Long Keyword Poems

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An                          Kaleidoscopical        ...

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Early Poems XX

These are my early poems or juvenilia. 


Paradise
by Michael R. Burch, age 15

There’s a sparkling stream
And clear blue lake
A home to beaver,
Duck and drake

Where the waters flow
And the winds are soft
And the sky...

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Love is her Belief and her Commandment
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Love is her belief and her commandment;
in restless dreams at night, she dreams of Love;
and Love is her desire and her purpose;
and everywhere she goes,...

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These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller...

These are selected XENIA epigrams with...

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God showed His face a few more times--like
when He and Jacob wrestled, God knows why,
but wrestle they did, all day and into the night,
and here's the thing: God couldn't beat him!
Jacob held God so tight...

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Hi, Migrants of Syria,
    We welcome you to Austria,
    The country which you come through,
    It is in the middle of Europe too.
   ...

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COMMON Thoughts the Father Witness

I'm like you created in the image of Him;
Him whom is the image of Father God;
Where you been,are you my twin;
It's rather odd, we both heed the call;
Right;
Write;
Though farther we are;
United...

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Blessed is me....
A smartphone and an online connection is all I need....
To keep track of poetic souls and to assuage rhyming needs...
And to ready ingenious lines of acceptable rhythmic prose...
To curry favour with netizens into...

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I should be entitled to a free Lifetime Premium Membership according to my wife and friends around me. My father CPO Arthur Frederick Horn was killed on active duty on the Carrier Intrepid after 20...

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Christ said:
“I leave you with another commandment.
Love others as I have loved you.”
“Let the little children come to me,
For the Kingdom of God is made up of these.”

Humanity has missed and will miss them dearly,
How...

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I have a breaking heart,
No family, no friends.
I live a life of seclusion,
Only darkness brightens my days.
I like to look upon my life,
Before the darkness came.
So fruitful, so fun...
I had been in love...
He was an...

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Much of violence or himsa comes from self-hurt:
The first step in the algorithm of himsa is:
So-and-so hurt me, or I feel hurt.
So I must, in turn, hurt whomsoever.
Let’s ponder  this Gandhian Paradox: 
Nobody can...

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Once again you're here
Once again my heart feels fear. 
Fear of falling for your lies
Your words are covering 
my mouth and my eyes
Now I'm blinded by 
your charm and 
I can't ask you why...
Why are...

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Do I have a choice 
before knifing the page
for a meaning, when I was
drowned in a nostalgia ?

Cinchona bark. This was my 
keyword for living bitterly
under a tryant inciting
the riots of colors.

The digital death comes...

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Do you think life as you know it/
Is all that exists/
Wow... you are blind to think that/
When God says no God before him/
Is God admitting there's other Gods/
This life has consequences/
We really are judged/
When we...

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Aries(cardinal, fire, keyword:confidence

Taurus(fixed, earth, keyword:beauty

Gemini(mutable, air,
keyword:communication

Cancer(cardinal, water,
keyword:essential

Leo(fixed, fire, 
keyword:showtime

Virgo(mutable, earth
keyword:fix

Libra(cardinal, air
keyword:sell

Scorpio(fixed, water
keyword:analyze

Sagittarius(mutable, fire
keyword:free

Capricorn(cardinal, earth
keyword:provide

Aquarius(fixed, air
keyword:persevere

Pisces(mutable, water
keyword:empathy

All in Harmony:

Confident of the beauty communicated 
in it's essence, I witness a daily cycle 
of regeneration in life that...

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The Good Old Days

Take me back to the good old days
When we were grateful for what we had
Now people have much more than they need
And society has gone bad

Greed is the keyword and money their...

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Our rainbow body

The root chakra red ~
blood awakes earth dead,
grounded, yet flowing,
for higher knowing.

Sacral lust orange ~
animal urge strange,
fluidic expansion 
by procreation.

Navel tinge yellow ~
power all aglow,
in fiery action,
enables traction.

Heart’s colour is green ~
breath inking...

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I imagine you a reflection of your word
                  A dashing picture with buckle and sword
   ...

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Haven't written about love for days
Could be at least one or two
So here we go, I'm back at it again
Get ready to go “aww” and drool

What d'ya get when you cross Happy Jack
With a charmer,...

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She sits by the window for her morning crossword
Coffee cup in hand struggling to find a buzzword
The fresh air carries melodies so pleasantly heard
Yet still she feels somewhat like a jailbird
Is there anything more absurd

Streaking...

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I heard you say,
You never speak of what you did wrong. 
It's always something  negative ,
You sing the same Ole song. 

Never said I was a saint.
I admit I ve got some flaws. 
But no...

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As a Christian barometer
that provides recollection
of the past and present situation
a good measurement, an inner voice.

  It’s a response to human need,
  a connection to those in trouble;
  a song to those...

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Times may not always be good,
There may be many to blame;
But it depends upon us,
Whether we find a way,
Or find reasons to complain.

In situations like these,
There always lies a choice;
It depends upon us,
Whether we hear...

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One thing, I've come to realise
to some this may come as a surprise
Realities a big bunch of lies
see for yourselves, open your eyes!
We've all slept for far too long
allowed way too many wrong
lost amid the...

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