Long Freest Poems

Various Heresies 4

I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch

I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.

But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...

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It's ironic that 'dogma' simply once meant belief: something we hope is true but aren't certain of, as opposed to a fact. Now dogma means doctrine, something taken as fact and NOT to be disputed....

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--I stand alone in silence,
as the world passes by,
feeling my spirit in defiance,
looking up and asking why,,
--I looked into the distance,
the horizons meeting the sky,
heart's soaring in a trance,
listening to the eagle's cry,,
--My heart adapted...

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Love has been narrated in novels ,
set to music in songs and expressed in poems with various rhymes:
remembering its glories and lamenting its tragedies;
but this is the ode I've written for those true life's true...

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You know, when I first began to 
Write on Poetrysoup way back then
I DID THAT just because THAT wasn't 
Enough. After LAVENDER SONG
I spawn a few more before I caught
The full flash of flirting fatal...

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In solitude I like to bask when I am all alone
With only Mother Nature in company with my own.
Animals and nature make welcoming to be,
A serene place of peace, where I am set free.

Ever since...

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Love is as big as the galaxy, 
                           ...

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the Golden Gate, she sang to me
in a darkened whispered voice
El Niño crying like a spoiled child
of all the sad souls brought to her
with desperation’s choice
that flew like angels
from her transoms, wild

oh dare I hearken...

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Like Jesus I'm prophetic,

I've come to set you free

by loving the way 

ignorant men cling

to their prejudices

Love you indiscriminate

of right and wrong,

sin and not guilty

Blow your mind utterly

and completely

Bend the human condition

towards reunification

Leave ninety-nine well fed

and go...

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You there, with your sparkle and flair,
Come near, so I may gaze upon your fare and beautiful gleam. 
The one that seems to glisten, the one that is ever drifting and shifting with a light...

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Why is it, this heart of mine
                           Filled with...

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Freedom Loving Cowboy 

At the bar, by the docks, I spoke to a man who wore a cowboy 
hat and had a pearl handle revolver in his holster. A thud and 
the pretend cowboy hit...

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While some are always compelled to incite
Others reap rewards by being polite

Civility is challenging when views contrast
But much is gained when anger's surpassed

The social conventions of propriety
Reduce stress in a multicultural society

Acceptance of others' points...

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the mind 
              flees 
         any prison 
      ...

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Freedom
Degradation, demoralization
Doom, destruction, decadence
And the masses still cry ’Freedom!’
None of this even makes sense
Free to live out every feeling
Every thought and every dream
This will better life and people
Well at least, so it may seem
We should...

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y o u, the band-aid to my bleeding wound,
             the life buoy in my ocean,
        ...

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seeking solace under the sun
seeking refuge from your wrath
knowing that i have to go back home

under the sun i think of nothing
under the sun i go back to something
knowing that i have to go back...

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TAGORE ON 

I just happened reading Rabindranath Tagore’ s poem called “The Gardener.” 

The Gardener XL: An Unbelieving Smile

					“……the dark rim of your eyes.
						Then smile as archly as you like
						when I come again.”

I am a...

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Freedom
Does it exist?
Is there anything in this vicious world that is truly free?
Birds defy gravity, 
But are bound by their own limitations.
Called to the Earth, 
At the end of a majestic odyssey like no other.

Perhaps...

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I glimpse a boy sitting on a chair alone, 
his feet are hanging down,
his patched face blackened by smoke.

He is unable to cry,
unsure where his family may be, 
he scoops clots of fresh blood from...

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The eclectic neglected
feel so disrespected
you know I wrecked it
where ever I step -ed
and you would, dismiss it?

I'm brain fried
a drain dried
step up to my 
main eye
in the middle 
of my seeing stones
I see your tone,...

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Even in the brightest day the darkest shadow can hide

Even in the calmest sea lurks the overpowering tide

Even in the lightest wind  a storm is just a breath away

Even in the greatest love a...

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Unprecedented is my favorite word.
It’s more than a term I hadn’t heard.

It’s a concept to be explored,
an unknown that makes life seem short.

It’s my well-known wide-eyed view,
begging me to look anew.

It may be a thought,...

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