Long Rigors Poems

Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
 
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...

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8. Transformation

Yielding to those who have mastered the art
Of grasping one's place in existence's grand scheme
Life’s constant challenges never depart
But humble diligence will grow the dream

In passing from childhood to adulthood
Innocence to responsibility
Firm new role...

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I have written this today to let my family and friends know what's going on in my life.
I am deeply saddened by where I am, in it, right now, but am appreciative of the excellent...

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Dedicated to: Myself and the kindred spirits

Rise up today so gracefully and comely. Let not the present by the past be spoiled. You are entitled to what is best in the new day; do not...

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I made you a vow of paradise
Though I knew I could not find the time
To show you how much I cared and treasured
The sincerity of your love and devotion;
I wanted to take you to my...

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Part 2

The passengers were a well-heeled lot who
    Had no experience to the rigors at sea.
And their disillusionment grew... on seeing the crew
    Entirely encrusted with earwigs and fleas.

But...

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Sweet Centerless Sixteen
by Michael R. Burch

Inconsolable as “love” had left your heart,
you woke this morning eager to pursue
warm lips again, or something “really cool”
on which to press your lips and leave their mark.

As breath upon...

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Scribal notions these, and oh so sorrowful,
But, despite their seeming poignance they are not additionally puissant, no. 
I have seem them, wrapped in warmed and moist leaves:
No, not the leaves as pages of books, as...

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Your not going to believe this but I forgot that Jeanne Rosemary comes before Robert Earl.Probably because I am mad at her for not trying hard enough to live.She was the one who wagged me...

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On the brow of manhood I bore you
Dreaming of a successor to my throne
Invested wind and echo full of dew
Native prince, that was ever all I own
Knowledge and experience to make
Wealth out of nothing, like...

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Oh my dear warmly womb,                              ...

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We came here pretentious, egoistic, hyper-inflated with our meager academic laurels and
filled with self-adulation of our GPAs
You saw us plainly; our minds almost blank like a tabular rasa, but you saw potential and
so gently humbled...

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All we eat is elk meat, boiled elk, roasted elk, elk jerky
sometimes fried elk if we get bear or whale oil,
oh, and sometimes elk soup,
for four months we've subsisted exclusively on elk
except for occassional dog...

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Once upon a time on a table lay an innocent little book;
Do not open it, a label warned, not even to take a look.
You want to know, don’t you, why so many have come back,
To...

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The Finest Antebellum Mansion in the South

By Elton Camp

Windsor was near the banks of the Mississippi River 
Extreme luxury, size, beauty and comfort it did deliver
The manor was completed just before the Civil War 
It’s...

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Around trust sealing our contract 
for blessings to share generously ---
--- heart of mine was settled
having never languished in doubt's qualm
upon steadfast prayer brace
tied by ministerial engagements.

With earnest faith
my anticipation yearned 
for return of investment...

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Early the hour, before the sunrise.
Groggy from the rigors of moral stress.
I found myself quite numb with sullen eyes.
After a night, fighting my demoness.

She had me bound to a bottle of drink.
Which I could not...

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above named entitled african american orthodontist 
   crowned specialist exemplary de jure by this dad
sans perfecting offset dentition of me daughter – shana – who had
quite noticeable gapped teeth – just the opposite...

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The blue Moon
Enduring the rigors of time, 
The walls of a bygone monk temple still read:
"And Karma said, 
         you ll fall in love with someone who...

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October 10 Scripture Meditations Based on John 1-2

Key Verse – John 1:43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. 

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR...

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Me farm was really sufferin’ from the rigors of a drought,
and the banks had made a promise that they’re ‘bout to throw me out,
so me family talked together while we’re havin’ tea one night, ...

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December 26 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 13-14

Key Verse – Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

MY GOD, THANK...

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Vegas be Damned!


Vegas took him off the board at 80.
As the cards were dealt each day, passersby
would swear the deck was stacked –
against him.  Fate had, for some reason,
chosen him to constantly be in...

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Needing rest from debilitating rigors of life?
I’m the blessed joy at the core of your heart…
offering divine mirth of wondrous delight
assuaging blood pressure-surge ---
Engage with earnestly me as you pray to God
and see your countenance...

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I thought I had seen her face,
And looked again in the direction of the milk store,
There was our Angela ‘Andee’:
An empty shell of the previous girl
Who had bewitched our juvenile eyes
And spun our little heads...

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