Long Reproved Poems

Only thing is at closing he said the only way we can get back to a true marital relationship as being One with God is for “us to allow Him” to clear out the clutter...

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

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation or sentiment,
left with the pungent darkness
as remembered as the sudden...

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Arise O Compatriots
The time is near when we head for the ballots
The time when we decide for a new revolution
Or maybe another time to renew corruption

Genocides birthed out of hatred everywhere
Many voices are silenced out...

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Henry Morgan was an admiral of the Royal Navy
In his time, commissioned, but most found him crazy
Such that the Spanish called him a pirate rebellious
Whilst he considered himself with the truth not hazy

He took Campeche...

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Reminded that God sees me groaning in pain
Whenever I languish in gloom, and in misery remain
Earnestly hoping for His miracle to gain...
Now, I triumph in Him* for working in me around His love’s domain
…Since before,...

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In his family being last 
A teenager was considered outcast
But he spent time in fields so vast
Thoughts of his Creator left him aghast

All his siblings were employed 
While he to shepherding was deployed
He yearned to...

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Life is a dangerous struggle 
Full of inconsistencies, challenges and pains
Life is not fair even to the fair skinned 
The dark skinned are not faring better either 
In everyone's backyard a little rain must drop...

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Verse 1
Holy Mayorkas, you have been reproved
I have seen the illegals you are letting through
Distant hordes from down the line
Brand of people who ain’t my kind
Holy Mayorkas, you should be removed

Verse 2
Holy Biden, you are...

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Dedicated to  Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) 


I'd fought a hundred battles 
       through the ages past and new 
I'd...

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Lynn, the tom-boy of Herald Square, couldn't be compared to Princess
Diana, or a similar one for finesse to perfectly fit in a royal scene; 
that ordinary gal had a foolish wish of a non-blue-blooded Queen,
who...

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By the inspired Word of God* revealing heavenly vision-record
We’re redeemed from sin-penalty’s cord
Assured of salvation so secured from eternal hell’s discord
With His love that granted us everlasting life’s accord.

By God’s Book of heavenly vision-account
We’re shown...

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A man acquainted with sorrows and grief
be it then was bruised for our relief
the ones  ruling over them kept them in pain
but struck was he so we might Life regain
 
All like sheep have...

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Let’s express loving touch power
delighting every family member
marked by trust we can offer
securing home with peace-cover 
against infidelity wrecker.
 
Let’s show respect-touch in our truth-declaration
as we strive to build lives with dedication
teaching along virtuous instruction
nurturing...

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April 1 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 21-24

Key Verse – 1Samuel 21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD…

PRAISE BE TO GOD...

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No good news to report
This soldier will find joy and rejoice when the perverted
become converted
I fear few if any will survive this tidal wave of lies
but I have my duty to perform
and you know I...

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None of these emotions would be raging
with fiery eyes and a very fast heartbeat...
to unveil this secret that's never been discovered;
leading a limited life of pleasures and thrills
had a profound effect on me; I felt...

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Everyone had a unique reason for playing the Game
as we find different means for surviving Life
until the proper seconds of Death come stomping by with insistence,

some want intellectual respect shown with agitation in the opponent's...

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Like a goat
watching her kid
boil in her milk,
My how Sister Job's heart
must have ripped.
Clasping her breast
and beating her head
when she discovered
her children were dead.
Then searching for shelter-
some place to hide to mourn-
somewhere to cry
And finding...

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Do you know what plan God has for you?
Can you wait and see? Have you not known?
Have you not heard, that the Everlasting God,
The LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
Does not faint,...

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Do you know what plan God has for you?
Can you wait and see? Have you not known?
Have you not heard, that the Everlasting God,
The LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
Does not faint,...

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It's an ordinary mysticism: "If only this had occurred."
If only the person said this, given what you overheard. 

"If" is a conjunction that is applied to escape reality.
It can be useful or awful based on your personality.

"If"...

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The lake was then dry, not even dank,
The tortoise himself had grown lank.

The fox had departed the field,
Since the scorching sun was no shield.

The geese, like the plovers before,
Voyaged to some hills of galore.

Tortoise who...

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Once haunted with sleeplessness-caused angst
gripped by guilt midst tormenting iniquities…
my soul lost its vibrancy in communing with God
Now, by His pardon of loving forgiveness ---
I’m restored, enjoying serenity of night’s rest.

When attacked by sleeplessness-inflicted sorrow
marked...

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Never before this sentiment stirred awareness,

did we care enough to start an enduring flame

and keep it burning through a moonless night?

We stared into the shallow obscurity and fret:

no brightness sign above and around did engulf

hope...

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I walked by the glasshouse
Everything bad was quite apparent
I felt the stones in my pocket
That I thought I should throw
But then I felt them spike my feet
I was reminded from whence I came
The rock reproved...

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