Long Pathways Poems
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ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
pathways, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
Athenian Epitaphs IiAthenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
pathways, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
Contract Against GreatnessIn Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.
If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...
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Categories:
pathways, culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of NebraskaMy love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
pathways, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
But Just Where Is God(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)
Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish
When mental...
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Categories:
pathways, god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form:
Blank verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks,
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps flapping, bright colors...
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Categories:
pathways, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
Devils Rhapsody in Blue
Hypocrites sucking off the silicone tit
of the antichrist spirit.
Man infestation from the pit of
deliriot.
In hallowed halls of discord, whispers echo,
the chorus of the damned proletariat,
a venom, seeping...
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Categories:
pathways, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Following Earth's LightBorrowing from David Holmgren, Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond [Win-Elite v Lose-NonElite] Sustainability, 2002, p. 1
Health ethics are Beloved Community normative principles
used to guide action toward good and light and right outcomes
and away from degeneratively...
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Categories:
pathways, creation, destiny, earth day, environment, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Architects of Humanitarian CrisesCopyright © 2008 #03
4/12/2008 // (Edited: 1/22/2013/lp
(a historical glimpse of humanity's rise)
*This poetic epic begins with the
greatest sin against humanity
*This poem is dedicated to all
serving and protecting the
¨Basic Rights of Mankind¨
Once, mankind was forgiven from...
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Categories:
pathways, christian, devotion, faith, history, hope, journey, life,
Form:
Couplet
Three Tribute Poems, Composed By Me, For Longfellow BlogThree Tribute poems-- composed by me,
For Longfellow blog….
(1.)
Glory Of Faith's Triumphant Golden Crowns
The rays of morn took their first golden breath
Dispersing powers of night's darkling mists
First gleams romancing sweet the earthen shores
Beating back dark...
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Categories:
pathways, art, creation, dedication, deep, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Words the Ship Melanie Dear Melanie Troubled Times LosstouchWords
The ship
Words come to me like spring.
They set free, they shed the shroud,
open with all their glory, beauty and sing.
They stand tall, they ring out loud,
from a life that blossoms with...
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Categories:
pathways, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Rilke Translations IArchaischer 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:
pathways, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
Make Love To Me In That Ancient PlaceThe Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thrill, the Jin of your Jihad...
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Categories:
pathways, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
There Was An Old Lady Who Lived In a HutI heard a story being told by a traveling man. He told of a story that was passed down from father to son for generations This story journeyed from country to country and was translated...
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Categories:
pathways, appreciation, friendship, society, symbolism, tribute, visionary, woman,
Form:
Metrical Tale
So Soft Is the Sonnet of WillowsThis is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote a long time ago and I thought I’d just put...
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Categories:
pathways, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Minds Coarising HeartsIn our Physics Departments
our most salient awareness
grows
of those nature-spirit entities
most easily seen
and heard
and smelled
as animated and animating,
sometimes more,
sometimes less,
in our daily ritualistic lives
of solids
and liquids
and gases
and plasma
and bilateral neural pathways
of interdependent communication.
In our MetaPhysics Department,
still...
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Categories:
pathways, art, earth, health, integrity, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Visit To Quiet TownWhile returning home from my job, in bustling New York City,
The blaring horns of traffic, and the noise were getting to me.
With loud yelling on the sidewalks, and cawing crows up above,
And my poor aching...
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Categories:
pathways, fantasy, imagery, people, places, silence, travel, vacation,
Form:
Couplet
The Word-Heroic Crown of SonnetsBEGINNINGS
The WORD was there before the dawn of time
the Trinity communed in sacred tongue
with sounds unheard, unspeakable, sublime
they uttered words of their unending Love.
With power in God's WORD the world was formed
and from His mouth...
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Categories:
pathways, beautiful, bible, life, love, universe,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
I Felt So Out of PlaceThe sunshine and singing birds, awoke me that fine day;
And warmth caressed my face, as the wrens began to play.
I stretched luxuriantly in my bed, while smiling broadly,
At the gaiety of beautiful summer, in all...
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Categories:
pathways, adventure, fantasy, humor, imagery, nature, science fiction,
Form:
Couplet
Another Apricot SunriseIt was just one of those splendid days, which held no excitement;
Moreover it required none, for in its stillness, I was content.
Lying on the forest green grass, luxurious blue skies in my eyes,
Summer winds brought...
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Categories:
pathways, destiny, friend, imagery, nature, travel, universe,
Form:
Couplet
LiatraPasha Acremodios grew greedy,
discontented with the domain he dominated,
so he turned covetous eyes toward Farabia,
sending his soldiers to seize this ripened plum
Spoiling for a fight and fighting for spoils,
his army swept across Farabia
like a bloody...
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Categories:
pathways, dance, death, desire,
Form:
Free verse
The Color of LaughterI was in a love affair with art, which had lasted for most of my life,
As beauty graces bush tree and field, whenever hued blossoms are rife.
I started painting at a young age, and had...
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Categories:
pathways, art, color, fantasy, fun, imagery, life, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Non-Rocket ScienceWhen I was an undergraduate
in Michigan
I became fascinated with my bilaterally transubstantiating internal conversation
about sufficient v necessary evidence
for thought v feeling experience
That communication's principles of co-empathic persuasion
were also healthy-positive psychology's research
on how to best regenerate...
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Categories:
pathways, culture, earth, education, health, peace, philosophy, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Rendered Speechless-LiterallyPeople often say I talk a lot, but I hardly think that is true,
Like the whispers about the bluebird, of which he never knew.
Talking helps a lot with my job, which is in public relations,
As...
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Categories:
pathways, fantasy, imagery, people, places, summer, travel, words,
Form:
Couplet
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
...
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Categories:
pathways, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Free verse