Long Self righteous Poems
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The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
self righteous, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
self righteous, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
self righteous, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
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:
self righteous, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Rebuilding ParadiseParadise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciatively regarding both day
and dualdark
rich and fertile
souled and soiled
recycling night.
So too
my personal
and political
and economic
and ecological
and theologically reformed...
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Categories:
self righteous, earth, eve, god, health, love, paradise, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Thomas JeffersonIt interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing minds
of original democratic declaration and constitution shaping times,
as they listened to their...
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Categories:
self righteous, culture, happiness, health, humor, independence day, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Sacred EnergyFascism lives in tension with holy optimism,
as hatred fades in presence of mutual love,
as WinLose evolutionary models
give way to WinWin sacred Energy
stories and songs and dances,
as patriarchal colonization
gives way to matriarchal creolization.
Fascism,
synonymous with Totalitarianism,
as written...
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Categories:
self righteous, anti bullying, caregiving, education, health, integrity, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Energy Democracy V FascismI suppose
cannibalism
is the logical conclusion
of rabidly overpopulated fascism.
Some cannibals,
perhaps all,
ate their human prey
not for typical nutritional reasons
like other forms of digested nature,
but more specifically
because those dining
hoped their prey's sacred powers
would thereby become their own,
conjoining for...
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Categories:
self righteous, bullying, earth, hate, health, integrity, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Fraudulent
"Fraudulent"
A writer writes of people
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all
like he’s been there
trudging up and downhill knocking on doors
that judgmentally remain closed after glimpsed twigging -
a monumental fail,...
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Categories:
self righteous, depression, family, friendship, home, loneliness, lost, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Is Joss Whedon 'I Am' - Christ ReincarnateIs Joss Whedon ‘I AM?’ (1) Christ Reincarnate?
I Think That That’s Doubtful!
More than Trump ‘IS’ (1) (by...
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Categories:
self righteous, america, graduation, high school, humor, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Call it curiosity"Call it curiosity"
Does anyone on this app really believe
That somehow or another every one of us
Truly think that one side is meant to deceive
Or that one side is the one that is only one...
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Categories:
self righteous, abuse, allusion, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael NeumannUniversal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment
Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...
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Categories:
self righteous, adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
Neglecting Democratic HealthI'm feeling some civil
democratic health
neglect
To re-member
monocultural anthropocentrism
is a mental health crisis
In our U.S. Win/Lose normative
miseducational systems,
In our anti-democratic
unhealthy parenting,
self caregiving,
uncare-receiving deformative win/lose
devolutionary anti-thesis
AntiMessianic
to prophecy ReGenerative Earth's unParadise demise,
ecologically degenerative
and theologically rationalized:
Earth isn't Heaven
as Nature isn't...
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Categories:
self righteous, caregiving, community, education, health, humanity, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Faithful Thought ExperimentImagine your favorite faith community,
whether sacredly vocationed,
or, more prosaic, secularly employed,
is also home to your local Green Freedom Party,
intentionally multipartisan.
This community intends to remain compassionately faithful
to short-term local
through long-term global
public and climate health
of all...
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Categories:
self righteous, green, health, integrity, political, power, religion, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Red and Trueblue Family--4Dear Siblings Three,
At least three of us four
have survived this first round
of sharing our seeing Reds
and our feeling Blues.
At this point
I imagine our eldest sister
reading with interest,
and/or possibly contempt,
and holding all these things
in her...
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Categories:
self righteous, christian, earth, faith, health, heaven, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Sometimes I Wish I Was You-In moments of weakness; I look up to you. thinking of the off chance that your situation is better than mine. Now, you must understand that this is only a moment. None the less, it...
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Categories:
self righteous, anxiety, deep, imagery, jealousy, judgement, me, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Open RelationshipSocial settings have stigma attached to this.
Atmospherically climactic negative correlations sustain society.
Civilized individuals are naturally monogamous; serially…
On the other hand gender segregated facility.
Men and woman,
Penis and vagina,
Birds and bees,
Conditions and stipulations…
A rule...
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Categories:
self righteous, assonance, relationship, social, society, together, trust, truth,
Form:
Didactic
Love You MessagesWhen the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence
loves homophobic St. Paul,
This felt like too much tolerating
an unconstitutional intolerable
absence of basic...
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Categories:
self righteous, health, love, peace, political, power, race,
Form:
Political Verse
I Got Ya Back1. If Jesus was physically here alive, today (He is WHAT???)
What do you, what do you think He'll SAY!!!
Well now, many of you self-righteous and holier than thou saints and Christians;
Seems like there's something your...
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Categories:
self righteous, analogy, appreciation, best friend, confidence, engagement, humanity,
Form:
Lyric
Wind WhisperingMentors with the BeeTrees
From NorthWinds
come darkening winter
as newborn discontent
waiting to spring forth.
From SouthWinds
come summer's diastasis
climax of full-born wisdom,
contentment for and from all four directions
spread across sleeping hearts
of each nighttime regeneration.
From normalizing WestWind toward East colonializing
patriarchal...
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Categories:
self righteous, happiness, health, humor, integrity, love, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Grimacing GriefConsuming happiness to the point of no return, no return
I let the fires in my bosom burn on and on and on
Resuming on with my gladness, smiling — now, it’s your turn
To shine on like...
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Categories:
self righteous, angst, grief, growth, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Rightbrain Victim QuestionsWhat if we live in and out
among and yet autonomously
with and sometimes against
LeftBrain dominant enculturation?
Colonization,
predation with ego-logical economic secular outcomes
too often predicting compromised long-term health
in exchange for conserving an evolutionary win/lose model
serving industriously degenerating corporate...
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Categories:
self righteous, community, health, history, integrity, peace, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Before the Firing Squad
“Before The Firing Squad”
the firing squad
came dressed
in faux smiles
the intervention cake
was spoon fed, like honey,
by mother superior
to the lesser bee,
with self-righteous
magnanimity
she wore the badge
Devil’s Advocate, proudly,
without any clear authority
casting bloodied
nasturtiums around the...
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Categories:
self righteous, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Epic
Whole Earth PatriotismWhat is patriotism?
Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health care integrity?
What is nationalism?
Usually positive values about monocultural
monotheistic
monopolistic identity,
but I guess nationalism could also include negative evaluations,
begging for more international
interdependent...
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Categories:
self righteous, beauty, culture, growth, happiness, health, prejudice, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Afflictions and Perspectivesfoisted upon her was the merry go round crystal chandelier
it stuck in her beautiful mind like a beacon of flaming desire
of clouds fried by a cuckoo with an indestructible socket
her eyes wide upon pupils dilated...
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Categories:
self righteous, addiction,
Form:
Free verse