Long Journey Poems

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Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of...

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Categories: journey, anniversary, change, life, people, storm, usa, world,
Form: Narrative


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The Amistad Mutiny

The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...

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Categories: journey, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form: Verse
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Hitchhiker From Another World 4

“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.” 
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my...

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Categories: journey, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, emotions, environment,
Form: Prose
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PANIC DISORDER ANXIETY DISORDER PTSD NARCOLEPSY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND ME

MY DIAGNOSISS 1999 ON A GOVERMENT AIRFORCE BASE DEFENSE COMMISARY AGENCY DECA MY PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT IT WAS SO WEIRD I MEAN I WORKED AT BASE EXCHANGE 1997 I RELOCATED BACK TO GREATLAKES NAVY BASE...

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Categories: journey, allah,
Form: Naat

M Y L I F E

 
 
 
Grow.Heal.Prosper 
 
M Y    L I F E ! 
 
 
I feel like my life is like a boat , the boat is my life everything I’ve worked...

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Categories: journey, black love, deep, sorry,
Form: Free verse


Justice Is Crying In the Street

Oh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...

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Categories: journey, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form: Free verse

A Love's Dialogue

Unique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away my pain.
I need someone to look into my eyes and...

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Categories: journey, allusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Sunday Evening Spree

I see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...

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Categories: journey, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form: Narrative

Oak

"Oak" 

The guardians
stood around and 
shook their heads

great thoughts 
quivering 
from the ground, roots up, 

as if to walk 
confidently 
with great armies

yet hesitation 
was witnessed
in their waving gestures

perplexed 
and touching 
green crowns, 

there they...

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Categories: dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Honey Bee Flying Around In Winter

I have been reluctant to pen this verse 
Because I don't understand what it was all about
I have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't want anyone to  get hurt
Morning comes and evening...

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Categories: journey, angel, blessing, business, community, freedom, mythology, people,
Form: Narrative

The Messenger

"The Messenger"

Love is rich with 
venom and honey. 

there was a female ...

snake, 
it watched 
with green-eyed 
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest

the dove, 
was white as snow, 
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey

the dove 
alone,...

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Categories: dark, journey, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Currents

Currents
by Michael R. Burch

How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...

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Categories: journey, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form: Verse

Open Oceans

"Open Oceans"



Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys

praying
preying

hungry hearts
count the days 

wasting away
in all that preying 

for prayers 
to be answered

children become
strangers

reading 
strange words

finding 
themselves puzzled

genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to

fumbling
mouths closed,

swallowed hole
in the...

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Categories: journey, love, mother daughter,
Form: Epic

Vacuum

Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know

that once intrigued us so.

Come then, let us...

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Categories: journey, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form: Free verse
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Stages Of Life

We as human beings are characterized by different stages or periods across our lifespan, and while individuals experience these stages in their unique ways, there are some commonly recognized patterns and challenges associated with different...

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Categories: journey, baptism, beauty, bible, birth, christian, encouraging, jesus,
Form: Pastoral

State of the Art Iv

State of the Art (IV)

These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. 



Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...”  — W. ...

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Categories: journey, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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An Bee Cailleach

“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”



"An Bee Cailleach"


She lives to...

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Categories: journey, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Juxtapositions of Soul

Sponsor : Regina Macintosh 
submission  : 2/7/25
_____________________

   embedded in avatar’s 
sequential chromosomes 
novel_sprite_ageless___BIRTHED 
Soul protected       simultaneously          ...

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Categories: journey, allusion, change, character, deep, extended metaphor, growth,
Form: Epic

Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers I

Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I

I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …


Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...

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Categories: journey, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form: Rhyme
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Enola Gay

Enola Gay

There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...

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Categories: journey, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form: Verse

The Storm Is In the Calm

The angles are in the storm
Just before  the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
 and relinquish that awful...

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Categories: journey, abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form: Narrative
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UnWatering Trumpian Terror

I'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love powers
over competing fears
about scarcity of healthy time, 
and other resources
for evacuating anger 
about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a regenerate wealth source

CoPresent ReTort,
raised to believe the Golden...

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Categories: journey, anger, destiny, fear, hate, love, power, violence,
Form: Political Verse
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Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding

(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason 
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes 
a threadbare fading strand,
A quest for wisdom 
in this digital land.

Sage:...

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Categories: journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Fallen

“The Fallen”



Remote,
he sees himself 
in the reflection of cold close 
yet distant shop windows, 
his final journey along the 
Hard Time Road
walking alone, 
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life 
a million knives...

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Categories: journey, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Medieval Poems Iv

Medieval Poems IV



IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.



Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....

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Categories: journey, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form: Rhyme
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