Long Reused Poems

The ask of cultures. 
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics of the strategy to wrestles of communication. They decided the...

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Community outdoor innovators
are challenged by premillennial lack
of potlatch cooperative investments
paid-forward
by ZeroZone invested WiseElders,

Limited by Space
for developing multifamily co-housing
with cooperative community organic gardens.

Limited by volunteer outdoor ego-eco therapeutic
Time.

Limited by competitive economic grid
and profile assumptions
for future WinLose...

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Poems for Poets VIII


Fireflies
thinking to illuminate the darkness?
Poets!
—Michael R. Burch


BeMused
by Michael R. Burch

You will find in her hair
a fragrance more severe
than camphor.

You will find in her dress
no hint of a sweet
distractedness.

You will find in her...

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POEMS FOR POETS X

US Verse, after Auden
by Michael R. Burch

“Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.”

Verse has small value in our Unisphere,
nor is it fit for windy revelation.
It cannot legislate less...

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Because She Craved the Very Best
by Michael R. Burch
 
Because she craved the very best,
he took her East, he took her West;
he took her where there were no wars
and brought her bright bouquets of stars,
the...

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Cold nights and tree lights taught him to forget home.
He’s mellow tonight though, no telling what goes unknown.
He packs light and steps heavy and taps his fading flashlight and I bet he’s a lefty.
Duracell down...

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When 
a part 
of body does 
not function properly it can 
be repaired, replaced. We are neither 
body nor a part of body
We are
soul


When 
we find
it difficult
to breathe, artificial 
respiration keeps us alive. 
This proves...

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  i have accepted my fate
            to this idea of slavery i have given in
      ...

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George Washington is founder of our nation

He was born in time so early in our country

His story starts as a young man with ambitions

He was handsome tall man with grate ideals

He loved chivalry, horses and...

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a fraction of Gods action is what the world needs
gonna send the wicked packin...bring the worthless to their knees...

action follows thought as quickly as thunder follows lightning
struck stupid with shock and stunned in awe are...

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Some people just cannot be honest for the life of them. Others, like myself are all too honest. I wonder if honesty is like diarrhea, if it too runs in the genes? I will ask...

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Yes…recycling is a good thing
Why let something valuable
Become a complete waste
Depleting resources
Already scarce
Why waste
When it can be salvaged
Remixed
Redone
Reused
True, true
But don’t you dare do that with love
Don’t you dare even think 
To give me
Your recycled love

With...

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the play Shout Shingle
is based on a poem by
a well known
celebrity Poet.
it's based in the late twenty first century.
it is the story of a man
who met a woman
who was engaged to his
Orchestra brothers ex wife.

"...

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Radiating through violet shadows
resplendent rays of moonlit charm
Smiles of a summer night.

Velvet moss on pavement grey
elegant shimmer of crystal stream, 
Radiating through violet shadows,

Maple adorning colors of Fall,
bedecking a world, still and calm,
resplendent rays of...

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i hear the voices in my head
they surrond my wooden bed
telling me i should be dead

I try to move but i cannot awake
the forces drive me into a foggy state
suddonly i feel so much hate

I...

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Answers were needed, like wind direction,
she could feel him heavy in her heartbeat,
it was a good weight, the kind carelessness brings to capricious carress,
his toe prints still in the trail of beach paths in her...

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You have been lurking into my temple
Doing not so nice things but still I am
Strong trying to receive my wings
I have been raped, cut, molested, and killed
 But still I live
I have been harmed in...

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Yin and Yang
Two baby fathers in Gods plan
Complete opposites, Their form of being a Man
One stands strong, For all the things I believe
The other just contributing, From a broke bank I conceived
1 for 1, 3...

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Courting days are long over now 
men, well, what does define a man?
Certainly, it is not merely physical?
yet one would expect manliness to 
involve some sort of strength?

Does a man let a woman cry?
Does a...

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In warm dark moisture
	a small life stirring
growing upward
	into the light

a young tree growing
	fed by sunshine
rich moist soils
	and blowing breeze

winds would bend it
	droughts would kill it
broken limbs will scar it
	still it grows

years quickly fleeing
	decades mere moments
centuries...

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The movers came to clean out my house,
And said to one another
“Let’s remove ALL the furniture!
The baby carriage and accessories
have served their purpose.
That old stuff is nothing but clutter now.
Don’t let the mother see us
take...

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No healthy oils
but beef dripping kept
solid in a white enamel 
can with a lid
in a cupboard under
the oven. Reused until
too dark and heavy 
with sediments, 
the dregs flavored 
the best chips.

Mothers carried 
the war year's...

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Scars are the Path to the Soul 

Here is a road of tears,
miles and miles of memories
appearing on a sunny shadow,
moving through your being with a 
slow pain as scars are the 
path to the...

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Restless restoration
Return
Remove all the rubble remaining from the rampant rift you released and retracted
Remember?
I recognized and revealed your ravishing rituals and repugnant relations 
Rippling into your relentless rampage
A recycled retaliation, resonating with regret and self-revolt
A...

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If I were to die today, 
The world wouldn’t stop.
It’d keep spinning around and around,
A few tears may be shed, here and there.
Some might even mourn me,
For the girl, they heard long-forgotten whispers about.
The girl...

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