Long Sprouting Poems
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warm sun sweet liquid
dark moist hole bristles soft sand
wonder exquisite
...
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Categories:
sprouting, allegory, birth, change, character, child, death, heart,
Form:
Other
Various Heresies 7
Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
sprouting, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
sprouting, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Dream of Infinity
Dream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
sprouting, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
sprouting, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Community Health Assurance
Transparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and cooperative tree and plant and children and elderly nursing
preserved through winter kitchens
and solar-fueled composting centers.
Health insurance assurance,
transubstantiating health/wealth reassurance,
investing in cooperatively-owned and eco-managing
therapeutic non-violent...
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Categories:
sprouting, community, conflict, corruption, courage, freedom, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Fadwa Tuqan Translations
Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
sprouting, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan
English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
sprouting, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Various Heresies 6
Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
sprouting, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
I.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
sprouting, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Around 4 Am - Lived Life As a Loser Snoozer
I have a lot to write and say, buddy, so hear me out some more
Don’t make me feel lower than I have ever felt before…
Listen, understand and stay quiet until I say no more…sorry if...
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Categories:
sprouting, addiction, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form:
I do not know?
Scared of the Dark
I have been scared of the darkness below
The sun glows bright and the wind will blow
I have been unprepared for the worst again
The moonbeams glimmer above like my pen
Was in solitude for hours
Ideas sprouting like...
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Categories:
sprouting, angst, confidence, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
A Sustainable Sanctuary
I'm in the life-long process
of conjoining a Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary
communion of All Souls
living healthy
on all wealthy Earth soils.
This is not my first time joining an intentional good-faith community,
but it is the first...
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Categories:
sprouting, community, destiny, green, health, humanity, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Continuous Quality Improvement
"It [Communion] is the liberating experience of the Authentic Self recognizing itself in others--the many coming together as One in egoless freedom and the mutual conscious intention to evolve."...
"It [Evolutionary Enlightenment] is a new and...
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Categories:
sprouting, analogy, beauty, destiny, miracle, nature, science, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Slow-Cooked Conversion Stories
I was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...
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Categories:
sprouting, childhood, christian, earth, faith, health, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Heart
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft under
mulch for rebirth
the subcontinent
conscientious conscience
inward reaching
the divine central tableau...
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Categories:
sprouting, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Sky Could Be the Limit
Ahh...ahh...ahh...
If I did a trust fall,
Would you catch me at all?
If the sky was the limit,
Why won't you admit...
Your true colors towards me that meant so much to me?
I just want your wings to fly,...
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Categories:
sprouting, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Chapter 103 -- Damian Dj Carter Junior Damali: Trinidad Business Vacation Relations
Damian CJ and the guys boarded
The 9 o'clock concord flight that night
They were on Trinidadian ground
Within two hours. Then rented a
Limo, chauffer included. When
Four arrived on the site they noticed the...
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Categories:
sprouting, business, good morning,
Form:
Alliteration
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door Neighbor
Please help yarn hexed door neighbor...
Yours truly pinned down by invisible
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock
to seal and line...
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Categories:
sprouting, abuse, anger, bullying, character, december, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Children Are On Crosshair
.
.........................................INNOCENCE
..................................Oh! it is so very asleep
.........................As we grow up the bliss that we seek
....................To stay innocent blissfully innocent -As kids
...............My lovely world- it conspires to keep me so clean
..........No cigarettes no porn...
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Categories:
sprouting, children, corruption, evil, grief, violence,
Form:
Concrete
Crackled
_ _ _ _While walking one day in crisp autumn air,
On the edge of the sidewalk, I saw it so clearly_ _ _ _
...
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Categories:
sprouting, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the Collaboration
Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -
It’s the male menopause
He’s been grumpy and snappy all day!
His...
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Categories:
sprouting, age, body, humorous, men,
Form:
Limerick
Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023
Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023
The following constitutes a rather
twisted as a pretzel SUBTITLE:
I dash with my jiggling boobs in an attempt to escape...
being overrun by teddy bears and beanie babies
while carrying out heavy...
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Categories:
sprouting, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, animal,
Form:
Rhyme
God Is Humor Sensed
Love wants nothing to do
with the everyday affairs of men.
Love's only intention
is to catch the lover!
Rumi
God wants nothing to do
with the routine affairs of men,
God's only intention
is to catch the lover's attention!
I wonder if Freud's...
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Categories:
sprouting, confusion, god, humor, identity, nature, psychological, science,
Form:
Free verse
Transgenerate Roots
My grandparents' grandparents,
all sixteen,
digging roots through cultural meristems,
young adults,
adolescents during Time's 1880's,
post Civil War birth of Sir James Crow monoculture.
What would we name this self-hatred,
this lack of compassion and gratitude for help
for human nature's lavish...
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Categories:
sprouting, culture, gender, history, nature, philosophy, racism, time,
Form:
Free verse