China, 800s
Therapy and trauma require each other.
Ecological Earth is nature-spirit therapy.
Where and...
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Categories:
foundations, beauty, caregiving, earth, gospel, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Beware of the Owner
"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Some say life is a mirror..
Whenever he whistled his eerie tune,
he would always tell me,
'It's my death hymn.'
But, then a...
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Categories:
foundations, sorrow,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Virtue
… as I child I heard these words by Immanuel Kant from my late Dad
over and over again …’you must act in a way that if everybody did it
your thinking and deeds could be the...
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Categories:
foundations, character,
Form:
Free verse
We, the generation of '50
We, the generation of '50,
Time-travelers with stardust in our hair, with memories planted in pockets,
Rooted in decades embraced by change, souls adorned with the dawn of the post-war world.
We spun on the carousel of the...
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Categories:
foundations, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Who Is Killing Our Nation
Our country is full of hypocrites
who stand up against nothing and bend over for everything
the peoples amendments pushing European agendas upon us for change
towards liberal law in our downfall
Unto our sovereignty...
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Categories:
foundations, betrayal, patriotic, poverty, religion,
Form:
Free verse
a letter
I got a text from one of my professors yesterday saying, ‘Please stop by my office at 6 pm tomorrow.’ It didn’t say why. This was the first day after November recess, had I missed...
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Categories:
foundations, appreciation, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
The Leonardo 500
Leonardo more than a Renaissance man
artist? yes but -
sculptor? yes but -
musician? yes but -
anatomist? yes but -
cartographer? yes but -
scientist? yes but -
engineer? yes but -
inventor? yes...
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Categories:
foundations, art, imagination, inspiration, inspirational, science, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Letters For People Part 6
Dear people,
A true Voice speaks pure truth in two tones.
Real Ears can only hear one.
Get one half of two true whole truths,
...
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Categories:
foundations, america, angel, anxiety, confidence, fire, heart, humor,
Form:
Epic