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Various HeresiesIf God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
ripped, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Willy NillyWilly Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
ripped, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Doggerel IDoggerel I or Nonsense Verse
A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good,
half the Bible
is libel.
I came up...
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Categories:
ripped, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
ripped, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, AbsurdLimericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
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Categories:
ripped, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
Poems About Poems IiPoems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
ripped, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About MothersPoems about Mothers
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more...
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Categories:
ripped, child, children, love, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
ripped, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 3Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
ripped, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
ripped, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks I - Relatives and RelativityLimericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
ripped, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
ripped, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaph For a Palestinian ChildEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child of...
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Categories:
ripped, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
ripped, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
ripped, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
ripped, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
ripped, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
ripped, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
ripped, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
ripped, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
ripped, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
ripped, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
ripped, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
CleansingsCleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
ripped, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
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 feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
ripped, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet