Long Safer Poems
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Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
safer, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Grand Mother Eartha's DreamMy husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day
She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes
Because,
you know,
or maybe not because,
how would I know?
Dreams about Her Straight White AlphaMale trauma
were...
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Categories:
safer, culture, earth day, health, mothers day, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
WonderlandWonderland
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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Categories:
safer, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
safer, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Pandemic-Climate Recovery TeamsIn Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJustice.
So, what have I noticed
that might be economically
and ecologically win/win useful?
In...
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Categories:
safer, community, earth, health, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
safer, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
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:
safer, education, faith, health, hope, integrity, religion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Come To the Lord - Christinas Trinity Style~ Come To The Lord ~
( Christina's Trinity )
~O~
Come to the Lord, He's Mighty, Good
Find Him always in all mood
With Him you'll be strong
With Him you'll belong
Today, all life...
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Categories:
safer, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes
"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"
“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”
This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...
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Categories:
safer, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of NebraskaMy love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
safer, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
Come To the Lord - Christina's Trinity Style~ Come To The Lord ~
( Christina's Trinity Style )
~O~
Come to the Lord, He's Mighty, Good
Find Him always in all mood
With Him you'll be strong
With Him you'll belong...
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Categories:
safer, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Adopting YuaThe dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...
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Categories:
safer, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto IxThat color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
safer, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
safer, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Magic Bagpipes and the Five Jelly TykesA Bagpipe am I,
My drones point to the sky!
I am magic they say, since the wizard ‘spelled’ on me that day.
He gave me the gift of immortal time,
I could travel through centuries,
T’was a gift.
It was...
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Categories:
safer, 5th grade, children, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
War of WorldviewsYangLeft: Those still capable of right thinking,
as our more civil
humane reflections
on bilateral political
and economic investment inflection,
sometimes cooperative
and democratically co-invested,
but usually just BusinessAsUsual
life remains a win/lose infested
compromising
ZeroSum political disempowering game
deflection.
YintegrityRight: Sweety,
thanks for honorable...
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Categories:
safer, analogy, caregiving, earth, health, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
I'Ve Been So Lucky In Life 1,2I’ve Been So Lucky in Life! (1&2)
(Only Raped 5 Times Metaphorically)
Poem’s Introduction
My poetry has always been about transparency. It’s about letting go of an effort to be liked by others, and allowing others to gravitate...
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Categories:
safer, abuse, angst, faith, humor, love, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Voting With Our FeetIt seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
safer, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 26“From that point forward Reginn, of the Ibero Clan, along with the Erin Clan
and the Second Ibero Clan slowly stripped more and more control away
from the King. Reversing much of his progressive policies. ...
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Categories:
safer, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Cascade Adventures - Part 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald pine trees,...
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Categories:
safer, adventure, friend, mountains, nature, snow,
Form:
Haibun
Deep Wellhearted MindsI suppose my worldview life of mind
and witnessing view of few
deep well
hearted Earth
Bodies
Would feel easier
healthier
lighter
safer
more powerfully co-inviting
without chronic win/lose stressors
popping up
against downstream sundry, multiculturally
diverse
Technologically
Digitally
and yet Organically EcoGreen
possible
Future prophets
without ecologically probable
health
Potential for...
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Categories:
safer, earth day, health, home, integrity, mother, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
To Grow PeaceTo faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-informed learning theorists
and practitioners for resilient
mind/body peace,
Do not deceive yourselves.
Continuing to gaze and daze
on a monotonous monocultural path
Disassociating
internal v external
navel v social
my...
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Categories:
safer, adventure, earth, education, environment, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald...
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Categories:
safer, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence, fun, mountains, nature,
Form:
Haibun
Desert RoseI was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.
I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along...
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Categories:
safer, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration, lost, purple, rose,
Form:
Couplet
You'll Be Coming Home With Us‘Round 5:15. on April 9th in 1967...wakened by a nearly imperceptible appeal...
My and Sarah’s eyes would open simultaneously, wondering if the whimpering down the hallway might be real.
Hearing them repeatedly, though faint and far between,...
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Categories:
safer, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme