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Various Heresies 4
Various Heresies 4

I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch

I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.

But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...

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Categories: rattling, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen
“The Remaining”

PROLOGUE:  “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”


"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"


Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...

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Categories: rattling, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom

Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rattling, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form: Dramatic Verse
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall 
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my 
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...

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Categories: rattling, heartbreak, places,
Form: Rhyme
Broken Pride
The summer is over but things are getting hotter
The summer is over and people are getting viler
The sky is overcast and the birds are flying around
It feels like a stranger has just entered the town.

Grey...

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Categories: rattling, appreciation, beautiful, break up, bullying, education, faith,
Form: Narrative



Uncle Arthur
‘She’s on again - the annual campin’ trip regatta,
and we’ve got ourselves together for our plans to Wonnangatta. 
The high country; you can’t beat it for the peace and quiet
unless of course some plans get...

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Categories: rattling, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn Atonement
Face to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Memories ... the demurring requiem to summer tide...

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Categories: rattling, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october, solitude, soulmate, true
Form: Free verse
FICTIONAL BIO:
FICTIONAL BIO:

The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...

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Categories: rattling, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute Poem
Nelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.

As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”

I had...

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Categories: rattling, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination, inspiration, motivation, strength,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Tessellate

“Tessellate” 

on the surface
it’s easy to see
we tessellate

inadvertent 
decorative ostentatious
flirtatious lives taking risks 

with the other sides
planned strategic functional 
quantity rich quality lacking

Human

our words our ways
opposites 
like magnets attract, it all fits 

we think it...

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Categories: rattling, earth, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch

As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464

In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...

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Categories: rattling, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Velvet Glove Compartment
Age defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers 
slid over an intermittently scratched carbon black handrail she...

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Categories: rattling, adventure, age, birth, celebration, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Road Trip
Road Trip

The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time, 
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.

"A few...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rattling, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Down a Piece and There
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time, 
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.

"A few more...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rattling, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Ghost Dance Part V
The Ending at Wounded Knee

This is what happened:
Two worlds collided,
The elder one died.

Pony soldiers and Indian police,
Trigger happy and jumping at shadows,
Killed Sitting Bull at Pine Ridge;
     His horse pawed the...

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Categories: rattling, betrayal, history, humanity, native american, remember,
Form: Free verse
Kismat
Over yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
With footfalls that loom, a sweet scented voluptuous sound
Which gently strike...

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Categories: rattling, beautiful, encouraging,
Form: Verse
Premium Member From Pretty Pink Bows To Baby Bassinets
From Pretty Pink Bows To Baby Bassinets  


              Well little girl you are in high water now and the sand is...

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Categories: rattling, baby, life, social, teen,
Form: Prose
Premium Member And Miles To Go Before I Sleep For Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue (For Miles Davis)

Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx Ny 1991


Before they could lower Miles 
into the damp, dark ground
Two of the PALL BEARERS
Thought they heard musical sounds

Before the Preacher could say
Turn your BiblesTo Acts, 
The...

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Categories: rattling, bird, celebrity, death, guitar, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
I Wish For The Death of Me, My Ghost To Resurrect, and Haunt You Infinitely
"Silenced tears, muffled screams, A storm penetrating in your chest that seizes your soul, 
Is god watching the world burn? The bricks that create a barricade were the ones confiscated within me, and with mentioning...

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Categories: rattling, absence, addiction, anger, corruption, deep, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Groundhog Day - Thursday, February 2nd 2023
The date of the celebration
(the second day of February) coincides
with medieval feast of Candlemas,
and its pre-Christian predecessor,
Imbolc, a day also rich in folklore.

An old Scottish prophecy foretells
sunny weather on Candlemas
means a long winter.

The tradition is...

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Categories: rattling, 12th grade, 4th grade, 8th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evolution of a Broken Heart
“The Evolution of a Broken Heart”



In thy hands, 
I gently placed it

lacking hesitation’s pleas and virtues
‘twas ne’er a time to be uncourageous
plucked somewhere from deep within
my honorable, clean gilded home where
pure intention sat regally spartan
upon...

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Categories: rattling, abuse, betrayal, destiny, fate, gothic, imagery, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Playing God

An eerie wind blows through the decaying bushes on the outskirts,  
while a rusted door sways on its broken hinges.  
The smell of ozone lingers from thunder cracking in the distance,  
as...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rattling, adventure, corruption, future, poetry, science fiction, symbolism,
Form: Prose
Premium Member In Builda Land
Once upon a time,
in a Kansas City Public School,
There was a teacher named Builda.
We are all given the same rules.
Every year, the principal says,
"The first two weeks of school are
not for teaching any academics.
The first...

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Categories: rattling, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Heading Out
A dawning twilight's me. Oh, joy. Oh, what a joy. This day. Oh, what a day. A breath bestills my eyes and I, e'er slight, a deeper breath that reopened them and myself to a...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rattling, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, christian, happiness, religion,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Master Poe Swore With Raven He Had No More Ties, Dark Doubles, Poe Tribute
( Dark Doubles Tribute To Poetic Those Gifts Given By Raven And Master Poe )

(1.)

Under Bright Bloody-Red Midnight Moon, Raven Plays

Yes, those horrific screams, came from below
those frosty chills, born from eerie glow
echoes bouncing off...

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Categories: rattling, art, creation, dark, imagination, inspiration, surreal, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things