Long Issue Poems
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The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
issue, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1. Domestic economy flat-line trends,
2. International peace intent and praxis,
3. Universally...
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Categories:
issue, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form:
Narrative
Two Wrongs Worth a RightToday, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and for,
before and after,
each moment of Earth Tribe’s timeless surfing times.
If...
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Categories:
issue, culture, earth, humor, integrity, philosophy, political, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Water's WeaknessThere is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...
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Categories:
issue, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
As Time Walked ByThese are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
issue, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 100 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Big Barbecue Celebration of Life Mass Invitations ContinuesWhile family Mingled with one
Another and strangers the party flowed
Smoothly. Music was enjoyed.
Everybody indulged. With a little
Champagne some wine and juice.
The bar also served smoothies.
Adults mingled. Delilah Mallory
Mother Daughtry and Amaliah...
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Categories:
issue, 4th grade, birth, child, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Climates of Ballistic ManagementSenator Fuller,
a permaculture designer
turned architect of exterior landscapes
then public sector architect
of EarthShip cooperative interior landscapes,
is with us today
to tell us about why he supports Sanders,
at this point in time,
although he is making no commitments about...
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Categories:
issue, destiny, earth, health, humor, peace, political, true
Form:
Prose Poetry
Just Doin' My Translation JobIt's all frustratingly LeftBrain relativistic,
even nihilistic in its darker
ruminating
paranoid about chaotic outcomes form,
said Einstein's post-millennial ghost.
So its all synergetic fractal 4D equivalent SpaceTime,
said Fuller,
in co-arising nondual P = N(NP)/2 (0)-Core response.
Interesting you should...
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Categories:
issue, creation, health, humor, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Empathy As Green DemocracyI don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal knowledge,
perhaps because it is not possible to change Right Brain's
Elder feelings of co-empathic trust
where dipolar co-arising mutual immunity
raises...
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Categories:
issue, education, health, history, integrity, political, racism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Gaia Out SpeaksQueen Gaia
of Earth's Shabbat
is here to speak today.
Unfortunately,
she can only sign,
and the only way she can see
is through our DNA/RNA fractally-balancing syntax,
so she has asked if she could respond to your questions,
as she understands them
within...
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Categories:
issue, earth, gender, god, health, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 111 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Worries Orchestrations Population DisintegrationMolly sat on the backyard porch
Watching the kids play when Dolly
Emerged from the doorway and
Sat with her. "Hey sis how's it going
Girl! Dolly seemed jovial. Molly
Replied, "I guess it's going...
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Categories:
issue, color, daffodils, family, good morning, home,
Form:
Alliteration
Conservative Healthy SpiralsGenetic, so therefore regenetic, conservatism
of DNA and this fractal function's Elder RNA-rooted ecosystemic
political psychologies,
ecologies of empowerment,
and not so much;
History,
and notnot historic enculturation
of Business As Usual LeftBrain ReIterative Dominance
of deduction-reduction-redaction,
yet still dipolar-dialectical ecosystemic health
(0)-sum-core-centric ecopolitical...
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Categories:
issue, blessing, culture, earth, games, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
issue, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style~ Seek The Lord ~
( Star Of David )
God
For sure
Knows sees all
Wants best for you
He sure loves us all
Lord wants us to have Love...
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Categories:
issue, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
One DayOne day not so long ago
I walked
Never alone
For the world
Is always my home
It was a late
Spring snow
Yet I felt
Invisible red roses
Offering sweetest perfume
To my nose and soul
There’s such warmth
In snow-filled winter
No bitterness
No...
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Categories:
issue, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Republicans For God and CountryThanks for your letter
asking for a free Taoist consult
on how to bring God talk
and experience
back into our Big Agri-MilitantIndustrialized Busyness Schools
and possibly our extended family lives,
on into our inside Holy of Holies,
our Climates of PanEntheistic...
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Categories:
issue, caregiving, education, happiness, health, integrity, leadership, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Exodus To GenesisWith Julian Jaynes
we find an egocentric languaged LeftBrain
developing reasons to sacredly love our healthy RightBrain inductive-integrative SacredPower feelings of Earth's co-relationship with LeftBrain's Self-ReGenerating Identity
of BiCameral Ego/Eco-Consciousness.
Later on in the evolution of Positive Psychology,
we find...
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Categories:
issue, culture, health, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
issue, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Who Am IWHO AM I
I am a woman of abundance,
...
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Categories:
issue, character, i am, life, me, perspective, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Exegesis of Original IntentThe ugly head of the Original Intent issue
co-arises with what were our ForeFather Patriarchal Patriots
thinking and feeling to leave out prohibitions against antiChristian degeneracy,
and to put in permissions for antiChristian degeneracy.
No.
Wait.
That's not right.
We could not...
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Categories:
issue, body, destiny, earth, health, humanity, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian TakeBack Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*
In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...
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Categories:
issue, books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
8 Little EgyptsSomething 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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Categories:
issue, easter, humanity, words,
Form:
Narrative
But Just Where Is God(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)
Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish
When mental...
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Categories:
issue, god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form:
Blank verse
Classified Part FourI was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
issue, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Thomas JeffersonIt interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing minds
of original democratic declaration and constitution shaping times,
as they listened to their...
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Categories:
issue, culture, happiness, health, humor, independence day, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse