Long Repeal Poems

Apa  ka, ka,
                               ...

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Darius was the Medo-Persian king,
Which means he was in charge of everything.
One hundred twenty satraps gave account,
So he would have an up-to-date amount;
All this so that he might not suffer loss.

‘Since that’s a lot of...

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CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2

Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial'
translation by Michael R. Burch

1.
Through many lands and over many seas
I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites,
to this final acclamation of the dead...
and to speak — however ineffectually...

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Epigrams VII

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: 
am I or are the others crazy?
—Albert Einstein, poetic interpretation by Michael R. Burch


The Whole of Wit
by Michael R. Burch

for and after Richard Moore

If brevity is the...

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Self reliancy stimulates political independence,
pragmatic critical thinking spurs revocation of spurious Partisan information,
vigilanteism guards against the Juntas,
systematic interdiction of peoples' ability to to procure food, self educate, 
self medicate, and to self defense is a...

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Tonight, once more, I sleep on the ground,
so that another will not have to;
another post, another round,
soon enough another's to do.

For some time, it felt like quitting, to leave, to repeal,
passing the torch a betrayal...

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I'm hurting inside.... it feels as though my soul had died, sometimes I want to lay down and die, but my eyes were open..all i could do was cry, from the pain and iniquity that...

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partygoers partying pock peck pock
A baa is just as good and effective as a peck for wools and beaks can repeal even the smallest of fleas through the movements of neck and the chewing of...

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Comin' in, his names Mitt Romney Candidate Presidential 
Make a little wish and throw your savings in the well
Say's he's gonna drag the US back but drag it back to what
Back from the Economic brink...

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Geinere's frailty
was that of an abandoned 
child, lost in the world.
Her hurt was so that 
of anguish and desperation,
her heart burdened by
his hateful words.
His domineerance, his
drunken righteousness,
protruding as a writ 
man.  A careful prodigy
was...

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Though predictability prevails
     pertaining to my life,
     nonetheless a pronounceable zeal
bestirred from writing,
     and reading (no surprise),
     which literary...

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Ajit Pai and his Council of Discord
Are nothing, but dark-hearted crooks
Appealing our Net neutrality
That keeps the internet open
For everyone to live happily
Made a grave mistake.

With all petitions signed
Protests around the country
People raising their voices
To blogs,...

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The seconds drift into minutes,
cascade into hours.
Relativity floats subtly past
and pools around perspective’s
esophagus.
Waiting is the fierce tick
of a sequestered heart.
Tracking time,
by counting blood cells sailing
through a clotting current.
Labored lungs grasp at
tiny red buoys,
flagged with markers...

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O Brexit, Brexit Won’t You Marry Me?

O Brexit, Brexit, won’t you marry me
When your big bad deal is done?
On no sweet maid I cannot marry you
For Repeal Bill needs to be run.
So up she went...

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 He Changed Me

 I'm hurt, I'm lonely, and of course I feel down.
You always turn everything I say inside-out and around.
I can’t sleep without hearing my heart pound and pound,
And you give me nightmares...

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‘We played wedding songs,
and you didn’t dance,
so we played funeral songs,
and you didn’t weep’

Luke 7:32b

Scribes and Pharisees, lean in.
They lean away, their fingertips at play,
nimble, with no paper cut. The pipers toot
out a jig and...

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In the shadow's of the Gothic Renaissance period,
 In this age of beauty's enlightenment, and free 
Thinking for men, Houska Castle was built.
Not as a fortification to repeal invaders, nor for
Strategic positioning, nay it's thick...

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Written: September 15, 2023
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In the halter of destiny, we are all bound.
A monody of souls dissemble and found
With every lynch of trice vicious hand,
We quest to the ossuary of the apex land. 

Yet in this...

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Like dew upon the grass is your Word
refreshing in it's purity when heard
framed within the structure of your Love
distilled with gentleness descending from above
 
In judgement and understanding Jesus walked
of the rulership of kingdom also...

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Inhuman Population

They try to tell us we need therapy,
that these feelings are unnatural.
The small minded are trapped in the mechanism of a robot
thus their attack of judgment are so practical
The union of two spirits should...

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I used to dream of Frankenstein
When certain of some future glitch,
Now Donald Trump is Valentine
Of House’s Paul and Senate’s Mitch.

Yes, Trump is monster in this farce
Paul crazy-science, Mitch Igor,
The humor good though logic’s sparse,
Bombastic lies...

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Horatio Haiku Horn

What was a haiku
Did it get all over you
Or was I all wrong.

A haiku have heard
Can be completely absurd
Unless a bright bird.

If you knew haiku
Like I shown have known haiku
Things could become verse.
(Unless...

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We love feeding and watching the birds which is why in the mountains when we’re there
if you visit us there’s a good chance you’ll see bird feeders everywhere.

It seems like such an easy task..fill the...

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Repeal Day

In terms of holidays, it’s not in the same league as Christmas and New Year’s Day.  Still, anyone who enjoys a cold beer ought to raise a glass in honor of Repeal Day....

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Once I thought I awoke in a vault
After spending the night in a dream.
Dark and discrete, but never complete 
And having no reason or theme.

Bound to remain outside the domain
Of twisted truth and disguise.
My mind...

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