Long Islam Poems
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First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
Uyghur Poetry TranslationsWith my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
DEADLY GAME OF MRSAHow the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm
day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising
five children including my granddaughter only four...
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Categories:
islam, beautiful, daughter, granddaughter, grandmother, my child, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Craft Can Capture ItOh well I got an angry email to begin my day
Because of my last post on the Jabidah thing yesterday
Galit sa akin but greeted me with Assalamu alaykum.
And kung personal Moro friends ko naman ito...
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Categories:
islam, adventure, art, brother, dedication, me, people, peace,
Form:
Narrative
Noneastern Family PoliticsI began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
islam, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Engaging the Family LaundryPerhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
islam, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
islam, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Manic Depressive ClimatesDepression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by avoiding outward.
Focal awareness of ego mortality,
immanent and emanant,
eminent,
turns inward,
returns...
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Categories:
islam, beauty, culture, depression, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Revolutionary PlutocracyThose who get,
get more.
Those who want,
want more.
Evolution is not survival of the fittest species,
but thrival of the greatest fit with least endosymbiotic change required
within,
whether we speak of polycultural enrichment
or meta-paradigmatic revolutions in understanding multicultural enrichment.
Evolution...
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Categories:
islam, health, love, political, science, wisdom, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Beginnings EndingsBeginnings – Endings
Out of the darkest reaches of time and space
came molten minerals, gasses, rocks, comets
– life traversing aeons, in suspended animation
across millions of light years, billions of desolate miles
creating unseen universe after universe,
creating unseen...
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Categories:
islam, history, planet, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Long Before IsisThirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out a small national magazine....
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Categories:
islam, friendship,
Form:
Prose
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication SeriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...
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Categories:
islam, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Urdu TranslationsLast Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...
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Categories:
islam, desire, hindi, longing, love, nature, passion, urdu,
Form:
Verse
Architects of Humanitarian CrisesCopyright © 2008 #03
4/12/2008 // (Edited: 1/22/2013/lp
(a historical glimpse of humanity's rise)
*This poetic epic begins with the
greatest sin against humanity
*This poem is dedicated to all
serving and protecting the
¨Basic Rights of Mankind¨
Once, mankind was forgiven from...
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Categories:
islam, christian, devotion, faith, history, hope, journey, life,
Form:
Couplet
Ashurah(Every year in the lunar month of Muharram we Shia Muslims commemorate the brutal martyrdom of the grandson of our Holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) and his family and friends at the hands of fake hypocritical...
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Categories:
history, islamic, remembrance day, sad,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
When Savages Sang Strongly 4Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know
The Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
The Vatican went from a marsh...
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Categories:
islam, heart,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
BurnBurn
by Michael R. Burch
for Trump
Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.
Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.
Keywords/Tags: burn, earth, environment, fire, future, nature, natural, planet, climate, pollution,...
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Categories:
islam, earth, environment, fire, future, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
My Perfect Home ZoneMy Perfect Home Zone...
I want the breeze of Jannah to permeate our abodes,
A restful peace within it take hold,
So I ask Allah to fill in them His light entirely,
with joy, contentment, & pure tranquillity,
To answer...
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Categories:
family, happiness, home, inspiration, islamic, meaningful, prayer,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Universal Islamic Message For LifetimeUniversal islamic Message for lifetime:Part 2.
You should Praise real Super Sovereign Power Maker or Creator,The only Allah AlMighty,The True Royal King well honoured Majesty.And if you should have real love & real fear of God.And...
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Categories:
islam, allah, blessing, faith, friendship, humanity, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Seeking AssuranceI am sad
and need reassurance
this choice was not bad
at the time of searching
Home's new-found voice,
and is not bad
now,
and will not be bad
and sad
in my shortening future.
Diminishing now
into year by year forecasts,
no longer this seventh decade
by...
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Categories:
islam, earth day, health, humor, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
The Whips of History - 3We will be the trustees of life's passions...
The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me
from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering from her savage sins,
monuments of luxury built, furnished, and...
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Categories:
islam, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
International CorelationsS/he began our academic feast
in EcoFeminist HerStory Class
reflecting on the history of violent pissed communication
and nonviolent communion
between Afghanistan's empowered
and disempowering LeftBrain StraightMale privilege
And Islam-Christian creolizing cultures
in the Unitarian States
of BiNational
BiHemispheric
BiPolarizing Red/Brown South
and Green/White North
Orange hot...
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Categories:
islam, culture, earth, health, integrity, peace, race, red,
Form:
Political Verse
Passing Up Or Down From Mortal To Immortality Heaven Or HellThe Terrestrial Earthly Body dies,and returns to dust from which "The Lord God Almighty created us,and when we die we move spiritually into our new "Celestial Body"that can be Heavenly Bound or Hell Bound!Heavenly Bound...
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Categories:
islam, 12th grade, 1st grade, 6th grade, america,
Form:
Blank verse
Election Reflection - Join In the CollaborationSome folks will be down in the dumps
Hillary lost … Donald came up trumps
Britain made their exit
They voted for Brexit
I have a question …are we all chumps?
JAN ALLISON
11~09~16
I think we're all sick of the...
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Categories:
islam, humorous, political, satire,
Form:
Limerick
The Dilettante Diaries: Dominion
Dominion / Noun/sovereignty or control
Rev 4 NIV
The Dilettante Diaries: "Dominion"
Something wicked this way comes
Can you not hear it banging on it’s drums?
March on sweet innocent
35 is just a number
take a seat on the bench
catch...
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Categories:
allah, christian, god, islamic, jewish, myth, truth,
Form:
Free verse