Long Simplification Poems

Who wants to join a sacred cooperative
with both divine and humane purpose,
secular meanings
with organic liturgical rites
of seasonal passage?

Indeed,
who would not
should ego's veil descend
like commodified energy's nonrenewable extinction;
LoseLose trends of nihilism
within psyche,
fascism 
within a paranoid society
which...

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Poems for Poets VIII


Fireflies
thinking to illuminate the darkness?
Poets!
—Michael R. Burch


BeMused
by Michael R. Burch

You will find in her hair
a fragrance more severe
than camphor.

You will find in her dress
no hint of a sweet
distractedness.

You will find in her...

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She Was Very Pretty
by Michael R. Burch

She was very pretty, in the usual way
for perhaps a day;
and when the boys came out to play,
she winked and smiled, then ran away
till one unexpectedly caught her.

At sixteen,...

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for Prithwin

first  
      left downstroke
start from the top
  plane out
let the long anchor tip roof-line curve sharply upwards
at the stern down-end
pile it in stuffed in the centre
leave the...

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hear the phrase all of the time,
‘It doesn’t fit the narrative,’
used in news, academia,
and in political missives,
a phrase that I find curious
since so many do seem to yell
that the narrative they’ve chosen
outweighs even the world...

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When a plant
an organism
a biological system
is young,
this is nature's season
for segregation and simplification,
specialization.

Time to ego grow internally
toward full flowering
and re-seeding maturation.

Just so,
when a plant,
an ecosystemic planet,
an individual's lifetime,
a nation-state's cultural lifeline
reaches historic maturity,
mid-life crises of...

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Nirvana protégé podcast/youtube
phenom quite mature
talented young lass promising future
media attention did capture
overnight starlet exhibits bravure
generates profuse nonstop
outstandingly positive conjecture

nine year old greeted in France bonjour
mademoiselle so innocent and pure
guaranteed future success 
near anonymity one day
household...

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I only ask questions
most answers are with
those far wiser than I
far more erudite -- 

whose examples are all around
me:

poisoning of the atmosphere
greed and famine produced
battlefields populated with 
human body parts;

these self evident truths

our bible of...

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(Snaps fingers rhythmically, leans into the mic)
 Ninety. X. Underground/ The hiss of the tape, a constant companion/
 Atmospheric pressure, a concrete room, sweat slicked on foreheads, illuminated by a single bulb. These 90's beats…...

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Torn in the complication,

My life's just a hallucination,

No place for love or infatuation,

Want to end it but am in hesitation.

 

Filled with frustration,

Can i ever cope up with this situation,

Facing seperation....nd way too long of...

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Torn in the complication,

My life's just a hallucination,

No place for love or infatuation,

Want to end it but am in hesitation.

 

Filled with frustration,

Can i ever cope up with this situation,

Facing seperation....nd way too long of...

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The laws of attraction, rules or abstraction?
For keeping life in check and at bay.

Is love and the divine merely centrifugal force sublime
and God a form of magnetism, attraction that sways?

If we look deep out our...

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Your teaching is my inspiration,
True narration of nature’s translation and transformation.
You teach me from general to exception,
Love your way of superficial and superfluous explanations.
You encourage me to look beyond natural restrictions,
Kill my ignorance through examples...

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From Maurus' shore, a tide arose,
not of ocean, but of faith,
and shadowed Iberia's sun-kissed coast.

Moor, a word that held a continent,
a tapestry of Berber, Arab,
threaded with the blackness of the south.

They came with astrolabes and...

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I contemplated self-mutilation
amongst the company of mutations
that were causing my heart starvation.
This is my mind's translation,
a proclamation, a deep introspective cogitation.
Marriage is in abrogation, it's a cancellation
that's been suffering from dehydration,
indignation, and mind-game infestation.
The hospital...

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The result of my last year high school was out
And was sad, dejected as I got the second top
Losing the scholarship for further study scope
As my dad had no means for college no doubt.

As entered...

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Born in greed, torture and hate
I built bridges long enough to overturn my fate

Dire expectations…
I made sure I paid no heed to silly temptations

Interlude to the start of a new journey
I designed options
Set my goals...

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I cannot count the number of times that people have told me to not think so much to simplify my life when I felt stressed when life was seemingly out of hand.  What most...

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enter
delete
only to remember
humbleness and humility
and the enigma of the motivation
and the direction of the action
the swing of the involuntary till it becomes voluntary
the taming of temptation
the civilization
the question of elevation and degradation
and the arrogance of...

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Hyperbole is a hi-falutin’ way of saying exaggeration
“All filled up” will work quite as well for saturation,
What’s the difference between edict and declaration?
Puppy love is merely another way of saying infatuation!

If you are aggravated, you...

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Sighs over words, 
Sighs of words,
Talk of a man being crushed,all his happy thoughts squashed
The beats of his heart deeper than the sounds of his mouth,
Not knowing what to say as he searches from north...

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Saturation Point 

Dirt under my nails
A withered feeling
I did not notice the sun
Until I succumbed to a weakness
In by back and knees

My shoulders sagged
My eyelids were
Like those lead fishing lures
I found in a corner of...

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A druid's interpretation of forefathers' declaration
There shall be  twixt Church and State a separation
There shall never be a separation twixt God and state

This "over simplification" of what they said cuts through
and shreds all of...

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Success should not be defined by possessions

I must choose to have a less crowded life

My best life is one that has been simplified

Plastic lives are shallow and unenduring

Loving much is the shortest path to happiness

Instant...

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I 
"The power of God is never manifested without the love of God" -
Not in the Bible, O man of words and wisdom
Yes, in a sermon on Matthew 6, Prayer Of the LORD
If First Cause...

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