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Various Heresies 7
Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch

“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

We had a common sky
before the Christians came.

We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.

The common...

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Categories: robed, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Rhyme



Poems About Poems Ii
Poems 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: robed, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer

Eden
by Michael R. Burch

Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...



Outcasts
by...

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Categories: robed, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort 
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats 
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...

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Categories: robed, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse
Various Heresies 6
Various Heresies 6

Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch

The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.

Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...

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Categories: robed, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form: Rhyme



Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...

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Categories: robed, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Verdict
.                          NOW

Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his...

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Categories: robed, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The God Complex
“The God Complex”



His face imprinted 
hidden under layers of ink
he whispers his words

like a haunting breeze
dust blown off the pages
towards the back of their minds

once-in-a-while 
reminding them of stories 
they are eventually, all souls

book-marked 
tagged...

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Categories: robed, god, i am, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poets Vii
Poems about Poets VII

Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch

for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn

Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.

Teach us to sing...

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Categories: robed, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Pages


"The Pages"

Missing all those years
like a page you could turn, 
a book you could throw casually aside, 
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around, 
and remembered, what you long...

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Categories: robed, i am, love,
Form: Free verse
Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv
(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).

Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty...

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Categories: robed, 1st grade, age, best friend, childhood, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...

Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...

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Categories: robed, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Druid 3
Now that Crimson Fire was gone
Fire Eagle needed to gain experience.
For over ten years he travelled the lands
helping people, learning from many other druids.
One day he knew he would be called up on to
take the...

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Categories: robed, bereavement, death, funeral, spiritual,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Thomas Found the Philosopher's Stone
Thomas was walking through his favorite part of the forest,
where the overturned giant oak tree has been a sitting spot
for him since childhood, the part of the forest that is lit
a little bit thanks to...

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Categories: robed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Narrative
Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.

Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these  carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...

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Categories: robed, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member An Audience With the King
An Audience With THE KING

Many times during my walk with Him over the years, I have cried and prayed
and sought my Lord’s face, my Father’s face and asked Him, oh if HE would
just pick me...

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Categories: robed, perspective, tribute,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Motherland


"Motherland"

The “Removed”,
Charlestons across the keyboard,

fingers have a personality and a mind 
of their own, don’t you agree?

the stalwart mind converses with the frivolous fingers 
its stark increduality, considers All above All

they’re incorrigible, those lithe fingers,
like...

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Categories: robed, child abuse, dark, light,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Translation of Marcel Moreau's: a Paris By T Wignesan
Translation of Marcel Moreau's " A Paris " by T. Wignesan

IN PARIS

Paris bores me no end without you
My heart weighted down with melancholia
The spleen given over to asthenia
Empties its own sense of loss on to...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: robed, cute love, nostalgia, november, paris, romantic love,
Form: Quatrain
Tropical Topical
Taming a tropical topical tree? Taking a trunk? Telling a tailor? Traversing a tale? Many ideas. Much like the ideological dramas of a beach front. Wavelength of winds. Movements if the tides. Coconuts can jump...

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Categories: robed, absence, allah, angel, beach,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Revenge of the Altar Boy
"Drip, drip" said the mildew-stained stone cellar walls of St. Peter's cathedral,
Where a goblet of wine dripped into a priest dressed in robes violet and medieval.

Down into the crypts beneath the church's alter he had...

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© B.J. Fitz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: robed, abuse, child abuse, corruption, encouraging, endurance, fear,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fashioned Fortitude
A mirror never reveals  
fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins;  
time unmutes raven melodies within,  
tawny tunes of truth~
   I once spoke in colorful dialects.  
Now, I trust just...

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Categories: robed, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Green Armchair
I was a pleasant, conscientious librarian, whose world consisted of books,
As a world of fragrant beauty, can be found in the glossy, honeyed nooks.

Although it was pleasant work and appealing, I was not so very...

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Categories: robed, adventure, books, fantasy, journey, life, nature, places,
Form: Couplet
Villanelles III
These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems...


Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for *you* are *my* retribution.

May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger...

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Categories: robed, america, anger, community, money, rights, song, write,
Form: Villanelle
Sappho Translations VI
Sappho Translations by VI Michael R. Burch

Sappho, fragment 121
translation by Michael R. Burch

1.
As a friend you're great,
but you need a much younger bedmate.

2.
Although you're very dear to me,
please don't be silly!
You need a much younger...

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Categories: robed, best friend, death, love, silly, song, wedding,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations IX
Sappho Translations IX


Sappho, fragment 17
translation by Michael R. Burch

Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears,
you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows,
those dazzling kings who did such amazing things,
first at Troy, then...

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Categories: robed, god, heart, men, prayer, wedding, wife, women,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things