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Justice is Crying in The Street
Oh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...

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Categories: my children, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form: Free verse



Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment

alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly 
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit; 
ofttimes imagined as time thief.

Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...

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Categories: my children, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems VI
Juvenilia: Early Poems VI



An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch

The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.

She came to me with the sound...

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Categories: my children, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
Juvenilia: Early Poems X

These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.

Regret
by Michael R. Burch

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...

once starlight
languished
in your hair...

a shining there
as brief
as rare.

Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...

unleash
the torrent
of your hair...

and show me
once...

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Categories: my children, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form: Rhyme
Fadwa Tuqan translations
Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.



Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by...

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Categories: my children, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form: Free verse



The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan
English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"

Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...

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Categories: my children, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Chapter 55 --DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY: the Polly conundrum
Molly and Dolly were in their 
New getaway room on the top 
Floor listening to music.
While Damian spent time with 
The kids in the backyard. He
Wanted to install a pool for the
Youngest children, then switch...

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Categories: my children, best friend, feelings, grandson, inspirational,
Form: Alliteration
WHO AM I
                                  ...

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Categories: my children, character, i am, life, me, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Reason I Write

“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” * 

If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing...

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Categories: my children, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Growing Up, La - Part 2
- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -     

By ten years old, no weekends off, 
Or Saturday cartoons, 
Although I did have cash to spend, 
I felt my...

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Categories: my children, life, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family Therapy
Feminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in permacultural eco-logic,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their camouflage.

A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most articulate mentors often wander off
to pray for,
breathe and suffer and dance...

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Categories: my children, addiction, endurance, environment, health, judgement, political, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MEDICAL MADNESS
https://gigglespoet.com/#jp-carousel-66   My scars from a misdiagnosis are my armor 

Lord, old memories plague me in the darkness 
And as they rear their ugly head 
They only remind me of all that I've lost...

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Categories: my children, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, birth, courage, endurance, faith,
Form: Quintain (English)
Such Tenderness, for the Mothers of Gaza
Such Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch

for the mothers of Gaza

There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed fledglings beneath a warm wing
and coos to them softly, unable...

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Categories: my children, angel, arabic, baby, caregiving,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Chapter 8-- DOLLY DAMIAN FRIENDS and FAMILY part II
The fifth floor was decorated 
With fancy art work. Molly 
Rang the bell. After a few
Minutes an attractive older
Woman answered the door.
She threw the door wide Open 
After she saw them 
with Damian. "Hello Hello...

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Categories: my children, confidence, family, feelings, friend, friendship, growing up,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Part 2 You Have to Whistle
Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
In...

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Categories: my children, child abuse, giving, i love you, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Forge
I remember the beach sand and swing
when you and mother were still something
I remember the ducks in the lake
you held my hand watching their wake
I remember the sheep dogs when the day was through
and the...

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Categories: my children, abuse, angst, emotions, life, recovery from, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Was So Lost
I Was So Lost

I had been raised in church but a religious church.
They did acknowledge there was a God but
His Son was pictured as dead upon a cross.  This
was the picture that I carried...

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Categories: my children, appreciation, baptism, truth,
Form: Narrative
sweepers final countdown
ask me about my day as a sweeper today..
its hilarious to even tell this to all today..
the supervisor the power abusing man.
have fallen in love with me.. madly..
he cannot even take his eyes off me..
and...

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Categories: my children, adventure, appreciation, beauty, celebration, character, encouraging, fate,
Form: Rhyme
I hate Mother's Day
Its been over 27 years coming
 this missive or letter,
 maybe poem ? 

I HATE Mother’s day !!
 with a passion ... I've said it ...
 The sheer relief is palpitating
 a load of my...

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Categories: my children, bereavement, forgiveness, love, missing you, mother, mothers
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kingdom Of My Embrace
"Years” and “Distance”, phantoms of the dark that do their evil
in the quietude of the everyday, coming and going without so
much as a footprint or a whisper, and taking the most valuable
possessions of the heart,...

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Categories: my children, absence, appreciation, children, family, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Heart Made Hatchet -2
Hannah, I haven't seen or heard you cry
not in the gray of winter day
or in the cold silence of our prisoner nights,
the others can hardly keep up with you on the marches
your face is changeless...

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Categories: my children, america,
Form: Epic
Mahmoud Darwish English Translations
Mahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems



Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of bread warming at dawn,
a woman haranguing men,
the poetry of Aeschylus,
love's...

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Categories: my children, allah, arabic, judgement, race, racism, rights, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 45-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY: the Family SEVENTEEN X
During the days before the 
Vacation began FIRST: there
was a thunderous knock on
The door of Damian Hakim's 
Residence. Damian Junior ran
To answer the door.  But
Damian was disturbed in his
den by the omenous knock.
Damian asked...

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Categories: my children, beach, business, child, confidence,
Form: Alliteration
Life in a Dream corrected
Moments to Reflect
Life found in a Dream 
Today I’m a lonely man living in a cold, cold world filled with indifferences and malice. As time marches on a harsh reality come to my mind, time...

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Categories: my children, faith, inspirational, son, me, heart, time, sea,
Form: Suzette Prime
Life found in a Dream
Life found in a Dream 
Today I’m a lonely man living in a cold, cold world filled with indifferences and malice. As time marches on a harsh reality come to my mind, time is on...

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Categories: my children, faith, inspirational, spiritual, son, me, heart, time,
Form: Free verse