Long Ordains Poems

Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...



Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...

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~  Seek  The  Lord  ~ 
(Star  Of  David  ) 
 


~O~




God 
For sure 
Knows  sees  all 
Wants best  for  you 
He  sure loves...

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Neigh say being  corralled & cult shod 

"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I 
bring death to tyrants.”

Above the fray of twittering, 
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified, 
yet vilified...

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THIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with notes and commentary

Canto XXXVIII of the Thirukkural on the topic of FATE which I give here in translation (by stages) forms, in itself, a separate "book" in its own...

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A lad is stopped by roving cops, who shoot in disregard.

His face is black, he’s on his back, a breeze is breathing hard,

he bleeds and dies, his mama cries, the screaming sky is scarred,

the sheriff...

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Fate Of Mankind...

(this prognosticator ordains,
which if came to pass no brains)
necessary to impress any 
goo goo dolls, nor swains!)

Cited in crosshairs of  thermonuclear warfare
quite an about face from bursts of creativity,
yet omnipresent palpable threat...

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The Select Poetry Class

………………………………. the idea is to aver the overt statement
appear somewhere ……… even if it stultifies…
in rarefied realms sophisticate
………………… tuck the image in wayward
by all means deride the rhymer
………………. as the pen buckles...

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I do not ask for you, oh beautiful Muse of Milton,
Rest he may in the fissures of many a searching heart
Nor do I ask of the greatest, from either Heaven’s Reign
Or below, upon the earth...

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OUR   GALACTIC   PASSION


We are not yet one but no longer like sky’s distant two,
I sense your tender skin’s pulse and feel the lips’ pull of you,   
And  ...

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OUR   GALACTIC   PASSION


We are not yet one but no longer like sky’s distant two,
I sense your tender skin’s pulse and feel the lips’ pull of you,   
And  ...

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The Lord is so kind to shower his bountiful blessings for one and all. It is for the the perceptive mind to realise and be thankful for them always.


Almighty aligns all atoms of a rare...

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Gracious
Omnipresent
Defends
Saves

Forgives
Acquits
vindicates
ordains
undertakes
Redeems

  You have granted me life and favor, and Your care has preserved my spirit. Job 10:12

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil;...

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One being powerful sexual desire.
In my human sexuality
I have a biological urge and, needs.

lechery
lecherousness
lasciviousness
LUST

A standard function that was taken out of context
Negative straits that dictate

Lust and Love
To ouch sinfully what's not yours
Though words the same
Only...

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They say you’ve made many mistakes building your frail  life
that collapsed engulfing you in smoke of  trouble and strife.
If in time you had wisely taken the right and calculated step,
avoided  aggravation, you...

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Decem in expectancy has come anon
This morn, dress in bridal mist
Of late night dews that fall on
Worn ferns, Bahama and Lilies amidst
A slim cool air in the atmosphere 
Gently bids adieu to a fleeting year.

Alas,...

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The self-obsessive free-will ever seemingly dormant,
envelopes the mind with an illusory veil transient, 
obscures the decreed destination God ordains,
l need to reach, for I should submissively at His will. 

The camouflaged glow of the omnipresent...

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As I sit and gaze outside by the open door,
Favourite classic poised once more,
Pride and Prejudice, the Bennetts galore,
O’ comforts of wealth, I wish for no more.

Today,
I entered the boudoir with passion and flair,
Chose the...

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Villanelle: Is there ever a moment when reason reigns

Is there ever a moment when reason reigns
“Never! Ever!” – cry the forsaken by Life
“Friends depart, Enemies approach,” Yi Jing ordains

Hold not to friends and think you...

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NURSERY CRIMES

There once was a time of simple pleasures
Like hop-scotch, marbles and electric trains
Hop-scotch turned into scotch on the rocks
When I got drunk enough to realize what adulthood ordains

Childhood led to my becoming a hood
I...

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Some say affection is a farce.
I’d surmise a soul who feels as such receives it in sparse parts.
Yet most will one day find themselves in amour.
As the Temptress ordains by coitus sustained, you will remain.
Not...

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The stream surges in turbulent torrent
the dry tree felled by the summer storm,
the truncated trunk anchors at the tilted levee, 
in the web of boulders it sticks, stranded. 

The flood slackens the grip of the...

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IN BLOOM

some flowers bloom within days of planting
others not for years—or with stunted timing
only God ordains the beauty of His creations
manifested in different ways and formations

early ‘bloomers’ will habitually frustrate us
discouraged- Gods plans remain anonymous
we...

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there once was a time of simple pleasures
like hop-scotch, marbles and electric trains
hop-scotch turnd into scotch on the rocks
when i got drunk enough to realize what adulthood ordains

childhood led to my becoming a hood
i held...

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there once was a time of simple pleasures
like hop-scotch, marbles and electric trains
hop-scotch turnd into scotch on the rocks
when i got drunk enough to realize what adulthood ordains

childhood led to my becoming a hood
i held...

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Ingenious, sin deceives by taking right
and warping slight, its plumb no longer true,
till what seems good to man in dub’ous light
is clear maligned, askance, to be eschewed.

Subtle departure from divine decrees
occurs near unperceived through loosened...

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