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Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
inscrutable, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Dillen and the DmvTO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity
I don’t...
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Categories:
inscrutable, culture, discrimination, health, political, race, perspective, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part OneUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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Categories:
inscrutable, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
Jesus Christ As Climate SaviorTo my sisters,
and narrow-way brothers,
in Jesus Christ
as Supreme U.S. Savior,
I reached U.S. voting age during the 70s.
During this time,
the Religious Right
and Republican Party Center
were about the same place;
not distinguishable,
inscrutable, perhaps.
In strong conserving defense of retail-commodified...
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Categories:
inscrutable, appreciation, christian, culture, health, history, love, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Dorm LoveOurs was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical,
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.
He was the presumably straight Vietnam veteran
southern white good ol' boy,
athletically studying Japanese,
with a gentle passion for...
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Categories:
inscrutable, culture, gender, history, love, military, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Black BodyI. Imagine a stack
Of razor blades
Bolted together
Polished edges
Forming a blunt mass…
Who would guess the
Blackness of that face?
II. Picture Pandoran box
Harboring atom pulse;
No less a voyeur
The scientist peering
Through revealing keyhole
Finds an interior
Darker than any light.
III. Such...
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Categories:
inscrutable, science, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
Renee Vivien TranslationsRenee Vivien Translations
Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped in flightless wings.
It's getting late; soon we will sleep
(your eyes...
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Categories:
inscrutable, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
Gold Nutrition StandardsIf political scientists study power relationships,
could economists study interior as exterior landscapes
for cooperative/competitive nutrient-flow/struggle
and dynamic birth through decomposition trends?
Both political and economic researchers,
one and all together,
of sound ecologically healthy exegetical mind
and regenerating ribonucleic embryonic body.
Our...
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Categories:
inscrutable, beautiful, culture, health, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Domestic EntertainmentsI find my entertainments close to home
as nothing could be more wildly hilarious
and downright curious
than my own complex teenagers
who sometimes speak
and do their math
about what adds up toward our shared
and independent
futures.
Then there are cacophonous...
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Categories:
inscrutable, adventure, earth, happiness, home, humor, nature, night,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Christ and LaotseA Tao (0)Mega Tipping Point Zen-Christ
could become no better or worse than your own spiritual experiences
of your own bicameral mindbody of Christianity.
These Christ-icons are all made of the same LeftBrain yeast
becoming fully diastatic bread
becoming RightBrain's...
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Categories:
inscrutable, christian, culture, earth, health, humor, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Your Devoted Loving HandsYour devoted adoring Loving hands
Shields the abyss with trance
in utter bewilderment
As every hand is first an apprentice
That slaves beneath The Temple Of LOVE
Your Loving hands have valor and daring
to weave my sorrow into a...
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Categories:
inscrutable, courage, devotion, i love you, inspirational, love,
Form:
Lyric
At the Mercy of Interminable Anticipatory Anxiety, HenceAt the mercy of interminable anticipatory anxiety, hence...
viz hitted courtesy debilitating
one after another panic attack
analogous being bombarded with flak
worse fate then death
or being tortured on the rack,
no mortal experience compares
regarding psychological paralysis
just ask...
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Categories:
inscrutable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
Toxic 2018I've noticed a new favorite word
in 2018
was "toxic."
And, in on-line discussions,
a newly invested discernment
of what it might fascist imply
to lead each white privileged day
with patriarchal narcissism.
Hillary,
unlike St. Hilary,
could stand iconic for matriarchal narcissism.
It exists, like...
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Categories:
inscrutable, anti bullying, fear, hate, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Daily At the Mercy of Anticipatory Anxiety, HenceDaily at the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...
illogical and irrational obsessive compulsive
exhausting rituals linkedin
with cognitive dissonance
(essentially unfounded worry
birthed courtesy far fetched circumstances)
exacts significant mental expense,
which logically and rationally
makes perfect figurative cents
nevertheless offers assigned therapist
Renee Cardone...
