Long Pasteur Poems

 A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
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Prose Poems

Something
by Michael R. Burch

Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers

If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock -...

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A  is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple  microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented  the electricity  from the flow of electrons.

C is for Curie, Marie -a...

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"Turn on the television",
Says an angel munching popcorn,
At the end of each century
"What are the humans up to?"

15th Century:
Columbus exploring lands on unending voyages
Enchanting symphonies of musicians
Words printed publicly
On yet another note,
Empires waging wars for...

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when i used to have to send letters to the editor
from charleville-mezieres,
i used to use stamps with pictures of Louis Pasteur on them.
in the united states, i've been sending out manuscripts,
with stamps that have Buzz...

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black horsemen came over the hollows and dells
no one heard them coming
and there was no sign that they had crossed over the hills
they come bearing the news of chaos and disease
you could hear the bells...

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Unescorted NYC HMT NY 660 Louis Pasteur started out from 
New York  Harbor Nov. 30, 1944. 

Landed in Liverpool, England Dec. 8th, 1944. Arrived Brddulph, 
Staffordshire, England Dec. 9th, 1944.

From Weymouth, England to LeHavre,...

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Now seriously I want one person to comment that this insults poetry the way many of you 
boring, mundane and narrow minded people write who comment simply so that person will 
comment back, it’s kind...

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A VIEW FROM BEYOND THE BLUE

I hate to see the world this way
Everything seems like an aimless gray
Over there used to be a cow P\Pasteur all blazingly green
Now it’s just another iron and concrete scene

Building...

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They are not natural enemies, 
nor were they ever meant to be ....
True, for a time when Faith was strong, 
Science was bound, cowed, driven down--
until Science began its growth spurt: 
by leaps it enlarged,...

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COCKADOODLE DOOOOOOOOO!   COCKADOODLE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  That big red rooster greets each morn that way,
Waking all of us...and the farmer too,
  Just so we can all start the day.

A beckoning call to the...

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I have been pre - oc
cupied 
i have knot been per -
used to periodical nomanclature nor have I been be - 
spectaled by the enormity of my

self

but have been painting numerous
simple questions to my

self:

under guises...

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how bad had bad been
by having been bad again
where bad news will begin

When men may be bad
amount had been a scad
threw away like rotten shad

(always preferred a cad)
(were killed by dear old dad)
(looked horrible after...

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how bad had bad been
by having been bad again
where bad news will begin

When men may be bad
amount had been a scad
threw away like rotten shad

(always preferred a cad)
(were killed by dear old dad)
(looked horrible after...

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