Long Lessoned Poems

Various Heresies 4

I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch

I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.

But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...

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The day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds 
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...

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The day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting 
     aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle 
         ...

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Birthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch

LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,
Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;
come dwell again,
happy child among men—
men rejoicing to have known you
in the familiar manger’s cool
sweet light scent...

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Am never paving way ever again to tears,
Am standing tall to all these fears,
I have trembled enough,
Struggled enough,
Am never looking back again,
Nothing will take me back to that futon,
I have worked harder to slide back,
Embraced...

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(a salvation for my then junior high school youngest daughter afflicted with cognitive dissonance, who over the intervening years (mor'n half dozen Earth orbitz  ago), I dashed off this poem witnessed nothing short of...

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I yearn to tell you what I know
But I am lost to find the perfect way,
So come and view the truths I'll show.
You'll see beyond our concept of today.

Talk to the homeless on the street,
Some...

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(countless years hug hoe ~ a half dozen)
twas spawned a fondness for thee above named young lady,
   when first she got assigned to thine offspring
a glint of genuine virtue grew into a shimmering...

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The day was almost over the length of shadows added to the horror the suicided 
failure as eye kicked the step away from the very air eye breathed only to discover 
that the rope that...

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Oh sinful love!
Ranges of diversity surround thee.
Quests fulfilled for meager use.
The style has no grace or degree.
Bended and forlorn though many seek,
Your pleasure is lessoned each time needed.
Oh sinful love!
When shall you no longer be...

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Birthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch

LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,

Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;

come dwell again,
happy child among men—

men rejoicing to have known you
in the familiar manger’s cool

sweet light scent...

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my faith… tested
each day young life lost.. sadness
why not me... I’ve lived

the taste of life…
once sweet… delicate now… gone sour
final hours… close
~
raw facts of life… pain…
rapture… if treated with care
putting wrongs to right
~
project Mars… a...

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I feel a weight lifted of my shoulders,
Like past B.C. Olympians throwing boulders.

The world overall is a place of wonder,
rules made to be broken, and disappoint mothers.
What if? Could it? Should it happen,
To be a...

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Melody Maker

The music in my mind plays softly. 
It is quiet today. 
I can write and enjoy
each stroke of the pen
as it touches the paper... 
like a lover for the first time
with their dearest one....

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His result slip showed  he had failed
Friends celebrated their success
But his parents and some he shamed
Had pinned  on him their hopes and focus

His Dad said "For negligence, it's the price
 Your direliction is...

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Wisdom tree is broken down,
From the peak of hand in hands,it can't be replaced,
When condition got worse, 
No leaves were found on its branch, 
Thinking I would survive through jungle of attention,  
Its remedy...

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I wish you were here to talk to me.
But you're gone now.
So all your advice is thoughts you see.
You were the one I came to when I neeeded advice.
And i always listened though sometimes you...

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Okay, so you come fill me up with your drama 
You didn't even realize I would become a problem
You left me without a wave goodbye or a kiss to remember you by
In my mind I...

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Time will lapse leisurely as it runs
On nimble legs through worlds unknown.
The moon is whole, the wind will still and
You can hear the whispers that they speak.
And when the hour is near
You will see,
As they...

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Tantalizing thought whiff wafted on the evening breeze
Both chapters and mistakes;
Lessoned me
Some chapters, I read repeatedly 
Some mistakes, I don't want to repeat again 

Yonder for miles,
Be and by now
His voice echoes 
Like the high...

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