Long Meditations Poems
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Epitaphs
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
meditations, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
meditations, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace Prayer
These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
meditations, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
meditations, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
meditations, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Misguided Meditations
I am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.
My training
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.
Within this...
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Categories:
meditations, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Starlight and Moonlight
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
meditations, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Cooperative Pirate School
Students conservative of body-health care
invest as necessary
in bowing and submitting subservience
to orthodox heterosexual vampirate mentors,
fundamentalist badnews evangelicals
sucking on pre-meditated rapture
of Heavenly bloodsucking EarthNatures.
To meet conservative RightWing
LeftBrain patriarchal
student membership classroom requirements
of monoculturing monopolistic
indoor health-safety classrooms,
research...
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Categories:
meditations, care, education, green, health, heaven, school, society,
Form:
Political Verse
Tranmutation
Written 12 December 2023
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
...
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Categories:
meditations, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
ReCentering Domestic NonViolence
This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.
Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking...
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Categories:
meditations, culture, depression, health, hope, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Better To Let Go
Literally feeling like dying of boredom…
Feeling like a freak, unleashing dumb foolishness while drunk on rum
My noggin is full of negativity and positivity mixed together
My cranium is about to explode like a volcano…erupting…then, I’m feeling...
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Categories:
meditations, courage, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
When Multiculturally Presiding
As no one
never said
about nothing,
"Calling in human health care options
might not imply
calling out
lack of Earth-wealthy choices."
I could, possibly,
but certainly not prudently,
go all the way
back
back,
Even further back,
to European roots
to StraightWhiteMale monoculturalism,
Christian-Royalist monotheistic supremacy
over educational
dogma
and development systems
(not...
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Categories:
meditations, earth, earth day, environment, green, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Offpeak Experiences
Send me no more peak experiences.
They are too dear
for my everyday time budget
of liberal
liberated
liberating
resonantly exhausting compassion.
I am too addicted
to conserving resilient peaks,
avoiding dissonant valleys
of mundane anonymity
sometimes winning
sometimes losing
in-between equanimity
integrity
of co-empathic co-arising intent
for more...
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Categories:
meditations, faith, gospel, health, power, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Recounting Wounding Costs
I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.
I remember learning curious distinctions
between genuine remorse
given, when LeftBrain verbally requested,
yet without RightBrain capacity
to feel even the...
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Categories:
meditations, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings, humor, parody, voice,
Form:
Political Verse
Einstein Speaks
Old Albert was frustrated.
He knew his famous ego-identity came from this solar eco-system
with four interdependent dimensional voices.
He felt his own original moment began with ZeroSum nutritional balance
between eco-centered womb
and emerging ego-centered identity,
And, he felt...
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Categories:
meditations, age, death, depression, dream, environment, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Twice-Told Tale
I was speaking with a bus driver mom
about her bipolar son withdrawing from meds
on a trial basis,
hoping to qualify for military service.
She was praising the strengths of her son's Christian school,
from which he is about...
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Categories:
meditations, christian, culture, earth, power, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sometimes People Share
Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
or touch,
or deeply feel...
I flinch, sometimes.
Wince.
Maybe flirt with longer-term
dissociation,
to protect myself
from suicide
to protect...
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Categories:
meditations, abuse, god, health, muse, passion, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Neurosystemic Passions For Peace
We have come into this epic time
for survivors of dispassion
to age into sacred communion
we can all share,
monotheist
and atheist
and pantheist
and all non-anthrosupremacists
in-between leftbrain
snarky opinion leaders
and rightbrain
slippery felt foolish followers
dancing what we must democratically dance
while...
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Categories:
meditations, culture, health, integrity, peace, power, psychological, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
I Heard the Universal Sound of Aum Pronounced Ohm
I heard the universal sound of aum (pronounced ohm)...
while being quarantined inside our own invisible bubble
Transcendent meditations
while athwart oblate spheroid
allow, enable, and provide
deft capability deciphering
snap, crackle and pop
accepted as mere static
to the untrained ear.
Each inaudible...
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Categories:
meditations, allah, appreciation, birth, devotion, flying, happiness, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Permacultural Koan
I love this koan from 1,000 years ago, or more.
"What is it? Medicine and sickness mutually correspond. The world is medicine. What is the Self?"
by10th c. Zen Master Yunmen
So, yes,
Self for me is Ego"sickness",...
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Categories:
meditations, anger, fear, health, love, sick,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Revolution's Peace Perspectives
Go ahead
Dare to invite him
to a climaxing fall-colored picnic
To read you his obituary for himself
and for you,
subject to future updating
round perspectives
free for changing
still-evolving revolutions
Then,
my retrospective therapeutic turn
to introspectively review again
past traumas
of EgoSpection
surrounded outside
by his contextual...
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Categories:
meditations, conflict, courage, earth, health, peace, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
My Secret Key
Rolly, rolling in shallow surf, every wave a wisp
that'll move me through this sticky sand to the lush land.
Lumbering, waterlogged, soggy heap in my tux,
arms flopping, flailing about, cool currents fill my ears;
mere vestige of...
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Categories:
meditations, garden, philosophy, sea, self, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Why We Write
There is a song entitled, His Eye is on The Sparrow. There are ten words
that speak to me relative to the theme of this poem. Those ten words are;
'I sing because I'm happy; I sing...
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Categories:
meditations, christian, creation, god, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
ALUTA CONTINUA
ALUTA CONTINUA : FORCED REMOVALS
( Poet’s Note : I’m posting this poem here as a South African history student recently asked to interview poet on Forced Removals. I read this poem which he enjoyed....
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Categories:
meditations, 12th grade, change, courage, deep, endurance, extended
Form:
Free verse
Meditation As Medication
Polypathic genius,
thought Bucky Fuller,
grows polycultural Plan A intelligence.
Paths creolizing cultures co-arise
composing comprehensive consciousness.
Plan A sometimes feels alien to Anthro-capitalized values,
like bad economic news,
because ecological relationships
regenerate diversities of love life
through...
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Categories:
meditations, birth, creation, culture, destiny, identity, inspiration, nature,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum