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Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
prefers, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Conservative Healthy SpiralsGenetic, so therefore regenetic, conservatism
of DNA and this fractal function's Elder RNA-rooted ecosystemic
political psychologies,
ecologies of empowerment,
and not so much;
History,
and notnot historic enculturation
of Business As Usual LeftBrain ReIterative Dominance
of deduction-reduction-redaction,
yet still dipolar-dialectical ecosystemic health
(0)-sum-core-centric ecopolitical...
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Categories:
prefers, blessing, culture, earth, games, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Prose PoemsProse 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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Categories:
prefers, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
prefers, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Gardening ExposeWith these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...
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Categories:
prefers, garden, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Gossip On the Bus‘Bout 8:15 this morning, on the bus that I was riding, I overheard a woman tell some gal it seemed she knew,
Her pastor - reverend Bishop - and a “tacky looking woman” we’re spotted leaving...
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Categories:
prefers, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
forest alone,
there we meet
strange creatures -
some say
they...
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Categories:
prefers, dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Cowboy Way - Final ThirdThis is, as indicated, the final THIRD of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 3 parts.
The 1st and 2nd thirds...
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Categories:
prefers, crush, first love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
How Clever You Are Reducing SaucesReducing sauces is a clever act that is not predetermined
Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice cold bath. Bathing rituals signify statuses and this is referred...
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Categories:
prefers, appreciation,
Form:
I do not know?
Family TherapyFeminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in polycultural ecology,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their safe spots.
A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most articulate mentors often wander off
to pray for,
breathe and suffer and...
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Categories:
prefers, addiction, endurance, environment, health, judgement, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Ninety Times a Fish Tail Equals a Spun YarnNine times a fish tail is spun from thin yarn?
Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice cold bath. Bathing rituals signify statuses and this is referred...
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Categories:
prefers, baby, baseball, beach, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
Great Recycling RetransitionIcons are funny things,
she thought.
Heaven feels like a warm light circle
when we are thriving
and more like a cold dark triangle
of weaponed tipping points
against me
and mine
competitively not communicating
when we are barely surviving
above the mortally terrifying bottom
of...
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Categories:
prefers, health, identity, integrity, psychological, religion, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
From Sunday School To Monday MorningOnce again I tip the scale
And mutter, whoever invented it was a man from hell.
It was not a woman who created weights for size
For women can look past the outer shell
And search deep for what...
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Categories:
prefers, art, history, love,
Form:
Ballad
Family Health AssessmentI have watched my youngest son
while nurses give him baths
using diverse models of health optimization
ranging from PositivEnergy Promotion,
restorative ego-eco
I-Thou therapies,
to lower, not too much NegativEnergy, concerns
for hygienic technology professional management,
anger and fear commercialized insurance...
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Categories:
prefers, earth, education, health, humor, muse, music, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Immigrants Gone NativeI suppose it isn't rather nice
to think of us this way,
but to the squirrels
and the trees,
the robins and the grasses,
human natures are Earth's great transitioning immigrants
on this block
we call a planet.
In this newest arrival sense,
I...
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Categories:
prefers, earth, environment, fear, health, humor, immigration, innocence,
Form:
Political Verse
Open To Rightbrain WisdomOne way of seeing interdependent relationship
between human nature
and all Earth's natural organisms and systems
is as historic waves of immigrant colonizing populations
spreading out across all unfrozen continents.
To gradually, naturally and spiritually,
over several generations,
become reborn transformed immigrants,
now...
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Categories:
prefers, earth, education, health, history, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Ben Franklin and SonIt 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:
prefers, america, freedom, health, humor, patriotic, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Classic Cars Should Not Be CagedJust the other day I read an article explaining
that men were working hard on making what became the “car”
Back in 1335, and I was just astonished
to learn the race to do so actually...
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Categories:
prefers, car,
Form:
Narrative
Revolving RiversIn backyards of my history
lies a tidal river
of ebb and flow revolutions.
These revolutions are normally no-news evolutions
back up toward headwaters of crisis and opportunity,
diastatic and polyphonic purest capital boundary roots
for future's river flow investment
out-flowing down
from...
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Categories:
prefers, earth, health, integrity, nature, rights, river, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Capitalism and Human Nature Must Be Regulated“What can we do to make this right?”
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just...
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Categories:
prefers, political,
Form:
Prose
Stories About Power and TruthIf we follow the BigBang Energy Story
told by still evolving scientists,
this is an emergent story of how stardust
becomes progenitor of sunlight,
and how our Sun becomes the Creator
of Earth's healthy fertile soil.
If we follow earliest shamans
and...
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Categories:
prefers, beauty, education, health, humor, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Those Early Attempts At a Mexican Foodthose early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning to a menagerie of new tools...
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Categories:
prefers, august, devotion, food, happiness,
Form:
Romanticism
Why Capitalism FailedI'm reading a publication of Yale Press,
a "centrist" polemic against the LeftBrain's libertarian excesses,
and against RightBrain's sinister shadow
of totalitarian uniformity
playing nihilistic lose/lose
on a global interpersonal
public sector stage three
of nationalistic climate annihilation,
Where RightBrain's win/win golden shadow
prefers...
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Categories:
prefers, beauty, community, earth, health, integrity, nature, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
On Vanilla Missionary PositionsWhen you folks are producing
your vanilla missionary practice,
who plays your Yang strong predator perception
and who prefers Yin reflexible reception?
Do you politically
and/or economically
flip his/her ecofeminist flop?
I'm sorry
but I do not speak of physical flops
mental drops
mindbody cross-fertilizing...
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Categories:
prefers, health, humor, integrity, passion, peace, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Press ReleaseThe not so Great Swami Minister of Health
unleashed a Press Release today.
One member of the O So Commercial Media bothered to show up
and described it as more of an assault, really,
than a release,
more of an...
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Categories:
prefers, abuse, culture, health, humor, integrity, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry