Long Helen keller Poems

Twelve days of sleep deprivation has thrown
Aunt Zee into full blown manic.
And it did not help that a young
cute female doctor who was trying
to please, wanted her to get to
drive to Omaha for Easter, so
she...

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Der Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A quick hug:
you were invited to the gay soiree
while the minions of the "law" relentlessly pursue...

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Born in New England in the wake of the Civil War,
Her folks fled Irish famine and landed on our shore.
At age five, she took sick, losing almost all her sight.    
At eight,...

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You fill my heart
with happiness
and joy.

"All things 
are possible
with God."
Mark 10:27

May God send
His love like
sunshine in
His warm and
gentle way,
to fill each corner
of your heart
each moment
of today.

God gives
wisdom,
knowledge
and 
happiness.
Ecclesiastics 2:26

When we do
the best we can,
we never...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE V

Less Heroic Couplets: Word to the Unwise
by Michael R. Burch

I wanted to be good as gold,
but being good, as I’ve been told,
requires something, discipline,
I simply have no interest in!



Villanelle of...

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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller


Like a slow drawl, sometimes
Winter – others, Autumn.
Rustling in the oaks,...

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Die Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books")
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires.

Then a banished writer, one...

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Enea's Pope!  (2)

I suppose it’s common knowledge
(and not tedious, I hope!)
that two-thirds of the Sacred College
must concur to elect a pope.        

With eighteen cardinals gathered,
twelve was the...

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Women all around the world
a tribute to you twirling
everyday work and struggles
A woman, wife, mother, chauffeur,
nurse, doctors, lawyers, engineer,
short order cook, baker, teacher,
poet, artist, librarian, soldier,
sister, mother in-law, grandmother,
great-grandmother, daughter,
friend, peacemaker, dancer,
dog-walker, ... and a...

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"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch ,but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same" 

          ...

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 This is what eye remember about the MOVIE of course eye never knoe her. She 
was moving constantly moving at least the actress who...

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Her hearing and sight were taken away
When she was just about two years old,
She struggled to become what she did - 
An example, brilliant and bold.

Helen Keller was bright minded,
On hope she always did dwell
She...

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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. – Quote by Helen Keller


In...

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Tonight, I want to say something wonderful
For the left-handed people who can adapt
to a world full of left-sided thinkers. The ones

who can navigate with all the specially opposed tools,
like the ones made standard for the...

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If I had to choose three people who have influenced my life
Through time and space,
I think their diverse backgrounds would be the big surprise. 
Yet they all were able to keep their humanity,
Their sense of...

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**The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.** "Helen Keller"


How cheerful to say that delight fills the air,
Most magic spells...

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The Humane thing to do  What?                            ...

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Try to keep up Dear ones.  I like to set the tone nice and early in the morning, at 2:30 or a quarter to three, the very latest  number four.
Which means sneaking up...

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I see them as the fleeting meteors,
entering our world, and just for us
against contrasting skies so we may know
of their desire not to intrude
but gift us with their greeting
and their love--to show us
that we all...

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Accusatory high-pitched voices
singing in the masculine reign
Humiliated pride getting drenched 
by doubtful, male chauvinist disdain
Emotional double octave level of pain,
bitter ... bitter — 
Sad and angry  	
Enough to drive a decent woman insane
Violated women...

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Quote
"The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt
with the heart." -Helen Keller.

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Of Love, Beauty, Heart And Mankind's Eternal Quest

Of earthen soil greater beauty was...

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She wore a tiffany hat with a bow and six big plumes of red and white,  
it had an ultra wide asymmetrical brim that rolled up to one side.  
When it came to...

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Do you remember Helen Keller?
She was a really awesome speller
Who couldn't hear nor see nor speak,
So to communicate
She would ges-tic-u-late.

Marcel Marceau spoke perfect French,
But he was helpless in a pinch
Because a mime does not converse,
Or...

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I feel like I'm in it,
trapped by it's walls, bound to the corner
where you are all I see
All I need, All I think I need
Is love something you find
Something that binds, 
Lately I hear it...

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She wore an Armour over her dress
to go on and fight in the face of death
Joan of Arc is the name of the girl
that died at an age of nineteen years old
For the chance to...

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