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Various Heresies
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
*
Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
precipitous, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Willy Nilly
Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
precipitous, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Enough
Enough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
precipitous, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Literary Feud Among - Pt 2
Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman
What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?
On a stage of scrutiny,
titans c l a s h— ...
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Categories:
precipitous, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 10
“Clap your terrible wings, vivacious serpent of old!
Imagine my plight as dangerous as your spite,
Stomp your clawed feet on these prison floors,
Peace shall always follow the sink of your fangs…”
Silenced were the wailing demons round,
Crouched...
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Categories:
precipitous, adventure, confusion, growth, imagination, psychological, senses,
Form:
Free verse
A Heavenly Christmas List
*Image of Until We Meet Again by MVid.
A Heavenly Christmas List
An endearing Christmas list too precious to reserve
as a blessed season occasions its heartfelt deserve;
My older brother was the firstborn,
he was well-skilled, seemingly self-born,
a cunning...
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Categories:
precipitous, appreciation, christmas, family, heaven, imagery, missing, remember,
Form:
List
Christmas Political Correctness
It's almost Christmas
when the news caster abouter announces
a precipitous new trend in the U.S.
Now, more tired and climate stressed citizens
are against non-violent Political Correctness
than for political and economic government business
as contentiously nationalistic
and ineffectively partisan...
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Categories:
precipitous, bible, christmas, destiny, happiness, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Heavyweights
I am just dragging around the town carrying this heavy weight in my body when my normal weight is a hundred and ten pounds and that’s the weight that will take me to where destiny...
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Categories:
precipitous, community, courage, environment, first love, friend, history,
Form:
Prose
Stuck in the Middle with You
When you are alone,
you look at the others
and think
that one had too much ...
time to think
and that one …
well, you surmise,
they are on the brink
of some precipitous ...
evaluation,
about to take a big...
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Categories:
precipitous, muse, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Alaska the Rarest Gem
Alaska The Rarest Gem
Salmon imitates plunging dolphin movement
...
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Categories:
precipitous, america, culture, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Times Like These Noah Built An Ark
Thing's and the time's are a changing
and moving at such a tumultuous
and fluid rate
The blinking rapid eye movement
can barely keep up pace with it
at all
Unfortunately like everything in life
sometimes progress also has a dark
downside to...
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Categories:
precipitous, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Smiles I Remember
I was an experienced family therapist, helping families maintain functionality,
As wandering, starlit seasons maintain all nature, being rooted in practicality.
I loved preserving healthy relationships, that foundation of healthy societies;
And kept up a fruitful dialogue between...
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Categories:
precipitous, family, fantasy, grief, love, memory, smile,
Form:
Couplet
Prayers
Prayers
Make prayers a way of life
My mom would often say
Being a headstrong young girl
Disinclined to obey
Would swiftly turn my back
And hurriedly get away..
A brilliant student with excellent grades
Scored without much struggle
Had a reputation all...
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Categories:
precipitous, best friend, blessing, devotion, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Buttonhole Daisy
Buttonhole Daisy
by Odin Roark
My city bud and I
How we love the long walks
Daisy beneath my chin
Tucked securely in a buttonhole
Me with discovery...
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Categories:
precipitous, city,
Form:
Free verse
Parallel
As the darkness reaching out for the darkness,
her black scalpel eyes met mine across
the crushing divide of a revelling throng.
The amateur axe band strangled a bargain basement
hard rock song, born of...
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Categories:
precipitous, allegory, angst, life, love, passion, sad,
Form:
Blank verse
Who Dares To Take This Life From Me, Knows No Better: Parts Five and Six
(continued)
V
Has it not occurred to you how I sat with you
dear...
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Categories:
precipitous, political, august, children, day, may, river,
Form:
Free verse
Lithium Sea
The air is open-ended,
The wind sends a whisper through my spinal cord at lightning speed
Acres upon acres of oceanic scenery plunging itself into my irises
The horizon is as wide as the Milky Way...
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Categories:
precipitous, anxiety, courage, dark, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The Gorge
I saw a gorge, a remote vision from distant, far far away from the surface, how sharp, how precipitous, how deep!
A singular, unsurpassed, cavernous cleft;
a crevice among two gigantic hills, how intense and steep!
The rocky...
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Categories:
precipitous, absence, appreciation, deep, devotion, earth, eulogy, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
In times to come, heavy as steel that freezes stories yet untold
In times to come, heavy as steel that freezes stories yet untold,
The sky wraps itself in ash of thoughts yearning to be confined.
Silent streets converge towards a doubtful, mechanical horizon,
Where the sobriety of hope seems...
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Categories:
precipitous, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Whys and Hows
Whys and Hows
by Odin Roark
Through the window of rain spattered glass,
The old vet watched the large ant cling to...
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Categories:
precipitous, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Desperate Hope
Vacantly staring into the night sky
She saw big bellied clouds drifting away
Are they fleeing away from the luminous moon?
Or mercilessly driven out
After being robbed off everything?
Once again she looked at her expanding waistline
And...
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Categories:
precipitous, angst, betrayal, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND
Half-Scot, half-English and ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama,
And the breathless town was always ...
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Categories:
precipitous, urban
Form:
Free verse
Wasted Years
I've heard there are two paths you can go by,
I've read I ought to take the path less traveled;
I've made my own path despite,
Ever having given either path a gamble.
Lost traversing aimlessly through,
The lush spring...
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Categories:
precipitous, depression, emotions, how i feel, introspection, leaving,
Form:
Quatrain
The Rocky Road To My Mountain
Some stranger sent me a letter,
stating that I was a beyonder,
someone who looks human and strong like steel,
but actually doesn't have the same traits;
he was born to foretell his own demise,
and expose,without resentment, his...
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Categories:
precipitous, adventure, childhood, loss, placesme, me,
Form:
Free verse
1924 Everest expedition
The broken remains of a mountain climber
several thousand feet from precipitous peak,
nature had attempted a fair burial with snow,
but some parts remained exposed to air,
the right leg had crossed to protect the left,
in an attempt...
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Categories:
precipitous, courage, nature,
Form:
Free verse