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Various Heresies
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch

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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?

Isn’t it silly, Willy...

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Categories: inching, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Chapter 80 --Damian Delilah Mallory: Congregations
Damian Stood in the Hugh room
Surveying the expansiveness of
The place. "Yeah, this will be a
Imperial family event in my house.
The judges will be here too. 
There were two large tables 
The capacity was almost 
Immeasurable....

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Categories: inching, abuse, confidence,
Form: Alliteration
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...

and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones 
subject courtesy senescence 
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.

Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...

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Categories: inching, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date
Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...

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Categories: inching, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Light At the End of the Tunnel
"What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.

We would all go for a swim, and then have a fine lunch,
And would return...

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Categories: inching, adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship love, home, light,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Jack and Jill - The True Story
* Examples for the contest

Jack and Jill (the real story)

"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after..."

Of course, neither...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inching, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member New Neighbors
I am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you fry a fat fly on one of those electronic bug...

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Categories: inching, depression, family, funny love, humor, husband, lonely,
Form: Narrative
Wednesday September 2021 At 320 Pm
Wednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...
eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives

That seasonal occasion twill arise
when darkness and light doth bring
equilibrium between night and day
raking leaves will constitute exercise
espied and witnessed by observant earthling
namely me who...

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Categories: inching, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny, environment, fate, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair Line
Courtesy severely receding hair line..., 
yours truly enveloped within morose mood

I (Samson incarnate) 
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.

Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...

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Categories: inching, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Highlights From Highland Manor
Highlights from Highland Manor

Courtesy Goofus and Gallant 
who began their broadly-drawn 
moral plays in the 1950s, 
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights 
indicated the two were brothers, 
but not twins, and...

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Categories: inching, adventure, age, animal, celebration, environment, green, july,
Form: Rhyme
Weird Fake News
Weird "fake" news

This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close

to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...

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Categories: inching, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form: Free verse
I Am An Empty Soul
I am an empty soul; I simply have no drive, it’s a wonder that I can survive
I am too depressed and I feel no rest; I always feel this pain deep in my chest
Life is...

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Categories: inching, absence, angst, dark, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Does the War Ever Really End
A moment stauls...
Somewhere in between
What shall always be... 
Known as my lost and forever hour

Where I wake to sounds of thrashing rains
A clock sits staring, ticking and tocking
My own darkness illuminating lightning
Distant thunder following her...

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Categories: inching, confusion, courage, dark, father, metaphor, pain, rain,
Form: Verse
Sharon
Sharon
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 15

apologies to Byron

I.

Flamingo-minted, pink, pink cheeks,
dark hair streaked with a lisp of dawnlight;
I have seen your shadow creep
through eerie webs spun out of twilight...

And I have longed to kiss...

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Categories: inching, beauty, body, hair, light, moon, night, sun,
Form: Rhyme
the GAUD poems
Poems from "the GAUD poems" and "the ur poems"...


& GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE
to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!”
—michael r. burch


reverse the Curse
with LIGHT VERSE!
recant the cant
with an illuminating chant,
etc.
—michael r. burch

Can...

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Categories: inching, bible, christian, extended metaphor, god, light, nature,
Form: Free verse
THE ur POEMS
THE ur POEMS


& GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE
to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!”
—michael r. burch


grave request
by michael r. burch

come to ur doom
in Tombstone;

the stars stark and chill
over Boot Hill

care nothing for ur...

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Categories: inching, angel, atheist, christian, humanity, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Free verse
U-Turn
FROM THE ur POEMS



u-turn: another way to look at religion
by Michael R. Burch 
 
... u were borne orphaned from Ecstasy
into this lower realm: just one of the inching worms
dreaming of Beatification; u
would love to...

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Categories: inching, angel, atheist, baptism, christian, culture, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse
Grave Request
grave request
from "the ur poems"
by Michael R. Burch

come to ur doom
in Tombstone;

the stars stark and chill
over Boot Hill

care nothing for ur desire;

still,

imagine they wish u no ill,
that u burn with the same antique fire;

for there’s...

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Categories: inching, death, destiny, extended metaphor, funeral, god, grave,
Form: Free verse
Epigrams Iii
Speechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

At Auschwitz
piles of glasses
mountains of shoes ...
returning, we stared out different windows.

Ko Un speaks for all of us, by not knowing what to say about the...

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Categories: inching, humor, literature, philosophy, poems, satire, words, writing,
Form: Epigram
Advice to Young Poets
Advice to Young Poets
by Nicanor Parra Sandoval
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Youngsters,
write however you will
in your preferred style.
Too much blood flowed under the bridge
for me to believe
there’s just one acceptable path.
In poetry everything’s permitted.



Byron
was not...

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Categories: inching, light, poems, poetry, poets, world, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Experiencing Emerging Adulthood Stage While Inching Toward Being An Old Geezer
Me, an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
burning, depleting, using... fossil fuels,
thus a global nonrenewable resource(s)
repentant consumer
admitting heavily trod carbon footprint
additionally deeply enmired
within very late adolescence,

hence I shriek
with utter dismay
starkly aware personal hygiene
suffers direct...

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Categories: inching, anger, childhood, confusion, father daughter, health, mom,
Form: Free verse
Save Our Souls
It was three in the morning and I had to get dressed
The radio had crackled out, another SOS
The fire flickered slowly, it was to cold to gain heat
So I pulled on my old boots and...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inching, dedication, me, old, tree, fire, fire, me,
Form: Verse
Perry and Empire
‘Twas but a mist-enshrouded speckle
dark-painted on looming horizon.
Petty worker holds unwavering watch,
silently, stealthily keeps his eyes on.

Forward motion undeniable,
each passing minute size increasing.
Small heart stands alert and viable – 
beating fast and tremulous; though, never...

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Categories: inching, allegory, heart, imagery, relationship, symbolism, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
A Poetic Call
Determined to read and plant the seed fast
   to emulate poets of the present and past.
I staked the library display Whitman, Kilmer, Frost, unnamed arrays
   including Sandberg and St. Vincent Millay.
It...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: inching, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Booming Night
Bang! Bang!
A roaring sound erupted from downstairs awakening my sister and I, 
Silence over filled the house.
My sister and I laid in our bed immobile, 
I listened to her soft quivering breaths as the tranquility...

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Categories: inching, cry, dark, daughter, deep, evil, fear, halloween,
Form: Lay

Book: Reflection on the Important Things