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Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down 
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown

I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...

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Categories: reflecting, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form: Free verse



Woman: The Flame that Lights the World
In every dawn that breaks anew,
In every dream, and skies of blue,
A woman’s strength, steadfast and true,
Guides the world in all we do.
Through ages past and times untold,
Their stories rise, so brave, so bold,
In quiet...

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Categories: reflecting, inspiration, literature, meaningful, memorial,
Form: Narrative
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours

Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior 
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women, 
based upon a character 
in The Impertinent Curious Man, 
a story within a...

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Categories: reflecting, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forever
“Forever”



When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the 
labyrinthine trail 
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...

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Categories: reflecting, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
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: reflecting, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The True Mother
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s dreams 
rust crumbles to dust

Virulent apathy spreads 
Betrayal’s destruction 
hand...

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Categories: reflecting, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poems Iv
Poems about Poems IV

The Toast
by Michael R. Burch

For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...

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Categories: reflecting, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems X
Juvenilia: Early Poems X

These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.

Regret
by Michael R. Burch

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...

once starlight
languished
in your hair...

a shining there
as brief
as rare.

Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...

unleash
the torrent
of your hair...

and show me
once...

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Categories: reflecting, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why Life
Why does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings 
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter 
before naked covered night.

Why life?
To uncover...

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Categories: reflecting, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort 
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats 
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...

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Categories: reflecting, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.

Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...

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Categories: reflecting, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form: Political Verse
Early Poems I
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Smoke
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...

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Categories: reflecting, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
I.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift

( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)

For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...

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Categories: reflecting, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of Nebraska
My love is light (a fairy kiss?)          
               Like the pressure of...

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Categories: reflecting, lost love,
Form: Blank verse
Unleashed
I got up this morning in a good mood 
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...

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Categories: reflecting, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jesus Messiah As Climate Bodhisattva
To my sisters,
and narrow-way brothers,
in Jesus Christ
as Supreme UnitingWealthyStates
sustainable legal/moral Savior

I reached U.S. voting age during the 70s.
During this time,
the Religious Right
and Republican Party Center
were about the same place;
not distinguishable,
inscrutable, perhaps.

In strong conserving defense of...

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Categories: reflecting, appreciation, christian, culture, health, history, love, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member My Holy Bible - the Free Style
~ My Holy Bible ~
(Free Style )



My Holy Bible
Is very nice
It fills my soul
With love divine

It tells me
That God is true
And shows that
He loves us too

God our burdens
He wants to bear
The Lord for us
He's always...

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Categories: reflecting, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You'Re My Light - Davedas Candle Style
~  You Are  My  Light ~
 (Daveda's Hybrid Concrete Candle)
 



 Dear 
 Lord 
 You're 
 My  Light 
 You give 
 Love  Hope 
 Peace  Joy 
...

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Categories: reflecting, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wise Elders
Wise Elders are patient,
fully embrace compassion's communication
and health care
of climates and cultural landscapes,
animated persons,
sacred spaces,
organic places,
panentheistic plants
and monotheistic planet
impassioned hopes
and pleasant dreams
rebuilding positive faith.

Wise Elders co-passionately listen
for karmic grace of love peaks 
overflowing.

If Wise Revolutionaries...

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Categories: reflecting, 5th grade, caregiving, class, health, time, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member What Kind of People Are We
What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...

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Categories: reflecting, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration, international, poverty, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Doctors of Industrious Divinity
Dear Bishop Michael Cote, Doctor of Divinity
through pre-historic untold ages
through reborn renaissance stages
through industriously energetic praises
through enlightenment phases
through empowerment dysphasia

Some of us lesser health care practitioners,
good faith social workers,
teachers,
parents and grandparents,
uncles and aunts,
and ecofeminist inter-religious...

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Categories: reflecting, christian, green, health, nature, passion, power, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The People with Wings
 The People with Wings
 It was a huge photograph of an eye – an amazing eye that now drew everyone to Mecca.  It was said to belong to one of the ‘People with...

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Categories: reflecting, fate, future, myth,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Artifacts of Destiny
Each ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates its uniquely sacred eco-Other,
mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory
toward appreciating capital investments
in further living, not deadening, artifacts
through each personal life 
both cooperative and competing
so far.

So
every shrinking...

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Categories: reflecting, destiny, humanity, identity, integrity, psychological, , western,
Form: Political Verse
New Year Poems I
New Year Poetry

Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch 

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?

For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...

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Categories: reflecting, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore” 

Where do we go -

when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted, 
along the unopened road?

we walk into the 
forest alone, 
there we meet 
strange creatures -

some say 
they...

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Categories: reflecting, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things