Long Night watch Poems

I Have Labored Sore
anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I have labored sore / and suffered death, 
so now I rest / and catch my breath.
But I shall come /...

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LOVE as any worthy heart fascinated by the beauty of intellect ~ tell me, what Love is invited.

Dreams like awakened terrors of minds tearing my thoughts in bright daylight
a savior polluted called Jesus says i'm...

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You were the guardian who stood watch; gold and diamonds were given to your care.
Thou wast considered the master watcher, for no tale passed thee.
Dinar was the reward for thy workmanship, and kings gave you...

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I saw myself upon a lonely road—
Night fell, and cold winds stirred.
Like a soldier taking the night watch,
I wandered the wild in silence.

Fair enough, they say: “You must be a man.”
But what of it?
Do not...

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Pedestrians are moving ups and downs the day can define the differences he experiences in the bathroom, cars buzzing their noise, around my understanding I cannot keep on thrusting for answers which has to be...

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I wanted to make something drawn from bosom
      You & I gemini'd, 
From the wells extract'd virginity untouch'd 
     by compounds—
Forgot to send it out, forgot...

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To my rivers of thinking needles in my heart to the haters’ smile goes to the cake love, I cannot stop lamenting to lemonade. My comrades they were sealed in plastics bags to pontiff to...

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, italics , and center 
I miss my little angel,
so beautiful and sweet,
so smart, yeah she's intelligent,
and she's so darn unique.

She was always singing to me,
whether 123's or abc's 
or just any other song which...

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This fact remains unaltered!  He faced my intense gaze. 
His fixed stare 
On the love that flourished!  I deeply cherish my beloved saint 
He noticed my fury and fondness. 
On my heart's fondness!...

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NEW YORK                            
Scene One, let’s shoot act one,...

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Elvis has left the building.
West Berlin, a significant place
Where life was lived at a frantic pace.
Me and Old Elvis together through the night
In those days when I saw things
In stark black or white,
And me and...

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Light is sweet and good for the eyes to see the brightness of the Sun,
For if someone lives a thousand years, may they rejoice in all of them.
But let us remember, for a thousand years...

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is when he of the Mount of Olives
whom you believe keeps the night watch
catches you by surprise with a wash over your spirit
like Baptism, when he suddenly exists "de facto" 
as you are walking, just...

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So it was that tragedy, which lead me finally,
Have another invasion, upon my lands-never, 
To guard my boundaries, and bolster my army,
Let the pain in my heart, with cold fury- wither

The petty palisades of wood,...

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The gunman secures by his concealed identity  
shrouded in mystery, shadows lurking out of sight
kills, by order, greed, and convenience.
With blood-stained conscious 
Our land Sliding into anarchy, becoming a boiling cauldron
But where is the...

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He rode in from Texas, calmly chewing a piece of straw.
Folks rumored him a Ranger, some sorta man of Law.

An expressionless face, eyes close 'n stern.
Long barreled pistol, well kept 'n tied down firm.

It was...

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Wandering And Loafing thither-stunned I knew,
Scorching sweat-and a grim creature view,
Aye troubled and loaded vista of misery,
Swirling with abjectness seeming weary,
 
Nor they stand upright neither they sit calm,
Where they where ,never in placid nay...

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A Prayer for A LIFE to Live

I dedicate myself to thee,
0 Lord, my God, this work I undertake
Alone in thy great name, and for thy sake.
In ministering to suffering I would learn
The sympathy that in...

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this year no party
covid orchestrating
social distancing ~

To make your 2020 birthday extra fabulous
plan ahead your strategy in great detail
you may need to pick up a few special things
like items for a fancy meal to celebrate...

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Fractured Light Fragments

                        Ghostly gloom, born of foreboding stillness,
   ...

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There are only two movies I watch more than once a year.
While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock is one of them.
Sure, I love her. But I love Bill Pullman too and Peter Boyle.
You know...

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Miles past the nightstand
over the plastic water bottle.
the Ambien pill dispenser
and the soul-bruised eye shades,
an arrhythmic clock 
ticks like a bombed-out tank.

Of course there is the lampshade
(that lighthouse for the luminescent krill
of submerged consciousness)
that seems...

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Fractured Storm

Ghostly gloom born in brooding stillness
Cut to smithereens with shards of energy
Whirlwinds in feral fragments shrillness
Warn of wild catastrophe.

Blinding firebolts erupt to split serenity 
Nightfall dodges crackling outbursts released
Platinum tempests burst electricity 
Splintered lights...

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                           You need to go far, farther, even farther
...

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