Long Silhouettes Poems
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Various Heresies
If 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:
silhouettes, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Willy Nilly
Willy 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:
silhouettes, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
silhouettes, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
silhouettes, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Home Sweet Hell
"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
silhouettes, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
silhouettes, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14
Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest,
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and asking Him for guidance
“My heart is Yours, always,
From the moment...
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Categories:
silhouettes, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage, dark, holocaust, horror,
Form:
Epic
A Poet of a Thousand Words
A poet of a thousand words
The pen garnished by the flame
Like a sea no desire knows
And love becomes the same
As poet to my love for thee
I confess between the lace
Of time and every sorrow made
I...
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Categories:
silhouettes, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...
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Categories:
silhouettes, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Couplet
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
silhouettes, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire potential combinations
Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly
single handedly trumped computer,
for umpteenth time,
which saw...
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Categories:
silhouettes, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential Combinations
Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.
While in the midst of...
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Categories:
silhouettes, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, birth, computer,
Form:
Free verse
Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former born April...
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Categories:
silhouettes, age, angst, anniversary, august, conflict, grave, history,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential Combinations
Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (today June 13th, 2021) single handedly
While in the midst of playing solitaire
(with losing outcome foreordained
after a couple moves), I became gripped
with combinations predicated on thirteen...
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Categories:
silhouettes, adventure, america, fun, heart, history, imagination, literature,
Form:
Free verse
THE PRISMATIC SELF
Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25
—————-
“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite
architectural design ~ endless
quests to become best versions of Self,
sharpen mind, mould...
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Categories:
silhouettes, age, character, courage, destiny, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Bio
Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan Ashley
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
silhouettes, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Me and Me First
That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First"
(To mesmerise people He needed...
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Categories:
silhouettes, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Categories:
silhouettes, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor, introspection, life, snow,
Form:
Free verse
In Marked Territory
Leaves settle on the earth, embracing the hearts who remember, when they were lifted toward heaven on the wings of a gentle whisper… silencing the doubts of those who suspects the beauty each tree sparks,...
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Categories:
silhouettes, appreciation, autumn, inspirational, jesus, light, nature, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Tyranny Counts the Ballots
“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
“We can and we must
write in the...
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Categories:
silhouettes, political,
Form:
Rhyme
The Boss Aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The boss aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
born at Monmouth Medical Center
in Long Branch, New Jersey,
on September 23, 1949.
His nationalities include hodgepodge
of Dutch, Irish, and...
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Categories:
silhouettes, 12th grade, age, america, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of the eve
This is the story of how it all happened
How...
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Categories:
silhouettes, fantasy, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter Prayer
Tetelestai—“It is finished”—may be the most significant word ever uttered across the stratosphere. The single most important statement in all of human history. Spoken by the innocent and dying only begotten Son of God. Tetelestai...
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Categories:
silhouettes, appreciation, christian, forgiveness, friend, heaven, inspirational love,
Form:
Free verse
Land Is a Loom
Land Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting moose and cougars sharp incisors.
The...
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Categories:
silhouettes, adventure, environment, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Solstice
I want more solstice evening silhouettes.
And nights of rhapsody filled with rental stars.
To explore blurred mornings when the sun rises.
With transitions dripping through the trees.
I want to know how the seasons change.
Who makes time a...
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Categories:
silhouettes, imagination, relationship, romance, seasons, sun, sunset, winter,
Form:
Romanticism