Long Larger Poems
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In the Middle of the Night
I woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
larger, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Rumors
Rumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
larger, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
larger, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
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:
larger, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
larger, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Dear Neighbors
Dear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
behind me, on the...
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Categories:
larger, baptism, health, heart, humor, passion, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Bodhisattva Tease
Do you share my concern
that your happiness and healthy life
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...
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Categories:
larger, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Making Curious Space For Love
It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger
(Chapman and Gratz)
AND
Evolutionary Enlightenment:
A New...
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Categories:
larger, anger, culture, fear, history, love, universe,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Arthurian Poems
At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
larger, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Victories For Love
The problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral,
concern.
This primal problem of militarism by historic default
is that it is an intrinsically...
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Categories:
larger, health, history, integrity, love, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
Federal Probe alerts all aboard greatlakes navy base
The probe alerts for federal
employees identification machines
data including finger printing
system use for fraudulent
access to aviation government
buildings documents and data
to allow domestic terrorists access
identication machines still not
located be vigil when...
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Categories:
larger, allah,
Form:
Naat
Games We Play
Yang, dear.
Yes, my lovely Yin.
Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.
Really!
How sexist?
Well you seem to associate competitive ZeroSum WinLose
with strong aggressive patriarchal effectiveness
for defending...
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Categories:
larger, birth, games, gender, health, history, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
After School Jam Session
How was school today?
Fine.
Did you learn anything important?
Maybe. I'm not sure yet.
Really? What are you considering?
We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.
Maybe I skipped that day
way back in premillennial times
before Permaculture Design had taken...
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Categories:
larger, culture, earth, education, environment, health, humor, science,
Form:
Political Verse
le livre bleu
“le livre bleu”
Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers,
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine teeth,
they drown their sorrows in their muses -
contemporary little monsters – Still Life,
they call...
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Categories:
larger, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Prose Poems
Prose Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
larger, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
Dillen and the Dmv
TO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity
I don’t...
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Categories:
larger, culture, discrimination, health, integrity, perspective, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Cocoon
"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect
strings of silk
in the air
glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...
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Categories:
larger, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto Xiv
Because the charity of my native place
Obliged me, the broken branches I the picked up
Them giving back him, who was to debase.
Then we finally reached where had to leap
From the second turn to third, and...
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Categories:
larger, fantasy, , cute,
Form:
Terza Rima
MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND CLIENT LIST
DESPERATE AFTER CONTACTING PAULA BRAND ABOUT MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND CLIENT LIST HE BEGAN SELLING DRUGS FOR GREGORY BRAIYHWSITE JOHNSON I GAVE UP THIS JAMAICAN CARTEL UNDER MY WEARING WIRES 20 YEARS AGO TO THE...
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Categories:
larger, allah,
Form:
Naat
MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND CLIENT LIST
DESPERATE AFTER CONTACTING PAULA BRAND ABOUT MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND CLIENT LIST HE BEGAN SELLING DRUGS FOR GREGORY BRAIYHWSITE JOHNSON I GAVE UP THIS JAMAICAN CARTEL UNDER MY WEARING WIRES 20 YEARS AGO TO THE...
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Categories:
larger, allah,
Form:
Naat
Happy Fourth of July, Or Happy Independence Day
Happy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day
On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold and liberty's triumph
Congress voting in...
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Categories:
larger, america, birthday, celebration, firework, food, freedom, fun,
Form:
List
On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
larger, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser
The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story...
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Categories:
larger, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict, courage, devotion, religion,
Form:
Free verse
A Greener Bodhisattva World
This is the third time
I've read Beyond Religion:
Ethics
[non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-violent]
for A (not "The") Whole World
[ZeroZenZone Universe, psychological and politically eco-logical].
In the second, of two, sections,
the Dalai Lama discusses,
in most excruciating therapeutic detail,
emotional positive v negative...
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Categories:
larger, beauty, green, health, humor, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Resonating Rightbrain Politics
Says Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...
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Categories:
larger, beauty, environment, health, political, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse