Long On the double Poems
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Constructive CritismThere's consequences in all we say and do
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk
Quite distraught due to the fact that you're too good to be true
I...
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Categories:
on the double, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' OutA special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
{intro}
I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
on the double, deep,
Form:
Lyric
In the Middle of the NightI woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
on the double, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
on the double, 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
on the double, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
LimericksLimericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
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Categories:
on the double, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
Grand Mother Eartha's DreamMy husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day
She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes
Because,
you know,
or maybe not because,
how would I know?
Dreams about Her Straight White AlphaMale trauma
were...
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Categories:
on the double, culture, earth day, health, mothers day, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Starting With BeginningsLeft:
Let's start at the beginning
of your ecotherapeutic day.
I'm talking today with Fr. Time,
Earth's only fully self-ordained ecotherapist,
and recently published author of
"Journals of MotherEarth."
We have no corporate sponsorships to report,
although we are for sale
especially if you're...
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Categories:
on the double, gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, perspective,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
on the double, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Grand PrioritiesWhat fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
on the double, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Healthy Caring SystemsToo 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:
on the double, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Limericks Iii - Grab BagLimericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
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Categories:
on the double, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
Burning LogsEach flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
on the double, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
on the double, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
on the double, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Why LifeWhy does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter
before naked covered night.
Why life?
To uncover...
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Categories:
on the double, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1. Domestic economy flat-line trends,
2. International peace intent and praxis,
3. Universally...
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Categories:
on the double, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form:
Narrative
Hellfire On EarthDear Donald John
and GoodFaith Followers,
CoInvestors,
ProActive Prayers for Rapturous Redemption
from Eternal Hellish
paranoid
Left EgoVoices anger and fear
Right SpiritFeelings ecodarkly terrified
from and of dying death.
Your LeftBrain does not lack
for paranoid Win/Lose conviction
We must live in a dog eat...
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Categories:
on the double, appreciation, bullying, caregiving, games, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Community Health AssuranceTransparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and cooperative tree and plant and children and elderly nursing
preserved through winter kitchens
and solar-fueled composting centers.
Health insurance assurance,
transubstantiating health/wealth reassurance,
investing in cooperatively-owned and eco-managing
therapeutic non-violent...
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Categories:
on the double, community, conflict, corruption, courage, freedom, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Two Wrongs Worth a RightToday, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and for,
before and after,
each moment of Earth Tribe’s timeless surfing times.
If...
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Categories:
on the double, culture, earth, humor, integrity, philosophy, political, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Our Earthcafe CoopIn one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
on the double, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Feeling BetterSystems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
on the double, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Water's WeaknessThere is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...
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Categories:
on the double, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Let Us Speak ClearlyLet me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain piratically rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to feel-good AmericaFirst...
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Categories:
on the double, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 71-- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: Cascades the Triple DateA good time was had by all at
Mother Daughtry's. The next
Day Damian was in his usual
Mood with Molly in her cozy
But large room. He layed on her
Bed she layed on top of him.
"Hmm,"...
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Categories:
on the double, confidence, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration