Long Pursue Poems
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Fahr An' IceFahr 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 IcarusSouthern 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 IPoems 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
Medieval Poems IiMedieval 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 IiThese 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 TranslationsNative 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 TranslationsI 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-LxxxixSonnet 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 DaysSalat 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 RevolutionNumbers, 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
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
Rumi Translation: the FieldThe 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
SweetspotsCould 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
Paul and Sarah - Part TwoConditions 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: BirdsongBirdsong
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
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:
Prose Poetry
Halloween Poems IiCompleting 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 IPoems 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 ParkerThese 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 14Joulupukki 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 TwoRosalia - 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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Categories:
pursue, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
RetributionIn sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...
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Categories:
pursue, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Listening For FirestormsAlways respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yeasty flames of fertile dopamine.
They, like you,
co-arise of and from the landscapes
in which...
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Categories:
pursue, absence, blessing, happiness, health, humanity, nature, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry