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Various Heresies 7

Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch

“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

We had a common sky
before the Christians came.

We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.

The common...

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Categories: leprosy, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Rhyme

Various Heresies 6

Various Heresies 6

Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch

The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.

Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...

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Categories: leprosy, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

Canto Xxvii Hell Transalation

Already was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,

When another, which followed in ascent,
Made us to turn our eyes to top...

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Categories: leprosy, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

I Am the Vicar's Daughter

Noise ,Noise, Noise
Bickering and ''whoremongering''
Dirty money for campaigning
repudiation and gallivanting
mudslinging and maligning
Brainwashing and false promises

How did you get on this bloodstained road 
Who advice you to  follow Uncle Pan's  path
A path that is...

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Categories: leprosy, betrayal, bible, blessing, community, endurance, faith, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Road Trip

Road Trip

The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time, 
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.

"A few...

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Categories: leprosy, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Indifference

Perhaps like me, you have heard the expression,                           ...

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Categories: leprosy, race,
Form: Free verse

Down a Piece and There

The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time, 
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.

"A few more...

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Categories: leprosy, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form: Narrative

Unsettling Feeling

I just can’t get over this unsettling feeling
 That has my spirit reeling
I just cannot get over this unsettling feeling
That keeps me yearning
If someone had hit me with a stone
Then I would have taken the...

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Categories: leprosy, betrayal, community, conflict, divorce, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Narrative

Cliff

*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i


Cliff

Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed jaws sink as all stand back,
tourist gawks, at paired land splendors.
First; mountain...

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Categories: leprosy, imagery, nature, paradise,
Form: Couplet

The Second Coming

After a meal of;
'Lamb steaks and Baccaroni,
Embroided with sweet potatoes'.
Life tossed him around and
Dazed him with threatening pleasures.
Then did he take up a tag to himself,
Proclaiming; 'JESUS WILL COME TOMORROW'.

The deceived that perceived
The air the...

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Categories: leprosy, allegory,
Form: Narrative

A Power

There is a man and there are worms,
We are the worms my brethren,
Beautiful and perverse, wicked and evil, depraved and unjust,
Good and righteous and wonderful, we are the worms.
There is a man my brethren, Paul...

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Categories: leprosy, jesus,
Form: Blank verse

The Alps

I walked outside in the scorching heat moving papers and turning over pages just looking for that one line that goes back to the middle ages. The search was long, the documents were strong and...

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Categories: leprosy, business, confidence, education, environment, journey, perspective, world,
Form: Free verse

His Story

In a nutshell, here’s the story
Of this Guy and she who bore He
On the surface this description
Reads a lot like science fiction
When a young girl gets a visit
From a being – human isn’t
He tells her...

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Categories: leprosy, allegory, devotion, faith, inspirational, love, religionson, god,
Form: Rhyme

In Time

What if we make it in time 

Took my eldest brother of heart
I was age eight
Routing me through different foster homes
I could turn to nothing other than art
Script my life to a page, my newly...

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Categories: leprosy, life, music, recovery from..., song-time, me, life,
Form: Ballad

Fruit of Faith

Failure is a weed that sprouts from unbelief,
Choking out the more desirable fruit of faith.
Marvel at how God weeds out unbelief: 
The little girl's confidence in God's power,
The prophet's reliance on the supernatural.

Watch Ben-Hadad rely...

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Categories: leprosy, bible, christian, faith, god, heart, spiritual, truth,
Form: Free verse

Painting In Vertigo

Somedays, I wake up and my mind is a buzz with the low hum of drunk bees. Other days it's the homicidal scree of the Purge siren meets the absurdity of Happy Gilmore. Those days,...

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Categories: leprosy, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse

Cathars In the Land of the Angles

In winter's cold grip
In the land of the Angles
The Good Christians came
Against their will to a trial
In a grand city
Called the Ford of the Oxen
Good will be slaughtered
By the hands of hot fire
The hands of...

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Categories: leprosy, christian, endurance, england, history, memorial, strength, violence,
Form: Choka

Infrastructure Soul

Beneath the city the river fishing is good.

I roam with tackle and pole below those wiggling tapeworms
Wound around the cement underbelly of bridges
Devouring the guts of the city’s glamour
Down here where shadows are long as...

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Categories: leprosy, city, fish, fishing, places, river, self, society,
Form: Free verse

Probability Analysis


O Magog,
from the sterile land of Gog,
thou rejoicest over how thy biological idol father
hast devilishly embraced thee

Spiritual mathematics 
offer free radical theorems
of probability analysis

Doth thy Gentile nuclear goggles
allow thee to see
the virtual microbe mushrooming variables
in...

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Categories: leprosy, judgement, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Lord God, You Are My Mighty Valiant Deliverer

April 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 5-8

Key Verse –2Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because...

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Categories: leprosy, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme

Confronting a Pharisee

When you said those things you said to me, 
You had never given it a single thought…… 
About what might be going on in my life. 
You assumed that I had done something on purpose
to...

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Categories: leprosy, angstme, me,
Form: Prose Poetry

Corona Virus Cov-19

CORONA VIRUS (COV-19)

The Black Death, or bubonic plague, which happened nearly 700 years ago, (in the three year period of 1347 to 1351 in which it lasted) took the lives of an estimated 75 to...

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Categories: leprosy, anxiety, death, faith, fear, holocaust, horror, sick,
Form: Narrative

Lord God, You Are My Sin Cleanser

February 4 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 13-15

Key Verse– Leviticus 14: 1-2 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his...

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