Long Scale Poems
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Spiritual Mahjong Your Move LordSpiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord
Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before it begins, before I begin?
If so, then to what purpose...
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Categories:
scale, bible, christian, death, i am, perspective, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 2Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
scale, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
scale, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
As Time Walked ByThese are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
scale, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Let Us Speak ClearlyLet me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain piratically rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to feel-good AmericaFirst...
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Categories:
scale, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Energy's Dying WishSo, if I understand correctly,
you want to respond to inevitable energy descent
by upgrading incentives for cooperative communication,
positive information expansion,
research and regenerative design,
implementation,
and ecopolitical evaluation strategies?
Yes,
because we achieved current WinWin cooperative communication
and organic networking capacities
by virtue...
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Categories:
scale, culture, deep, games, green, health, language, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Warrior
“Warrior”
When the Argonauts, came across
the abandoned Starship, they
found within the wrecked
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message.
It took several attempts to
reactivate, but when opened,
the following was translated: ...
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Categories:
scale, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Watering TerrorI'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time,
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a regenerative resource,
CoPresence Source,
raised to believe the Golden Rule
is most effectively...
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Categories:
scale, anger, destiny, fear, hate, love, power, violence,
Form:
Epic
Just Doin' My Translation JobIt's all frustratingly LeftBrain relativistic,
even nihilistic in its darker
ruminating
paranoid about chaotic outcomes form,
said Einstein's post-millennial ghost.
So its all synergetic fractal 4D equivalent SpaceTime,
said Fuller,
in co-arising nondual P = N(NP)/2 (0)-Core response.
Interesting you should...
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Categories:
scale, creation, health, humor, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried not to retract,
but after so many tears
I have...
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Categories:
scale, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
scale, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Prose Poems IiProse Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
scale, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
scale, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
scale, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Sophisticated Lady - Small Town Girl - Both Audio and Text Versions“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
scale, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Jacqueline TrestrailOn this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...
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Categories:
scale, mother, tribute,
Form:
Prose
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
scale, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Sophisticated Lady, Small Town Girl“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
scale, loneliness, sorry,
Form:
Rhyme
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
scale, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
scale, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
scale, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Used To Go To This BarRed light, the neon beer sign on the distant wall reflects off the long expanse of polished bar top, overpowering the quiet brown wood. It’s after lunch, only a few people in to stir the...
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Categories:
scale, addiction, beauty, drink, religion, society, solitude,
Form:
Prose
New BeginningsToday we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share...
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Categories:
scale, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Narrative
Social Privyjustice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
scale, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The StenchI woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...
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Categories:
scale, america, courage, destiny, encouraging, endurance, england, longing,
Form:
Narrative