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Premium Member Rumors
Rumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020

By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally 
How Wuhan, China gave it birth

Maybe aided by our government
To make...

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Categories: orbit, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme



Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable
Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable

Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the government issued Safelink
Tracfone got permanently disabled
and all the data
(including contact...

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Categories: orbit, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation, black love, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII

Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...

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Categories: orbit, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets X-Xvi
Sonnets X-XVI


Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...

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Categories: orbit, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...

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Categories: orbit, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Gold Political Nutrition Standards
If political scientists study power relationships,
could economists study interior and exterior communications
for cooperative/competitive nurturing for/against
empowerment/disempowerment
integral win/win health association
through disintegrating
pathologica win/losel 
dissociation trends?

Both political and economic researchers,
one and all together,
of sound neurologically wealthy
monotheistic AnthroMind
and ecologically healthy...

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Categories: orbit, beautiful, culture, health, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
February 29th, 2024
February 29th, 2024

Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...

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Categories: orbit, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Epilogue
if you have taken the time to browse through this eclectic collection of self-indulgent foolishness, I hope you’ve been entertained by the quirkiness of its content, or at the very least, annoyed by the pervasiveness...

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Categories: orbit, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Like No Other
{intro}

Come back to me another day
We are walking on thin ice today 
You were never so cruel until this hour of shame
You were never so nasty until you hunted me down like game by calling...

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Categories: orbit, anger, angst, break up, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Paratotallynormal
The problem with trying to prove clairaudience, clairsentince, out-of-body, and Near Death Experiences to a Mudblood is not as simple
as it could have been.
Is it because Para-science is totally unsubstantiated?
Not in MY family.
Scientifically un-sound?
Sure, by...

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Categories: orbit, adventure, cute, emotions, encouraging, fantasy, feelings, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Rilke Translations I
Archaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...

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Categories: orbit, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution marches,
and the calloused hands of a...

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Categories: orbit, courage, destiny, history, imagery, metaphor, philosophy, social,
Form: Spoken Word
Dramatic Dreams Dare Dingos
Malnourishment is the song from the pans whose empty hold could offer no more products to be boiled and whirled. They were quite sad having been bought then hung. Hung. Sparkly signalling stale sales. Stale...

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Categories: orbit, appreciation, art, bangla,
Form: I do not know?
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share 
how one and only...

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Categories: orbit, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form: Free verse
A British Diary Passing Millenium
The ask of cultures. 
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics of the strategy to wrestles of communication. They decided the...

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© John Night  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: orbit, culture, time, travel, true love, trust, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 Pm
Spring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM

Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies 
barren...

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Categories: orbit, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 1 With Commentary By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 1 by T. Wignesan

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: orbit, addiction, america, freedom, political, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All the Worlds There Are
Just watching raindrops slapping leaves
is better than anything requiring electricity
including fame and posterity. Monday
morning I walk over to the art museum
stand before Homer. I'm imagining
life in ancient Greece, the land largely
deforested to build a navy,...

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Categories: orbit, art, change, god, life, old, rain, world,
Form: Verse
Present Wedded Bliss Haint No Touchstone
Present wedded bliss haint no touchstone...

Circa ~ late spring/ early summer 1978
twas at behest of Harriet Harris,
thus due credit mother dearest
(she long since passed away)
who tried, to bribe, coax, exhort...
(protracted effort not all in vain),
cuz...

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Categories: orbit, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dedication, devotion, husband, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Rileys Comet
A  stunning scene. Edited for our insatiable reading pleasure.  High on a tight-rope.
The debutant wearing her 2-piece at one end. The isis general at the other.The plot is for them to tip-toe, slowly...

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Categories: orbit, me, simile,
Form: I do not know?
Sonnets V-Ix
Sonnets V-IX



Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch

The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse... warm, palpable and slow...

once...

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Categories: orbit, love, moon, night, star, time, universe, world,
Form: Sonnet
Wallowing
See, I've been wallowing in it for far too long
knee deep sunk in it even at times 
eyes too marred by melancholy to see the way out 
even as I gave in to the allure...

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Categories: orbit, desire, family, fate, growth, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Small Part of the Story of Being
having arrived at this juncture
of learning the man made structure
of creations, gods, demons and time
and various situations not quite so sublime
where nothing under the sun appears to be new
let us take a moment to focus...

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© Ng Rippel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: orbit, creation, philosophy, planet, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disunity Then Unity
DISUNITY THEN UNITY
 
Last Episode of Pure Fantasy.

Fireball always seems to take center stage,
Except in the last episode it was with absolute rage,
Echoman has secretly loved this ravishing beauty
Lost her to a human whilst she...

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Categories: orbit, universe, war,
Form: Free verse
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland 
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union 
aimed at the destruction 
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...

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Categories: orbit, abuse, age, anger, bereavement, bullying, corruption, grandfather,
Form: Free verse

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