Long Messengers Poems
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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
messengers, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Healthy Caring Systems
Too many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich
empowering
soulful soil
and surfing seas
And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...
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Categories:
messengers, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
messengers, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
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:
messengers, beauty, green, health, humor, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ghost Dance Part III
Wovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
messengers, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Liberal Operatic Lovers
What cooperative evidence
could we final climate find
for WinWin cooperation lovers
including LeftBrain secular humanities
inviting no more or less valueflow
than RightBrain WiseElder root-branch dipolar etchings
neurologically ancient bipolar temporal systemic
body-branch, mind-root DNA enscriptured holonic trees,
DNA river...
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Categories:
messengers, environment, happiness, health, heart, integrity, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
The Word-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
BEGINNINGS
The WORD was there before the dawn of time
the Trinity communed in sacred tongue
with sounds unheard, unspeakable, sublime
they uttered words of their unending Love.
With power in God's WORD the world was formed
and from His mouth...
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Categories:
messengers, beautiful, bible, life, love, universe,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
She Believes In Lavender Moons
Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years. this is such a poem where i can see the...
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Categories:
messengers, faith, growth, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Bird Feed Under My Window
Since childhood I was always fascinated with nature
Curious to know how plants grow
Always intrigued by the ingenuity of ants
And mesmerized by the coordination
And spectacular tactics of birds.
Birds come in different colors...
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Categories:
messengers, bird, christian, community, food, freedom, mystery, nature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 35
His was,
A kiss of promise
A kiss of challenge
A kiss of power
And a kiss of doom
Where our lips had met
He was a threat, a strident peril
And yet a strange safety,
To which I held such visions
To which...
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Categories:
messengers, dark, deep, fear, fire, heart, light, romantic
Form:
Epic
Anyone For Humiliation
anyone for humiliation
do even the best cringe
in shame
...
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Categories:
messengers, abuse, angst, courage, life, moving on, vanity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Retirement Planning
Retirement planning
may feel like civilian re-entry planning
as from-above ballistics continue heavy incoming
so persuasively my objective is not to win outside
but to get home safe again inside,
although I sadly know
home will never be that home of...
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Categories:
messengers, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, love, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
The Invention of Shoes - Part 2 - Translation
This is the second part of the translation of Rabindranath Tagore's Poem
"Juta Abiskar”.
This poem is a translation from the original in Bengali, by Nobel-Prize Winner, Poet-laureate of India, Rabindranath Tagore. This is a long...
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Categories:
messengers, hilarious, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Chaos Theory
"Chaos Theory"
The Message is sent on a breeze
Fire eats the wounds of a Mother
Her skin blisters
cracks and peels
Her children inhale a different pollen
Drones bark messengers like Bowie's Diamond Dogs
Tables now turn
machines are giving orders...
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Categories:
messengers, future, humanity, world,
Form:
Free verse
Got Me On the Edge Known-Deep Hits Tour 2020
Got Me on the Edge known
It was the evening of March 5th on a Thursday pre evening I left my job and just approximately two blocks away at the Baxter Arena convention hall it was...
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Categories:
messengers, analogy, appreciation, celebration, community, engagement, inspirational, meaningful,
Form:
Narrative
Got Me On the Edge-Known a Toby Mac Concert 2020
Got Me on the Edge known
It was the evening of March 5th on a Thursday pre evening I left my job and just approximately two blocks away at the Baxter Arena convention hall it was...
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Categories:
messengers, analogy, culture, engagement, environment, inspirational,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Who I Am Right Now
Who are you?
he asked perpetually, patiently
because I invited him to do so
until our time for contented me
to discover his diversely integrated/fragmented identities,
empowerment and disempowerment stories,
critical acting
and singing
and dancing
and warring
and terrorizing
and confronting events
right now,
and in past...
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Categories:
messengers, caregiving, community, health, humor, integrity, peace, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Light My Soul
You march through the village with guns, missiles and rockets, and scrutinize the people, with foolish command that ravished the entire village before the break of dawn.
You make appointment with the beast and spread...
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Categories:
messengers, angel, appreciation, city, community, confidence, confusion, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
As Above, So Below - the Messengers
"As Above, So Below - The Messengers"
One day
when this sad story
has all blown over
of how we came to be
walking the earth
below the veil
with monsters
that are men
with horns and tails
in...
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Categories:
messengers, animal, god, humanity, i am, love, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
Climate Evolutions
First,
competing dominant patriarchs
become filled with climate toxic fear
about long-suffered win/lose evolutions
presuming Earth's great revolutionary Rapture.
Second,
hopeful matriarchs touch
and taste
and see
and hear win/lose suffering ecosystems
stubborn-headedly turning
to embrace western healthy aspirations in
with eastern wealthy respirations out
against nihilistic climate...
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Categories:
messengers, community, health, integrity, nature, peace, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Soul Stance River - 29
The Nez Perce Indians who lead lean lives on these knolls and river brooks
have a style of soul that sneaks into the songs of the sun
and plays on the prayers in the patience of their...
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Categories:
messengers, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Awesome Changing Nest
In "Living Buddha, Living Christ"
Thich Nhat Hanh emphatically,
yet not aggressively, states,
"In a true dialogue,
both sides are willing to change."
I agree,
but would expand this therapeutic communication intention.
In a cooperatively transparent
and mutually vulnerable healing dialogue,
about how our...
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Categories:
messengers, change, conflict, culture, environment, health, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge
Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge,
Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended.
Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse
Tells a tale of how the soul's science...
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Categories:
messengers, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge
Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge,
Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended.
Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse
Tells a tale of how the soul's science...
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Categories:
messengers, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Heaven Described
DESCRIBE HEAVEN
To describe heaven… let me see,
from ideas in my head?
From scriptures that have been twisted,
or verses…that I’ve read?
Heard, “Truth is stranger than fiction,”
at this…might try my hand?
Was warned if I pursue this course,
in...
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Categories:
messengers, faith, god, paradise,
Form:
Rhyme