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Categories:
inscrutable, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Google ThisGoogle Maps told me today
that my Phoenix to Tucson drive
would last an hour and fifty-seven minutes.
At excactly two-nineteen I would arrive.
But surely it is folly to assume
How could Google get this right?
Even with up to...
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Categories:
inscrutable, car, computer, future, humorous, internet,
Form:
Free verse
No Beating the ClockI was an ambitious fine watchmaker, looking forward to sunshine tomorrows,
Like the remote edge of a fuchsia horizon, where gather racy, blue swallows.
I worked on clocks of all styles and sizes, repairing both old and...
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Categories:
inscrutable, fantasy, imagery, life, meaningful, nature, time,
Form:
Couplet
Horus In Paradise
"Horus in Paradise"
In dreams
I met you in Paradise
I called you
Blue Sky
You were an
Angel in disguise
Horus, White Light
feathers of fire
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
“Ten Miles High” / Roison Murphy
https://youtu.be/2B8fxZoa7w0
"It mav have been a Million years...
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Categories:
inscrutable, angel, i am, symbolism,
Form:
Romanticism
The LessonI. Theory
She is dark and her darkness frightens you. But as closer you come to her, the lighter the darkness becomes. How bright the light were, if a thousand suns would rise in the sky...
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Categories:
inscrutable, dark, death, light,
Form:
Haibun
Moonlight AdventureThe beautiful day begins in the house.
At the end of it, all that’s left of it is the moon,
Shimmering in all the night’s light.
A door to another world opens.
The only movement is a page turning...
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Categories:
inscrutable, allegory, childhood, family, happiness, imagination, people, uplifting,
Form:
Sestina
FoghornI was an inscrutable, capricious mystery writer, like a pure mystery of days;
And I had composed best selling novels, like westering sun's scarlet phase.
An unparalleled passion for writing, had for quite long been the motivation,
Behind...
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Categories:
inscrutable, fantasy, god, lost, mystery, nature, prayer, sea,
Form:
Couplet
At the Mercy of Anticipatory Anxiety, HenceAt the mercy of anticipatory anxiety, hence...
viz hitted courtesy debilitating panic attacks
Upon waiting for vehicular repair
today November 19th, 2019 at:
CJ'S TIRE & AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES
(1405 S Township Line Rd,
Royersford, PA 19468),
yours truly, i.e. mister re:...
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Categories:
inscrutable, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Incomprehensible Existential Conundrum Confronts Mine Consciousness Part IDescendent of proto humans
dumbfounded, mystified, stupefied, et cetera
despite plethora of technological trappings,
whereby world wide web virtually linkedin
allowing, enabling, and providing
instantaneous electronic feedback,
I still experience dearth
of mental, psychological and social
meaningfulness amidst cerebral chaos
courtesy healthy mailer daemons
occupying...
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Categories:
inscrutable, 12th grade, absence, creation, fate, grandparents, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Farrago Go Again With My GallimaufryA nascent hodgepodge
of gobbledygook from me,
or alternatively yours
nada soo true lee,
this incipient harm
less bumbling in das scribe
...
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Categories:
inscrutable, 10th grade, 12th grade, joy, mystery, nonsense,
Form:
Lyric
Did Your Mother Ever Tell YouDid your mother ever tell you,
Did you know?
(Some of us have a penchant for the inscrutable)
Did, your mother ever tell you
(These bonds are primordial and immutable)
In one of those intimate conversations
Between mother and child
(Mostly wasted...
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Categories:
inscrutable, childhood, mother, mother, memory, me, memory, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The LighterThe Lighter
When the passage of life seem so dark
Filled with agony, regrets and mistakes
Nowhere to turn to, crying for help
Voices end up brown by the whirlwind without response
Ears have been brooked by the cacophony that...
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Categories:
inscrutable, africa, anger, bereavement, betrayal, drug,
Form:
Acrostic