Long Result Poems

I heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper 
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster 
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems V

Poetry
by Michael R. Burch

Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.

They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...

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I have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...

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Poems about Poems III

Radiance
by Michael R. Burch

for Dylan Thomas

The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.

The poet sees the sea but...

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~ Seek  The Lord  Everyday~ 
(Double Tanka) 


Extend God's  Love now 
Show to  others the right way 
In  bad  times  just  Pray 
Don't let  worries ...

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~ Is  A  New  Day   ~
( Linked )


~O~


Is   a   new   day
I
Day  to  thank  God
S
God   praise  for  all
A
All...

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Begins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction 
rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break 
hard causing us to panic my spouse and I both disabled 
this has cause severe discrimination and victimization...

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~ With All His Love ~ 
(Acrophora) 


L o ve  and  Care with all of your heart and soul 
O n everything always  Seek the Lord 
V alue  Love, all you...

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~ Seek  The  Lord  ~
( Star Of  David )




God
For sure
Knows  sees  all
Wants best  for  you
He  sure loves  us  all
Lord wants us to have Love...

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~ Just  Be  Thankful  ~
( Linked )


~O~


 Just be thankful
 J
 Thankful for all
 U
 All that you have
 S
 Have in your  Life
 T
 Life  that  God gives
...

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Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...

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Three voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia

In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.

Professor: 
Today we are going to role play 
a Win-Win enculturation game.

We will define enculturation...

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"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed their lies and vicious tales,
she pled not guilty and moaned...

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Open Your Heart 
(Linked) 



Open your heart 
O 
Heart needs the Lord 
P 
Lord  you can  Trust 
E 
Trust all  your life 
N 
Life is but one 
Y 
One you live here...

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Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...

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~ Pray  for  the Lost ~
(Linked)



Pray for   the  lost
P
Lost  in  this  World
R
World  Needs  Prayers
A
Prayers, Love,  God
Y
God  sent  His Son
F
Son  to ...

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~ You Lift Me Up ~ 
(Trine) 


When troubles blow my way and just come 
You help me see better and then some. 

You lift my spirit up and my soul like no one can...

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~ The Mark Of The Beast ~ 
(Free  Style ) 



The Antichrist is coming 
People on Earth be prepared 
Do not take the mark 
The mark of the beast 

Do not let him mislead...

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????John 10:14-15 NIV??
[14]  “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— [15] just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life...

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~ In  His   Light~
 ( Mirrored Hourglass )




 Love   Worship  and  Trust the Lord

 Lord won't leave you alone

 His mercy will show

 When with Lord stay

 In...

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As i reported my stalker and identity thief 2002 to the FBI she began climbing into my window for poetry my grandfathers world war 11 medal information this resulted in her arriving with a gunman...

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The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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~ Prayers For All ~
(The Minuet)



Pray for  All  the Lost  in this  World
World  needs   Prayers
Prayers,  Love,  God
God  can  Save  All

~0~

The  Lost, ...

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~My Best Friend~
 (Whispers Style)


 There's a friend who is dynamite
 Each day brings His Love, Light
 Know Him for long  time, yes  I do
 Hope one day you  do  too
...

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~ Borrowed  Blessings ~
( The  Chain Style )


When  all our dreams seem somehow to go wrong
Wrong can motivate us  all the time to be just strong
Strong when need to be in...

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