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Urbane History LessonsI 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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Categories:
rewards, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
rewards, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
rewards, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Veronica Franco TranslationsVeronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
rewards, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Healing a Trumpian GodI remember several prayers
to invoke God's blessings on America,
a reminder of traditional political
mindfulness?
Fundamental lack of awareness
of righteous economic investments
in win/win GoldenRule
positive social-psychological security.
No one "keeps"
or "makes"
this confederation of uniting states great,
unless we democratically...
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Categories:
rewards, education, faith, health, hope, integrity, religion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Declaration of InterdependenceWhen in the Course of Earth’s climatic events,
it becomes necessary for cultures to resolve political bands
which have connected Her with human nature,
and to assume among the powers of Earth,
separate and equal...
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Categories:
rewards, freedom, health, independence day, life, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
rewards, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Terrorist Deserts Into Bountiful RiversI'm continuing to read Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
although now with Antonio Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the [WinWin Creolizing-Bilateral] Conscious Brain."
Right now,
Dr. Gordon is discussing various academic attempts,
and some of them actual...
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Categories:
rewards, africa, body, culture, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
A Gardening ExposeWith these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...
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Categories:
rewards, garden, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Reyinning YangImagine,
said Yin to distraught Yang,
never able to get quite enough of himself,
never enough time to fully become his ego-potentiality,
imagine this day opens a new rhetorical event,
a new day of conversation between you,
as Ego,
and those you...
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Categories:
rewards, creation, health, nature, political, relationship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Uncle EldonUNCLE ELDON
Now that I am old, I see more clearly through my mind's eye, than I did in my youth, all those special people who played such a wonderful part in my life....
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Categories:
rewards, dedication,
Form:
Narrative
Freedom of the PressABOUT THE PRESS
The media, the press was established as an institution to fight for humanity and human right as well. To serve as a mediator between the people underground and the...
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Categories:
rewards, freedom, , western,
Form:
Ballad
Less Hellfire PleaseYinPassion: Predictions of HellFire and Damnation raptures,
of Paradise far away from sinful natural EarthClimates of Despair
is not so different from our indigenous ancestors' experience
in the U.S.A. 1800s.
Robersmith: "This situation is not so different from one...
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Categories:
rewards, earth, games, health, integrity, peace, psychological, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Mother Earth, the Father's CreationI believe in God the Father
...
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Categories:
rewards, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cover-Up -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationI've long wondered about that so-called - "Moon landing"!?
Everything went smoothly on the morning that we launched and headed off to make our flight through space.
And we’d now been receding from the earth for...
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Categories:
rewards, space,
Form:
Narrative
Old and New Halloween PoemsNo Halloween Candy
I can't get no Halloween candy.
I can't get no Halloween candy.
But I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I can't get no. I can't get no.
Well I'm walking door...
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Categories:
rewards, fear, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a TrilogyPredator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion
Part I
I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of...
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Categories:
rewards, appreciation, art, birth, blessing, time, truth, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Now's As Good a Time To Start As Any -- Both Audio and TextGaylord Laryngitis was a monstrous human being.
They say he weighed…at ten years old…at least 400 pounds,
But standin’ 6 foot 7…and because he exercised…
he actually didn’t look real “fat”…despite the way it...
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Categories:
rewards, friendship, love,
Form:
Narrative
Boob Jobs and Bomb JobsBoob jobs and bomb jobs
Sisters in arms those tits and those weapons of massive
destruction sex and death go together in dynamics
thermodynamics psychodynamics fused on the playground
of this life of this poem on which...
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Categories:
rewards, conflict, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
My Conversation With GodI have been praying to God ever since I first understood the concept of a deity. Although I have struggled through life with my acceptance of and belief in the religion I was force...
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Categories:
rewards, inspirational, introspection, god, me, time, prayer, children,
Form:
Narrative
Conversational EcstasyI believe SuperEgo bicameral comprehension
functions, forms, and flows organic
ecotherapeutic integrity;
I believe balanced Left-Right consciousness
orbits toward ecstatic psychology.
I've got nothin' to say
And I'm gonna keep it just that way
'til my mean old SuperEgo
lets me go outside...
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Categories:
rewards, freedom, god, identity, imagination, joy, love, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Children Are Worth the RiskChildren ARE Worth the Risk
“What‘re ya’ doin’ for Christmas, Carl?” the nurse’s aid inquired, “all our kids are coming home,” she proudly let me know.
“Well...me an’ Joan believed,” I answered - “when we tied the...
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Categories:
rewards, children,
Form:
Narrative
ReunitedMother and son
After forty years
A new life
They have begun
They were apart
For so many years
It was impossible
To count and keep track
Of all the tears
It all started
When he was six years old
There were no schools for his...
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Categories:
rewards, anxiety, child, conflict, endurance, faith, mother son,
Form:
Couplet
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'Playing(1.)
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'playing
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair a'streaming.
Olympic desires born, Gods a'playing
Mighty Zeus often on earth a'staying
There below mortals stopped a'praying
Hades play, man's evil a'repaying!
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair...
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Categories:
rewards, appreciation, art, creation, jealousy, mythology, repetition, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Sabbath Morning HarvestWho am I today?
as I rise out to play
at being again
this ego I entertained yesterday
with passion plays
creation stories
epic one-day opera
folding into Northern Autumn yet again unfolding.
Who would I choose to harvest
yet again this day?
one...
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Categories:
rewards, culture, earth, god, health, religion, spiritual, sun,
Form:
Political Verse