Long Rector Poems

Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 3


our subject awoke 
while still dark everywhere
dark with agony 
an amputee's life...

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I like Muslims,
Particularly Yemenis
And Pakistanis (in Yemen)—
With whom, as a university don,
I happened to live for six years. 

Arabic vowels render 
A Yemeni voice gruff.
So even a greeting would   probably
Sound rude to you.

The...

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Yesterday, October 09, 2022, there was an internet prophet on You Tube.
Making a dire prediction for the state of California that would even impact
their neighboring states but the prophet didn't mention their neighboring
states impacted. 

If...

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One of the four angelic messenger harbingers of doom, drew a large red line
from California, to Oregon and to Washington State. Clearly indicating the
exact boundaries where disaster was soon to strike!  This single large...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part III

For Jack Nicklaus, at the 1987 Open
by Michael R. Burch

When you were young
every putt was makeable
and every dream remarkable; 
the stars were unmistakable
you set...

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You failed once. You failed twice. Time for you to retest,
Even if it means that each day you have to skip recess.
     So far you have failed every course that you...

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I am a high school graduate and a former college student
I have no children
No drug or alcohol addiction
nor do I have a home
I am one of Brick City's homeless
Many of the faces I've seen downtown...

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TENDER LOVE AND CARE

   Take a look around,
 what do you see?
   I see homeless, 
 hungry, it could be you or me.
 
   Strange times,
 in the places...

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What Jesus Means To Me

This poem is based on sermon by Father Dave Davis,
Rector of St. James Episcopal Church, Shallotte, NC
on March 22, 2015. Gospel for Day was John 12:20-23.
Maybe they might put my poem...

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O Fault! 

Horrendously I believed, a man solitary, 
Was real alive stood, aftermath Tsunami. 
On top of a roof, standing overwhelming,
Looking towards wreckage and towns’ declining.

Devastation of property, food water shortage,
Ancestral heritage, swept away by...

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The sermons nearly finished, suddenly a happening befalls my eyes
Our congregation now sits silent, amidst echoing tearful cries

An old man we know as Tommy, he's the retired Rector of our Academy
Now lying silent on the...

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Hold the mirror to your face your the broken enemy precious is your inhabition a pathway to 
your sanity delusions lead to hollow confusion a metamorphsis borderline dilemma, whats 
the pleasure in a lesser evil...

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Thomas Higgins was busy doctor
And spent his evenings with the rector
Who managed a nearby seminary;
He was a man loveably down-to-earth and ordinary.

He spent the hours between four and six
In the nearby arboretum studying twings
And the...

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Suck blood like a vampire from a strange empire ,
Not invited but invite herself,
Pass through tiny holes and mesh of the net to 
Set her proboscis on the skin…
Night crawler and unwanted flying creature ..
Dances...

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You know your fat
When
  Candy is on the top of your food pyramid
  Your spouse hits the ceiling when you lie down to bed
The love seat becomes your chair
All you can eat buffet...

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You are still in my heart 
                            ...

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An English village lay at peace
Until that catastrophic day
When flea-infested rolls of fleece
Brought pestilence and death their way.

They heard the village rector say
'No remedy can bring release
In quarantine we all must stay
So that the spread...

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Overnight shall sleep The Delayed Inspector
In a swarming-with-mosquitoes Sector:
The exact wish of his host and Rector
Wishing him the company of Malaria’s Vectors
And the keenest battles with Their Directors,
Since he mustn’t The School Inspector hector
But can’t...

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You think,
I blink.

Curves called,
Not bawled.

Tan can,
Scope fan.

Change rate,
In state.

Vector,
Rector.

Equals,
Owls.

Calc weight,
The rate.

Applied,
Filed tiled.

Practice,
Chalice.

Building,
Wielding.

NASA,
Bless her.

Eco,
Set mo.

Eco,
Set blow.

Medic,
Metric.

Bio,
We know.

Techo,
Clear row.

For us,
Deluxe.

Human,
The lan.

Footprint,
In mint.

Graphs pie,
Grey dye.

Only;
Found eye.

Cosine,
No twine.

Sin blare,
We care....

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