Long Luther Poems
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Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
luther, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Wisdom's Marching CouncilI know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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luther, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
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Political Verse
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
luther, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
FBI FRAUDAs i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11 medal information this resulted in her arriving with a gunman...
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Categories:
luther, anxiety, family, hurt, military, poetry, stress, world
Form:
Free verse
Grand Dragon PressSome may say grand dragon others grand wizard either or it began in 60s everything was a bit chaotic the death of John f Kennedy Bobby Kennedy pope John XXlll my birth and Martin Luther...
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Categories:
luther, 2nd grade, black love,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
luther, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
luther, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Agenda"Again... I apologize but threefold times ...
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Categories:
luther, america,
Form:
Political Verse
Watching IsmsThere is a world of difference
between schism and jism,
but they both end up the same.
Just as patriarchal Roman Catholicism
overpowers living and breathing Christianity,
so too does Capitalism
overpower cooperative capital co-investment,
so too does autocratic rationalism
overpower syncretic enculturing...
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Categories:
luther, culture, earth day, health, philosophy, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Love You MessagesWhen the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence
loves homophobic St. Paul,
This felt like too much tolerating
an unconstitutional intolerable
absence of basic...
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Categories:
luther, health, love, peace, political, power, race,
Form:
Political Verse
Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and WarYou can feel it spinning
...
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Categories:
luther, culture, environment, farm, future, history, peace, water,
Form:
Verse
Teachers Conference the FBI and meThere was no easy day going under cover
with four kids riding along with the FBI supervisor
I was just a young mother of four actually expecting
again seven months pregnant the FBI installed wires...
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Categories:
luther, art, beautiful, caregiving, chicago, feelings, journey, school,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
VictoryWhen I was a boy I wanted to be Martin Luther King,
For his life sings of the strength of unconditional love,
Which can only come from above,
But when I became a man, I gave myself to...
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luther,
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Bio
A Poetic Litany of Poems Celebrating Mlk DayThe Man…The Spirit
His name was Dr. Martin Luther King;
He was a peace-loving human being.
HIM
Preaching peace and love–
A mountain top of a man:-
Martin Luther King.
THE HUMAN DOVE
He came bearing a dream for humanity
Teaching nonviolence, peace,...
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Categories:
luther, black african american, high school, inspirational, metaphor,
Form:
Alliteration
Thank YouThank You!...
It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate,
all the hues of brown that made our nation great!
From Fredrick and Harriet to Mandela, and Muhammad Ali, because of the stance they took,...
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Categories:
luther, america, celebration, culture, humanity, leadership, pride, tribute,
Form:
Ballad
Talk of the TownLuther Vandross recorded a song
that says something like
"We had the best love around...
We were the talk of the town."
I can't think of the last time
a greatly famous and resilient love affair
was the talk of even...
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Categories:
luther, health, love, passion, peace, power, space, time,
Form:
Political Verse
Heavens's Poker GameIn the beginning after God had finished creating this land.
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky
He watered the...
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Categories:
luther, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Violence, the NormWhy is ANYone surprised by this violence?!?
Our icons, and heroes, and mentors, and
Example-setters, many of them with visibility
And fame given to them ONLY by the money
WE give them to perform, play, or ply their
Craft,...
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Categories:
luther, anger, hate, philosophy, violence, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Shelter In the NightThe blue sky with its bright light is moving over my head and the
wind is dancing in the poppy bed, the deers are scampering on the
shores and here you are holding up the process and...
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Categories:
luther, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, community, confidence, courage, leadership,
Form:
Narrative
Tyranny Counts the Ballots“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
“We can and we must
write in the...
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Categories:
luther, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Indefinable LoveIndefinable Love...
Duty without love makes us hard and dictatorial.
With Love, we are softer, have a clearer, wider understanding. And: Accountable for what we do and who we are.
Education without love creates efficient, obedient but heartless...
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Categories:
luther, blessing, courage, deep, humanity, inspirational, integrity, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
One KneePoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: One Knee
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: September 2017
One Knee
Yes, I kneel down on one knee
damn right I do -
I will not honor an Anthem
of...
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Categories:
luther, africa, america, betrayal,
Form:
Prose Poetry
SurprisesIt’s the Thursday morning before valentine’s day. Lisa and I are scrambling to get out of our suite. We share an Organic Biochemistry class and we’re running a hot minute late. As we pulled on...
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Categories:
luther, boyfriend, crush, dance, school, student, teen, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Maybe It Was EleanorEver wonder where big ideas come from?
Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly,
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his teeth
tilted ever upward...
soaring to the heavens
as he cruises by
waving to admirers
in...
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Categories:
luther, feelings, history, international, philosophy, political, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 5Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged...
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Categories:
luther, allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry