Long Opportunist Poems

Through April and May not a single Indian has been noticed
along all the serpentine bends of this rambunctious river,
however I feel we are being espied by a jealous warparty
immortal in it's protection of this pristine...

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(Thinks) I Float like a Butterfly and sting like a tazer.
Mouth of the South, but my lips don't say (intelligent) 
words
Like Muhammad Alley Bin drive by shooting
Bin Laden with
delusions of g,
Being a lefty, I blame...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE V

Less Heroic Couplets: Word to the Unwise
by Michael R. Burch

I wanted to be good as gold,
but being good, as I’ve been told,
requires something, discipline,
I simply have no interest in!



Villanelle of...

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The Divide
by Michael R. Burch

The sea was not salt the first tide ...
was man born to sorrow that first day
with the moon—a pale beacon across the Divide,
the brighter for longing, an object denied—
the tug at...

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Ordinary Love
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
"I love you," in the ordinary way
 
and tug the coverlet where once we lay,
all suntanned limbs entangled, shivering,...

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The hypnotic sleep-walk will diagnose this flaccid imp in me
All the recantations will die there where selfishness butchers the prophetic shields
As If I were to go through the film of yesteryears...
The sandy beach anchored in...

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Star of Sirus
                                ...

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Manila folder,
Growing older,
Lying on table,
Watching other files,
Grow bolder,
It was earlier looked upon,
Now ignored,
As if it was dead,
After a bloody gore,
They had submerged in its custody,
A lot many papers and notes,
Carrying dates and events,
About people and...

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The question is not whether you are an opportunist,
many of whom are packaged with questionable motives.
Such would not be great candidates for an important mission.
Opportunists tend to wait for the moment that serves them best.
The...

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Infuriated, with u I am
Hope that I can provoke and irritate u with all the things I'm about to say. As thoughts of u consume me like wild fire racing, teardrops faking, lonesome being, just...

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Be careful
I said carefully come nearer
Be careful
I said carefully take my sword
Be careful
I said carefully read my lip
Be careful
I said carefully draw my sword
Be careful
I said carefully pierce my body apart from my soul
Be careful
I...

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sexism discrimination 
prejudice 
excessive lies 
fear deceit 

all of this and much more
determines any soul 
incomplete

remembering there is good, 
and evil in every race 
but...these so called leaders' 
have disgraced- 

they preach but, their practice...

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BORN AT 47
I am born , now at the age of forty seven
I am surprised, as I seemingly feel
The same fresh air of thrill
May be how the freedom starved folks felt
In the historic year of...

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The Tortured Cuckoo

Delivered-bewildered and confused, onto a foliage. No direction from those empowered to parent so  weak a fledgling.   Clawed and pecked for being, an easy release of pent-up frustration upon defenceless...

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A woman can die for someone.
When she is in Love.
Is a man also has same spirit?
Or he is an opportunist
When finds another beauty,
Turns quickly on other way.
Naturally, a woman likes her pace,
She loves her own...

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Truth burns at the center of all occurrance,
it is a heat that motivates appettites to enlarge,
truth is a multiplier of quests, 
satisfaction always arrives at the porch of a new path,
truth does not reveal endings,...

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Kids Getting groomed on the internet 
by sex pests with interests, I can’t digest, 
break down barriers of trust and build respect, 
parents notice difference but true danger, don’t detect, 
so beast carry on free...

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Brilliant poet
Whose life was consumed with tragedy
Existence filled with bitter losses
Happiness forsaking her life
Passionate romance 
With poet Ted Hughes
Swept her away
Bringing magic into her dreary life
Relationship intensified
And they became united
Living in marital bliss
Coddling their two...

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2OO poems
To my 2OO women
Living legacy for my 2OO generations
Hopping falling in divisions
Written 2OO letters
Sharing 2OO words
Tip toeing restoring 2OO reasons
Asking words a shivering my heart
Beating in 2OO beats
Figure’s broken in 2OO bones
Still possessed in...

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The Wrath of Reason
(For Rush Limpballs and his Smarmy Ilk)

Sycophants spewing forth the Milk of Malice
   Drown the Warmth of Reason in icy ivory towers—
Pandering bigotry and denial unique to no nation—
 ...

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Narcissism arrives in any way..
Has many shapes and sizes..
Forms of narcissism floating in the environment

A Narcissistic one..
Dictates in the mind..
Of importance I solely am
Only I can sustain value..
Only I can indeed prosper
The Universe revolves around...

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This is the earth
A beautiful garden of nature
Human is a born free part of it

In the time of human (part of nature) birth
There is no religion, creed, constitution, frontier, culture...
But the greedy predecessor names teaches...

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Knowingly or unknowingly,
Lawfully or unlawfully,
When a person commits crime,
His soul has no taste of blood,

He seeks mercy to repent,
From his forcible power,
That was hidden inside his mind,
He seeks salvation forever.

But when another cruel power,
Serves forcibly...

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My reflection has changed since my earlier years
but only slightly can you tell
Eyes give away the secrets of the soul
it's my voice I will have to sell
and it leaves me thinking, anywhere but here

Trinkets and...

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Grown? Yes. 
Big and proficient
Religion the father of being
Old-coming the days prior
To all flesh heard of
Then was a baby born
Born on palms, crying and writhing
Without way, merry and say
This was the beauty of days ancient
Seeing...

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