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Fahr An' Ice

Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch

From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...

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Categories: pursue, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form: Light Verse

Poems About Icarus

Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?

Only a...

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Categories: pursue, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers I

Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I

I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …


Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...

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Categories: pursue, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form: Rhyme

Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding

(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason 
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes 
a threadbare fading strand,
A quest for wisdom 
in this digital land.

Sage:...

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Categories: pursue, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Medieval Poems Ii

Medieval Poems



Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!

Wulf's on one island; I'm on...

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Categories: pursue, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form: Rhyme

Apocalyptic Poems Ii

These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...






Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch

“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats

Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...

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Categories: pursue, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Native American Translations

Native American Translations

Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...

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Categories: pursue, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Pablo Neruda Translations

I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...

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Categories: pursue, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form: Sonnet

Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix

Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX

Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch

The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...

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Categories: pursue, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form: Sonnet

Salat Days

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch 

(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)

I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...

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Categories: pursue, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form: Free verse

2020 Revolution

Numbers, numerals,
like words,
combinations of letters,
mean something,
sometimes more secular,
sometimes more sacred ecological.

Numerals and letters share sacred iconic human-intelligence root systems
within a bicameral ecology of mind-body nonduality,
both RightBrain matriarchal empowering flow of integrity (Czikszentmihalyi)
and LeftBrain patriarchal Yang...

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Categories: pursue, beauty, culture, earth, health, math, trust, truth,
Form: Political Verse

Rumi Translation: the Field

The Field
by Rumi 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field. 
I'll meet you there. 
When the soul lazes in such lush grass 
the world is too...

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Categories: pursue, earth, green, islamic, rights, soulmate, sound, words,
Form: Epigram

Sweetspots

Could you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept 
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust 
of and for cooperatively organizing positive 
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?

Try...

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Categories: pursue, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse

Portraits of Racial Politics

“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...

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Categories: pursue, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form: Political Verse

Paul and Sarah - Part Two

Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...

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Categories: pursue, adventure, america, love,
Form: Rhyme

Rumi Translation: Birdsong

Birdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!



I choose to love you in silence
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I...

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Categories: pursue, bird, music, poetry, poets, song, universe, writing,
Form: Verse

Halloween Poems Ii

Completing the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch

Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...

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Categories: pursue, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I

Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...



Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...

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Categories: pursue, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form: Free verse

Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker

These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...

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Categories: pursue, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14

Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed.  His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall.  He had but one question for him that he...

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Categories: pursue, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two

Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two

Rosalia’s Instruments of Evil and Debauchery
Rosalia needed certain tools or instruments of evil and debauchery to successfully pursue her nefandous plans of bringing the people...

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Categories: pursue, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form: Narrative

In His Light - the Mirrored Hourglass Style

 ~ In His Light~
( Mirrored Hourglass )



LOVE TRUST LORD PURSUE HIS WAY

Lord won't leave you alone

His mercy will show

When with Lord stay

IN HIS LIGHT

You'll walk 

You'll walk

IN HIS LIGHT

When with Lord stay

His mercy will...

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Categories: pursue, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse

Trust In Jesus - the Linked Style

 ~ Trust  In  Jesus ~
 ( Linked )



 Trust in Jesus
 T
 Jesus loves you
 R
 You, me, and  all
 U
 All in  this   World 
 S
 World...

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