Long Overwhelming Poems
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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:
overwhelming, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
overwhelming, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Bodhisattva TeaseDo you share my concern
that your happiness and healthy life
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...
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Categories:
overwhelming, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
overwhelming, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
overwhelming, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
overwhelming, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
The Thc OrdinanceI am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally deep rich virgin eco-forest
of and for harmonic rhythm and...
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Categories:
overwhelming, community, earth, family, growth, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Social NondarwinistsWe need to talk.
Is this one of those times
where you need to talk
and I must pretend to listen
while you rant?
Well, yes,
if you could extend this favor.
Your topic?
Social Darwinism.
Isn't that the birthplace of unfettered Capitalism
and Fascism
and...
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Categories:
overwhelming, environment, gospel, health, humor, psychological, social,
Form:
Political Verse
Brain DamagePain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears are always ringing with this...
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Categories:
overwhelming, allah,
Form:
Munajat
OasisOasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
overwhelming, marriage,
Form:
Verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
overwhelming, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
A Walk On the BeachI went again today ... to that place, the allurement overwhelming ... the one
we called "ours" so tritely, "mine" before you, "mine" again now, (tho' others
have doubtless staked claimed - ages before and since). I...
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Categories:
overwhelming, heartbreak, lost love, ocean, passion, solitude, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Rebuilding ParadiseParadise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciatively regarding both day
and dualdark
rich and fertile
souled and soiled
recycling night.
So too
my personal
and political
and economic
and ecological
and theologically reformed...
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Categories:
overwhelming, earth, eve, god, health, love, paradise, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
overwhelming, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Misguided MeditationsI am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.
My training
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.
Within this...
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Categories:
overwhelming, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
My Holy Bible - the Free Style~ My Holy Bible ~
(Free Style )
My Holy Bible
Is very nice
It fills my soul
With love divine
It tells me
That God is true
And shows that
He loves us too
God our burdens
He wants to bear
The Lord for us
He's always...
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Categories:
overwhelming, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Beast of the CaveWhen I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled
Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...
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Categories:
overwhelming, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
You'Re My Light - Davedas Candle Style~ You Are My Light ~
(Daveda's Hybrid Concrete Candle)
Dear
Lord
You're
My Light
You give
Love Hope
Peace Joy
...
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Categories:
overwhelming, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
recognizin’ you, realizing somethin’ moreDeliberately recognizing the sun against the moonbeams
I see your eyes gleam and your happiness screams
Into my eager ears over the years and I’m tension-whelmed with the tears I shed
Hanging at the last thread, giving in...
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Categories:
overwhelming, angst, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An EventThe Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
overwhelming, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Addicted To the AppealVerse 1: I'm loving every second of our time together
I'm liking the fact that you aren't a memory, all ablur
I adore you and everything about you
We were meant to be...you came to me out of...
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Categories:
overwhelming, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, grief,
Form:
Lyric
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 87“I don't know anything about that. I just do what I must.”
Bréagán's smile was sad but understanding. He knew what it was like to be pushed to do what seemed impossible. He...
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Categories:
overwhelming, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a Luke warm welcome Matt unfurled
courtesy Jimmy John,
who embarked on
imp apostle bull...
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Categories:
overwhelming, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
ComPassion's Braver AngelsImpressive values,
like love,
claim resources that liberally breed
ecological
natural
physically happy health
and conservatively feed
emotional
spiritual
mentally glad wealth.
Oppressive disvalues
like homophobia and racism
and sexism and ageism
and ableism
and monoculturing disregard
for threats of global anthro-supremacist ecocide,
express what we are against
because these are...
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Categories:
overwhelming, anxiety, earth day, health, integrity, mental health,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Part 1: Confusion of the MuseThe large, bright Winter moon shone it's heavenly light over and out amongst the snow-covered city. The city was large, the city was noisy. It was midnight and the bustling still urged on. People ached...
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Categories:
overwhelming,
Form:
I do not know?