Long Reasons Poems
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When It Struck 11When it struck 11, I sighed in relief
When it struck 11, I haven't felt grief
The time kept ticking on and it wasn't brief
And I'm so… patiently shaking like a leaf
Vigorously feeling vital everyday...
Every minute...every second...come...
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Categories:
reasons, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
reasons, 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Fairer, IndeedWOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
reasons, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Starting With BeginningsLeft:
Let's start at the beginning
of your ecotherapeutic day.
I'm talking today with Fr. Time,
Earth's only fully self-ordained ecotherapist,
and recently published author of
"Journals of MotherEarth."
We have no corporate sponsorships to report,
although we are for sale
especially if you're...
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Categories:
reasons, gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, perspective,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
reasons, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Enola GayEnola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
reasons, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
reasons, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
reasons, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
reasons, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
Sufi Dream Poem-Theory: Cosmontological Uni-BallCosmology + Ontology = Cosmontology
NEW Cosmontological Principle: Be SO SO humble!
>>> SEE NOTE BELOW
A Sufi Dream-Poem--Our purposefully "proto-conscious" UNI-ballish recycling?
By: Moji Agha
Started on Oct. 26, 2020
You know?
Being a microtubular cosmontologically proto-conscious
goofy sufi...
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Categories:
reasons, creation, destiny, imagination, mystery, planet, science, stars,
Form:
Free verse
People of FaithIt's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.
After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?
Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species
as among those not capable...
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Categories:
reasons, culture, earth day, education, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
GilgameshGILGAMESH . . .
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out...
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Categories:
reasons, adventure, best friend, brother, character, deep, emotions,
Form:
Epic
Adieu - Part 2The tears flowed and I still smiled,
My body and spirit and mind,
Were still in that state of residual bliss,
Soaking in your sweet smile,
And savoring the moonlit skin before me,
But my soul was being torn asunder,
And...
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Categories:
reasons, heartbreak, love, passion, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Everyday ChristiansI would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.
I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...
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Categories:
reasons, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
reasons, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Today and Tomorrow - the Butterfly Style~Today And Tomorrow ~
( The Butterfly Style )
~O~
Love God with all heart
He is best friend
Always there
The Lord
Greatest
In all
Just ...
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Categories:
reasons, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Rainy Days, and the Old Red Barn“Allen saw it first
Charlie then later
Allen chased the black raven
Charlie lived his dreams”.
Steady rain had been falling for two straight days
In dimming, muted light.
Striding out from the middle of a weeded field
The two men...
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Categories:
reasons, adventure, bird, dream, horror, imagery, magic, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Brain InjuryPain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears are always ringing with this...
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Categories:
reasons, america, anxiety, beautiful, lonely, mental illness, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Translation With Commentary of a Wild West Classic: Summer Wine By T WignesanTranslation with commentary of an archetypal Wild West Classic : " Summer Wine "
(I'd wage my bottom diamond dime future generations will re-discover and treasure this true American classic like only a few others of...
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Categories:
reasons, america, angel, betrayal, england, myth, romance, song,
Form:
Ballad
Caregiving Stories ContinuedWounded Sacred Dementia
My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.
My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...
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Categories:
reasons, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
With the Lord - the Magic 9 Style~ With The Lord ~
( Magic 9 )
~O~
With Jesus we can all attain salvation, all
He reinforces all the good and great things that I know
He picks me up for...
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Categories:
reasons, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 46Over the next two evenings after the Council had recessed, Seileach visited each of the Councilman who had voted to release Dyndoeth in an effort to assess their feelings about whether they were inclined to...
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Categories:
reasons, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-ValluvarVillanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate
For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of
the THIRUK-KURAL
Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I...
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Categories:
reasons, beauty, character, creation, god, identity, truth,
Form:
Villanelle
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My BowMerov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
reasons, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Exodus To GenesisWith Julian Jaynes
we find an egocentric languaged LeftBrain
developing reasons to sacredly love our healthy RightBrain inductive-integrative SacredPower feelings of Earth's co-relationship with LeftBrain's Self-ReGenerating Identity
of BiCameral Ego/Eco-Consciousness.
Later on in the evolution of Positive Psychology,
we find...
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Categories:
reasons, culture, health, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse