Long Jericho Poems

Nowhere Else To Go

Welcome to Israel: Land of Hope.1
(The land of Zion and Jerusalem.)2
Where prophets walked and prophesied,
For their God, our God:
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.3

And the Lord spoke to Abram, and he...

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As I woke up this morning I was thinking of what should I do through COVID-19 pandemic.
I said to myself, “I want to go for a walk.”
While walking along the street, people were passing with...

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Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....

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Ali'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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You see the past in me
I'm alive...I survived the disdainful rainfall
Don't be shy to ask for help
I arrive...undone and I must've lost it all...cuz I get no where in life at all 
Can't help, but...

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STOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR

This journey has not been a fanciful adventure, 
we're all settlers in  these dynasty of neo-colonialism 
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes 
victims of civilized inducement, 
terms of...

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Zacchaeus' climb up to success, 
                             A...

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Reflections upon mine gender identity redux

Although heterosexual 
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations 
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine 
showcasing undersize
male member, when fully erect 
not much to crow
about, contributed 
diminished masculinity within
body electric regarding 

wordsmith...

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Let my butterfly wings fly…in the glittery moonlight…
My words escape my lips with a lack of self-control and patience…
I’m sorry, but I’m lost…soon to be found…
In another life called the After Life…
The walls are closing...

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The night is leaving and the morning is coming to life...coming to life...
I wave goodbye to the dark and welcome a brighter day, free from strife...free from strife...
I regret, wasting my hours on watching my...

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Ogling over an oval clock that is eight o’clock…I can help myself actually…
Being who I really wanted to be in life – I took an obsessive oath of anonymous substantial substance…
Slang words used to shatter...

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How tenderly you cared for me
when you found me broken on the road
did lift me up gave me your own cup
removed from me my heavy load
 
You dressed my wounds with healing balm
every injury you...

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Balaam's Final Oracle Numbers 24:21-25

and uttered his oracle:

"Your dwelling place is so secure,
your nest is set upon a rock;
yet you Kenites will be destroyed
when Asshur takes you captive."

Then he uttered his oracle:

"Ah, who can live...

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Then I heard the voice of the LORD saying,"Whom shall I send?
 And who will go for us?"
And I said,"Here I am. Send me!"
He said,"Go and tell this people:
"' Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be...

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Then I heard the voice of the LORD saying,"Whom shall I send? And who 
will go for us?" And I said," Here I am. Send me!"
He said,"Go and tell this people: '"Be ever hearing, but...

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All biblical quotes and verses are from the NIV
In Isaiah 6:8 the Lord is asking whom he should send and who will go for us?
In Isaiah 6:8 Isaiah is responding that the Lord can and...

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You are the white fence
the blown horn
the fiercest fight
a green pasture at dawn
you are the creek smell ...moss and black-brown peat
glint of light off the trash barrel that blinds the evil driver who hits the...

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Part two will  focus on the ancient names of the Psalm 83's collation of the
nation's of Israel's closet neighbors; which want to have it no longer remem
bered as a nation, on the face of...

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Balak Summons Balaam Numbers 22:1-18  part one

Then the Israelites traveled to the plans of Moab and camped along the Jordan
across from Jericho.  Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done...

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You that I am not like other men--extortioners, or even like this tax collector.
'I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all I possess.'  And the tax collector standing
afar off, would not so...

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6)  Q: What is meant by the sixth Beatitude in Mathew 5:6: by "blessed are they which 
          do hunger and thirst after righteousness?"

 ...

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THREE year olds know about circles. They play
ring around the rosy and here we go round
the mulberry bush. And if one should say 
that in reality nowhere is found
a perfect circle, they either don’t hear
or...

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In great sincerity, one president                              ...

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"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with the wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:...

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The silence was shattered by the sound of thunder,
Your eyes were so red; I had to look the other way.
They bled tears of pain and lightning shook my soul,
Something happened on the way to scare...

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