Long Revenue Poems
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Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
revenue, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
revenue, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Superior Courts of Ecological JusticeWhat evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits,
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?
What are financially healthy benefits for cultural communities
both internal to corporate identity,...
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Categories:
revenue, culture, earth, health, humor, judgement, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Drunk Tank ShankI once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank
……………………………………………………………………….
It used to...
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Categories:
revenue, drink, joy, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
The Highways and the BywaysThe Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)
The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of places we have known
The Interstates most boring
They bypass most...
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Categories:
revenue, adventure, happiness, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks Iv - Donald TrumpLimericks IV - Donald Trump
The Hair Flap
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"
The hair flap was truly a scare:
Trump’s bald as a billiard back there!
The whole nation laughed
At the state of his graft;
Now the...
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Categories:
revenue, america, humor, humorous, leadership, light, nonsense, political,
Form:
Limerick
Snail Trails and Rat TailsMy transportive
awesome Muse
speaks of a hiking trail
for an aging snail.
My communicative
wondrous music
is dancing choreography
for an ageless bee
coming.
I ask if I might speak
with the Editor in Chief
of my town's daily GoodNews Bulletin...
No.
I do not have...
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Categories:
revenue, community, health, humanity, nature, peace, school, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Ripped-Off DeniersYesterday I heard a happy Republican
crediting President Trump's self-proclaimed successes
to his training and experience with consumer-driven accountability;
meaning,
I presume,
his for-profit experience with market-driven consumerism.
Now I realize this for-profit wealth of experience
outside Washington,
untainted by prior government experience,
appears...
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Categories:
revenue, conflict, earth, environment, health, money, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Who Is Killing Our NationOur country is full of hypocrites
who stand up against nothing and bend over for everything
the peoples amendments pushing European agendas upon us for change
towards liberal law in our downfall
Unto our sovereignty...
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Categories:
revenue, betrayal, patriotic, poverty, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Human SolutionsHuman solutions
You asked for a change now you´ve got it!!!
I promise that the next four years will bring prosperity to all,
it will be the best years of our life!!
I am going to improve the education...
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Categories:
revenue, business, confusion, hope, humanity, trust,
Form:
Narrative
Are We Living In the Last DaysAre we living in the last days?
That expression "last days" or end times, where does it come from?
From a passage in the Bible, at 2Timothy 3:1. There the Apostle Paul relates a prophecy about what...
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Categories:
revenue, age, corruption, life, society, sorrow,
Form:
Didactic
Seeking AssuranceI am sad
and need reassurance
this choice was not bad
at the time of searching
Home's new-found voice,
and is not bad
now,
and will not be bad
and sad
in my shortening future.
Diminishing now
into year by year forecasts,
no longer this seventh decade
by...
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Categories:
revenue, earth day, health, humor, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Dem New Publicans
Light da Roman candles
for da coming Chariots of Pharaoh holiday
Dem New Publicans
be back in pyramid power
Give a Caesar Palace casino hip, hip-hooray
Happy daze are here again!
Dem New Publicans bray
dey be da common people’s friend
But...
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Categories:
revenue, parody, perspective, political, truth,
Form:
Narrative
You'Re FiredI'm sorry to have to tell you,
but we're laying you off,
effective immediately.
But, please don't feel too badly about this.
It's nothing personal.
It feels personal,
maybe because I'm the person
you're downsizing without.
But it's not personal;
it's just a budget...
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Categories:
revenue, business, caregiving, health, humor, loss, psychological, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Show TimeI can hear you calling me to join you for a cup of tea.I can hear you calling me to sample your homemade coffee .I have not had breakfast in years and I have missed...
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Categories:
revenue, beach, business, community, courage, education, england, moving
Form:
Narrative
Up At Ryder CupReservations are made years in advance of the event.
Provisions from suppliers worldwide are globally sent.
Sponsors enthusiastically devote their resources spent.
Attendees eager to share stories of when they went.
Seeing the epic golf rivalry as...
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Categories:
revenue, appreciation, business, golf, society, sports, success, together,
Form:
Rhyme
Economic WoundsMy capital investment wounds
don't define me;
they refine MeWe
into Earth's green peace
win/win strategic barrier
beyond which lies win/lose
and EarthLove v AnthroLife
nihilistic
entropic lose/lose
co-arising degenerative gravitation
MeWe have become
tragi-comedically
Me v We
on this good Earth
healthy and safe timeless
ReGenerative Day.
Trauma refines my...
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Categories:
revenue, culture, earth day, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Hindu Anarchy Coming To India: Canto I-Farmers FarewellA common confrontation between
Man and animals
From the wild, are pigs roaming farm lands
Destroying the crops
Of pöor farmers, it’s indeed a
Problem in Indian states
With forest borders, acute in her
Many smaller states.
In larger states where lands are...
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Categories:
revenue, betrayal, culture, farm, poems, poetry, political, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Citadel of CensorshipThe noblemen control the pen, indeed they own the farm,
but nonetheless exude finesse (and need I mention charm?)
with revenue to sate the few, exulting arm in arm;
for all the rest, they wish the best and...
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Categories:
revenue, society,
Form:
Rhyme
AustraliaI think
my gift from God
is to deliver
his final solution
To the world
I have been telling
people my idea
based on ten dollars
per week
but his Idea
was the tithe
ten percent
ten percent of every ones wage
belongs to...
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Categories:
revenue, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
I Have An Idea and I'M Writing It DownPastor Warren’s church in Orange County, Unity of Tustin too
There’s hardly anyone not affected; it’s sad but it’s true
Bottom lines are red, tithes & love offerings are lower
More people out of work, homes in foreclosure
Spending...
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Categories:
revenue, business, on work and working, visionary, workeducation,
Form:
Free verse
If My Dream Could Come True...Winner In Carol Brown's Contest By the Same NameI would build a center for learning,
Working title: Community Wellspring
Where people would come to learn new skills and new ways
To earn a living in these times.
No one’s job lasts forever anymore.
We have no idea...
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Categories:
revenue, business, computer-internet, education, on work and working,
Form:
Free verse
Open Letter To a Tory Minister's Wife - From One Wife To Another - Part 3You’ve got by somehow so far without debt as
You know this way of life is no good, but they won’t leave you be
To manage the best way you can with what you have...
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Categories:
revenue, betrayal, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Slaughter On Us SoilWhen you have a gun and they don’t
and you're a cop, it takes a certain kind of heartless cowardice
to squeeze the trigger
it takes a certain type of racism only prevalent in racist countries
As...
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Categories:
revenue, immigration, political, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Money Manager
Pssst ...
Hey kid,
I heard you came into a trunk load of cash
Can I ask, do you know how to manage it?
Moving from poverty to wealth
is a big deal
Everybody you know,
a little piece they’re gonna...
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Categories:
revenue, money, people, satire, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue