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The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
in stages, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
in stages, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
in stages, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
in stages, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
The massive convoy of threatsBegins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction
rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break
hard causing us to panic my spouse and I both disabled
this has cause severe discrimination and victimization...
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Categories:
in stages, anxiety, depression, discrimination, health, husband, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-ValluvarVillanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate
For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of
the THIRUK-KURAL
Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I...
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Categories:
in stages, beauty, character, creation, god, identity, truth,
Form:
Villanelle
When I DieWhen my life has finally left me and my last breath has been shed
And the silver cord is broken and my bodies firmly dead
I shall hover near the body, download the scenes of this past...
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Categories:
in stages, bereavement, christian, death, heaven, inspiration, inspirational, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Doctors of Industrious DivinityDear Bishop Michael Cote, Doctor of Divinity
through pre-historic untold ages
through reborn renaissance stages
through industriously energetic praises
through enlightenment phases
through empowerment dysphasia
Some of us lesser health care practitioners,
good faith social workers,
teachers,
parents and grandparents,
uncles and aunts,
and ecofeminist inter-religious...
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Categories:
in stages, christian, green, health, nature, passion, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2
This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass...
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Categories:
in stages, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Didactic
Boundary Issues As OpportunitiesI wonder if everyone
has a most dreaded dreamed
nightmare worst way
to conscientiously drop wrong dead.
Mine is claustrophobi-recallish buried
half alive at best is worse
in a wooden rough pine crate.
I'm feeling angry with those who raped,
then buried...
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Categories:
in stages, earth, humor, integrity, psychological, relationship, science, tree,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 141-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Business inventoryDate: August 2050
10:45 blissful Monday morning
Damian was in his DHRR office
Peering through the panoramic
Window. As he met on Skype
With investors and his brothers in
The office. The Hakim family was
Willing...
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Categories:
in stages, allusion, business,
Form:
Alliteration
Civilizing SavagesI stumbled over Paul Tillich's translation
of the MessiahMentor's Other Great Commission.
The Great Commission we learned in Sunday School
was to go out and convert the barbarians
and savages to Christianity.
Yet this Other Great Commission feels like a...
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Categories:
in stages, bible, birth, creation, earth, history, mother, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Letter To Taeljejohnuncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.
A disappointment set in place in the event that based on some facet of my being (inexplicable flaws within this...
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Categories:
in stages, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship, history, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Week 2 - Stages By Herman Hesse - a Second Translation RevisedAs ev’ry flower wilts and ev’ry youngster 11
Must age, so manifests each stage of living, 11
All wisdom blossoms too and ev’ry virtue 11
Enjoys its time, and cannot last forever. 11
At ev’ry call of life, the heart of man should, 11
(Without...
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Categories:
in stages, journey, life, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Eight Men Who Are Doing Quite WellA notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equaled the amount...
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Categories:
in stages, money,
Form:
Prose
Great Shakespearean StageIt has been said
by Shakespearean wit
All the world's a stage.
And so it is, I actively and fluidly suppose,
One Great Transitioning Stage
of diverse seasons
and eons of becoming cooperatively larger
and, especially under climates of crisis,
competitively smaller, too...
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Categories:
in stages, destiny, dream, green, health, integrity, peace, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
The Man In WhiteHannah, could never remember a time when she wasn’t ill. The doctors had tried all sorts of stuff, and at times she had rallied. She was optimistic to begin with, but now she was just...
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Categories:
in stages, angel, child, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Eulogy For My MotherJoyce Letitia Richmond-Solomon (A servant of God and a friend to man)
Every life has its seasons and God has created each individual for a purpose. Blessed and happy are those who discover their purpose and...
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Categories:
in stages, bereavement, death, eulogy,
Form:
Free verse
Secret Lives of ShameWe could speak together,
Decry rabid violence of chronically stressed kids
and young adults acting like kids,
apparently regardless of income or race;
perhaps not of enculturation.
Feeling claustrophobic,
anxious about an unpromising competitive future,
drowning in inch-deep and narrow boxed-in mentoring...
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Categories:
in stages, abortion, caregiving, earth, happiness, health, integrity, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
To Our Farthest Memory: Dhruvasmriti“ We are
What we eat“
...
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Categories:
in stages, faith, mythology,
Form:
Concrete
The Proof Is In the Pudding 1The weather was fine today so I decide to go outside and play
I didn't have a plan but I was consistent with the weather man
I stepped out of the house and walked down the empty...
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Categories:
in stages, adventure, america, break up, christmas, conflict, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Stories of Grace and PathologyI hope it would not be a parody of Michael Morrell’s political scientific position
to suggest all relationships are political
and all political relationships fall somewhere on a spectrum
between perfect co-empathic trust,
nutritionally and regeneratively favored by creolizing...
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Categories:
in stages, blessing, gospel, health, history, political, religion, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
GrandadYou know when you are growing up
The stages you go through
Make you the way you are
They help to make you...YOU
The people who you deal with
Whether family or your friends
Are very influential
And they're with you 'till...
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Categories:
in stages, age, appreciation, death, family, love,
Form:
Rhyme
This Thought, This TimeTHIS THOUGHT THIS TIME
This is the time. To put forth in writing the words that plague my mind. An inevitable forthcoming of thoughts internally suppressed, I have thoughts that beg to be told from a...
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Categories:
in stages, deep, humanity, social, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Paper Tigers
"Paper Tigers"
eyes mark slow time
spotting leopard rhyme
never changing its spots
black balled
white pops
the want-to-be bees
sting the dripping honey spot
slapping cards down
kitty pots are shuffled
bluffing intelligentsia
between the gaps
flatulent poets floss their teeth
waxing lyrical strings
tied to the weary...
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Categories:
in stages, dark, muse, poets,
Form:
Free verse