Long Originate Poems

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."

At first, no one could remember who started the...

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Veronica Franco translations

Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.

Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I) 
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

"I resolved to make a virtue of...

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The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations

The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...

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Setting aside richly incorporated through homeless economies,
we have three political ways
to compare a population's internal status:
a. Aboriginal populations,
b. Immigrants--sometimes appearing as multiculturing creolic waves,
c. EmPowered Natives.

Natives are aboriginals
unless a more self-centered wave of supremacist immigrants
stake...

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After enjoying a pleasant walk, I then spent an hour at a park,
And I relished the dulcet sounds, of cheery airborne skylarks.

The blooms were so lovely, all sultry in the fervid sunshine,
And the hummingbirds were...

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“Collection Kaki and school bag, collection Kaki and school bag”
These are the words echoing from the woman hustling on the street side. Mindless people passing by glancing at her and listening to her afternoon cry.

...

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Sean McDougal is eight years old and has a special 'something' about him that is so endearing it's very difficult for me to deny him anything... well, anything within reason. He came up with the...

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"I Would Be....WOOD"


   "Knock On Me!" or more correct "Knock On WOOD!" You've probably said that and rapped your knuckles against me while saying it! I know you've knocked on me many times...

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The word "Galaxy", is derived from the Greek "galaxias", literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy. Galaxies contain varying amounts of star systems, star clusters and types of interstellar clouds. (Nebula is Latin...

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Bang! Bang! Bang! 
The sound of gun shots echoing in the air
Shattering windows and, smashing glasses 
Sending people pouring out in the street
Gun shots penetrating the clouds 
With a message that is very loud

People are...

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Yesterday brought not a storm, 
But a suffocating stillness.
Everything stopped.  
My throat grew dry.  
My bones began to ache.  
The silent but constant rhythm of my little world seized.

Everything stopped.
Then in exactly...

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Like every divorced couple, we were transitioning into a platonic relationship as friends full of understanding. My former husband seems entirely decided to give life a fresh try. He is thinking of another girl. He...

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our mind is the control tower of our life
what we think about is really what controls us
we can't control everybody else but we need to learn to respond
what is it that determines what I think
programmed...

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we …
are trespassers …
can you feel them?
the blooms, electric?
our world is pregnant with other worlds -
transient planes of existence that are
provisory to entirely disparate
rules and ids and forces …
why do we even question such?
particles and...

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"Where?...I Don't Know!...But "HE" Does!"

     Where are the "Foundations of the Universe and the Earth" fastened and where   is their "cornerstone?"
        ...

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See them sitting underneath the tree, they are on a mission to crucify thee, their knife is sharpened and ready to cut out a pound of your flesh from your gut if you do not...

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Various Heresies 11



The beauty of the flower fades,
its petals wither to charades...
—Michael R. Burch



the U-turn poem
by michael r. burch

Life so defaulty,
Life so unfair,
why do wee prize U,
what do U care?

LORD who lets unborns
drown in a...

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Q:  Is it also, according to the Apostle Paul, to also become baptized by being so
      in the name of Jesus Christ?

A:  It is the Pentecostal and the...

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The invasion of Western Europe went on for several centuries and was completed
in the year 476 AD, the year the Western Roman Empire fell.  Northern Europe,
is what now constitutes the European plains of Denmark...

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Many members of the two youngest generations used to describe themselves
as being "Nones," believing in no religion at all.  But in the process they have
decreed themselves to being their own gods by deifying themselves...

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I have questions...
questions I seem to have stored in a jar
a collection seen as emptiness from afar
to these arcane corridors of secrets life has assured
My voice may be murmurous at best
lacking the presence of someone...

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To fear is to be afraid of something you perceive as dangerous.
Sometimes, your perception may not even be right,
And therefore,you live with alot of false evidence that appears real,as "fear".
Well,I used to know,and still know...

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What is the Progressive Liberal Democratic Deep State and where does it really originate from? It the internal take over of the USA and the other democratic nations of the world. It originates, of course...

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"You don't know my story; you just know the chapter that you met me on."DK Metcalf. 'Love don't judge' ***

Each one of our stories has a beginning, a middle and an ending just like a...

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The Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost has commonly been referred as an object or a thing! Instead He is the third person of the Holy Trinity! He becomes your help mate, counselor and guidance counselor!...

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