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CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
refusing, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
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:
refusing, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
refusing, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Let Us Speak ClearlyLet me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain piratically rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to feel-good AmericaFirst...
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Categories:
refusing, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 21-- Dolly Damian and Molly: Cascades Continued IiDolly was beside herself with thoughts
Of this powerful man, Damian Possessing
Her. She wandered around his
Spacious apartment before
Returning to his bedroom
to sit on his bed.
Damian was ready and dressed...
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Categories:
refusing, emotions, feelings, love, lust,
Form:
Alliteration
Christian Evangelical-Charismatic RepublicansI grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...
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Categories:
refusing, beauty, christian, gender, health, political, rights, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Declaration of InterdependenceWhen in the Course of Earth’s climatic events,
it becomes necessary for cultures to resolve political bands
which have connected Her with human nature,
and to assume among the powers of Earth,
separate and equal...
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Categories:
refusing, freedom, health, independence day, life, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
TozzathPellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
refusing, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Leaving sooo SoonI guess I’m sorry I was leaving so soon
It came out of the blue,
It came out of the blue moon…blue moon…
I couldn’t find my left shoe
I could have been here
For a little while, while,...
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Categories:
refusing, angst, devotion, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Lyric
Multicolored HousesI find multicultural capital investment
socially healthier
politically wealthier
than more win/lose capital competitions.
Sociologists
may call this deep social communication capital,
so why don't natural scientists
discover naturally cooperative capital investments
is a long-winded way
of winding around
recognizing
and appreciating,
not depreciating,
multiculturing health power?
With...
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Categories:
refusing, health, integrity, passion, peace, political, power, presidents
Form:
Political Verse
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication SeriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...
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Categories:
refusing, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Less Hellfire PleaseYinPassion: Predictions of HellFire and Damnation raptures,
of Paradise far away from sinful natural EarthClimates of Despair
is not so different from our indigenous ancestors' experience
in the U.S.A. 1800s.
Robersmith: "This situation is not so different from one...
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Categories:
refusing, earth, games, health, integrity, peace, psychological, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
In the silky night, dotted with mysteryIn the silky night, dotted with mystery,
Where the moon's thread weaves shadows on the paths,
The heart, a thin garment, a flash in the ether,
Listens as the time from the hourglass seeps away,
And its rhythm, a...
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Categories:
refusing, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
MonofilamaniaIt is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.
It sharks,
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...
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Categories:
refusing, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form:
Free verse
Restoring Inside JusticeHealing Win/Lose EgoNomial Intent
We belong together
Through all kinds of colonizing corporate weather,
We belong creolizing together.
So sings my mitochondrial DNA
when I listen deeply
to all prior matriarchal regenerations
speaking in still
soft
timeless win/win voices
Especially about polycultural outcome...
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Categories:
refusing, culture, education, grandmother, health, integrity, language, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
KiloForever is only a moment lost without champion the cause Anderson mister burnette blossom barachatta Barbara Streisand globally Hussein ghost minnows shady lane candles blue stay real vanderbuilts vaults of favored few points topless blunt...
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Categories:
refusing, 11th grade,
Form:
Alexandrine
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'Playing(1.)
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'playing
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair a'streaming.
Olympic desires born, Gods a'playing
Mighty Zeus often on earth a'staying
There below mortals stopped a'praying
Hades play, man's evil a'repaying!
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair...
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Categories:
refusing, appreciation, art, creation, jealousy, mythology, repetition, war,
Form:
Rhyme
In simple wordsEmerging from a fulcrum deep within,
arises a humming, magnetic pull,
which in each moment does afresh begin,
drenching us with bliss, making heart feel full.
Rapture ignition, thus in renewal,
becomes the new norm, just like our heartbeat,
love’s elixir...
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Categories:
refusing, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Overarching GenocideOverarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...
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Categories:
refusing, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
The FlightI awake to the dawning of another day
To my knees, I fall and begin to pray
This prayer is different, unlike any before
All of the sudden, a sound outside my door
Upon my feet, I run down...
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Categories:
refusing, christian, destiny, flying, inspirational, leaving, prayer, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Tainted ThrillShame on you for trying to kill my thrill
Shut the hell up and be my friend for real
Stop acting so arrogant and such a pill
You know I need your shoulder to lean on…
It’s really no...
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Categories:
refusing, angst, emotions, fear, grief, passion, stress, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Trump's Now the PresidentTrump's Now the President
(how he got there)
By Franklin Price
1/30/2019
Trump is now the President
Not the cause but the effect
Of Republicans and Democrats
Refusing to connect
He's not from either party
Though Republicans have the claim
I think he...
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Categories:
refusing, america, anxiety, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom To SurviveWhen will we gain the wisdom to survive
this disturbing
degenerate
NegativEnergy
adolescent denialism
of fascist climate-bullying tendencies
toward shrieking violence
at silent displaced victims,
creating rivers of homeless
multi-degenerating non-thriving refugees?
Where are the all growed up
nurturing regenerate adults
in our capital cities?
On...
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Categories:
refusing, anxiety, caregiving, grandparents, health, integrity, peace, youth,
Form:
Political Verse
In the obsidian abyss, I melt, feeling the warmth that embraces meIn the obsidian abyss, I melt, feeling the warmth that embraces me,
Awaiting the flight deep within me, a dream without any hope to measure.
Beside my own self, inseparable in this boundless world,
In an eternity without...
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Categories:
refusing, bird,
Form:
Free verse
Random FramesRandom frames
my brain
in polypathic goo
refusing to decompositionally chew
enough to defog mystery
of randomness
coincidence
co-arising evolution
of a fuller consciousness revolution.
Prickly head
with gooey heart
suboptimizing when they are apart
and are not speaking
to where they might find
a more accurate midway mine.
When...
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Categories:
refusing, age, community, love, passion, political, wisdom, integrity,
Form:
Free verse