Long Interprets Poems

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch 

(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)

I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...

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Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us 

we go about our...

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The Story of History  

Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With  the resurrected  sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps   at the pretentious  proscenium
A ...

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life is not always fair, but God is always good
and if you want to learn to handle heartbreak just do as Jesus would

you've been disheartened, discouraged and your dreams have been dashed
the shroud of disappointment...

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You sit
         With an emotion at the ready.
                   ...

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I am the writer that you think I am

Sad words written on a lonely page sporadically through a sleepless night
Alike to
Tasty words poored out like savored wine that was aged for the same occasion
I don't...

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We lay fallen as velvet roses divinity-promenading in our wake. Innocence sublime 
weeping still-puddles... blessing-our-first-kiss. Beauty eminent one heart securing all we 
share-tongues-entwined hopes defined joined together-soaring-free-as-one... a kin to love, 
swept-away-by-it-we-were... .
 
I believe...

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To say today has been a strange day would be an understatement. It started off this morning when I went into the den where our eldest cat, Paint, was meowing up a storm. I petted...

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stereo
the rhythm goes
and t take me where
it makes me me 
makes me
go off and through this test of fates and complexes and humanity and freedoms 
and assonance with meaning I will lead a future generation...

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OBVIOUSLY 
Obviously, the people who lived contemporary with dinosaurs were intelligent, 
and the footprints indicate that they were quite human as the large toe on 
primates is located closer to the heel to facilitate clinging...

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Dear Humanitarian Poet, 
Do  not weave your fabric of myth
or speak to us in grand verse
telling of the song of the spheres
or the days before this dark time
Pen down to erase the darkness 
Let...

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a Young mind of the Adult kind
           misconstrued to be a schizophrenic find
            ...

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From the beginning, people have asked themselves,
how God came into being or how God creates from nothing?
The God seekers are advancing ethical axioms
and truth is withstanding the test of experience.
Human mind is made out for...

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Sitting saying morning prayers, all in our own way.
Early riser, prayer said, coffee made, it starts the day.
God comes to me instantly when I rise.
So I know I’m safe, always having a good thought at...

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Farewell, then, AUKN boss,
The next this year makes three.
By the time they find a substitute,
Slovenes will be at sea.

He tried to cover his behind;
AUKN boss of bosses,
As every week, balances grew bleak:
He weighed merits and...

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>What is poetry?  Other than words written by human hand.
In perhaps a language few understand.
For when translated, it may lose its intended flow.
My mind recalls the officer asking for reinforcements.  We are going...

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Imagine if at the drop of a hat,
You could become a cartoon
Sylvester the Cat, 
Chasing poor little Tweety Bird,
Perhaps it sounds absurd
Or be Fred Flintstone or his friend,
Let’s just pretend,
I was Barney or Fred’s wife...

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kitty!!!
in life pain is invertible 
no matter how much we try 
or no matter how sad we cry
we cant run away from pain
someone once said 
courage isn't being strong without experiencing pain 
but it is...

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Upon the stars in her eyes,
a universe of wonder lies.

The smooth glare upon her face,
like moonlight on still waters grace.

The spark of magic when she smiles,
ignites a flame that burns for miles.

The suspense in her...

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The Torah Blessing

“8For thus says the LORD of hosts, "After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.”  Zach 2:8...

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Though the lights are dimming,
My heart feels the pain.
I see the tears, I hear the rain,
And I’m left, simply saying,
As my mind interprets,
“What’s it like to breathe the same?”

Am I the only one to blame?
Where...

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My mind is a mystery,
It knows all that I know
scaring me out of my wits.

Methinks,
I cannot hide my thoughts—
That’s insane!
Why would anyone know
my innermost thoughts?
Least of all, my mind!
That’s between my 
soul and my conscience,
Why...

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The writing is on the wall.


The writing is on the wall, an old saying used even until today
for those found lacking or deficient, Divine judgement is on the way
It means that there has been a...

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He speaks for the uprooted.
A man of sorts, a twiggy Buddha.
He who interprets
the conferences of frogs,
the unpublished works
of kestrels and voles.

He’s an advocate for the underbelly
of a microbial heaven, for every kind
of uncouth animalcule.

Ancient is...

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Dreamtime realms are the laboratory of the wise.  
This research compound, where DNA was discovered, 
produces our collective future.

A wise one learns at the college of dreams and 
progresses down the highway of success....

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