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See
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by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
played out, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Some Poems
A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
played out, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
played out, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
My White House Interview
I was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it felt like an obligation
to at least show up,
although perhaps about...
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Categories:
played out, caregiving, earth, health, humor, nature, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Laundering Her Accounts
New England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.
She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...
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Categories:
played out, analogy, destiny, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Sacred Energy
Fascism lives in tension with holy optimism,
as hatred fades in presence of mutual love,
as WinLose evolutionary models
give way to WinWin sacred Energy
stories and songs and dances,
as patriarchal colonization
gives way to matriarchal creolization.
Fascism,
synonymous with Totalitarianism,
as written...
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Categories:
played out, anti bullying, caregiving, education, health, integrity, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Artifacts of Destiny
Each ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates its uniquely sacred eco-Other,
mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory
toward appreciating capital investments
in further living, not deadening, artifacts
through each personal life
both cooperative and competing
so far.
So
every shrinking...
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Categories:
played out, destiny, humanity, identity, integrity, psychological, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
My Alphabet
A a big A little a
What words start with the letter A
...
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Categories:
played out, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form:
Abecedarian
Manic Depressive Climates
Depression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by avoiding outward.
Focal awareness of ego mortality,
immanent and emanant,
eminent,
turns inward,
returns...
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Categories:
played out, beauty, culture, depression, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Liberal Operatic Lovers
What cooperative evidence
could we final climate find
for WinWin cooperation lovers
including LeftBrain secular humanities
inviting no more or less valueflow
than RightBrain WiseElder root-branch dipolar etchings
neurologically ancient bipolar temporal systemic
body-branch, mind-root DNA enscriptured holonic trees,
DNA river...
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Categories:
played out, environment, happiness, health, heart, integrity, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
The Legend of the Rose
Long 'ere legends encountered finesse amidst flairs of passionate cravings,
thereupon, be a period wherein an episode occasioned an opportunity that will be reserved forever.
An outbreak of dismembering words are been exchanged between groups of rapscallions.
The...
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Categories:
played out, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fantasy, flower, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Benighted Enlightenment
Potawatomi language,
says Robin Wall Kimmerer,
does not verbally divide us into masculine and feminine.
However, unlike most English verbs,
Potawatomi verbs distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.
For example,
we use sit down
when speaking to an unruly son
and set down
when...
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Categories:
played out, anger, culture, earth, health, love, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Speaking With Donald John
I was speaking with my good friend
Donald John
the Evangelist for AntiChrist
the other day.
And I had to ask,
Donald John,
Why are you so against health care
for all our not yet slaughtered
and otherwise dead already?
Except perhaps health services...
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Categories:
played out, earth, education, faith, health, integrity, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Kitchens Are Dirty
It was dark out. The stars shone dimly, and the horizon blushed faintly as the birds sang, too cheery for the hour. A chill swept the edges of all the outside world: not cold enough...
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Categories:
played out, absence, cry, depression, home, loneliness, lonely, silence,
Form:
I do not know?
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
played out, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Syria Reconstructed
It is in our fragile, nearly broken, exposure
that we are most available for love
and remedial gratitude,
rather than the louder applause
of our full-blown ballistic glory.
While exercising restrained patience breeds tolerance,
giving pregnant reign to co-empathy compels timeless...
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Categories:
played out, deep, earth day, health, love, mother, power,
Form:
Political Verse
This Is Unfinished Feminist Us
So I was feeling badly,
sad,
because I share our mutually complicit status
for my compatriot's difficult terrorizing
chronic stress disordering
time.
I too have been there,
lost there,
to a more moderate extent.
I just walked away.
I wish I had done more at...
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Categories:
played out, anger, culture, education, fear, humor, military, stress,
Form:
Political Verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:7
15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”
The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a...
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Categories:
played out, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
On Resilient Health
I am reading my Resilience Systems Manual,
avidly,
like an underfed developer
hoping to strike gold
while laying healthy habitat foundations.
Today I see Community Resilience mention
Tipping Points,
dipolar appositional,
when exceeded
on a WayTooMuch Yang OverInvested
Western dualistic
nature ain't spirit
so divine couldn't...
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Categories:
played out, environment, health, humor, integrity, science, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Amanda Challenge
Amanda's Challenge
My name is Amanda; I am pleased to meet you.
I must tell you my story I swear it is all-true.
It happened one day I was feeling quite low.
I had run out of answers I...
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Categories:
played out, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Ben Franklin and Son
It was not yet noon
when Ben said
a host of lovely things.
As far as we know,
no one accused him
of being publisher shy,
or sleeping in.
Ben said,
Early to bed
Early to rise
Makes a man,
and perhaps women and children more...
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Categories:
played out, america, freedom, health, humor, patriotic, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Lady Liberty Speaks
It should be harder,
and perhaps it could,
to not be known
and recognized
and to not find icons of and for gratitude
throughout my everyday.
The forbidden fruit
of Trees for Life and against Death
living in peaceful forests of Good and...
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Categories:
played out, freedom, health, humor, integrity, love, peace, rights,
Form:
Political Verse
Esperance
“The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying…Old age, begin sighing.”- Thomas Hood
In the amber hues, kissed by scarlet
Soothing whispers in laughing hearts,
Music, trembling...
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Categories:
played out, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, dance, peace, seasons, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Advocating Patriotism For Earthlings
It is not patriotic
to desecrate a flag
or even denigrate a nationalistic anthem
celebrating a war-torn patriotic flag.
Yet is it even anti-patriotic
to refuse to bow to it,
the flag, that is,
to not stand with supremacist intentions
while singing about...
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Categories:
played out, culture, games, health, humor, integrity, patriotic, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Old Maid Games
I recall a card game
probably extending back past the 1950s
called Old Maid.
There was also Authors
and a few other choices
less popular with me.
But Old Maid sticks in mind
as blatantly sexist
and ageist
and, for a country kid
in redneck...
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Categories:
played out, earth, gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, usa,
Form:
Political Verse